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Parkersburg.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1391
Scope and Contents Published and unpublished manuscripts on episodes in West Virginia history; civil war history; hunting; and police protection in industrial plants. Letter of Gen. T.M. Harris concerning organizing and outfitting of troops, 1861; copies of newspaper articles by Gen. Harris concerning "the Sabbath question", 1876; Letters (typescript copies) of Pvt. James Z. McCausland's Brigade, 1863-1864 (7 items), on the Battle of Droop Mountain: fight at Dublin, picket duty around Warm Springs, Virginia;...
Dates: Various Dates

Henderson and Tomlinson Families Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1426
Overview Microfilm copy of the papers of the Henderson and Tomlinson families of Wood County, West Virginia, from 1789 to 1859. Materials relate to frontier life in the Parkersburg-Marietta area, and include Alexander Henderson's journal about his settlement on the Little Kanawha River, 1798-1803; his plantation accounts; letters on the Burr conspiracy; and an account of a duel between Henderson and Stephen R. Wilson in 1803. Also includes several items related to Marine Corps Commandant Archibald...
Dates: 1789-1859

Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir

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Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates: 1838-1899

Henry R. Kelly, Collector, Scrapbook

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1205
Overview

Scrapbook of a Parkersburg postal clerk containing historical clippings on Wood County and World War II, and the scrapbook (1854-1921) of A.L. Collins which has statements from numerous Parkersburg mercantile houses, criminal reward notices, and a few legal papers.

Dates: 1854-1955

J. H. Kelley, Physicians' Accounts

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Collection Number: A&M 2688
Overview

Four volumes titled "Physician's Visiting List," dated 1886, 1891, 1905, and 1906, for the Parkersburg, West Virginia, area. The 1891 copy contains a prescription written by J.H. Kelley, M.D. of Parkersburg, suggesting that all volumes were Kelley's. They contain numerous names, addresses, charges, and treatments, as well as other miscellaneous notes.

Dates: 1886, 1891, 1905-1906

J.B. Ford Legal Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1679
Overview Suit papers and correspondence in the case of the BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD VS. J.B. FORD, general agent of the railroad at Cumberland and Wheeling. The papers include copies of documents relative to the building of the railroad from Cumberland westward to Parkersburg and Wheeling and the activities of Ford as general agent at Cumberland and Wheeling, 1852-1874. Most of Ford's evidence deals with the role of the railroad during the Civil War and its relations with the state of West...
Dates: ca. 1877

Julia Welch Bates, Parkersburg High School Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 3142
Overview

High school scrapbook of a Parkersburg native, Julia Bates Welch. The scrapbook consists of cards, photos, diary entries and lists of classmate names. The diary entries are about typical social events for a female teenager of that era such as parties, picnics and camping with comments about her friends and their experiences of the events.

Dates: 1919-1923

Lewis Francisco Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 0230
Overview

Diary and commonplace book with miscellaneous entries showing: types of employment in Parkersburg and Charleston; weather conditions; and prices of clothing, room and board, tools, and wages.

Dates: 1841-1865

Little Kanawha Railroad, Papers

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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

Log Books of the Steamboat "Sonoma"

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Collection Number: A&M 2977
Overview

Two log books from the Ohio River Steamboat Sonoma, dated 1884.

Dates: 1884