Immigration.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Edward C. Bunker (1830-1867) Papers
Legal papers of a Morgantown lawyer, partner of United States Senator Waitman T. Willey, prosecuting attorney of Monongalia County, state senator, and judge of the Eleventh Circuit Court. Included are papers which relate to Bunker's Civil War service and Willey's legal practice. There are a few items of correspondence on land speculation and immigration in post-Civil War West Virginia.
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers
John Stringer Hoffman (1821-1877) Papers
Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Letters
Letters from West Virginia's first Commissioner of Immigration to Governor John J. Jacobs and the Board of Public Works. Letters deal with political intrigues for the commissionership, the dissemination of the “West Virginia Handbook and Immigration Guide,” and the publication of Diss Debar's “West Virginia Monitor and Real Estate Advertiser.”
Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Letters
Typescript copy of a letter from J. H. Diss Debar, as Secretary of State Immigration and Relief Society of West Virginia, from Parkersburg, to John Wanstreet, St. Clara Colony, Deddridge County, concerning the sale of lots and issuing deeds to the purchasers.