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Taylor County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Ada Haldeman Ford, Suffragist, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3537
Overview Papers of Ada Haldeman Ford, women's suffragist of Taylor County, West Virginia. Includes reminiscence, letters, and clippings documenting Ada Haldeman Ford's active role as a suffragist in Taylor County through 1920. There are also clippings and other materials regarding political matters dating through 1970. There are photographs and genealogies regarding the Ford and Haldeman families, and a collection of books (including bibles, foreign language textbooks, poetry, etc.). Artifacts...
Dates: 1900-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Alexander Foreman, Photographer, Glass Plate Negatives

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Collection Number: A&M 4142
Scope and Contents Includes 88 glass plate negatives documenting subjects from Grafton and Taylor County, West Virginia from circa 1890-1925. Subjects include farming scenes, classrooms and schools, stores, bridges, tunnels, railroads, bands, rivers, home and town scenes, saw mills, industry, and churches and cemeteries. Four boxes contain the original glass plate negatives while one box contains the original sleeves for the negatives, including identifying information where present. Digitized copies of the...
Dates: circa 1890-1925
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Anita Cutright Burnett, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2148
Overview

Papers of Anita Cutright Burnett, an Upshur County genealogist and active member of the Upshur County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The collection contains DAR membership applications, genealogical correspondence, vital statistics for Lewis and Upshur counties and typed copies of the 1850 census returns for Ritchie and Taylor counties.

Dates: ca. 1790-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1439
Scope and Contents The bulk of these papers deal with Miss Jarvis' work as the founder of Mother's Day, her attempts to persuade state governors to issue proclamations to establish the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, and her later protests against the commercialization of the holiday, as well as the efforts of other organizations to promote Mother's Day.There are a few papers of her father, Grandville E. Jarvis; some correspondence and legal papers concerned with the Jarvis coal and farm...
Dates: 1858-1943
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1175
Scope and Contents Correspondence, speeches, business and legal papers, newspaper clippings, and photographs of the founder of Mother's Day. The collection includes papers of Anna's father, Grandville E. Jarvis; the notes and typescript drafts of "Recollections of Ann M. Jarvis, 1833-1905," by Anna Jarvis; and the papers of the Fairmont songwriter, William Lynett. Subjects include Jarvis' efforts to institute Mother's Day on a state basis, and her later protest against the commercialization of the day of...
Dates: 1858-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ash and Purkey Families Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 3391
Overview

Genealogy research records of the Ash family of Harrison and Doddridge counties, and the Purkey family of Taylor and Randolph counties. Includes family worksheets footnoted with sources, historical narrative, photographs, and original documentation in transcript and facsimile form. The majority of the collection is comprised of photocopies. Records assembled 1980-2000 by Sandra Delaney covering 1600s-1900s.

Dates: 1980-2000
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ashford Brown Papers, Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2441
Overview

Ledger of illness remedies used by Dr. Ashford Brown of Gladesville, West Virginia, who practiced medicine in Monongalia, Preston and Taylor counties before and during the Civil War.

Dates: 1831-1843
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1268
Scope and Contents

Telegraph operators' log at the D. K. Tower, near Webster in Taylor County, Feb 20 to May 27, 1908. Entries contain many humorous anecdotes.

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

Benjamin F. Miller Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3037
Overview

Letter to Susanna from Morgantown describing hot weather and working arduously in a farm's wheat and oat field. He mentions the courthouse at Pruntytown being struck by lightening. He also gives his opinion about hypocrisy among church members saying that they can no more "square their lives by the Great Moral Code than a jackass can square himself on a sharp edged rail for a fiddler at a camp meeting of bull frogs."

Dates: 1855 Aug 13
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1086
Scope and Contents The papers include 36 volumes of business and other records, such as the ledgers of the George W. Brinkman merchandising firm, the Mutual Building Company, minutesof the Grafton Rotary Club; journal and statistical report of the Grafton Baptist Church, 1897-1906; and a mas. history of Taylor County in various American wars, and extracts from the Civil War diary of Fabricius A. Cather. Also included are 2 boxes of financial records, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, a partial index to...
Dates: 1868-1938
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center