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Shepherdstown.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

B.F. Hartzell (1880-1957) Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2040
Overview

Two letters giving information about B.F. Hartzell, a resident of Shepherdstown and a noted botanist.

Dates: 1953 Jan 25; 1957 April 29
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Elise S. Billmyer, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2350
Overview

The collection contains correspondence and papers of the Brown, Selby, Kirkland, Robine, Spong, Strode, Thomas, Waters, Hammond, Billmyer, Shepherd and Hamtramck families. Includes genealogical information on the Brown, Billmyer, Shepherd, and Hamtramck families; ledger, 1795-1796; and a receipt book, 1835-1843, of Walter Brown Selby.

Dates: 1636 (1757-1850) 1961
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George Couchman Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1184
Overview Papers of a Berkeley County, West Virginia, farmer and his descendants. Included are the estate papers of Nicholas Stroyer and business and legal papers of George, Henry J., Benjamin S. and Harman L. Couchman. There is the correspondence of Adrian W. Lamon, John W. Marshall, J. Marshall Neel, the Reverend A.A.P Neel of Shepherdstown (colportage agent of the Baltimore Conference M.E. Church South), Professor J. Wilbur Neel of Romney, and various members of the Couchman and Neel families. The...
Dates: 1765-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Homer C. Cooper, Compiler, Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1258
Scope and Contents

Typescript genealogies of James Cooper (1780-1845) and Nancy Agnes Wooddell (1785-1861) family and the Joseph Wooddell (1752-1834) and Elizabeth Wooddell ([unknown]-1820) family.

Added 1971 March 1, two mimeograph copies of typescripts written by Dr. Cooper; "Charles Slavens Cooper (1844-1921) and Mary Jane Hall (1845-1886), married 1867, of Gilmer County W. Va." and "Springston, Springstone, and Lambert".

Dates: 1959, 1960, 1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Homer C. Cooper, Compiler, Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1647
Scope and Contents

Sketch of Joseph William Cooper, Pocahontas County and a copy of a letter written by Cooper to his son, while a member of the 19th Virginia Calvary, C.S.A.

Dates: 1963
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Logan Osborne Family and Business Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2941
Overview A ledger and financial records of Logan Osborne (1836-39) also containing the will of Balamm Osborne. The ledger contains accounts of an assortment of general store goods from perishables such as food and candles to durable goods such as tools and carriages. There are Osborne family deeds, land contracts and letters about family matters and debt (1808-89). There are early nineteenth century state bank script from Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are land indentures and legal...
Dates: 1761-1982
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Shepherdstown Lutheran Parish Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2325
Overview

Records of the Shepherdstown Lutheran Parish, including the Daybook of John David Young, an early pastor.

Dates: ca. 1790-1900
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Farm and Physician Account Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2997
Overview Four account books of financial, medical and farm records of the Springdale Farm of Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia, kept by Martha Banks and doctors I.S. Tanner and George Washington Banks. Account book, 1855-1867, records payments made on accounts. It is organized according to date and lists the name of the customer and receipt of payment. Account book 1858-1866 also documents payments made on accounts, but it is organized in alphabetical order. The farm account book of...
Dates: 1841-1866
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center