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Livestock

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

A.C.L. Gatewood Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1519
Overview Correspondence, diary, and farm account book of a Confederate officer and Pocahontas County cattleman and farmer. The correspondence deals primarily with Gatewood's activities as adjutant general and chief of staff of the West Virginia Division, United Confederate Veterans. The Civil War diary, 11 March-15 December 1865, covers action of Company F, Eleventh Virginia Cavalry, "Laurel Brigade," Rosser Cavalry Division, from Staunton to Appomattox. The farm account book, 1866-1869, also...
Dates: 1801-1816, 1855-1919
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Adolphus P. Howard Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0517
Scope and Contents Includes business and personal correspondence, accounts, legal papers, bank statements, maps, etc. Business correspondence, 1850-1938, include letters concerning A. P. Howard's various business enterprises; farm, livestock, fruit and produce, Wellsville, Ohio; printing firm, Columbus, Ohio; tannery, Corry, Penna.; bank and metal works, Pittsburgh, PA; farm, Congo, WV; subscription agent in Wellsville, Ohio for National Era, Washington, D.C. Earlier letters are to A. G. DeSellem, an uncle,...
Dates: 1850-1938
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Beery School of Horsemanship, Publications Regarding Horse Training and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4107
Overview

Publications regarding horse training and animal breeding published by the Beery School of Horsemanship, which was founded by horse trainer Jesse Berry as a correspondence school in 1905. Also contains publications regarding livestock and agriculture, and other miscellaneous material. See "Scope and Content Note" and "Historical Note" for further information.

Dates: 1883-1976; Majority of material found within 1963-1976
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

C.H. Beall Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0318
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, sheep breeding records, pictures of prize sheep, and other papers of the Beall family of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and Wellsburg, West Virginia. Includes material on the International Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876; a Report of the West Virginia State Board of Central Managers, February 9, 1877; and samples of raw wool.

Dates: 1856-1906
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

C.H. Beall Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0257
Scope and Contents

A print of the Beall farm in Brooke County showing homestead, residence, and sheepfold; and a Williams Wheeling Directory for 1864.

Dates: 1864 - n.d.
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

C.H. Beall Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0473
Scope and Contents

Items from the farm of C. H. Beall, sheep farmer in Brooke County. Includes samples of raw and processed wool; a broadside advertising the sale of Merino sheep, 13 October 1872 on the Beall farm; five prints of prize sheep; and a list of sheep bred in 1907.

Dates: 1872-1907
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Chapin Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0828
Overview

Letters of Phineas Chapin (1792-1857), and other family members in Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Clarksburg, West Virginia. There are: intimate sketches of the social life of Clarksburg in the first half of the nineteenth century; descriptions of a plantation house in Mississippi in 1860; and a few papers bearing on family business affairs, including cattle raising in Harrison County.

Dates: 1816-1892
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarksburg Public Library, Collector, Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1653
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous papers collected by the Clarksburg Public Library, including Harrison County land papers of John Lang, 1782-1821; General Land Office Warrant of Thomas Cunningham, an 1812 veteran for 160 acres in Illinois; letter from Melville D. Long from Point Lookout prison, April 1865; letter to Mrs. John J. Davis, Clarksburg, telling of an unexpected invasion of Baltimore by the Rebels in July 1854; and farm diary, 1856-1861 of P.R. Page, Gloucester County, Virginia. This volumes gives...
Dates: 1782-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Courtney Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1629
Overview Papers of a Monongalia County, West Virginia, farm family residing near Maidsville include: the farm account books of John and John J. Courtney, 1831-1877; family Bible records and photographs; college essays of Alpheus Courtney, a West Virginia University student; manuscript ciphering book, 1817; diary of Ulysses J. Courtney, 1878-1883 (7 vols.) pertaining to lumbering, farming, and livestock operations, and community religious and social life; correspondence; steamboat bills of lading,...
Dates: 1804-1920
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George W. Johnson (1837-1902) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1655
Overview

Diaries, correspondence, notes, receipts, and newspaper clippings of a lumberman and stockman from Morgantown, West Virginia. Subjects include Johnson's agricultural activities, his extensive timber dealings in Monongalia County, and the rafting of logs to Pittsburgh and intermediate points on the Monongahela River.

Dates: 1860-1960
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center