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David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0975
Scope and Contents Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). Includes letters, surveys, land grant, bonds, and receipts. The correspondence includes...
Dates: 1826-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1027
Scope and Contents Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). The papers include correspondence; land papers, particularly, for Randolph County; court...
Dates: 1840-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2894
Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of David Hunter Strother (1816-1888), a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine whose pseudonym, "Porte Crayon", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of Virginia Illustrated (1857) and Charleston and its...
Dates: 1744-1996; Majority of material found within 1833-1887
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Davis Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0140
Overview

Personal and business papers of Isaac, Albert, and Silas R. Davis, of Ohio and Marshall counties, West Virginia. Includes estate settlements, genealogical data, justice of the peace docket and broadsides. There is a Civil War loyalty oath for J.N. Keller, a War of 1812 discharge for Thomas Moore and an 1844 presidential campaign broadside for the Whig candidate Henry Clay.

Dates: 1809-1916
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl Ray Zinn Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3040
Overview Correspondence, photos, postcards and memorabilia of a school teacher of White Days Creek and of his wife, Mary Corrothers Zinn. Most of the collection consists of correspondence and photos of Zinn's career in the U. S. Army during World War I. Zinn worked as a math school teacher and as a census taker in the Fetterman District of Taylor County. He spent the war in training at Camp Knox, West Point, KY in Battery E., 70th. Field Artillery Brigade, and he discusses in the letters the daily...
Dates: 1910-1975
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Edward C. Bunker (1830-1867) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1615
Overview

Legal papers of a Morgantown lawyer, partner of United States Senator Waitman T. Willey, prosecuting attorney of Monongalia County, state senator, and judge of the Eleventh Circuit Court. Included are papers which relate to Bunker's Civil War service and Willey's legal practice. There are a few items of correspondence on land speculation and immigration in post-Civil War West Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1850-1865, 1901
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Edward E. Meredith Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1814
Overview Clippings, letters, broadsides, and articles written or collected by E.E. Meredith, author of the newspaper column, "Do You Remember," which appeared in the Fairmont TIMES-WEST VIRGINIAN. There are: copies of theatre programs, 1917-1919; electoral tickets, 1860, 1864; a proclamation by George B. McClellan, commanding the Department of the Ohio, 1861; and an open letter, "Monongahela River Bridge Underwriting Syndicate Managers," concerning the construction of the million-dollar bridge in...
Dates: 1817-1954
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ellison Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2484
Scope and Contents The correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, recipes, remedies, and genealogy, of the Ellison-Dunlap Petrie families of Monroe County. The letters discuss family and business matters, enslaved Africans, the Civil War, and settlement of some family members in Kansas. There are papers about land and farming, including surveys, deeds, memos, and accounts as well as correspondence and printed material about the WVU Agricultural Extension Service. There are ledgers for Han Creek Mill and an...
Dates: 1819-1977
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Emily Gray Shreve Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3024
Scope and Contents The papers of a Martinsburg native related to local prominent families. There are genealogical notes and papers concerning the following families: Anderson, Beall, Chenowith, Cowan, Cromwell, Gilbert, Gray, Hoffman, Magruder, McConnell, Newcomer, and Silver. Also included are the letters and papers of Edmond L. Hoffman, who served early in the Civil War as a lieutenant in the Stonewall Brigade. He describes in extensive detail the First Battle of Bull Run. In later letters, he presents his...
Dates: 1851-1987
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ford Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1688
Overview

Stock receipt, Taylor County Agricultural and Mechanical Society, 1870; a pass from Headquarters, United States Volunteers, Grafton, dated 3 August 1861; passes from the toll office of Valley River Bridge, Northwestern Turnpike, 1860-1863; list of indigent school children, District 17, Taylor County; and muster fines and receipts bearing Morgantown, Fairmont, and Pruntytown imprints.

Dates: 1829-1882
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 13
Brown, John. 12
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 10
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 9
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 9
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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 8
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 8
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 7
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 7
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 7
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 7
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 7
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 7
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 7
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 6
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 6
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 5
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 4
Dayton, Spencer 4
Jackson family 4
Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891 4
Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886 4
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 4
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 4
Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898 4
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 4
United States. Army 4
United States. Congress. Senate 4
West Virginia University 4
Brown, John, 1800-1859 3
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 3
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 3
Cather, Fabricius A. 3
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 3
Crook, George, 1828-1890 3
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 3
Dawson, William M.O. 3
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 3
Democratic Party (U.S.) 3
Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper 3
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 3
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 3
Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906 3
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 3
Jackson, John J. 3
Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864 3
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 3
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 3
Matheny, H. E. (Herman Edmond), 1910- 3
Matlick, Jacob G. 3
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 3
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Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902 3
Society of the Army of West Virginia 3
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Watson, James O. 3
Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913 2
Averell, W.W. 2
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 2
Battelle, Gordon. 2
Bennett, J.M. 2
Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764-1831 2
Brinkman, Charles. 2
Brinkman, George W. 2
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 2
Camden family 2
Campbell family 2
Campbell, Alexandar. 2
Caperton, Allen Taylor, 1810-1876 2
Carlisle, John Griffin, 1835-1910 2
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Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 2
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Confederate States of America 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 2
Cook family 2
Craig family 2
Davis family 2
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 2
Davis, Julia, 1900-1993 2
Echols, John, 1823-1896 2
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 2
Fleischer family 2
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 2
Ford, J. B. 2
Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, Collector 2
Gilliam family 2
Glenville State College 2
Grafton Rotary Club 2
Grand Army of the Republic 2
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 2
Harper's weekly 2
Hayman family 2
Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891 2
Hubbard, Dana L. 2
Hubbard, William P. 2
Humphrey, Luther. 2
Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900 2
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