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Stiles Family Oil and Mining Company Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0199
Overview Papers, maps, and photos of William C. Stiles and Samuel B. Stiles, developers associated with J.C. Rathbone and J.N. Camden in the oil industry of Wood County, in particular of the oil boom town of Volcano. Most of the papers are business correspondence, receipts and oil drilling records dealing with family owned business in Parkersburg and Volcano, namely the Zero Oil Company, the Power Oil Company, and the Jackson Land and Mining Company. There are family photographs, and records and...
Dates: 1837-1951
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Stone Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3324
Overview Includes four typescript family genealogies: Stone Family genealogy, 1590-1931, Thomas Spencer Family genealogy, 1721-1918, Tracewell Family genealogy, 1536-1925, and the Farnsworth Family genealogy, 1677-1960. Includes photocopies of three 1887 manuscript letters from L. Morrison to S.S. Stone, one of which is written on an 1887 advertisement for land in Pocahontas County; a 22' x 37' chart tracing 12 generations of Samuel Spencer Stone's ancestors, and photocopies of newspaper obituaries...
Dates: 1887, 1998, n.d.
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Sue Proctor Miller, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0866
Scope and Contents

Microfilm of Braxton County marriage bonds, 1836-1853; biographical and genealogical notes on Michael (Malcolm) Coleman in Jackson County, William White, the Staats family, and Andersen family of Wood and Jackson counties; and a narrative sketch of early Ravenswood written by Eunice Proctor Perkins.

Dates: 1836-1853
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3192
Overview This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical...
Dates: 1732-1965
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Volcano, Wood County Historical Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1800
Overview

Material relating to Volcano, Wood County, the center of a booming oil industry, 1865-1879. Specifically mentioned is the Stiles Oil Company, owned by William Cooper Stiles, Jr. The collection consists of articles, photographs, court proceedings, correspondence, and record books.

Dates: 1857-1964
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ward Family History

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Collection Number: A&M 3191
Overview Typescript history of the Ward family of Ohio with a concentration on its association with Harman Blennerhassett, whose secretary was Sylvester Ward. Included is some information on the Blennerhassetts, Aaron Burr, Dudley Woodbridge, Elijah Backus and Aaron Waldo Putnam. Much mention is made of neighboring allied families to the Wards, particularly Hendersons and Putnams in the adjoining counties of Wood Co., VA and Washington Co., OH. There is a detailed transcription of an October 8, 1805...
Dates: 1994
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Postmasters Appointment Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3026
Overview The record of the appointment of postmasters in the following WV counties: Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt, Wood and Wyoming. The record shows the dates of establishment and discontinuance of post offices, their changes of name, and the names of and the appointment dates of their postmasters. Beginning in 1870, it shows the names of post offices to which mail from discontinued offices was sent. The record also shows the dates of...
Dates: 1857-1971
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. Genealogy Research Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3230
Overview Genealogy research papers compiled by W. Guy Tetrick and his son Willis G. Tetrick, Jr. The Tetricks were from Harrison County and the material in the collection mainly regards families of Harrison County and north central West Virginia. The collection contains mostly original genealogical compilations and family histories. It also contains personal and business correspondence; financial records; publications regarding local and state history; newspapers and news clippings; obituaries,...
Dates: 1708-1997
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wilson and Stribling Families Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0880
Overview

Correspondence, clippings, land papers, and other records of James Wilson, an attorney in Wood County, ca.1800-1820; Robert M. Stribling and other members of the Stribling family in Mason County, 1821-ca.1909; and James A. and Otis Young, ca.1900-1934, in Mason County. A pocket diary of James Wilson gives information on his law practice in Kanawha, Monongalia, and Wood counties in 1804.

Dates: ca. 1781-1934
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wood County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0458
Overview

Records from the offices of circuit and county clerks containing inventories, wills, appraisements, estate and administrative settlements, and bills of sales.

Dates: 1785-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 2
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Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 2
Johnson, Mary McKendree. 2
Laidley, James M. 2
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Matheny, H. E. (Herman Edmond), 1910- 2
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 2
Spencer family 2
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Zero Oil Company 2
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Borland Springs Hotel 1
Bradley, Rev. Joshua. 1
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Broadwater family 1
Brooke, Robert. 1
Brown, James H. 1
Burdett, Harriet. 1
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Burns family 1
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 1
Camden family 1
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 1
Camden, John S. 1
Campbell, Alexandar. 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Carter, G. W. 1
Carter, Rev. J.W. 1
Carter, Sarah A. 1
Carter, Watson. 1
Cassady, Capt. James S. 1
Chenoweth family 1
Childress family 1
Claysville Borough 1
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Coalman, Daniel. 1
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Collins family - Genealogy 1
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Confederate States of America 1
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