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J.M. Vandeman Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 2745
Overview Fourteen letters, thirteen from J.M. Vandeman of Adams Co., Ohio, a Union soldier in Co. B, 33rd Ohio Volunteer Company, 3rd Division, 9th Brigade, and one from W.T. and H.A. Wright of Webster City, Hamilton Co., Iowa. All are addressed to Miss S. Jane Vandeman in Adams Co., Ohio. The letters from J.M. Vandeman were written between 6 October 1861 and 25 December 1862; the letter from the Wrights is dated 1866. The letters of 1861-1862 were written from various locations in Ohio, Kentucky,...
Dates: 1861-1862, 1864, 1866

John Bassel (1840-1914) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0126
Scope and Contents

Office files of the Clarksburg attorney and counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. There are a few personal papers and none relating to the Bassel's participation in the Constitutional Convention of 1872.

Dates: 1854-1916

John Bassel (1840-1914) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1009
Scope and Contents The first 59 boxes are the papers and correspondence of Clarksburg attorney and district legal counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. John Bassel graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, was admitted to the Bar in 1864, participated in the State Convention of 1872, and for a times, served as prosecuting attorney for Clarksburg. His papers are almost exclusively concerned with his legal practice, financial interests, and his work as legal counsel for the B&O. The latter...
Dates: 1761-1948

John Brown and John Brown, Jr. Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3108
Overview Contains letters, documents, letter-books, manuscripts and articles relating to John Brown and John Brown, Jr. Topics include abolitionist activities, including those in Kansas and Harpers Ferry, farm business, and family matters. Included are bits of fatherly advice, insight into the wool industry of the mid-1800's, eyewitness commentary on events in the abolitionist movement, and a phrenological description of John Brown. Names mentioned are Jason Brown, Owen Brown, Frederick Douglass,...
Dates: 1821-1932

John Ewing, Soldier, Civil War Letter

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Collection Number: A&M 3777
Overview Letter of John Ewing, Corporal of the 16th Ohio Infantry, to his wife and children, written from the Kanawha Valley in the vicinity of Charleston, (West) Virginia (2 November 1862). Ewing writes that he is in good health and describes recent encounters with Confederate troops. He describes in detail his experience as a Confederate prisoner, including a time he saw a "Company" of Indians with the Confederates. He also remarks on the opinions, mood, and character of the Confederate soldiers he...
Dates: 1862

John Jacob Cornwell (1867-1953), Governor, Papers and Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0952
Scope and Contents Papers of the fifteenth governor of West Virginia who was a newspaper publisher in Romney, an orchardman, lawyer, and counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. There are a few papers of W.B. Cornwell. The collection includes: personal and business correspondence, 1896-1953; correspondence as governor, 1916-1922; legal papers, ca.1843-1916; and material relating to "Cornwell Day," 1931; Baltimore and Ohio and other railroads; Romney Orchard Company, ca. 1916-1919; South Branch Development...
Dates: ca. 1843, 1896-1953

John P. Clarke (1825-1900) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1511
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, surveys, account books, and a diary of a Burning Springs surveyor, oil developer, rural entrepreneur, horticulturalist, and captain of the Little Kanawha River steamer GENERAL JACKSON. Collection includes a brief journal of a trip from Des Moines, Iowa, to the Forks of the Platte in 1860; papers of Clarke's venture in quartz mining and milling in the Colorado Territory, 1861-1863; surveys of the Burning Springs oil region; letters from James C....
Dates: 1851-1900

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1301
Scope and Contents

Papers of a Baltimore essayist and novelist which include selected materials pertaining to the Berkeley Springs-Martinsburg-Winchester area, visits to Richmond, Salt Sulphur, and White Sulphur Springs, and a journey in 1850 to Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville from Kennedy's journal, 1848-1855; and his diary, 1829-1832. There are also selected letters and portions of a diary copied from originals in the Library of Congress.

Dates: 1829-1862

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0504
Scope and Contents

Letters to and from John Rogers of Morgantown concerning his business affairs; subjects of the letters include the Morgantown Bridge Company, building an academy in Morgantown, the North West Turnpike, stage routes between Morgantown and Uniontown, salt, wool, carding, the purchase of machinery for the manufacture of woolen goods, plow points, and negroes. Correspondents include John Hoye, J. M. Mason, George Calmes, John R. Cooke, George White, J. A. Stein, and G. Faber and Sons.

Dates: 1823 - 1852

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0005
Scope and Contents

This collection embraces business letters, bills, receipts, notes, orders, checks, and personal correspondence of John Rogers, who was a pioneer merchant and iron manufacturer in Monongalia County, Virginia, during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1777-1857

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Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 38
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 9
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 8
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 6
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 6
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 6
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Brown, John. 5
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 5
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 5
Democratic Party (U.S.) 5
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 5
West Virginia University 5
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 4
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 4
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 4
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 4
Wilson family 4
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 3
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 3
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 3
Davis family 3
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 3
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 3
Hayman family 3
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 3
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 3
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 3
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 3
McGraw, John T. 3
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 3
Morgan family 3
Ruffner family 3
Washington, George, 1732-1799 3
West Virginia Historical Society 3
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 3
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 2
Baldwin-Felts Detective Inc. 2
Bassel, John, 1840-1914 2
Bennett, J.M. 2
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 2
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 2
Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764-1831 2
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 2
Brinkman, Charles. 2
Brinkman, George W. 2
Carpenter, Charles, 1889-1975 2
Cather, Fabricius A. 2
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company 2
Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818 2
Clarksburg 50-Year Club 2
Collins family 2
Collins, Jarius. 2
Collins, Justus, 1857-1934 2
Confederate States of America 2
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 2
Cresap, Michael, 1742-1775 2
Crook, George, 1828-1890 2
Cumberland Road 2
Cunningham, John S. 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Davis, T.B. 2
Dixon, Thomas W. 2
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 2
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 2
Ford, J. B. 2
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 2
Gambrell family 2
Garrett, John W. 2
Goff family 2
Grafton Rotary Club 2
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 2
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 2
Harmer family 2
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 2
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 2
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 2
Haymond, William. 2
Henderson family 2
Henderson, Alexander. 2
Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799 2
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 2
Jackson family 2
Jackson, J.J. 2
Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864 2
Johnson family 2
Kenna, John E. 2
Krebs, C. E. (Charles E.) 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 2
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 2
Lewis family 2
Library of Congress 2
Ludwig, William 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
Mann, Isaac T. (Isaac Thomas), 1864-1932 2
Matheny, H. E. (Herman Edmond), 1910- 2
Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884 2
Matlick, Jacob G. 2
Maxwell, Rufus. 2
McNeill family 2
Moats family 2
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