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Tucker County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

J. Keller Reid Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2884
Overview

A Civil War letter from William J. Delay, Camp Bridgewater, 22 March 1864, to his father asking about a transfer of goods and money. Several turn of the century receipts and an artist sketch book from Franklin, WV. Also photos of logging boom towns and rural scenes at the turn of the century in the Eastern Panhandle, particularly of Laneville, Tucker County and Petersburg, Grant County.

Dates: ca. 1864-1940

Jack W. Preble Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1680
Scope and Contents

Original manuscript of Land of Canaan. Plain Tales from the Mountains of West Virginia (1960) by Jack Preble.

Dates: 1960

Jack W. Preble Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1315
Scope and Contents Material includes a clipping scrapbook of Preble's column on hunting and fishing published in the Steubenville Herald Star, 1939-1942; miscellaneous clippings on Tucker County local history published in the Davis News, 1939; correspondence, 1940-1941, 13 items concerning the Mountain Lake, Maryland folk music festival, and the David H. Strother Memorial. Other newspaper clippings deal with Preble's spelunking activities and snake hunting. Correspondents include Felix G. Robinson and Jennings...
Dates: 1872-1956

Jean Gulnac Zuendel, Compiler, Cuming, Sanders, and Gill Families Genealogy and History

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3838
Overview Contains material regarding the genealogy and history of the Cuming, Sanders, and Gill Families. It focuses on the English ancestors of the families, who primarily originated from Devon. The Cuming family is traced back to the 13th century and a direct line of descent is established in the 17th century starting with Nicholas Cuming. The Sanders family begins in the late 18th century with the descendants of Elburton Sanders. Less material is available regarding the Gill family, tracing only a...
Dates: 2003

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

Lawrence Sherwood, Collector, Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0826
Overview

Pocket diaries (1853-1854) of William M. Randolph, a farmer in Moorefield, West Virginia, and diaries (1861-1870) for Lettie Smith, a teacher in Grant and Tucker counties.

Dates: 1853-1854, 1861-1870

Linda Cooper, Environmentalist, Canaan Valley Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3223
Scope and Contents These records document Linda Cooper's efforts to preserve the environment of Canaan Valley, WV, and to establish a National Wildlife Refuge there. These include reports, brochures, and other material regarding the development and creation of the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge, correspondence, memoranda, and other material regarding the construction and development of the Davis Pumped Storage Project (a hydroelectric energy storage facility), and newspaper articles, newsletters,...
Dates: 1945-1995

L.J. Forman Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0825
Scope and Contents

Business papers belonging to L.J. Forman of Tucker County, WV, consisting mainly of legal documents and some correspondence. The legal papers include deeds, a report of vacant lands, surveys and plats, judgements, assignments, agreements, fieri facias, execution on judgements, and coal leases.

Dates: 1873-1934

L.J. Forman Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0850
Scope and Contents

Routine office files of L. J. Forman, a Petersburg attorney.

Dates: 1894-1931

Maxwell Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0311
Scope and Contents Papers of the Maxwell family, including correspondence, accounts, legal papers, pamphlets, and clippings. Correspondence (1863-1889) is comprised mostly of letters from Hu Maxwell, California, to Mrs. S.J. Maxwell. Subjects include mining, schools, size and social conditions of towns, ranches, weather and crop conditions, geographical oddities, Maxwell's personal living conditions, and his intentions concerning history publications. Other items include account book of Captain James L. White,...
Dates: 1851-1929, undated