General stores
Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas B. Frye Papers
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.
Thomas Creigh, Lewisburg General Store Ledger
Thomas W. Dixon, Collector, Papers
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.
Tucker County Post Office and Business Records
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.
Vida Bailey, Collector, Papers
William E. Cupp Papers
Business records, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers of the Cupp family, including Will E. Cupp, Mary J. Cupp, and Marie Cupp Nestor, of St. George, Tucker County, West Virginia. Included are Tucker County court fee books, 1856-1898, and personal and general store account books, 1897-1933.
William H. Newcomb, (b.1870), Papers
Papers of a Huntington dry goods merchant, W.H. Newcomb, include a domestic diary, 1865, kept by his mother, Emily Cox of Guyandotte, and a clipping scrapbook pertaining to the Newcomb family and the Anderson-Newcomb Department Store. The scrapbook contains obituary notices, society notes, local history items, and an autographed letter from Theodore Roosevelt to W. Barkla, dated 20 October 1900.