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Parkersburg.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips, Journal of an Upshur County Resident Regarding the Civil War

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1846
Overview Photocopy of typescript transcription of the manuscript journal kept by Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips of French Creek and Buckhannon, Virginia (West Virginia). It contains commentary on local and family affairs, and on Civil War military activities in the western Virginia and Virginia areas. Other subjects include churches, travel, elections, holiday celebrations, and the 1863 statehood convention in Parkersburg. There are descriptions of and quoted conversations with officers of both the...
Dates: 1861-1863

Mary McKendree Johnson, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1132
Scope and Contents

The collection consists primarily of genealogical notes on a number of Virginia and West Virginia families. There are also lists of war pensioners, copies of county and parish records, historical news clippings on Virginia and West Virginia, one box of newsclippings and other material relating to Wood County history and a folder of John J. Jackson papers, 1837-1884.

Dates: 1932-1958

Mary McKendree Johnson, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1100
Scope and Contents

Microfilm copy of a loose leaf note book with Mrs. Johnson's articles on "Your Famous Forefathers," published serially, 1953-1954 in Hampshire Review; also clipping on early Parkersburg history.

Dates: 1913, 1932-1958

Northwestern Turnpike Association Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0856
Overview

Correspondence, minutes, and membership cards which reflect the Association's lobbying efforts on behalf of preserving and rebuilding the Northwest Turnpike which ran from Capon Bridge to Parkersburg and is now part of U.S. Route 50.

Dates: 1922-1926

Ohio Valley Floods, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2408
Overview

Newspaper clippings, picture-books, postcard albums, and government reports relating to floods along the Ohio River Valley especially at Pittsburgh, Wheeling, and Parkersburg.

Dates: ca. 1913-1971

Parkersburg Town Council Journals

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1422
Overview Aside from routine municipal affairs these journals contain material on the development of internal improvements in the Parkersburg, West Virginia, area like the Wheeling-Parkersburg struggle for the western terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the development of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, and the demands for various river improvements. There are also a few references to Civil War military activities and the development of the oil industry in the Wood County area. Mayors...
Dates: 1826-1862, 1869-1874

Rathbone Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1324
Overview

Clippings concern Parkersburg local history and the development of Burning Springs and other oil fields in the Wood County area.

Dates: ca. 1851-1958

Rector-Hiett-Hall Families, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1637
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a typescript entitled “Enoch Rector, his Fore-fathers and Descendants”, by Thomas Rector (undated); a typescript entitled "The (Reynear) Hall Family," by D.B. Hall (1925); a short historical sketch of the First Baptist Church of Parkersburg, at which Enoch Rector was pastor (ca. 1958); and the family record from James Hiett's Bible. Also included are 12 photographs of members of these three related lines.

Dates: ca. 1855-1890s, 1925, 1958

Rector-Hiett-Hall Families, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0945
Scope and Contents Letters, deeds, wills, tax receipts, and miscellaneous papers, by or mentioning Enoch Rector, C.N. Ransom, the Garrard Family, Mary E. Avery, James Hiett, Samuel Heitt, Thomas Rector, J. Madison Jackson, Samuel and Josiah Halley, Joseph and Deborah Spencer, and Stephen C. Shaw. The papers deal mainly with land transactions and family affairs, including corn prices; building of Muskingum River; notes on preaching in Baptist churches in Richmond, Virginia, revivals, ministers' salaries;...
Dates: ca. 1802-1913

Richard L. Woodyard Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1189
Overview

Sermons, essays, lectures, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers of a Methodist preacher who served in Clarksburg and Sutton, West Virginia; Louisa, Kentucky; and along the Ohio River from Ashland, Kentucky, to Parkersburg.

Dates: 1808-1872