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Arthur I. Boreman Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates: 1830-1949
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph and Henry Bennett Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1731
Overview Letters of Henry and Joseph Bennett concerning travel by sea from New York to Chagres, Panama, overland across Panama and by ship to San Francisco in 1851. Letters from California, 1852-1853, discuss arrival of immigrants; employment conditions and wages; gambling and social life in San Francisco; investment opportunities; conditions in the gold mines; travel by steamboat to Hangtown (Placerville); churches; crime; Indians; mining profits; cost of land; ranching; blacksmith and plough shop...
Dates: 1849-1923
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ohio County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0031
Scope and Contents Court case papers, 1776-1930; court and county record books; birth and death records, 1887-1888; and account and minute books of individuals, companies, and organizations, 1772-1935. The bound volumes include records of brand registrations, deeds, estrays, land entries, marriages, military service, surveys, and wills. The private account books relate to general merchandising, coal sales, dental practice, a debating society, distilling, carriage manufacturing, hotels, steamboat freighting,...
Dates: 1772-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Zane, Ebenezer, 1747-1812 2
Bennett, Henry. 1
Bennett, Joseph and Henry 1
Bennett, Joseph. 1
Boreman and Bullocks 1
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Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Clarke, James C. 1
Clarke, John P. 1
Clarke, John P. (1825-1900) 1
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Farnsworth, D.D.T. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Jackson, J.G. 1
Johnson, Henry J. 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lang, Theodore F. 1
Ohio County Centennial Association 1
Ohio County Court 1
Ohio Valley Glass Company 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
Rucker, William P. 1
Society of the Army of West Virginia 1
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 1
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 1
West Virginia Wool Growers Association 1
West Virginia. State Exposition and Fair Association 1
Wheeling Masonic Hall Association 1
Wilson, E.W. 1
Wirt Oil and Mining Company 1
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