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Belden, Walker & Company, Greenbrier County General Store, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3092
Overview

Papers and ledger of a Greenbrier Co. general store containing ledger entries for cloth, clothing, hardware and food items. The papers include inventories, receipts, contracts, correspondence and legal documents that pertain mostly to the indebtedness incurred by the company. Names mentioned are Hezekiah Belden, William Pettis, Edwin Porter, Samuel Price, Cyrus Walker, and Ezra Walker.

Dates: 1836-1845

Berkeley or Jefferson County Store Ledger

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4215
Scope and Contents Account ledger of a general merchandise store in the eastern panhandle of Virginia, (later West Virginia) documenting transactions of goods purchased, services rendered as payment on accounts and balances owed. The money amounts are recorded in English currency denominations. The store was probably owned and operated by the William Brown family. Several local family names listed as patrons include Morgan, Shepherd, Hoyt, Osborne, Jones, and Richardson. There are also two loose papers; one...
Dates: 1784-1799

B.J. Baker Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1618
Overview

Daybooks, ledgers, journals, and other mercantile records of a Petersburg general merchandise company in the South Branch Valley, and the membership and dues list of the Petersburg Council, Friends of Temperance, 1871-1878.

Dates: 1865-1921

Brooke County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0043
Scope and Contents

Case files and bound volumes of the Brooke County Court. There is a card file of a name and subject index to the case files. The collection includes an account book for general merchandise sold by John Connell, 1794-1796, in Wellsburg, and other private account books, 1845-1870. All items in this collection have been microfilmed.

Dates: 1776-1918

Brooke County Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0981
Overview

Miscellaneous manuscripts all of which pertain to Brooke County: an 1848 deed; an agreement between the Wellsburg and Washington Turnpike Company and Arthur and John Henderson and J. Scott for construction of a portion of the turnpike, 1833; records of the firms of Lewis and Hedge and William B. Lewis and Company, Wellsburg, 1892-1894; and four unidentified account books for general merchandise, flour, feed, farming, and mill repair accounts, 1787-1789, 1880-1890.

Dates: 1881-1895

Capt. William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1750
Scope and Contents Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.Collection...
Dates: 1799-1888

Carder Lowe and Company Daybook

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Collection Number: A&M 2054
Overview

Daybook No. 3 of the Carder Lowe & Co. General Store at Shinnston, West Virginia. It contains records listing customers, merchandise sold, and monetary transactions.

Dates: 1880-1882

Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates: ca. 1840-1955

Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0111
Scope and Contents The papers received from Mr. Brinkman in 1938 include manuscripts, typescripts, and printed items, and general merchandise account books. The manuscript items are mainly letters, receipts, account statements, and certificates concerning the general merchandise business of George Brinkman in Grafton, Grafton Gas Works, Charles Brinkman's History of Grafton, history of the first memorial service and the location of the National Cemetery in Grafton (Box 13), and stock in the Grafton &...
Dates: 1852-1952

Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1086
Scope and Contents The papers include 36 volumes of business and other records, such as the ledgers of the George W. Brinkman merchandising firm, the Mutual Building Company, minutesof the Grafton Rotary Club; journal and statistical report of the Grafton Baptist Church, 1897-1906; and a mas. history of Taylor County in various American wars, and extracts from the Civil War diary of Fabricius A. Cather. Also included are 2 boxes of financial records, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, a partial index to...
Dates: 1868-1938

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Democratic Party (U.S.) 4
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 3
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 3
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 3
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 3
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McGrath, J. Howard (James Howard), 1903-1966 3
Meadows, Clarence W. 3
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 3
Patteson, Okey L. 3
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 3
Price, Samuel, 1805-1884 3
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 3
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 3
United States National Guard - West Virginia. 3
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 3
American Legion 2
Associated Press 2
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 2
Barns, Fleming and Company 2
Barns, James F. 2
Barns, John S. 2
Barns, John S. and Company 2
Barns, Thomas. 2
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 2
Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764-1831 2
Brinkman, Charles. 2
Brinkman, George W. 2
Brown, John. 2
Cather, Fabricius A. 2
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
Fairmont Broadcasting Company. 2
Fairmont Newspaper Publishing Company 2
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 2
Fleming Association 2
Fleming, James R. 2
Grafton Rotary Club 2
Green, William. 2
Hampshire County Court 2
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Jackson Coal Company 2
Johnson, Hugh S. (Hugh Samuel), 1882-1942 2
Johnson, Louis. 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
Lantz, William. 2
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
Mallison, Samuel T. 2
Matlick, Jacob G. 2
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 2
Monongah Mines Relief Committee 2
Mutual Building Company 2
National Miners' Union (U.S.) 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 2
Rose, Herschel H. 2
Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944 2
Smith, Clarence Edwin Jr. 2
Smith, Clarence Edwin, 1885-1959 2
Smith, Clarence L. 2
Smith, Earl H. 2
Smith, Mary Fleming. 2
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 2
Stuart, John. 2
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 2
United Mine Workers of America 2
United States - Railway Administration. 2
United States. National Bituminous Coal Commission 2
Virginia Military Institute 2
Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates 2
Watson, C. W. 2
Watson, James O. 2
West Virginia University 2
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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 2
Woodbridge-Blennerhassett. 2
American Colonization Society 1
American Institute of Banking 1
American Party 1
American Red Cross 1
Anderson-Newcomb Department Store 1
Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913 1
Armstrong, James D. 1
Babb, John H. 1
Baer Grocery Company 1
Bailey, Vida 1
Baker, B. J., 1848-1924 1
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 1
Ballard family 1
Ballard, E.D. 1
Ballard, Isaac Newton. 1
Ballard, Kate May Walkup. 1
Ballard, Margaret B. (1900-1976) 1
Ballard, Margaret Byrnside. 1
Baltimore Trust Company 1
Bank of Greenville (Monroe County, W. Va.) 1
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 1
Barboursville College 1
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