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Putnam County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Clark Atkeson (1852-1935) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1126
Overview

Family history, autobiographical sketch, account books of farming operations in Putnam County, West Virginia, 1894-1934, and articles and pamphlets written by a state agricultural leader, founder of the state Grange, and national Grange representative in Washington. Atkeson also played a leading role in the development of the West Virginia University Agricultural College at Morgantown where he was a professor for many years.

Dates: 1894-1934

William A. Alexander Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3652
Overview The papers of William A. Alexander, farmer, businessman, West Virginia State Senator (1871-1872), and local public office holder in Mason and Putnam Counties. The collection includes receipts, ledger sheets documenting accounts, correspondence, deeds, contracts, court papers, wills, election notices for the Virginia State Agricultural Society (1860), and a stockholder's ticket for the West Virginia State Agricultural Society (undated). There is also election literature (1 item) campaigning...
Dates: 1833-1900; Majority of material found within 1842-1885

Works Progress Administration, West Virginia Publications

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4093
Overview West Virginia related publications of the Work Progress Administration, mainly consisting of Inventories of the County Archives of West Virginia prepared by The Historical Records Survey Division of Women's and Professional Projects, as well as inventories of federal archives in West Virginia, church archives, public vital statistics, and calendars of letters and papers. Also includes two folk studies of counties by the West Virginia Writers' Program. The Historical Records Survey was a...
Dates: 1937-1941