Farms and farming.
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Robinson Family Manuscripts
Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.
Rose Brady Correspondence
One letter (15 March 1885) is from Joe Wertz of Mullenville, Kansas to Carrie Brady of Toledo, Illinois, which discusses life in Kansas, particularly his efforts to start a farm, and reflects loneliness for his old home. Two letters (28 October 1883 and 9 June 1884) are from Carrie Brady of Gale, Indiana to Rose concerning family affairs and schooling.
Salt Sulphur Springs Records
Samuel Davis Stokes Papers
Business and financial papers, correspondence and legal files of S.D. Stokes, a Williamson, West Virginia, attorney. The material consists of bills, accounts and receipts; business papers (ca. 1921-1925), reflecting Stokes' interest in farming and his law office files (1915-1925), arranged alphabetically by client's name. Subjects include Mingo County and coal-related court cases.
Shepherdstown-Hagerstown Road Logbook
Logbook for a toll road connecting Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and Hagerstown, Maryland, Containing records of payments made for road upkeep as well as tolls paid by farmers, freight haulers, and passengers.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Farm and Physician Account Books
Sloan Brothers, Farmers Papers
Deeds and farm account books of John, James, Thomas, Richard, and George Sloan, farmers and stockbreeders from Burlington, Mineral County. One volume is an inventory of the debts due to the estate of Edward Taylor, deceased partner of Alfred Taylor in the operation of a tannery, 1835-1839. Photocopies. Material covers the years 1757-1839.
Stealey Family Papers
Account books and ledger journals of a farm, coal mine, and grist mill owned by James Irvin Samson Stealey in Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1865-1907. The mill, known as the Point Mill, was located at Point Comfort, where the Elk Creek and West Fork River join.
This collection includes two series:
Series 1. James I. S. Stealey Farm and Coal Mine, 1865–1907 (box 1)
Series 2. Point Mill Company, 1892–1899 (box 2)
T.B. Cauthorn Papers
Business correspondence, accounts, ledger book, and legal papers of Townley B. Cauthorn, farmer and lumber merchant of Millboro (Bath County), Virginia. The collection contains pay records for sawmill hands and farm laborers, employee purchase accounts, and legal documents. Also included are a record of road work done in Bath County when Cauthorn was Commissioner of Roads and an agreement between Cauthorn and Edgar S. Davis for the adoption by Cauthorn of Mattie Davis.
Thomas Clark Atkeson (1852-1935) Papers
Family history, autobiographical sketch, account books of farming operations in Putnam County, West Virginia, 1894-1934, and articles and pamphlets written by a state agricultural leader, founder of the state Grange, and national Grange representative in Washington. Atkeson also played a leading role in the development of the West Virginia University Agricultural College at Morgantown where he was a professor for many years.