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Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0104
Overview

Personal and business papers of lawyer, U.S. Senator, circuit court judge, and first Governor of West Virginia, Arthur I. Boreman. See scope and content note for more details.

Dates: 1861-1895, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Austin Willard Martiney, World War II Postcard Accordion Book from Chanute Field

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Collection Number: A&M 3749
Overview

Postcard accordion book from Private Austin Willard Martiney of the 32nd Technical School Squadron, Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois, to Jimmie Markley of Volga, Barbour County, West Virginia. Chanute Field was the location of a U.S. Army Air Corps technical school for instruction in aircraft mechanics and maintenance during World War II. The booklet contains images of the training facilities.

Dates: 1942
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Barbour County Cemetery Readings

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Collection Number: A&M 2911
Overview

Barbour County cemetery readings for the Gasey/Breakiron family plot at Lawless Road; Crislip Cemetery, near Elk City; two Elk City church cemeteries. 1983. 14 p.

Dates: 1983
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Barbour County Manuscripts and Articles regarding Industry

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Collection Number: A&M 0959
Content Description This collection includes two documents. One is a four-page handwritten manuscript, "The Old Furnace" by C.O. Marsh, printed originally in the The Barbour Democrat on November 11, 1956. This manuscript also includes information on the the John M. Marsh, b. 1827 family. The second document is an "Excursion Souvenir," a four-page pamphlet printed for the West Virginia Academy of Science Meeting at Philippi, April 25-26, 1941 and contains articles...
Dates: 1941, 1956
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Braxton B. Durrett (b.1819) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0488
Overview

Arithmetic book of Braxton B. Durrett of Spotsylvania County, Virginia and Barbour County, West Virginia. Included are examples of various arithmetical processes; diary entries, October 1841-February 1842; and a record of the Durrett family record.

Dates: 1833-1846
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Browning-Weaver Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3175
Overview Family history papers consisting of a list of the descendants of Edmund Browning, Jr. and Jane Curry Browning, a typescript history of the Browning family, a Browning family tree chart, and a pedigree chart for Henry Hamilton Weaver of Barbour Co. There is also a typescript account of the experiences of the Daniel Weaver family during 1855 in the Kansas Territory and its return to Gilmer Co., including a description of dealings with Pottawatomie Indians, a cholera epidemic, and Kansas...
Dates: 1885-1990
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Civil War Military Commission Proceedings

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Collection Number: A&M 2757
Overview Proceedings of a trial by a U. S. Military Commission of Harrison H. Stalnaker, who was accused of the crime of bushwhacking in regard to the deaths of Capt. Michael T. Haller, Sgt. Andrew M. Nester and William S. Martin on 24 April 1865 in Barbour County. The incident began when a small party of Confederates raided the home of a Union sympathizer. Their intent was to entice the Home Guard stationed at Camp Haller (Valley Camp) into an ambush. Stalnaker, whose defense attorney was Spencer...
Dates: 1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

C.M. Cornwell Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0803
Overview

Papers of C.M. Cornwell, a surveyor and justice of the peace of Barbour County, West Virginia. Included are: surveys, plats, deeds, court case papers, surveyor's notebooks, minutes of commissioners' meetings, survey calls on the re-survey of the Barbour-Taylor County line (1894), and family correspondence.

Dates: 1840-1919
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

County Highway Maps for West Virginia

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Collection Number: A&M 4479
Content Description Highway maps for the 55 counties of West Virginia created in 1937. They are in two tones (blue on white), in varying dimensions (including items in the range of 36 in. x 36 in. to 36 in. x 58 in., etc.), and scaled to 1 inch equaling 1 mile. Features indicated on the maps include: roads (US, primary state roads, secondary state roads); state, county, district, and corporate lines; railroads; streams; parks and forests; highway bridges; county seats; cities and villages; lodges; farms;...
Dates: 1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

F.A. Simpson Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0647
Overview

Records of F.A. Simpson, a justice of the peace in Barbour County. Also included, dating between 1914-1942, are a few papers and speeches of J.A. Viquesney, West Virginia Game and Fish Warden (1909-1916) and justice of the peace; 1930 election campaign material relating to Henry D. Hatfield, James Ellwood Jones, and Carl B. Harvey; and references to politics, game laws, cost of medical service, and prohibition.

Dates: 1909-1942
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Brooke, Robert. 1
Brown, James H. 1
Brown, John. 1
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Browning, Edmund, Jr. 1
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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
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Carpenter, Jacob family. 1
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Civil War. Military Commission 1
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Confederate States of America 1
Conklyn family 1
Cookus, Joseph Lambright. 1
Cornwell, C. M. 1
Cranmer, Gibson L. (Gibson Lamb), 1826-1903 1
Crislip Cemetery 1
Cumberland Road 1
Curry, Jane. 1
Cushwa family 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Davis, Thomas B. 1
Davis, Thomas Beall (1896-1913) 1
Dayton, Spencer 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dewees, Daniel S. 1
Durrett family 1
Durrett, Braxton B. 1
Duvall, George W. 1
Elk Creek Oil and Gas Company 1
Elkins family 1
Eschmann family 1
Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1
Farley family 1
Farm Women's Club -- West Virginia 1
Faulkner family 1
Flesher, A. 1
Frame, Ann. 1
Frost, Daniel Marsh, 1823-1900. 1
Gasey/Breakiron cemetary. 1
Geological Survey (U.S.) 1
Goddard, Charles A. 1
Gordon, Sarah Morgan (Groff) 1
Grisemer family 1
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 1
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Holt, Ben M. 1
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