Hancock County (W. Va.)
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Adolphus P. Howard Papers
Articles of co-partnership between Adolphus Howard and J. Wilson Howard, Wellsville, N. Y., and Adolphus P. Howard, Hancock County, West Virginia, for the establishment of a tannery.
Aten Family Civil War Letters
Charles L. Campbell, Compiler, (b.1876), Typescripts
Typescripts compiled by a Wellsburg local historian, on the history of Holliday's Cove and the Hancock-Brooke County area. Subjects include prominent settlers, churches, schools, post office, toll roads, oil and gas wells, floods, gristmills, manufacture of gunpowder, iron and brick industries, newspapers, Indians, and the James Campbell and Alexander Morrow family genealogy.
County Highway Maps for West Virginia
James Porter Papers
Lyman Stedman, Farmer and Politician, Diary
Diary of Lyman Stedman (1824-1916), a farmer and former member of the House of Delegates, 1877, from Brown's Island, Hancock County. Entries concern farm operation, Republican political activities on the district and county level, comments on state and national organizations, floods on the Ohio River, steamboat and barge traffic, Hopedale School, Methodist Episcopal Church, railroad travel, circuses and fairs, taxes and land valuations, and Memorial Day.
Pittenger Family Letters
Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.