Indiana
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Ebenezer Wilson Patton Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0537
Overview
Genealogical data, a letter, and other papers of the Ebenezer Wilson Patton family of Clarksburg, West Virginia, documenting Patton family history and Clarksburg in the 1870s. Genealogical material includes two family records that list births, deaths, and marriages from 1729 to 1879. The letter from Ebenezer Patton to M. L. Paullus of Greenfield, Indiana, describes conditions in Clarksburg in 1872. Topics include Patton's recent return to West Virginia, starting a general store and the state...
Dates:
1869-1879
James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0839
Scope and Contents
This is the second accesion of Dr. Callahan's papers and includes the correspondence of Dr. Callahan and various members of the Callahan and Fuloher families, 1869-1956; mauscripts, notes, documents and printed materials used in research, galley proofs, reprints and bibliographical lists of published writings of Dr. Callahan; class room materials, and various WVU. department reports; family diaries and genealogical information.The correspondence includes a letter from Theodore Roosevelt,...
Dates:
1864-1956
James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1000
Scope and Contents
Letters to Dr. Callahan, mainly from members of his family; typescripts on the history of West Virginia University; and miscellaneous research and clippings relating to his published and unpublished writings.
Dates:
1940-1956
John and Robert Thompson Diaries
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1881
Overview
Diary and account book, 1804-1811, of John Thompson containing accounts of items bought and sold, money owed by and to Thompson, two journeys on the Mississippi River between Nashville, Natchez, and New Orleans, 1804-1805, and numerous remedies for diseases and medical complaints. There is a second diary by Robert C. Thompson, a Confederate soldier, from August 1862 to February 1863. Robert Thompson was a member of a Tennessee unit, imprisoned at Camp Morton, exchanged in September 1862, and...
Dates:
1804-1811, 1862-1863
Walter Bledsoe and Company, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2567
Overview
Picture guidebook of a coal distributorship founded in 1910 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Gives a brief history of coal mining in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and a description of company mines in each state.
Dates:
n.d.
William McCleery (1741-1821) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0146
Overview
The papers of Colonel William McCleery of Morgantown, a Revolutionary War veteran, attorney, county clerk, prosecuting attorney, representative from Monongalia County to the Federal Constitutional Convention, founder of the Presbyterian Church in Morgantown, and landholder and purchasing agent. The papers include correspondence, typescripts, land records, and some printed materials. Much of the correspondence is between McCleery and his agent, Benjamin Oden of Upper Marlboro, Maryland,...
Dates:
1770-1857, 1945; Majority of material found within 1770-1857