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Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0111
Scope and Contents The papers received from Mr. Brinkman in 1938 include manuscripts, typescripts, and printed items, and general merchandise account books. The manuscript items are mainly letters, receipts, account statements, and certificates concerning the general merchandise business of George Brinkman in Grafton, Grafton Gas Works, Charles Brinkman's History of Grafton, history of the first memorial service and the location of the National Cemetery in Grafton (Box 13), and stock in the Grafton &...
Dates: 1852-1952

Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1086
Scope and Contents The papers include 36 volumes of business and other records, such as the ledgers of the George W. Brinkman merchandising firm, the Mutual Building Company, minutesof the Grafton Rotary Club; journal and statistical report of the Grafton Baptist Church, 1897-1906; and a mas. history of Taylor County in various American wars, and extracts from the Civil War diary of Fabricius A. Cather. Also included are 2 boxes of financial records, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, a partial index to...
Dates: 1868-1938

George K. Campbell, Civil War Journal

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Collection Number: A&M 3124
Overview Private journal of George K. Campbell of Athens County, Ohio, who served as an officer in Company B of the 116th. Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Gettysburg campaign and the summer, fall, and winter of 1863, when he saw service in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Campbell served detached duty as an escort officer for recruits and prisoners during the spring and summer of 1864 and visited New York, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. He joined...
Dates: 1863-1864

H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Civil War Correspondence and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 1330
Scope and Contents Forty-nine letters of Ephraim W. Frost of Co J., 116th Reg, Ohio Vol Inf. Frost, who lived in Coolville, Ohio, near Parkersburg, was stationed at Moorefield, Martinsburg, near Romney, Winchester and Sleepy Creek in Morgan County, where his Reg. was guarding the B & O. The letters comment on fighting in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 around Woodstock, mention of McNeill, Imboden, and Mosby, and contain much on camp life in the eastern panhandle area. Frost was wounded near Piedmont in May...
Dates: 1861-1865

Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir

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Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates: 1838-1899

J.B. Ford Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 2545
Overview

Photocopies of correspondence to J.B. Ford, an agent of the B.&O. Railroad in Wheeling, during the Civil War. The papers concern railroad operations in West Virginia, 10 February-24 September 1863; apprehension of deserters; and Ford's commission as Assistant Quartermaster of Volunteers at the rank of Captain.

Dates: 1863

J.B. Ford Legal Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1679
Overview Suit papers and correspondence in the case of the BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD VS. J.B. FORD, general agent of the railroad at Cumberland and Wheeling. The papers include copies of documents relative to the building of the railroad from Cumberland westward to Parkersburg and Wheeling and the activities of Ford as general agent at Cumberland and Wheeling, 1852-1874. Most of Ford's evidence deals with the role of the railroad during the Civil War and its relations with the state of West...
Dates: ca. 1877

Parkersburg Town Council Journals

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Collection Number: A&M 1422
Overview Aside from routine municipal affairs these journals contain material on the development of internal improvements in the Parkersburg, West Virginia, area like the Wheeling-Parkersburg struggle for the western terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the development of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, and the demands for various river improvements. There are also a few references to Civil War military activities and the development of the oil industry in the Wood County area. Mayors...
Dates: 1826-1862, 1869-1874

Siler Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2200
Scope and Contents This is a collection of letters and documents tracing the personal and business life of an eastern panhandle West Virginia family. The papers concern a broad range of political, social, financial, and legal topics, particularly focusing on J. Hammond Siler, Jr., his parents, J. Hammond Siler, Sr. and Jessie Castleman Siler (residents of the Town of Bath better known as Berkeley Springs). Also includes correspondence and other papers from related families. Subjects include banking, the Civil...
Dates: 1848-1968

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Brinkman, Charles. 2
Brinkman, George W. 2
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 2
Cather, Fabricius A. 2
Ford, J. B. 2
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Grafton Rotary Club 2
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 2
Matlick, Jacob G. 2
Mutual Building Company 2
American Institute of Banking 1
American Red Cross 1
Armstrong, James D. 1
Baltimore Trust Company 1
Bickley, George. 1
Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
Boyoe, C. R. 1
Bull and Bear Club 1
Campbell family 1
Campbell, George K., 1834-1908 1
Campbell, Lois. 1
Carlisle, John Griffin, 1835-1910 1
Castleman family - Genealogy 1
Castleman, Ann Rebecca Isler. 1
Castleman, Estelle. 1
Castleman, Frank A. 1
Castleman, Sarah Jane. 1
Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia - Bonds. 1
Despard, C.S. 1
Emerald Shillelagh Chowder and Marching Society, Inc. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Frost, Ephraim W. 1
Garrett, John W. 1
Great Cacapon Silica Sand Company 1
Greenback Labor Party (U.S.) 1
Hammond and Siler General Store. 1
Hammond family - Genealogy 1
Hammond, Allen C. 1
Hammond, Cadet N. 1
Hardin, Moses 1
Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891 1
Hotee, John. 1
Humphries family - Genealogy 1
Isler family - Genealogy 1
Jackson, John J. 1
Kenna, John E. 1
Knights of the Golden Circle 1
Logan, John A. 1
Mason, John W. 1
Matheny, H. E. (Herman Edmond), 1910- 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
McGraw, John T. 1
McNeill, John Hanson, 1815-1864 1
Montgomery Ward 1
Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 1
Mugler, Henri Jean 1
National Cemetery Corps 1
Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883 1
Parkersburg Town Council 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Preston, William P. 1
Randolph, Emily Strother. 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
Rinehart, E. A. 1
Sears, Roebuck and Company 1
Seiler family 1
Seller family - Genealogy 1
Shepard family - Genealogy 1
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888 1
Shingleton, George A. 1
Siler, J. Hammond Jr. 1
Siler, J. Hammond Sr. 1
Siler, Jessie Castleman. 1
Siler, John T. 1
Simpson, 1
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 1
Steel - Hancock Steel Company. 1
Strother, Anne Doyne. 1
United States. Army 1
Van Gosen, James D. 1
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 1
Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates 1
Whisner, Samuel. 1
Widmyer, P. S. 1
Women's Christian Temperance Union 1
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