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Gilmer County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Carey Woofter, Compiler, Folklore of West Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0112
Overview Folklore of West Virginia collected by Woofter, who was a student of John Harrington Cox and Louis Watson Chappell. The collection consists of a card file of approximately 10,000 folklore items, including superstitions, sayings, riddles, remedies and tales, as well as a pair of unpublished bound volumes entitled FOLKLORE OF WEST VIRGINIA containing folklore and folksongs with musical notation by Woofter's protege Patrick Gainer. While Woofter never published his discoveries, he did supply...
Dates: ca. 1920-1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

County Highway Maps for West Virginia

 Collection
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

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Correspondence (photocopies)

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0420
Overview Photostat negatives of correspondence to Francis H. Pierpont concerning statehood and secession. Also includes a petition of Harrison County, (West) Virginia citizens to Brigadier General Kelly protesting the return and admittance to the county of former members of the Confederate Army (undated); a petition of Gilmer County, (West) Virginia citizens denouncing secession and pledging action to suppress rebellion (1861); and the act by which the Restored Government of Virginia gave permission...
Dates: 1861-1865, 1916; Majority of material found within 1861-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George W. Miller Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2130
Overview Correspondence and financial records of a Gilmer County businessman, gas drilling contractor, schoolteacher, and elementary school principal who was involved also with coal, timber, real estate, and water well businesses. The correspondence concerns Miller's business affairs; dealings with government agencies, such as the Federal Power Commission and the Small Business Administration; applications for teaching positions and graduate schools; tax problems; campaign for a seat on the school...
Dates: 1948-1971
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hays Family of Gilmer County, West Virginia Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2734
Scope and Contents Papers of the Hays family of Gilmer County, West Virginia, centering on Peregrine Hays and his son Samuel Hays. The collection includes Civil War related material; correspondence; financial, business, and legal records; and other material. The Civil War material includes a receipt for the sale of enslaved Africans, military orders, and records of financial transactions made in Confederate currency. The correspondence within the collection includes personal letters between members of the Hays...
Dates: 1837-1963; Majority of material found in 1863-1902
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Isaac B. Smith, Farmer and Music Teacher, Newspaper Clippings and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3975
Overview

Newspaper clippings, photographs, sheet music, and other material regarding Isaac B. Smith, a farmer and music teacher from Gilmer County. Smith (1876-1984) lived to be 107 years old. See "Scope and Content Note" for further information.

Dates: ca. 1840-1984
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph M. Kellogg, Compiler, Notebooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1626
Overview Genealogical records, compiled by Professor Joseph M. Kellogg, Lawrence, Kansas, of the Henkel, McCann, Johnson, Mitchell, and Teter families. The records include copies of many nineteenth century documents. Allied families mentioned are Apple, Eschmann, Grisemer, Hammer, Harper, Hite, Pearies, Peterson, Ruleman, Scholl, See (Zeh), Simmons, Skidmore, and Westfall-Kortrecht. Most of these families settled in the South Branch Valley and the counties of Harrison, Lewis, Randolph, Barbour,...
Dates: ca. 1945-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lawrence A. Lang, Collector, West Virginia Land Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3833
Scope and Contents

West Virginia land records, including receipts for fees paid, surveys, certificates of survey, land patents, grants, correspondence and other material. Some of the records are copies rather than official documents. The records are sorted by the names of buyers and stored in envelopes. Recorded to the fronts of the envelopes is information relevant to their contents.

Dates: 1865-1896; Majority of material found within 1867-1868
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Louis and Sallie Bennett, Papers of a Lewis County Family

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4198
Overview

Papers of Louis Bennett, a wealthy lawyer, and of his wife, Sallie Bennett. This collection is minimally processed. Includes letters, a few photographs, and other material. There are records regarding the Glenville Normal School (including reports, correspondence, and advertising from publishers of school books) where Mr. Bennett was a principal (1870s); and letters authored by Sallie Bennett to her husband Louis (1880s). This collection is largely unprocessed.

Dates: ca. 1870-1930
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Martin Snider Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0681
Overview

Correspondence between Martin and his daughter concerning marriages, births, deaths, and murders. There are also letters regarding property in Gilmer County, West Virginia.

Dates: 1834-1889
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center