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Diaries and journals.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:

Jesse Johnston Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1395
Overview

The original manuscript and a typed copy of Johnston's Civil War diary. Serving with Company L, Second Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, Johnston fought at Princeton, Lewisburg, Sinking Creek, and Wytheville. Captured and subsequently exchanged, he served in Washington until mustered out of service.

Dates: 1861-1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

J.N. Curry (b.1863) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2082
Overview Papers of oil and gas driller and producer in Tyler County and other places. The collection consists of three diaries, 1 January 1894 through 31 December 1896; a typescript; and clippings. The diaries contain daily comment on wells drilled, including hours worked, depth of well, difficulties encountered, geologic strata, number of barrels of oil produced per hour or pressure of gas flow. Diaries include personal affairs, wages received and paid, oil sold, rent on leased property, oil market...
Dates: 1894-1896, 1966
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Job W. Parsons Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0637
Scope and Contents

Pocket diary (1874, 1884, 1886-1888, 1893-1894) of Job. W. Parsons, a farmer, lumberman, and stockman of Randolph County. There are daily entries center on routine farm chores, weather conditions, prices, and wages. See A&M 566 for years 1881-1882; and A&M 598 for years 1875-1879, 1880-1883.

Dates: 1874; 1884; 1886-1888; 1893-1894
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Job W. Parsons Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0566
Scope and Contents

Pocket diary (1881-1882) of Job. W. Parsons, a farmer, lumberman, and stockman of Randolph County. There are daily entries center on routine farm chores, weather conditions, prices, and wages. See A&M 598 for years 1875-1879, 1880-1883; and A&M 637 for years 1874, 1884, 1886-1888, 1893-1894

Dates: 1881-1882
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Job W. Parsons Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0598
Scope and Contents

Pocket diary (1875-1879, 1880-1883) of Job. W. Parsons, a farmer, lumberman, and stockman of Randolph County. There are daily entries center on routine farm chores, weather conditions, prices, and wages. See A&M 566 for years 1881-1882; and A&M 637 for years 1874, 1884, 1886-1888, 1893-1894.

Dates: 1875-1879; 1880-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John and Robert Thompson Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1881
Overview Diary and account book, 1804-1811, of John Thompson containing accounts of items bought and sold, money owed by and to Thompson, two journeys on the Mississippi River between Nashville, Natchez, and New Orleans, 1804-1805, and numerous remedies for diseases and medical complaints. There is a second diary by Robert C. Thompson, a Confederate soldier, from August 1862 to February 1863. Robert Thompson was a member of a Tennessee unit, imprisoned at Camp Morton, exchanged in September 1862, and...
Dates: 1804-1811, 1862-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John D. Sutton Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0796
Scope and Contents

A bound manuscript diary belonging to John D. Sutton, ca. October-November, 1798. In it he relates of a journey from New Market, Virginia, to the Elk River in western Virginia, by way of Strasburg, Staunton, Warm Springs, Lewisburg, and Charleston in addition to the daily activities of that time.

Dates: 1798
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John D. Sutton Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0430
Scope and Contents

Typescript copy of a diary concerning teaching and social life in the vicinity of Charleston and Dorchester, South Carolina, a journey by sea to Maryland, and travel by land to Alexandria, Virginia

Dates: 1792-1793
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John Morton Ledgers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2579
Overview

Diaries, account books, and a surveyor's handbook belonging to John Morton, a farmer of Hollidays Cove, Brooke County, West Virginia. The surveyor's book includes lessons on logarithm, geometry, plane trigonometry, and surveying. The diaries and account books record Morton's life and significant events of the period. There is also an undated land deed, a property list of Morton's father, John Morton, and some genealogical information.

Dates: 1840-1902
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John P. Clarke (1825-1900) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1511
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, surveys, account books, and a diary of a Burning Springs surveyor, oil developer, rural entrepreneur, horticulturalist, and captain of the Little Kanawha River steamer GENERAL JACKSON. Collection includes a brief journal of a trip from Des Moines, Iowa, to the Forks of the Platte in 1860; papers of Clarke's venture in quartz mining and milling in the Colorado Territory, 1861-1863; surveys of the Burning Springs oil region; letters from James C....
Dates: 1851-1900
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center