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Immigration.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1711
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870

Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1577
Scope and Contents

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.”

Dates: 1871