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Diaries and journals.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Green (1798-1881) Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1651
Overview Journal of a Tour through the States of Ohio and Kentucky, commenced Saturday, 29 July 1826, by Thomas Green of Richmond. This journal concludes on 1 April 1827, at Chillicothe. Green's western trip was for the purpose of pursuing land matters, but the journal contains notes on the social, political, and economic life of the old West. Green visited Front Royal, Harrisonburg, Warm Springs, Kanawha Falls, and the Salines of Virginia, crossed the river at Gallipolis, passed through the...
Dates: 1826-1827
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas Hanson Journal

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1033
Overview

Journal of a surveying party including Hanson, John Floyd, James Nocks, Roderick McCray, and Mordecai Batson. The Journal describes the route taken from Fincastle County, Virginia, to the Ohio River and Kentucky, with mention of Gauley Mountain, Coal and New rivers, and other western Virginia geographical locations. Included is a list of persons for whom the surveys were made.

Dates: 1774 April 8-August
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas P. Ray Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0798
Overview

Copy of a diary of a Morgantown resident, with references to early merchants and public officials; the building of schools, churches, and business buildings; volume of river traffic; and roads and mail routes opened.

Dates: 1829-1852
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Uz Barns, Soldier, Civil War Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0974
Overview Diary of Uz Barns of Ritchie County, a volunteer in the Union Army who served as a private in the 10th West Virginia Infantry. The diary covers the years 1862 through 1865 and contains daily entries, mainly regarding weather conditions. Barns also wrote about marches and distances marched per day; encampments at various places in eastern West Virginia and in Winchester, Virginia; and engagements with Confederate forces at Beverly, (West) Virginia, Harpers Ferry, (West) Virginia, and Deep...
Dates: 1862-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Van Amberg Bittner (1885-1949), Labor Leader, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1698
Overview UMWA international representative and organizer, member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, director of the CIO Organizing Committee, and vice-chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee Correspondence, legal papers, diaries, clippings, and other papers relate to Bittner's early career in the western Pennsylvania coal fields; his presidency of District 5, UMWA, 1911-1916; and his organizational activities in southeastern Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, northern West Virginia,...
Dates: 1908-1961
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Vernon K. Deal, Collector, Papers and Diary regarding the Spanish-American War

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0326
Overview

The discharge papers of an American soldier (William G. Shaffer) who served in the Philippines during the insurrection. Also includes a published diary by one of the officers of his unit, George F. Collins, about life on ship and port calls to and from their tour of duty.

Dates: 1899-1901
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Victorine Louistall Monroe Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3916
Overview

Papers of Victorine Louistall Monroe, the first African-American woman to receive a graduate degree from West Virginia University (WVU), and the first African-American to serve as a WVU faculty member. Contains material regarding Louistall's education, career, and personal life, including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, awards, and other material. See "Scope and Content Note" and "Historical Note" for further information.

Dates: 1908-2006
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Walter R. Thurmond (1881-1967) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2141
Overview Operator in the Logan coalfield for many years, collector of Internal Revenue for West Virginia, and president of the state Board of Control, 1937-1941. Thurmond returned to the coal industry in 1941 and helped organize the Southern Coal Producers' Association, serving as its secretary until his retirement in 1958. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers, including Thurmond's diaries for 1938-1967. Subjects include labor relations, taxes, mine...
Dates: 1938-1967
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ward Engineering Company Archives and Manuscripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2298
Scope and Contents Records of a Charleston, West Virginia, business which introduced to the western waters of the United States a new design of towboat whose essential features were water-tube boilers, multiple-expansion engines, and screw propulsion; thus replacing the traditional paddle wheel towboats that navigated the Ohio and Mississippi river systems. Charles Ward (1841-1915), a British engineer, who emigrated to Charleston in 1871, founded the industry and designed these new boats. This collection...
Dates: 1871-1977 and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ward Engineering Company, Archives and Manuscripts Microfilm

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2266
Scope and Contents

Two diaries of Charles Edwin Ward (1841-1915), dealing mainly with trips to Europe and California, in 1883 and 1886, plus a scrapbook of the Charles Ward Engineering Company, a Charleston boat building company, for the year 1897.

Dates: 1883-1897
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center