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A.C.L. Gatewood Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1519
Overview Correspondence, diary, and farm account book of a Confederate officer and Pocahontas County cattleman and farmer. The correspondence deals primarily with Gatewood's activities as adjutant general and chief of staff of the West Virginia Division, United Confederate Veterans. The Civil War diary, 11 March-15 December 1865, covers action of Company F, Eleventh Virginia Cavalry, "Laurel Brigade," Rosser Cavalry Division, from Staunton to Appomattox. The farm account book, 1866-1869, also...
Dates: 1801-1816, 1855-1919

A.M. Scott Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 2901
Overview Correspondence, receipts and invitations all pertaining to Addison M. Scott, resident engineer in the U.S. Government, Ohio River Department, at Charleston, WV. Scott worked with the Great Kanawha River improvement project sponsored by the U.S. from 1873 until his retirement in 1901. Correspondence covers the years 1874-1882, with one letter dated 1912. Two letters to Scott are undated. Collection contains forty-two items addressed to Scott in Charleston, with one letter written by Scott....
Dates: 1874-1882

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

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

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Surveyors Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 3388
Overview Scrapbook (10 3/4' x 14 1/2') of approximately 175 photographs (attached to 24 leaves) documenting the activities of surveyors of the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad in the period 1900-1910. Includes portraits semi-formal and candid of individuals and groups of B&O employees and others, candid photos of outdoor survey work, indoor office work, and camp life; and pictures of railroad infrastructure such as tracks, bridges, etc. Many individuals and locations are identified....
Dates: ca. 1900-1910

B.J. Baker Records

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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

Bradford Noyes (b.1860) Typed Document

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Collection Number: A&M 1906
Overview

Various subjects discussed include Indian attacks, turnpikes and taverns, the first telegraph system, natural gas illumination, Civil War manufacture of saltpeter, schools and economy in post-Civil War Charleston, salt and chemical industries, carrier pigeons, steamboats on the Kanawha River, and the coming of the railroad to Charleston. Persons mentioned include M.F. Maury, Jr., J.P. Hale, and J.Q. Dickinson.

Dates: 1948

Charles Goddard, Collector, Early Virginia and West Virginia Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 0089
Scope and Contents A bound typescript titled "War Times in Mountain Cove, Letters of Nancy Hunt to Refugee Friends in York State, 1862-1865," consisting of nine letters written by Nancy Hunt (1820-1891) in Fayette County to Joseph H, and Francis Hopping in Auburn, New York. The letters were transcribed and annotated by Charles A. Goddard.There is also a letter from W. Beverley, one of the commissioners for Lord Fairfax on the survey of the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers (1737 July 26) to William...
Dates: 1737 July 26; 1937

Charles H. Freeman, (1854-1919), Engineer, Letter Book

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Collection Number: A&M 1278
Overview

Engineer and pioneer of the Griffithsville oil fields in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Freeman and William H. Yawkey were active in the development of oil and coal lands along the Guyandotte River and in Mason County, West Virginia. Correspondence concerns the Big Creek Development Co., Yawkey and Freeman Co., Ltd., Yawkey and Freeman Drilling Co., and Pond Creek Coal Co.

Dates: 1908-1911

Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates: 1786-1878

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Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 4
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 4
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 4
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Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike Company 3
Hansford, Felix G. 3
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 3
James River and Kanawha Turnpike Company 3
Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886 3
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 3
Whig Party (U.S.) 3
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 2
American Colonization Society 2
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 2
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 2
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 2
Cass, Joseph K. 2
Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818 2
Cochran, Nathaniel. 2
Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864 2
Dayton, Alston Gordon 2
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 2
Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 2
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 2
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 2
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 2
Ice family 2
Ice's Ferry 2
Johnston, John L. 2
Leeper family 2
Leeper, Harry T. 2
Leeper, Thomas M. 2
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 2
McNeill family 2
Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 2
Ohio Company. 2
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 2
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 2
Ward Engineering Company 2
Ward family 2
Ward, Charles 2
Ward, Charles Edwin. 2
Watson, James O. 2
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company 2
West Virginia. Legislature 2
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 2
Woodbridge-Blennerhassett. 2
Alger, Russell A. 1
Allen family 1
Allen, Mrs. E. Bruce 1
Ann Smith Academy 1
Archer, John 1
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886 1
Ashland Oil Company 1
Austin family 1
Averell, W.W. 1
Bagdon, Philip V. 1
Baker, B. J., 1848-1924 1
Ball family 1
Bancroft, George. 1
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 1
Barber family 1
Barboursville Common Council 1
Batson, Mordecai. 1
Beaver, G. M. 1
Beckley, Alfred, 1802-1888 1
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Big Creek Development Company 1
Blackwater Lumber Company 1
Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764-1831 1
Blundon, Edgar B. 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Bowman family 1
Boyd, Frances Laird, Collector 1
Boyoe, C. R. 1
Brady, Samuel. 1
Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876 1
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Branson, Susan I. 1
Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807 1
Broadwater family 1
Brody, John. 1
Brown family - Genealogy 1
Brown, Lorena (1850-1919) 1
Brown, Lorena. 1
Brown, Silas 1
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Buell, Joseph, 1763- 1
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Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 1
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 1
Campbell, A.W. 1
Campbell, David. 1
Campbell, Jacob Miller, 1821-1888 1
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