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Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1244
Scope and Contents Historical and genealogical typescripts, clipping scrapbooks, copies of family and court records, and personal recollections of the Guyandotte Valley area of Cabell, Wayne, and Lincoln counties compiled by F.B. Lambert. Several typescripts deal with the religious institutions of the area, the development of road, river, and rail transportation, and the spread of education in the valley. Other materials deal with the frontier and Indian history of the Guyandotte country and the collection...
Dates: ca. 1819-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1270
Scope and Contents

Historical and genealogical typescripts, copies of family and court records, and personal recollections of the Ohio Valley, West Virginia, and the Guyandotte country, compiled by Frederick B. Lambert.

Dates: 1939-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1281
Scope and Contents

Historical and genealogical notebooks, notes on census reports, cemetery readings, newspaper history, copies of church and school records, notes on slavery, newspaper clipping scrapbooks, and correspondence.

Dates: 1905-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gard Family Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 4424
Content Description Letters between Lucy Todd Gard, her husband Isaac Newton Gard, and their family and friends. Lucy, originally from Newport, Kentucky, married Isaac Gard of Greenville, Ohio in the 1830s. Isaac was a physician and served in the Ohio state legislature in the 1840s. The letters discuss family events, personal matters, Isaac's medical practice, antebellum politics, the Whig party, the Baptist Association in Trenton, Ohio, and social events in Jacksonburg and Greenville, Ohio. Also included in...
Dates: 1828-1874; Majority of material found within 1841 - 1849
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George C. McIntosh (1868-1935) Typed Document

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Collection Number: A&M 2599
Overview Memoirs of a retired newspaperman, editor, and Republican state house representative (1898-1901). McIntosh supported the Republican party and coal operator interests through his newspapers and periodicals, which included: HUNTINGTON GAZETTE, HUNTINGTON SUNDAY GAZETTE, HINTON FREE LANCE, FAYETTE JOURNAL, NEWS-MAIL CO., RALEIGH HERALD, and company magazines for the Island Creek Coal Company and Solvay Collieries. McIntosh discusses: his early employment on the railroads as census taker and...
Dates: 1895-1920
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George H. McGrew Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1622
Overview

Correspondence, sermons, religious writings, and accounts of a graduate of Wesleyan University and Harvard Law School, Methodist missionary to India (ca.1876-1885), and son of Representative James Clark McGrew of Kingwood. Subjects include West Virginia politics; social activities in Kingwood; conditions in the Indian mission field; nautical improvements tested at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1879; Northwestern University; and the Republican National Convention of 1880.

Dates: 1865-1885
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George Jackson (1757-1831) Letter

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Collection Number: A&M 1748
Overview

Letter from a Clarksburg attorney, justice of the peace, delegate to the Virginia General Assembly, 1785-1791, 1794, and U.S. congressman, 1795-1797, 1799-1803, "To the Freeholders of the Northwestern Congressional District of Virginia." Jackson expresses his intention not to run for reelection and comments on the political situation and the issues of the day.

Dates: 1803 February 22
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George Robert Latham (1832-1917), Civil War and West Virginia Statehood Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0066
Overview Correspondence, speeches and essays, and other papers pertaining to the military and diplomatic service of Colonel George R. Latham (1832-1917), who was a delegate to the Wheeling Convention in 1861, colonel of the 2nd West Virginia Infantry during the Civil War, a member of Congress from 1865 to 1867, and the United States consul in Australia from 1867 to 1870. Materials from the late 1860s and early 1870s relate to the consulate in Melbourne. These include shares of the Fiji Adventure of...
Dates: 1862-1882, 1914-1917, undated; 1914 - 1917
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates: 1898-1963
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George W. Koonce Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0407
Overview Correspondence and business papers of the family of George Koonce of Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County. Koonce was a prominent Unionist during the Civil War, a representative at the 1861 Wheeling Convention, and later a member of the West Virginia State Senate. The correspondence spans 1854 to 1920 (the bulk of which is from the period 1870 to 1900) and principally includes personal letters to and from family members spread out from Baltimore to Galveston, Texas. The topics, for the most part,...
Dates: 1835-1920
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Democratic Party (U.S.) 34
United States. Congress. Senate 33
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 31
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 23
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 21
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Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 21
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 21
West Virginia. Legislature 21
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 18
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 18
United States. Congress 17
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 16
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 15
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 14
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 13
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 13
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 12
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 12
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 12
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 12
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 11
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 11
West Virginia University 11
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 10
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 10
Byrd, Robert C. 9
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 9
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 9
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 9
Patteson, Okey L. 9
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 9
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 9
United Mine Workers of America 9
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 8
McGraw, John T. 8
Meadows, Clarence W. 8
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 7
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 7
Barron, W. W. 7
Dawson, William M.O. 7
Dayton, Spencer 7
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 7
Green, William. 7
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 7
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 7
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 7
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 7
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 7
Watson, James O. 7
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 7
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 6
Dayton, Alston Gordon 6
Johnson, Louis. 6
Marland, William C. 6
Smith, Hulett C. (Hulett Carlson), 1918-2012 6
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 6
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 5
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 5
Edmiston, Andrew. 5
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 5
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 5
Gore, Howard M. 5
Hechler, Ken 5
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 5
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 5
Underwood, Cecil H., 1922-2008 5
Watson, C. W. 5
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 5
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 4
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 4
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 4
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 4
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 4
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 4
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 4
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 4
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 4
Johnson, George W. 4
Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891 4
Kenna, John E. 4
Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884 4
Mollohan, Robert H. 4
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 4
Staggers, Harley O. 4
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 4
United States. Army 4
United States. Internal Revenue Service 4
United States. Works Progress Administration 4
West Virginia Wesleyan College 4
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 4
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 4
Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910 3
American Federation of Labor 3
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 3
Bailey, Cleveland Monroe, 1886-1965 3
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 3
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 3
Blizzard, William. 3
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