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Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0040
Overview Papers of the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of...
Dates: 1784-1924
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Aretas Brooks Fleming Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0568
Overview Papers of Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923), the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of...
Dates: 1784-1924
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Barns Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0925
Overview Papers of the Barns family of northwestern West Virginia, including: the Civil War diaries of Thomas Rufus Barns recording his experiences while serving with Company K, Tenth Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry (1863-1864); Civil War records of Uz Barns, who served with the same unit, including discharge and pension papers (1865-1891); miscellaneous Civil War material, including currency and song sheets (ca. 1861-1865); and Barns family papers including financial records, and land...
Dates: 1816-1899; Majority of material found within 1831-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Brown Family World War II Ration Books and Coupons.

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Collection Number: A&M 3146
Overview

World War II ration books and coupons which belonged to the Brown family of Farmington, Marion Co.

Dates: 1942-1944
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959), Barns Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1604
Overview

Correspondence, business, and legal papers, and photographs of Thomas Barns (1750-1836) and his son John S. Barns, who operated a grist and saw mill at Polsleys Mill (now Fairmont). Papers deal with a river trip to Indiana, 1837; coal mining in 1839; the money question, 1838; land transactions, farming, and mercantile operations of the Barns family; Rosecrans in Middle Tennessee, 1863; and the poor economic conditions, 1878.

Dates: 1795-1908
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates: 1787-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates: 1787-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarence L. Musgrave Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1238
Scope and Contents The papers of Clarence L. Musgrave, Fairmont mortician and editor, include family correspondence (1861-1936); photographs; account books of his father, Eli, and his grandfather Zebulon Musgrave; record books and correspondence pertaining to the operation of the Eli Musgrave & Sons funeral home and the "Fairmont Republican" (ca.1895-1898). Other materials include a ledger of the John Carlin Camp, No.8, Sons of Veterans, United States Army (1887-1894); a record book of the Ladies Aid...
Dates: 1839-1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Consolidation Coal Company, Consultant Report and Clippings

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Collection Number: A&M 1159
Overview

The collection consists of a typescript report by J.C. Gaskill, assistant consulting engineer, on accidents, fires, and explosions at the mines of the Consolidation Coal Company and other companies, 1886-1926; and newspaper clippings concerning Consolidation's operations around Fairmont, West Virginia.

Dates: 1915-1956
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

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Marion County (W. Va.) 52
Fairmont. 13
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 12
Morgantown (W. Va.) 11
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Genealogy 8
Land. 8
Lawyers - letters and papers. 8
Politics and government. 8
Elections 7
Harrison County (W. Va.) 7
Women's history -- 1850-1899 7
Diaries and journals. 6
Education 6
Frontier and pioneer life 6
Barbour County (W. Va.) 5
Fairmont (W. Va.) 5
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 5
Mills and mill-work 5
Politicians -- United States 5
Preston County (W. Va.) 5
Randolph County (W. Va.) 5
Taylor County (W. Va.) 5
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 5
United States -- Politics and government 5
West Virginia - Governors. 5
West Virginia -- Politics and government 5
Agriculture 4
Cemeteries and cemetery readings 4
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 4
Doddridge County (W. Va.) 4
Judges - letters and papers. 4
Mineral County (W. Va.) 4
Railroads 4
Ritchie County (W. Va.) 4
Rivers and river valleys. 4
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Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 4
Travel accounts. 4
Unions. 4
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Birth, marriage, and death records. 3
Boone County (W. Va.) 3
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New Deal, 1933-1939 3
Nicholas County (W. Va.) 3
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Surveyors and surveying. 3
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
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World War, 1914-1918 3
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Barrackville Covered Bridge. 2
Berkeley County (W. Va.) 2
Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike. 2
Bridgeport (W. Va.) 2
Brooke County (W. Va.) 2
Cemetery readings -- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
Civil War - raids and raiders. 2
Coal mining - disasters. 2
Estates and estate settlements. 2
Europe 2
Floods 2
General stores 2
Gilmer County (W. Va.) 2
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Mannington District. 2
Marion County (W. Va.) - History, Local. 2
Marriage records 2
Mason County (W. Va.) 2
McKeesport (Pa.) 2
Mercer County (W. Va.) 2
Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 2
Monroe County (W. Va.) 2
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West Virginia University 7
Democratic Party (U.S.) 6
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 6
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 5
Watson family 5
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Watson, James O. 5
Dayton, Alston Gordon 4
Monongah Mines Relief Committee 4
American Legion 3
Associated Press 3
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 3
Barns, Fleming and Company 3
Barns, John S. 3
Barns, John S. and Company 3
Barns, Thomas. 3
Consolidation Coal Company 3
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 3
Fairmont Broadcasting Company. 3
Fairmont Newspaper Publishing Company 3
Fleming Association 3
Hayman family 3
Jackson Coal Company 3
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 3
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 3
National Miners' Union (U.S.) 3
Smith, Clarence Edwin, 1885-1959 3
United Mine Workers of America 3
United States - Railway Administration. 3
United States National Guard - West Virginia. 3
United States. Congress 3
United States. Congress. Senate 3
United States. National Bituminous Coal Commission 3
Virginia Military Institute 3
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 3
West Virginia. Legislature 3
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 3
Barns, James F. 2
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 2
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 2
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 2
Cochran, Nathaniel. 2
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
Dille, Thomas Ray 2
Fairmont Normal School 2
Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company 2
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 2
Fleming family 2
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 2
Fleming, Benjamin. 2
Fleming, James R. 2
Green, William. 2
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 2
Haymond, William. 2
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Jacob, J.J. 2
Johnson, Hugh S. (Hugh Samuel), 1882-1942 2
Johnson, Louis. 2
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
Leeper family 2
Leeper, Harry T. 2
Leeper, Thomas M. 2
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
Mallison, Samuel T. 2
Marion County Historical Society (W. Va.) 2
McGrath, J. Howard (James Howard), 1903-1966 2
Meadows, Clarence W. 2
Meredith, Edward E. 2
Monongalia Academy (Morgantown, W. Va.) 2
Patteson, Okey L. 2
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 2
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 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 L. 2
Smith, Earl H. 2
Smith, Mary Fleming. 2
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 2
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 2
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 2
Watson family - Genealogy 2
Watson, Benjamin H. 2
Watson, C. W. 2
Watson, Henry. 2
Watson, Thomas. 2
West, Rufus A. 2
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 2
AFL-CIO 1
Agricultural College of West Virginia 1
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Red Cross 1
Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland), 1900-1975 1
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