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Sistersville (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Jack R. Patton, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1127
Overview

Papers pertaining to Tyler County and Sistersville include genealogical data on the Wells family; a stock certificate of the Sistersville and Salem Turnpike Company; newspaper clippings on local affairs; and a manuscript list of Civil War volunteers from Tyler County.

Dates: 1852-1958

J.N. Curry (b.1863) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2082
Overview Papers of oil and gas driller and producer in Tyler County and other places. The collection consists of three diaries, 1 January 1894 through 31 December 1896; a typescript; and clippings. The diaries contain daily comment on wells drilled, including hours worked, depth of well, difficulties encountered, geologic strata, number of barrels of oil produced per hour or pressure of gas flow. Diaries include personal affairs, wages received and paid, oil sold, rent on leased property, oil market...
Dates: 1894-1896, 1966

Joseph McKay Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1476
Overview

Correspondence, bills, receipts, and other business papers of a Sistersville, West Virginia, oil developer and stockman pertaining to the development of the Sistersville oil fields, steamboat freighting on the Ohio River, and business activity in Sistersville.

Dates: 1897-1905

Joshua & William Russell, Sistersville General Store, Daybooks and Ledgers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3071
Overview Partners in a Sistersville general store, Joshua and William Russell were merchants who conducted business along either side of the Ohio River between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The daybooks and ledgers document the trade of their Sistersville store. The daybooks record daily transactions with many examples of barter payment in labor or agricultural goods. These transactions were then transferred to ledgers which contained running accounts for each customer. The ledgers include a...
Dates: 1822-1857

Philip A. Woods, Minister, Memorandum Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3226
Overview

Memorandum book of Philip A. Woods, a minister of the Regular Baptist Church in Sistersville and Harrisville. It includes notes on sermon themes and Bible verses, marriages performed, tithes received and annual reports.

Dates: 1864-1869

Roy Thistle, Collector, Scrapbook Regarding Ohio River History

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1443
Overview

A scrapbook containing a brief history of Sistersville and the oil industry in Tyler and other counties and states; a stock certificate of the Sistersville & Salem Turnpike Company, 1853; bills of lading for Ohio and Muskingum River steamers, 1855-1934; and a list of steamboats operating on the Muskingum River, 1830-1890

Dates: 1855-1934

Sistersville Brewing Company Photograph and Clipping

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4114
Overview

Black and white photograph of the Sistersville Brewing Company, which operated in Sistersville, Tyler County, West Virginia from 1905 to 1908. Also includes a 2014 news article from the Tyler Star News regarding the history of the brewery.

Dates: ca. 1905; 2014

Sistersville, City Council, Minutes

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1479
Overview

City Council minutes of the town of Sistersville in Tyler County, incorporated 2 February 1839. Included in the reports are town ordinances, bylaws, orders, resolutions, elections, poll books, town improvements, and other municipal affairs dealt with by the Board of Trustees.

Dates: 1846-1955