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Jonathan M. Bennett (1816-1887) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0032
Overview Correspondence and papers of a major political figure dealing largely with politics in Virginia, West Virginia, and Virginia in the Confederacy. Bennett, a lawyer and legislator, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, 1852-1853; president of the Weston Branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia; auditor of Virginia, 1857-1865; member of the senate of West Virginia, 1872-1876; and a member of the commission appointed to adjust the Virginia debt question in 1871. Correspondents include...
Dates: 1785-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Richard H. Ralston, Sr., Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2205
Overview Correspondence of William A. Harrison, a Clarksburg lawyer, assistant federal district attorney, member of the Virginia Assembly, and judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; most letters are from members of the family to Mrs. Anna Robertson Harrison. Subjects include construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; Civil War loyalty Oaths, Camp Chase land purchases, and road building. There are also grade school attendance certificates and notes concerning the Lunatic Asylum...
Dates: 1825-1934
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
Canals 1
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
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Confederate States of America. 1
Education 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Judges - letters and papers. 1
Land. 1
Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
Lunatic Asylum West of the Allegheny Mountains. 1
Politics and government. 1
Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
Women's history -- Pre-1800 1
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Names
Barbour, James. 1
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 1
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Camden, R.P. 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Dayton, Spencer 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Edmiston, Matthew. 1
Garrett, John W. 1
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 1
Harrison, Mrs. Anna M. Robertson. 1
Harrison, William A. 1
Jackson, William L. 1
Johnson, Joseph 1
Maxwell, Edwin. 1
Pendleton, J.H. 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Ralston, Richard H. 1
Randolph, Beverly. 1
Reagan, John H. (John Henninger), 1818-1905 1
Smith, W. P. (William Prescott), 1822?-1872 1
Sutton, Felix 1
Thompson, William P. 1
Tyler, John, 1790-1862 1
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 1
West Virginia. Legislature 1
Weston State Hospital 1
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