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Eugene Levassor Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1363
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, maps and printed materials of a French emigre, land speculator, and merchant from Cincinnati and Parkersburg. Subjects include Levassor's extensive landholdings in Kanawha, Lincoln, Jackson, Wood, Wirt, and Monongalia counties, and activities of his land agents; James Swann lands; the coming of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad to Parkersburg; the Panic of 1857 in that city; oil fever in the Wood County area, 1859-1866; and the activities of J.H....
Dates: 1796-1894

First Baptist Church of Parkersburg Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2952
Overview

Minutes of the church, 1817-1910, and of the Parkersburg Baptist Association, 1819-1869. Lists and reports of member churches, including Hughes River, Marietta, Bethesda, Sampson Creek, Mount Zion, Reedy Creek, and Elizabeth. Lists of early members (white and black) of the First Baptist Church 1817-1844. An historical sketch of the Parkersburg Baptist Association written by Rev. J.W. Carter in 1869, with a statistical report on member churches 1818-1869.

Dates: 1817-1910

Gordon B. Gibbens Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2816
Scope and Contents Correspondence of Gordon B. Gibbens of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Subjects discussed include personal and family business, West Virginia Republican Party affairs, and Gibbens' political appointments. Correspondents include Senators Stephen B. Elkins, Nathan B. Scott, and James A. Hughes, as well as numerous Ohio Valley politicians. One letter (1896 December 21) is an endorsement by a group of "colored" voters of Wood County for Gibbens' appointment to political office, and another letter...
Dates: 1878-1902

Henry R. Kelly, Collector, Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 1205
Overview

Scrapbook of a Parkersburg postal clerk containing historical clippings on Wood County and World War II, and the scrapbook (1854-1921) of A.L. Collins which has statements from numerous Parkersburg mercantile houses, criminal reward notices, and a few legal papers.

Dates: 1854-1955

Hugh Sayre, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2436
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, miscellaneous family papers, nineteenth century school records, ledgers, bank books, and memorabilia of Hugh F. Sayre and family of Parkersburg, Reedy, St. Marys and West Creek, West Virginia. Some material relates to oil and gas leases on the Sayre family farm and Sayre's invention of a scientific alphabet called EBDECORD.

Dates: 1872-1927, 1953

Maggie Metheny, Author, Typescript regarding Travel by Wagon from West Virginia to Kansas

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Collection Number: A&M 4446
Overview

Typescript authored by Maggie (Rhodes) Metheny regarding her family travelling from West Virginia to Kansas by covered wagon in 1892, with copies of related correspondence and family photographs.

Dates: 1953-1957

Mary McKendree Johnson, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1100
Scope and Contents

Microfilm copy of a loose leaf note book with Mrs. Johnson's articles on "Your Famous Forefathers," published serially, 1953-1954 in Hampshire Review; also clipping on early Parkersburg history.

Dates: 1913, 1932-1958

Mary McKendree Johnson, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1132
Scope and Contents

The collection consists primarily of genealogical notes on a number of Virginia and West Virginia families. There are also lists of war pensioners, copies of county and parish records, historical news clippings on Virginia and West Virginia, one box of newsclippings and other material relating to Wood County history and a folder of John J. Jackson papers, 1837-1884.

Dates: 1932-1958

Mortimore W. Giboney, Full Confession to the Murder of Abraham Deem (copy)

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Collection Number: A&M 2343
Overview

Photostat copy of the full confession of Mortimore Giboney, hanged at Parkersburg, 16 September 1864, for the murder of Abraham Deem.

Dates: 1864

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

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Travel accounts. 1
Tygart, Wood County. 1
Union veterans - Wood County. 1
Volcano (W. Va.) 1
Walker, Wood County. 1
West Creek (W. Va.) 1
Weston (W. Va.) 1
Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
Williams (W. Va.) 1
Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
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Jackson, John J. 3
Johnson, Mary McKendree. 2
Zero Oil Company 2
Barr, Henrietta Fitzhugh 1
Brown, John. 1
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Camden family 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 1
Camden, John S. 1
Carter, G. W. 1
Carter, Rev. J.W. 1
Carter, Sarah A. 1
Cassady, Capt. James S. 1
Collins, A.L. 1
Cook family 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Deem, Abraham. 1
Despard, C.S. 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
First Baptist Church, Parkersburg 1
Fleischer family 1
Gibbens, Gordon B. 1
Giboney, Mortimore W. 1
Hughes, James A. 1
Jackson Land & Mining Company 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Kelly, Edwin P. 1
Kelly, Henry R. 1
Kelly, W.R. 1
Laidley, James M. 1
Levassor, Eugene 1
Lisez, Charles. 1
Matheny, H. E. (Herman Edmond), 1910- 1
Matthews family 1
McGrew, James Clark. 1
Merrill, L.G. 1
Metheny, Maggie (Maggie (Rhodes)) 1
Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company 1
Parkersburg Baptist Association 1
Parkersburg Town Council 1
Peden family 1
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency 1
Quarrier, Alexander. 1
Rathbone family 1
Rathbone, John Castelli 1
Rector, Enoch. 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
Rowan, Andrew Summers 1
Sayre family 1
Sayre, Agnes. 1
Sayre, Daniel C. (Daniel Clemens), 1903-1956 1
Sayre, Edward A. 1
Sayre, Hugh 1
Sayre, Hugh F. 1
Sayre, James H. 1
Sayre, Mrs. Agnes (died 1901) 1
Sayre, Mrs. Agnes (died 1953) 1
Sayre, Mrs. Agnes. 1
Sayre, Robert H. 1
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 1
Stephenson family 1
Stephenson, Edward. 1
Stephenson, James M. 1
Stephenson, John. 1
Stiles family 1
Stiles family (Volcano, WV) 1
Stiles, Samuel B. 1
Stiles, William C. 1
Swann, James. 1
Tavenner family 1
Tavenner, Jennet Withers. 1
Tavenner, Thomas, 1776-1857 1
Tavenner, William Cabell. 1
Union, Wood County. 1
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 1
Wells family 1
Woodyard, Ben A. 1
Young family 1
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