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Ohio County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

James E. Heath, Auditor, Listings of Delinquent Lands in Western Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4182
Overview

Listings of delinquent lands issued by James E. Heath, Auditor of Virginia. Contains printed documents pertaining to Kenawha County [Kanawha County] (1832), Greenbrier County (1833), Nicholas County (1833), Ohio County (1833), Pocahontas County (1833), and Preston County (1833).

Dates: 1832-1833
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Historian, Research Papers Regarding Confederacy Supporters in Wheeling

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5179
Overview Research papers compiled by history professor Kenneth Fones-Wolf regarding his study of people who supported the Confederacy in Wheeling, (West) Virginia in 1861. Includes manuscript research notes and facsimiles of documents regarding prisoners of war; traitors; legislative petitions (topics include transportation, education, banking, temperance, and property); military service (including the Shriver Grays, a Confederate unit organized in Wheeling in 1861); religion; black newspapers and...
Dates: 1819-2004, undated; Majority of material found within 1850s-1860s; Majority of material found within 2000-2004
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lewis Johnson Family Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2259
Overview Biographical and genealogical information relating to Lewis Johnson of West Liberty, Ohio County, WV, (1776 July 19-1820 ca) and his descendants. The information was supplied and compiled by Thomas A. McCammon, a descendant of Johnson, and Audra Wayne of Wheeling, WV. Wayne provided McCammon with a photocopy of a contract between M.D. Lewis and the English Day School in West Liberty State College, West Liberty, WV. Included among these works, "The Demise of Lewis Johnson" by James Armstrong...
Dates: 1985
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Logan Osborne Family and Business Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2941
Overview A ledger and financial records of Logan Osborne (1836-39) also containing the will of Balamm Osborne. The ledger contains accounts of an assortment of general store goods from perishables such as food and candles to durable goods such as tools and carriages. There are Osborne family deeds, land contracts and letters about family matters and debt (1808-89). There are early nineteenth century state bank script from Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are land indentures and legal...
Dates: 1761-1982
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Marshall, Ohio, and Wood Counties Legislative Petitions

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3048
Overview

Petitions from northwestern counties to the Virginia State legislature for internal improvements, namely turnpikes, railroads and river navigation claims. Mention is made of the Ohio River, Little Kanawha River, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the Northwestern Turnpike.

Dates: 1846-1854
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Revolutionary Soldiers, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0406
Scope and Contents

List of names showing birth and death dates, name of wife, and pages numbers from an unidentified volume; includes a few names of Ohio County soldiers.

Dates: No Date
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

National Road Survey

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2180
Overview

Copies of the original surveyor readings of the portion of the National Road traversing West Virginia through Ohio County. The readings are surveyor calculations of area and meridian locations. There are also side notes mentioning special features such as watercourses like Wheeling Creek. Also includes a typed copy of a letter from Richard D. Delafield, a chief engineer of the survey, to James G. Totten stating changes in the course of the National Road survey east of the Ohio River.

Dates: 1832-34, 1848
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ohio County Deed to Land on Wheeling Creek

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3176
Overview

Deed of 500 acres on Wheeling Creek, Ohio County from Martin and Mary Whetzel of Ohio County, Virginia to Jacob Crow of Greene County, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1805
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Scott Lumber Company, Ledger

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1096
Overview

Ledger containing financial statements and reports of the company's operations in Morgantown and Follansbee, and records of a subsidiary, the Cecil Lumber and Hardware Company of Elm Grove, in Ohio County, West Virginia.

Dates: 1911-1929
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3192
Overview This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical...
Dates: 1732-1965
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center