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Land.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:

Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates: 1845-1908
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph and Henry Bennett Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1731
Overview Letters of Henry and Joseph Bennett concerning travel by sea from New York to Chagres, Panama, overland across Panama and by ship to San Francisco in 1851. Letters from California, 1852-1853, discuss arrival of immigrants; employment conditions and wages; gambling and social life in San Francisco; investment opportunities; conditions in the gold mines; travel by steamboat to Hangtown (Placerville); churches; crime; Indians; mining profits; cost of land; ranching; blacksmith and plough shop...
Dates: 1849-1923
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4181
Overview

Correspondence between Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905), who was West Virginia's first commissioner of immigration, and Judge John S. Hoffman. The correspondence includes two agreements (1873) and nine letters (1873-1874) concerning land sales. Hoffman is likely John Stringer Hoffman (1821-1877), a Clarksburg lawyer who specialized in land title litigation (see A&M 1703, Hoffman, John Stringer. Papers).

Dates: 1873-1874
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1711
Scope and Contents

Typescript copy of a letter from J. H. Diss Debar, as Secretary of State Immigration and Relief Society of West Virginia, from Parkersburg, to John Wanstreet, St. Clara Colony, Deddridge County, concerning the sale of lots and issuing deeds to the purchasers.

Dates: 1870
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1577
Scope and Contents

Letters from West Virginia's first Commissioner of Immigration to Governor John J. Jacobs and the Board of Public Works. Letters deal with political intrigues for the commissionership, the dissemination of the “West Virginia Handbook and Immigration Guide,” and the publication of Diss Debar's “West Virginia Monitor and Real Estate Advertiser.”

Dates: 1871
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kemble White (1873-1965) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2209
Overview Correspondence and other papers of Kemble White, one-time law partner of A.B. Fleming, specialist in oil and gas law, counsel for the West Virginia subsidiaries of Standard Oil (Hope Natural Gas, South Penn Oil, and Eureka Pipeline), charter member of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, veteran of the Spanish-American War, one-time president of the West Virginia Bar Association; and the West Virginia University Alumni Association. Additional items include: White's notebooks...
Dates: 1898-1965
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lewis Maxwell Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0963
Overview

Papers of Lewis Maxwell, an attorney at Weston including primarily letters from clients concerning land in West Virginia, 1840-1859. Correspondents include J.H. Diss Debar, John S. Carlile, Matthew Edmiston, J.M. Bennett, and Benjamin H. Latrobe. Other subjects covered include railroad legislation and construction and the surfacing of the Weston-Clarksburg road.

Dates: 1825-1861, 1903
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Little Kanawha Railroad, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2411
Overview Correspondence, legal papers, financial papers, and other assorted materials relating to the Little Kanawha Railroad and sister companies in West Virginia and surrounding states. The papers deal with the purchase by the Little Kanawha Syndicate of the Little Kanawha Railroad, which ran from Zanesville to Parkersburg, and the surrounding coal lands. Members of the syndicate included George J. Gould, William E. Guy, and Joseph Ramsey, Jr. Correspondents include: J.T. Blair, Lawrence Greer,...
Dates: 1904-1913
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Logan County Court Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2733
Overview Birth, marriage, and death records, registers and indexes, deed, will, map, land, lease, and minute books. Indexes of grants, leases, and wills. Surveyor's maps, surveyor records, and survey record indexes. Table of town lots, appraisement, and sale book. Mechanic's lien records, contract records, commissioner's records petitions and records, repatriation petitions. Naturalization index and declarations of intention records. These records reflect the economic and population growth typical of...
Dates: 1846-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center