Charleston (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers regarding General Joseph A.J. Lightburn and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1379
Overview
Materials collected by Roy Bird Cook regarding General Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn. Includes letters sent to Dr. Bird regarding General Lightburn and the Lightburn family, newspaper clippings regarding Lightburn and the Civil War in West Virginia, two maps, a pamphlet, and other material. See the "Historical Note" for further information about General Lightburn.
Dates:
1774-1960; Majority of material found within 1939-1960
Salt Sulphur Springs Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0512
Scope and Contents
Daybooks, ledgers, journals, letter books and reports. Primarily concern the various business enterprises of the Salt Sulphur Springs Company including general store, hotel, stage line, telegraph company and farm. Also a letter book of the Oriental Powder Mills, Charleston, W.Va, of which John W.M. Appleton was agent; general store daybooks of E.D. Ballard; hotel and general store cash and daybooks of Erskine and Caruthers from Lexington and Salt Sulphur Springs. Records of the M.C.C.C. and...
Dates:
1819-1932
Scott-Palmer Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1423
Overview
Papers of Jewett Palmer, a Union Army officer, Mayor of Marietta (Ohio), and Republican official of Washington County (Ohio). Includes correspondence, daily journals, clipping scrapbooks, military records, genealogical and autobiographical notes, and printed materials. The papers regard the activities of Company B of the 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI) and Company G of the 36th OVI. There are also papers of Palmer's wife, Saida Scott, who taught music. Addendum of 1996/09/23 contains a...
Dates:
1856-1917
Ward Engineering Company Archives and Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2298
Scope and Contents
Records of a Charleston, West Virginia, business which introduced to the western waters of the United States a new design of towboat whose essential features were water-tube boilers, multiple-expansion engines, and screw propulsion; thus replacing the traditional paddle wheel towboats that navigated the Ohio and Mississippi river systems. Charles Ward (1841-1915), a British engineer, who emigrated to Charleston in 1871, founded the industry and designed these new boats. This collection...
Dates:
1871-1977 and undated
William M. Goudy, Soldier, Civil War Diaries
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0922
Overview
Three pocket diaries authored by William M. Goudy of Wheeling, (West) Virginia, a corporal in the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Company G, who was mustered into service on 31 October 1862. The entries run from January 1862 through November 1864, when Goudy's company was mustered out at Wheeling. Diary entries are brief and sporadic; subjects discussed include weather, marches, encampments, drilling and inspection, combat, eating, church attendance and sermons, and social visits and...
Dates:
1862-1864
Womynkind Foundation Newsletters and Other Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4515
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a full run of the Women's Community Newsletter and Womynkind's Community Newsletter published by the Womynkind Foundation and the Women's Center of West Virginia, Inc. between 1990 and 1997. It also contains budgets for monthly potluck dinners hosted by the Womynkind Foundation between 1990 and 1991. The newsletters feature short stories, poetry, art, local events, commentary, advertisements, and flyers...
Dates:
1990-1997