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Diaries and journals.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:

Abigail Farnsworth Travel Journal

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3215
Overview

1821 travel journal of Abigail Farnsworth, mother of West Virginia's second Governor, Daniel D.T. Farnsworth. Documents travel from Staten Island, New York to Buckhannon in Lewis County, West Virginia.

Dates: 1821
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

A.C.L. Gatewood Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1519
Overview Correspondence, diary, and farm account book of a Confederate officer and Pocahontas County cattleman and farmer. The correspondence deals primarily with Gatewood's activities as adjutant general and chief of staff of the West Virginia Division, United Confederate Veterans. The Civil War diary, 11 March-15 December 1865, covers action of Company F, Eleventh Virginia Cavalry, "Laurel Brigade," Rosser Cavalry Division, from Staunton to Appomattox. The farm account book, 1866-1869, also...
Dates: 1801-1816, 1855-1919
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Allard Hostetter Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2706
Overview

Diaries of Hostetter, a coal miner from Nelsonville, Ohio, which cover the years 1925 to 1949, one volume for each year. There are no volumes for the years 1933, 1937, 1942, 1944, 1945, and 1947. They contain information on mine production, inspections, accidents, equipment, labor, and other aspects of the coal mining industry.

Dates: 1925-1949
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Allen D. Frankenberry, Soldier, Civil War Diaries and Memoir

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1785
Overview Four diaries and a nineteen-page memoir of Allen D. Frankenberry (1841-1909), who served chiefly as an orderly and signalman in the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry from August 1862 to September 1863 and the U.S. Signal Corps in the Department of the Cumberland from October 1863 to June 1865. Frankenberry's diaries are available only on microfilm and are divided into four volumes: Book I, August 20, 1862-September 10, 1863; Book II, September 9, 1864-February 15, 1865; Book III, February 16,...
Dates: 1862-1870, 1905; Majority of material found within 1862-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Allen Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2257
Overview Personal and business correspondence, legal papers, ledgers, family records, and other papers of the Allen family of Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. Also includes papers of members of the Barr, Weibley, Taylor, and Gamble families. The majority of the collection includes personal and business correspondence, legal papers, and financial records of Judge James W.F. Allen (1813/12/03 - 1875/07/16), a Hardy County lawyer, Jacksonian Democrat, and Circuit Court Judge in Hardy and Grant...
Dates: 1766-1933, undated; 1833-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Andrew Jackson Dadisman (1881-1965), Agricultural Economics Professor, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1873
Overview Papers of an agricultural economics professor at West Virginia University, including correspondence, reprints and manuscripts of articles, lecture and research notes, diaries of trips, personal ledgers, pictures, and broadsides. Subjects include Monongalia County Historical Society; wildlife; collecting trips to Canada, Alaska, Labrador, and South Africa; agriculture; genealogy of the Dadisman family; and camel transportation in the U.S. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, Nelle...
Dates: 1914-1963
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Barns Family, Diary of Bernie Hodges and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0970
Overview Diary of school teacher Bernie Hodges (later Mrs. John S. Barns; born June 23, 1873, died February 1, 1930), January 1 to June 18, 1893, regarding teaching, giving music lessons, visiting relatives, and riding horses, among other activities; there are also entries regarding a trip by boat from the [Burning] Springs to Parkersburg, and by train to Clarksburg and Buckhannon, and her decision to move to Ritchie County. There is also a shield-shaped metal insignia badge for Sergeant Thomas Rufus...
Dates: 1893-1920
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Bishop Robert E. Lee Strider Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2889
Overview Diaries of an Episcopalian clergyman beginning with his appointment 1 November 1923 in Wheeling as a bishop and ending with entries by his wife after his death. Strider retired as diocese bishop in 1955, returned to the family estate, Rose Hill Farm, Jefferson County, which he managed until his death. The diaries contain routine entries about matters such as family news and comments on books read and impressions of historic events, such as the assassination of President Kennedy. Much...
Dates: 1923-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Brand Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1576
Scope and Contents

Business and official papers of Monongalia sheriff, John M. Brand and his deputy, William N. Brand, 1861-1872; letter from E. I. Moore of Woodburn Seminary; class prophecy, June 1898 by Friend E. Clark of West Virginia University; and diaries kept by Miss Willa Brand during a European trip, 1913, and a journey through the British Isles in 1924.

Dates: 1861-1872, 1898-1924
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Braxton B. Durrett (b.1819) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0488
Overview

Arithmetic book of Braxton B. Durrett of Spotsylvania County, Virginia and Barbour County, West Virginia. Included are examples of various arithmetical processes; diary entries, October 1841-February 1842; and a record of the Durrett family record.

Dates: 1833-1846
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center