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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:

William Gordon Worley (1846-1928) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1547
Overview

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and financial papers of a lawyer and state senator from Kingwood, who was instrumental in the organization of the West Virginia Northern Railroad, and the Kingwood Coal and Coke Company. Subjects include state politics, 1888-1895, Virginia Debt Question, the tariff debate, land development, coal mining and railroads. Correspondents include J.M. Mason, W.E. Chilton, S.B. Elkins, and George C. Sturgiss.

Dates: 1853-1921

William Haymond (1771-1848), History of the Haymond Family, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1695
Overview

History of the Haymond family, pioneer residents of the Palatine tract in Marion County, West Virginia. Eight letters written by William Haymond to his nephew Luther Haymond recall frontier life in the Monongahela, Tygart, Ohio, and Kanawha valleys, 1780-1793. Subjects include the settlement of Morgantown, Clarksburg, Williamstown, the Palatine tract, and Coburn's Fort; land surveys in Harrison County; trapping and hunting; road surveying; and Indian warfare.

Dates: 1893

William Henry Edwards (1822-1909) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1951
Scope and Contents 444 letters. Subjects include: coal lands in W. Va., Lepidoptera collection, scientific publications, and research on butterflies. Correspondents: L. Agassiz, D.T. Ansted, John Akhurst, V.V. Baird, Wm. H. Ashmead, Addison Ballard, N.W. Bates, Jacob Boll, George H. Briggs, Albert S. Brekimore, A.J. Butler, John H. Cook, E.R. Crotch, George Dimmock, Rudolph Feider, J. Fletcher, P.H. Gosse, Edward H. Griffin, Ferdinando Grist, Albert Hopkins, W.F. Kirby, Ludwig Kumbein, Theodore L....
Dates: 1840-1907

William Henry Edwards (1822-1909) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1614
Scope and Contents

Entomological notebooks of the famous naturalist and authority on North American butterflies, William Henry Edwards of Coalsburg, West Virginia.

Dates: 1852-1897

William J. Flanagan (b.1838) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0780
Scope and Contents

The records of William J. Flanagan, a Justice of the Peace living in Tucker County, West Virginia, including promissory notes, tax receipts, bills, a release of lien, itemized accounts, grocery orders, surveys and plats, letters, deeds, court orders, summons, agreements, sworn statements, notices, executions, orders to pay, and other miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1857-1910; 1941

William J. Flanagan (b.1838) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0768
Scope and Contents

Positive Photostats of two deeds from Randolph County, [W.] Va. The first one dated August 12, 1826, is from Ebenezer Flanagan to John and William Flanagan; the second dated September 7, 1866, is from Columbus Wolford to William J. Flanagan.

Dates: 1826; 1866

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

William Milo Barnum (1856-1926) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2573
Overview Correspondence (including 6 volumes of letter books) relating to firms in which Barnum was an executive, including the Henrico Coal Co. and Kanawha Improvement Co., West Virginia, National Mining Co. and Wells Farm Land and Mining Co., New York. The collection documents mining and railroad promotion in Appalachia and the eastern midwest states. The collection was formerly part of the records of the Pacific Coast Coal and Oil Co. of which Barnum was chairman of the Board of Directors...
Dates: 1882-1899

William Price (1803-1881) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1809
Overview Papers of William Price (1803-1881), a Monongalia County, West Virginia, resident, member of the Wheeling Convention, and state legislator, 1869-1873. Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, legal documents, and pictures. The correspondence, 1858-1912, concerns farming, the cattle business, and observations on the Civil War. Land papers also relate to Greene County, Pennsylvania. There is a diary and memo book of William Price, 1861-1863, containing two references to his membership in...
Dates: 1787-1917, undated; Majority of material found within 1805-1885

Wilson and Stribling Families Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0880
Overview

Correspondence, clippings, land papers, and other records of James Wilson, an attorney in Wood County, ca.1800-1820; Robert M. Stribling and other members of the Stribling family in Mason County, 1821-ca.1909; and James A. and Otis Young, ca.1900-1934, in Mason County. A pocket diary of James Wilson gives information on his law practice in Kanawha, Monongalia, and Wood counties in 1804.

Dates: ca. 1781-1934