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Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates: 1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960

Snyder Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0490
Overview

Personal and business correspondence of Harmon, Molly, John, and other members of the Snyder family; genealogical information on the Lantz and Snyder families; land grants, surveys and deeds for land in Barbour, Greenbrier, and Randolph counties, West Virginia; and poll and registration books for Randolph County. Included also is Harmon Snyder's daybook and diary, listing accounts for the years 1866-1896 and incidents of the Civil War.

Dates: 1790-1937

Storer College, Administrative and Operational Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1322
Scope and Contents Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. This collection contains mainly administrative and operational records of the college. Types of records include annual reports, publications, memorabilia, artifacts, and other material. This collection includes material regarding John Brown's Fort.The collection is organized into eighteen series, including:Series 1. Correspondence; 1865-1953; boxes...
Dates: 1865-1960; Majority of material found within 1930s-1950s

Storer College Correspondence, Business Papers and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2621
Overview Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. Types of records include correspondence, business papers, photographs, memorabilia, issues of the Storer Record (the Storer College newspaper), financial records, scrapbooks, bulletins, minute books, newspaper and magazine clippings, diaries, motion pictures, and miscellaneous material. Includes records regarding the early years of the...
Dates: 1854-1964

Walter Stuart Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1884
Scope and Contents

Two scrapbooks of Walter Stuart, editor and publisher of the West Union Record. Clippings are from the Congressional Record and editorials from the newspaper. There are a few letters, including from John W. Davis (1942-1947), one from Henry D. Hatfield (1945), and one from Alben W. Barkley (1948).

Dates: 1924-1950

William B. Curtis (1821-1891) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1591
Overview Papers of a brigadier general of the Twelfth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and his family from West Liberty include correspondence, business and legal papers, military and veterans' records, photographs, clippings, and account books. Includes papers of West Liberty Post 78, Department of West Virginia G.A.R.; records and photographs of the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry Regiment; photographs, clippings and published and unpublished material pertaining to the town of West Liberty and the...
Dates: 1830-1954

William E. Cupp Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0656
Overview

Business records, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers of the Cupp family, including Will E. Cupp, Mary J. Cupp, and Marie Cupp Nestor, of St. George, Tucker County, West Virginia. Included are Tucker County court fee books, 1856-1898, and personal and general store account books, 1897-1933.

Dates: 1839-1948

William Gaston Caperton (1815-1852) Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1436
Overview Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of: a Monroe County, West Virginia, farmer and politician; his wife, Harriette Boswell Alexander; their daughters, Isabel and Alice Beulah; Alice's husband, Frank Hereford, U.S. senator from West Virginia; and his daughter, Katherine Hereford Stoddard. There is one folder of business papers, 1820-1841, of Thomas Edgar; a few letters from Caperton's son, John, while a cadet at the Camp of Instruction, Richmond, 1861; a folder of letters concerning...
Dates: 1801-1930

William H. Newcomb, (b.1870), Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1282
Overview

Papers of a Huntington dry goods merchant, W.H. Newcomb, include a domestic diary, 1865, kept by his mother, Emily Cox of Guyandotte, and a clipping scrapbook pertaining to the Newcomb family and the Anderson-Newcomb Department Store. The scrapbook contains obituary notices, society notes, local history items, and an autographed letter from Theodore Roosevelt to W. Barkla, dated 20 October 1900.

Dates: 1865-1931

William Hereford McGinnis Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0855
Overview The personal business papers of William Hereford McGinnis (1855-1930), a Beckley lawyer who was prosecuting attorney of Raleigh County, 1892-1896, a senator in 1902, judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, 1922-1924, chairman for a number of years of the executive committee of the Democratic Party in Raleigh County, and delegate to the national convention in 1920. There are case papers, correspondence and other records of the Hatcher-McGinnis Law Firm, 1834-1930; family photographs; and...
Dates: 1834-1954

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Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 4
Democratic Party (U.S.) 4
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 4
Seckar, Alvena, 1916-2012 4
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 3
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Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 3
Jarvis, Anna, 1864-1948 3
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 3
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 3
Washington, George, 1732-1799 3
West Virginia Wesleyan College 3
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 2
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 2
Brewster, J.M. 2
Byrd, Robert C. 2
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 2
Clarksburg 50-Year Club 2
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 2
Crook, George, 1828-1890 2
Curtis, Silas, 1804- 2
Day, George T. 2
Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869 2
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 2
Harmer family 2
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 2
Hickman family 2
Jackson family 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
McDonald, Henry Temple, 1872-1951 2
McGraw, John T. 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
New England Free Will Baptist Association 2
Patteson, Okey L. 2
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 2
Robinson, Ira E. 2
Smith, Edward Grandison 2
Storer College 2
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 2
United States. Congress. Senate 2
United States. Veterans Administration 2
Watson, C. W. 2
West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs 2
West Virginia Historical Society 2
Weston State Hospital 2
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 2
Ade, George. 1
Alexander, Harriette Boswell. 1
Allen family 1
Allen-Kesecker family. 1
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Pharmaceutical Association 1
Anderson-Newcomb Department Store 1
Andrews, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1899-1983 1
Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland), 1900-1975 1
Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913 1
Arnold, Thomas Jackson. 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Austin family 1
Ball family 1
Ball, George H. 1
Bandar Log Press 1
Barber family 1
Barkla, W. 1
Barron, W. W. 1
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965 1
Bee family 1
Ben Lamond Company 1
Bennett family 1
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Bluefield State College 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
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Brackett, Louise Wood. 1
Brackett, Rev. Nathan. 1
Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876 1
Brake family 1
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Branson, Susan I. 1
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Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Brown, Joseph. 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
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