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Iron furnaces and iron industry.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Isaac Meason, Iron Producer, Iron Industry Ledgers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3159
Overview

The ledgers highlight the business activities of iron furnaces and stores owned by Isaac Meason, a pioneer iron producer in Fayette County, Pennsylvania (arguably the first west of the Allegheny Mountains). The volumes include records of Union Furnace, Union Iron Works, Mt. Vernon Furnace, Centre Furnace, and a record of teamster work. A small portion of one volume includes a common pleas court docket for Fayette County, PA in the 1830s.

Dates: 1801-1822

Jackson Family of Monongalia and Preston Counties Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3717
Overview

Papers of the Jackson family of Monongalia and Preston County, (West) Virginia, including business, financial, and legal documents. Includes Civil War pension records for Henry C. Jackson (1864); business records of Jackson and Lamb documenting transactions with Tassey and Church, Grocers of Pittsburgh (1833-1834); and records regarding Cheat Iron Works, St. John's Furnace, and Hampton Forge (1833 and undated), among other material (1814-1891).

Dates: 1814-1891; Majority of material found within 1833-1834, 1864

James R. Moreland Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0301
Overview Papers, photos, pamphlets and postcards of a prominent Morgantown attorney, financier and businessman, James Rogers Moreland. Included are drafts of books and articles by James R. Moreland about local and family history, in particular "Early Iron Industry in Cheat Mountains" and "My Father Another Country Lawyer." There are family histories and records about the Finnicum, Hawthorne, Huston, Lewis, Lyle, Moreland and Rogers families. There are also many items of World War I that especially...
Dates: 1904-1940

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0005
Scope and Contents

This collection embraces business letters, bills, receipts, notes, orders, checks, and personal correspondence of John Rogers, who was a pioneer merchant and iron manufacturer in Monongalia County, Virginia, during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1777-1857

John Rogers Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3156
Overview

The collection consists largely of correspondence to Morgantown businessman John Rogers from relatives in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also includes two letters from Sgt. William A. Widney, who was assigned to the U.S. War Department during the Civil War, to a Morgantown friend (possibly William Hennen). One letter was written by an unidentified woman to her grandson, a West Virginia University student.

Dates: 1788-1870

Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936

Mark Kelly, Compiler, Iron Industry Research Manual for Western Pennsylvania

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4498
Scope and Contents A research manual of 103 pages outlining available primary and secondary source material regarding the early iron business operations of Isaac Meason and J.D. Mathiot in western Pennsylvania (ca. 1790-1860). It includes biographical information, and identification of source materials and their location. There are also extensive photographs in color documenting the sites and facilities of the iron business. This collection also includes a copy of the journal "The Chronicle of the Early...
Dates: 2020-2021

New River Symposiums Proceedings

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3393
Overview Compact disc of a searchable database of 1200 facsimile pages of New River Symposium Proceedings dating from 1982-1999. Articles in the Proceedings discuss the natural and cultural features of the New River region of West Virginia, including the following topics: botany, Civil War, coal mining, environmentalism, folklore, folk music, geology, Green Sulphur Springs, historic preservation, iron industry, native Americans, railroads, rivers (Bluestone, Gauley, New), transportation, and Mary...
Dates: 1982-1999

Phillip H. Trout, Collector, Notes on Iron Furnaces

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1250
Overview

Notes on the early iron furnaces in the Allegheny-Botetourt-Roanoke County area of Virginia; a brief history of the John Taylor family, early pioneers in the iron industry; and photographs of the Taylor iron furnaces at Cloverdale, Botetourt County.

Dates: 1954, 1959

Preston County Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0956
Overview Papers from the Leroy Bucklew Museum in the Preston County, West Virginia, courthouse. The collection includes early papers relating to land, court cases, mills and furnaces, post offices, inns, mineral development, Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Company, roads, the Virginia-Maryland boundary, and estate settlements. There are photographs of Preston County and Kingwood, and maps of Kingwood, Bruceton Mills, Rowlesburg, Manheim, and of Berkeley Springs, Morgan County. Also includes...
Dates: 1775-1918