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Taylor County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

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

Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2119
Scope and Contents This collection includes court case papers and exhibits from Taylor & Harrison Counties; deeds; title abstracts; one land grant; a coal lease for mining & stripping; one letter; and a genealogy chart for the Morgan family. The names of persons and organizations in this collection include Powell, Reuben, Henry, Benjamin, Burr & Grandison; Bayley, Charlotte; Baley, William, Newton, Payton & James; Roe, James & Jane; Cather, John...
Dates: 1813-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1773
Scope and Contents Scrapbooks maintained by Charles Carpenter, Grafton, between 1939-1963. Subjects include descriptions of libraries, book and manuscript collections, museums, rare and unusual books, magazines, book reviews, newspapers, and advertisements for books. There are items as early as 1838, 1875, 1898, 1905, 1917, but the mass of the collection is in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Recurrent topics include book...
Dates: 1829-1963
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clay V. Miller Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1498
Overview

Correspondence, clippings, and printed material collected by the historian of Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, West Virginia. Subjects include Anna Jarvis and the Mother's Day movement and Andrews Church and Methodism in Taylor County. There are photographs of Ann M. Reeves Jarvis and her daughter, Anna. Correspondents include Anna Jarvis and Okey L. Patteson.

Dates: 1867, 1928-1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

County Highway Maps for West Virginia

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Collection Number: A&M 4479
Content Description Highway maps for the 55 counties of West Virginia created in 1937. They are in two tones (blue on white), in varying dimensions (including items in the range of 36 in. x 36 in. to 36 in. x 58 in., etc.), and scaled to 1 inch equaling 1 mile. Features indicated on the maps include: roads (US, primary state roads, secondary state roads); state, county, district, and corporate lines; railroads; streams; parks and forests; highway bridges; county seats; cities and villages; lodges; farms;...
Dates: 1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

David Merle Shingleton, Jr., Author, Shingleton Family Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 4329
Scope and Contents

Five binders of genealogy material related to the William Shingleton family compiled by David Merle Shingleton, Jr. Each volume of the genealogy focuses on one child of William Shingleton, a Revolutionary War veteran, and traces that line from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth century. These descendants inhabited parts of Hampshire, Wayne, and Taylor counties in West Virginia and Washington County, Maryland.

Dates: 2010-2011
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl Ray Zinn Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3040
Overview Correspondence, photos, postcards and memorabilia of a school teacher of White Days Creek and of his wife, Mary Corrothers Zinn. Most of the collection consists of correspondence and photos of Zinn's career in the U. S. Army during World War I. Zinn worked as a math school teacher and as a census taker in the Fetterman District of Taylor County. He spent the war in training at Camp Knox, West Point, KY in Battery E., 70th. Field Artillery Brigade, and he discusses in the letters the daily...
Dates: 1910-1975
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Fabricius A. Cather, Soldier, Civil War Diaries

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Collection Number: A&M 3633
Overview Civil War diaries authored by First Lieutenant (later Major) Fabricius A. Cather from Flemington, Taylor County, West Virginia, records his experiences in the military and political conflicts of the Civil War. The six diaries, and a transcribed copy of the original 1864 and 1865 diaries, contain entries for the years 1860 to 1865 regarding western Virginia's grassroots efforts to secede from the Confederacy and establish a new state, and of the first battles and skirmishes such as Rich...
Dates: 1860-ca. 1960; Majority of material found within 1860-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Flavius Josephus Cather, Author, Memoirs and Cather Family History

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4474
Overview

Photocopy of a typescript written in 1907 by Flavius Josephus Cather regarding both his life and the history of the Cather family. Includes genealogy of the Cather family.

Dates: 1907-1908
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ford Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1688
Overview

Stock receipt, Taylor County Agricultural and Mechanical Society, 1870; a pass from Headquarters, United States Volunteers, Grafton, dated 3 August 1861; passes from the toll office of Valley River Bridge, Northwestern Turnpike, 1860-1863; list of indigent school children, District 17, Taylor County; and muster fines and receipts bearing Morgantown, Fairmont, and Pruntytown imprints.

Dates: 1829-1882
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center