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Lumber trade

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

T.B. Cauthorn Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2487
Scope and Contents

Business correspondence, accounts, ledger book, and legal papers of Townley B. Cauthorn, farmer and lumber merchant of Millboro (Bath County), Virginia. The collection contains pay records for sawmill hands and farm laborers, employee purchase accounts, and legal documents. Also included are a record of road work done in Bath County when Cauthorn was Commissioner of Roads and an agreement between Cauthorn and Edgar S. Davis for the adoption by Cauthorn of Mattie Davis.

Dates: 1867-1907

Thompson Family of Canaan Valley, Business and Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4151
Overview

Business records and family papers of the Thompson family of Canaan Valley, WV. Includes genealogical information, correspondence, historical narratives, photographs, ephemera, currency, printed materials, business records, artifacts, and other material. See Scope and Content note for more information.

Dates: 1863-2002; Majority of material found within ca. 1880-1930

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

Webster County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0763
Scope and Contents The Webster County records include court cases; marriage licenses, 1924-1930; county financial; department of public assistance, and Farm Bureau records. Also, Justice of the Peace, Circuit court, and County record books, 1886-1943, including record of the Articles of Incorporation of several Boom companies, miscellaneous correspondence of various county officials 1890-1951, and one picture plate of the Webster Springs Agriculture Club.The collection's microfilm may be found in...
Dates: 1851-1951

West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2134
Scope and Contents Correspondence and business records while the company was operating near the present site of Cass. Subjects and topics covered are the Blackwater Lumber Company, Condon-Lane Boom and Lumber Company, Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, Greenbrier River, logging, lumber agents, Martin-Lane and Company, railroads, J.L. Rumbarger Lumber Company, R.M. Sutton Company, Stearns Manufacturing Company, Saint Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company, S.E. Slaymaker and Company, timberlands, West Spruce Lumber...
Dates: 1892-1939

West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, Reports

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1051
Overview

Two typescript reports on the company's timberlands in Pocahontas, Randolph, and Webster counties, including graphs, contour maps, and photographs. Topics covered include a reproduction study made on the Cheat and Elk River watersheds, a forest survey and a summary of detailed estimates.

Dates: 1920

William A. Jackson Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0660
Overview Papers and records of William A. Jackson (1865-1957), W.W. Smith, and J.G. Jackson, and of various businesses established by these men in Jane Lew. There are many papers of the firm of Jackson and Burnside, cattle dealers, relating to the shipping and sale of livestock to commission merchants in New Jersey, Baltimore, Maryland, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also included are accounts and correspondence of: the West Virginia Christian Endeavor Society and papers commenting on Democratic...
Dates: 1892-1930

William Starke Rosecrans (1818-1898) Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1943
Overview Correspondence of a Civil War general who had business interests in the Cannel Coal Company, Coal River Navigation Company, James River and Kanawha Company, and the Western Oil Company. Subjects include coal, oil, iron and steel; improvements on the Kanawha, Coal, and Ohio rivers; English investments in the Cannel Coal Company and the Winifrede Mining & Manufacturing Company; and timber prices. Civil War correspondence includes letters from Francis H. Pierpont and General Jacob D. Cox....
Dates: 1841-1879

Withers and VanDevender Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2109
Overview Correspondence, ledger books, account and cashbooks of the Parkersburg, West Virginia, firm of Withers and VanDevender (later Wiant and VanDevender), specializing in timber cutting, but also dealing in real estate, coal, oil, and orange growing. Subjects include timber cutting methods, costs, timber shipping, floods, freezes, droughts, log jams, timberland locations, timber purchases and sales, salaries of timber workers, and fruit groves in Florida. Counties mentioned include: Boone,...
Dates: 1899-1951