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General stores

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

Robert T. Moore Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0982
Overview

A ledger, receipts, notes, and account statements for the general merchandise retail business of Robert T. Moore, Wellsburg, 1797-1826. Also, several account statements for the wholesale and retail meat business of George M. West, Wellsburg, 1909.

Dates: 1797-1826, 1909

Ruffner Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1744
Scope and Contents

Letters and copies of eight letters, 1813-1841; pages 5-10 from Kanawha Salines general merchandise account book, 6-9 March 1827; three manuscript volumes by Henry Ruffner: "Notes on a Tour to the West" and "An Expedition to the North," 1815, and "An Account of Amounts Paid to Rev. Nath'l W. Calhoon," 1826-1834; and "Subscription for Church, 1836-1842," by David Ruffner. There is also a printed brief involving Ruffner-Donnally estates, 1875, and information on the Shackelford family.

Dates: 1813-1848, 1866-1886

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

Samuel W. Shingleton, Collector, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1158
Overview

Ledger, 1849-1851, of Samuel D. Thorn, a purveyor of groceries, grain, and whiskey from Thorntown, Monongalia County, West Virginia; and a Sunday school minute book, Mt. Morris Methodist Episcopal Church, Barbour County, 1848-1863.

Dates: 1848-1863

Stuart Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2586
Scope and Contents Papers of John and Lewis Stuart, 1785-1823, and of Samuel Price, 1830-1879. Price's papers include mainly legal and business correspondence related to Price's law practice in Lewisburg, West Virginia. The Stuart papers concern settlement in Greenbrier County, land transactions, and family matters. The collection includes lawyer's fee books and account books for general merchandise, ca.1830-1880. There are also printed booklets of court briefs, pamphlets concerning "the slavery...
Dates: 1785-1880

Talbott-Tolbert Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1026
Overview Mainly papers of Samuel T. Tolbert, a onetime constable of Lewis County and postmaster at Frenchton, who operated a general store and acted as agent and surveyor for out-of-state landowners. Included are the papers of Zadock Lanham, J.S. Wilson, John L. Jacob, and W.C. Tolbert. There are surveys, legal papers, correspondence, and lottery certificates from Ohio and Delaware, and Democratic state and county election tickets. Correspondents include Lewis Maxwell, J.M. Bennett, and F.H....
Dates: 1784-1914, 1931

Thomas B. Frye Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1805
Overview

Letters, receipts, and business papers of a resident of Keyser who was an agent for Hartford Fire Insurance Company and the Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford. Frye was later a traveling agent for Green and Laing, Hardware and Cutlery, Wheeling, and others, and a dealer in general merchandise.

Dates: 1875-1903

Thomas Creigh, Lewisburg General Store Ledger

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3078
Overview Thomas Creigh, a Greenbrier County pioneer and land speculator, was a long-time Lewisburg merchant. Born 1766 in Ireland, he emigrated to Greenbrier Co. in the 1790s and became a relative through marriage of Col. John Stuart, a local prominent citizen. This ledger documents the trading activity of his general store and it is especially reflective of the bartering system which characterized much of the nineteenth century rural economy. Included in the front of the volume is an index of...
Dates: 1833-1841

Thomas W. Dixon, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1989
Scope and Contents

Account book for general store, covering a six month period, with accounts listed from 1868 July 3. In addition to dates for each day of transactions, are names, merchandise purchased, and prices. Store was relocated to Peterstown, WV.

Dates: 1868

Tucker County Post Office and Business Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0675
Overview

Records of the post office at Jenningston, 1909-1922, Frank G. Rice and John H. Babb, postmasters; and bound volumes of business records from Red Creek of the Elkins Lumber Company, J.C. Myers Lumber Company, and J.C. Myers Mercantile Company.

Dates: 1909-1922