Farms and farming.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Welton Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0806
Overview
Receipts and land records of two generations of the Weltons in Hampshire and Hardy counties, West Virginia, including papers of Job, Aaron, Archibald, and A. Archibald Welton. There is a Fairfax deed for eighty-four acres in Hampshire County in 1770, and a pocket diary of A.A. Welton, for 1880-1881, which records daily farm chores, livestock sales, and the like.
Dates:
1770-1928
West Virginia Census of Agriculture and Manufacturing
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0228
Overview
A census for agriculture and manufacturers conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the counties now a part of West Virginia. The two earlier census contain no surveys of manufacturing (see related materials note in this record). The two later schedules contain one reel for each survey on manufacturing. The 1880 census contains twice the number of reels of the 1870 census. Each type of survey has a printed form questionnaire. For agriculture, enumerations are requested for land acreage, type...
Dates:
1850-80
West Virginia Elfac Farm Record Program, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1208
Overview
A compilation of West Virginia farm business records and year end analyses. This electronic service was provided for cooperating farmers by ELFAC (an acronym for Easy, Low Cost, Flexible, Accurate, Complete) sponsored in cooperation with land grant institutions by the (USDA) U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. The program's purpose is to help a farmer determine his tax status, credit rating and generally to facilitate farm management decisions through the analysis of costs for labor, feed,...
Dates:
1966
West Virginia Rural Surveys
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0194
Overview
Surveys of rural residents conducted by WVU Agricultural Experiment Station. Inquiries about farm land conditions, size of operations, profitability and the respondents opinions about the local community and its economic prospects. The 1924 survey was taken only in the Easton-Avery section of Monongalia County and contains an accompanying map with individual family farms number coded. The 1958 survey, a selection from around the state, is more indicative of demographics especially of out...
Dates:
1924-1958
West Virginia University, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, Dean's Office Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5215
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records from the Dean's Office of the West Virginia University’s Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, ranging from the late-1940s to the mid-2000s. These materials fall under a wide variety of categories, including academic, administrative, financial, legal, and activities and events. The collection also includes meeting minutes from various student, faculty and department committees, as well as international committees, including...
Dates:
1940-2008
White Family of Spanishburg, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4399
Scope and Contents
Letters written to Synthia and Harmon White of Spanishburg, West Virginia from various members of their family. The letters discuss family and personal matters, health issues, religion, weather, finances, household chores, farming, and produce. Letters from Henry White discuss his move from Nebraska to Kansas as well as the costs and profits associated with farming in these states. Places mentioned include: Spanishburg, West Virginia; Germantown, Kansas; Bluefield, West Virginia; Buchanan,...
Dates:
1873-1896
William B. Gatewood (1835-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2061
Overview
Correspondence, memo books, legal and business papers of a farmer and deputy sheriff residing in the Cabin Creek District near Coalburg, Kanawha County. Subjects include farm prices, land, coal, politics, and the Paint Creek Railroad.
Dates:
1861-1909
William Parker Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0156
Overview
Letters, legal papers, and accounts of William Parker, Hampshire County, West Virginia. Included also are scattered papers of John P., Benjamin, and James Parker and Company. Letters originate from Virginia; Greene County, Illinois, 1859; and Pleasant Hill, Dallas County, Alabama, 1849. Subjects include doctors' fees; election of 1851 in Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties, and Frederick County, Virginia; prices of farm produce; and observations of Virginians newly settled in Illinois...
Dates:
1845-1886
William Presley Lewis Neale Manuscript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1374
Overview
Sketch of a western Virginia pioneer who left Loudon County, Virginia when his mother and stepfather emigrated (ca.1816) and settled in Mercer's Bottom in Mason County. The sketch was written by one of the subject's children and has anecdotes about Neale's boyhood, parents, and frontier farming. This family history contains a life story of Nancy Maria Smith Neale, William's mother, a woman of vision and independence.
Dates:
n.d.
William Price (1803-1881) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1809
Overview
Papers of William Price (1803-1881), a Monongalia County, West Virginia, resident, member of the Wheeling Convention, and state legislator, 1869-1873. Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, legal documents, and pictures. The correspondence, 1858-1912, concerns farming, the cattle business, and observations on the Civil War. Land papers also relate to Greene County, Pennsylvania. There is a diary and memo book of William Price, 1861-1863, containing two references to his membership in...
Dates:
1787-1917, undated; Majority of material found within 1805-1885