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Kanawha County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

James E. Heath, Auditor, Listings of Delinquent Lands in Western Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4182
Overview

Listings of delinquent lands issued by James E. Heath, Auditor of Virginia. Contains printed documents pertaining to Kenawha County [Kanawha County] (1832), Greenbrier County (1833), Nicholas County (1833), Ohio County (1833), Pocahontas County (1833), and Preston County (1833).

Dates: 1832-1833

John Ewing, Soldier, Civil War Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3777
Overview Letter of John Ewing, Corporal of the 16th Ohio Infantry, to his wife and children, written from the Kanawha Valley in the vicinity of Charleston, (West) Virginia (2 November 1862). Ewing writes that he is in good health and describes recent encounters with Confederate troops. He describes in detail his experience as a Confederate prisoner, including a time he saw a "Company" of Indians with the Confederates. He also remarks on the opinions, mood, and character of the Confederate soldiers he...
Dates: 1862

Kanawha County Book Protest, Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2624
Overview

Articles, broadsides, and other materials concerning selection of textbooks for the public schools of Kanawha County, West Virginia. The controversy involved confrontation between Christian fundamentalists and liberals over educational policy.

Dates: 1975

Kanawha County Land Grants

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0907
Overview

Land grants to John Hansford, Styers Keeney, Michael Keeney, William Keeney, and Jacob Grass.

Dates: 1817-1841

Kanawha County Poll Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0642
Overview

A poll book signed and notarized with the results of a vote in Kanawha County on the 1863 amended state constitution of Virginia.

Dates: 1863

Kanawha County Salt Agreement

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2250
Overview An agreement between Kanawha County Salt Manufacturers fixing prices and splitting the market. Parties to the agreement include Andrew Donnally, Lewis F. Donnally, William Donnally, William D. Shrewsberry, Henry H. Wood, John D. Lewis, George H. Warth, Job English, James H. Fry, Henry Chappell, Ira Hurt, Richard A. Hurt, Nathaniel B. Wilson, William C. Brooks, Richard C. Lovell, William McMullen, Lewis Ruffner, James S. Brooks, Franklin Noyes, Samuel A. Miller, E.S. Arnold, William J. Rand,...
Dates: n.d.

Kanawha County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0145
Overview

County court records consisting primarily of court case papers, related court record books (dockets, execution books, fee books, witness books, etc.), and public records concerning a variety of topics including land records, schools, and marriages. There are also a few private account books relating to various local industries, including salt, mining, sawmills, steamboats, and general stores.

Dates: 1773-1933

Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936

Luke Wilcox (1795-1854) Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2015
Overview

Diary of Luke Wilcox, a Kanawha County farmer, merchant, salt well and furnace owner and operator, written in memorandum form except for scattered entries giving more information on specific subjects, such as the weather, churches and ministers, farm operation, travel, salt wells and furnaces, slaves, names of personal and business correspondents, coal, and land purchases. There is also an addendum regarding the Wilcox family bible. See "Scope and Contents" for additional information.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1843-1854; 1795-1879

Mrs. Mary Woodson, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2211
Overview

Receipts for land, school, personal property, and road taxes in Kanawha and Putnam counties, 1863-1886 and 1898-1899; grade reports from the Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, Virginia, 1882, and from the Putnam County schools, 1904-1906; a printed souvenir list of the students and teacher at the intermediate school, Poca; two manuscript poems concerning the medical profession, 1879-1880; and other items. Index and table of contents are available in the 17th volume.

Dates: 1863-1906