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Parkersburg.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

Steamboats Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1406
Scope and Contents

Letters of a West Virginia River Captain to his daughter, 1877-1885; papers of Captain Edward B. Cooper, 1879-1891, Master of the Steamer Sonoma operating between Ravenswood and Parkersburg; bills of lading and miscellaneous papers, 1891-1930, 1955; log book of the Steamer Victor, 1932, operating out of Ashland, Kentucky for the Ashland Oil Company; and a log book of the Steamer Greenbrier, 1939, operating on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers.

Dates: 1877-1939
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Steamboats Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1409
Scope and Contents

Passenger books of the steamer "Sonoma," operating between Ravenswood and Parkersburg.

Dates: 1884
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Steamboats Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1548
Scope and Contents

Bills of lading from the Ohio River Transportation Company, Wheeling Wharf Boat Company, Parkersburg Rig & Reel Company, Shippers Packet Company Lines, and G. M. Beaver, steamboat agent and wharf boat proprietor, Sistersville.

Dates: 1929-1931
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Stephenson Family Manuscript Journal

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0943
Overview

Microfilm of a manuscript journal of Edward Stephenson, and typescript copies of letters and reminiscences of John, Edward, and James M. Stephenson, of Wood County, West Virginia, including a journey in Mexico in the 1850s; also two photographs of the Stephenson home, built in 1812 in Parkersburg.

Dates: ca. 1802-1840
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Daughters of the Confederacy, General Jenkins Chapter, Scrapbooks of Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3144
Overview Record scrapbooks kept by Daisy Neptune, historian of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, General Jenkins chapter of Parkersburg. The five scrapbooks consists of material concerning the chapter's history and the lives of local Confederate veterans and their families. Included are the service records of individual soldiers, chapter applications containing much genealogical data, obituaries and death notices of veterans and family members, and news clippings of organization activities....
Dates: 1899-1972
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0831
Overview Papers of the managing editor of the Parkersburg DAILY STATE JOURNAL, 1889-1895, editor of the WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL JOURNAL, and member of the English faculty of West Virginia University, 1895-1925. The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to Barbe's book, GOING TO COLLEGE,...
Dates: 1884-1930
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wood County Survey Plats

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2970
Overview

Survey plats made by L.G. Merrill & Associates of Parkersburg and Wood County, WV prepared by magisterial districts with the corresponding dates when the survey was made. Magisterial districts with dates are as follows: Box 1 - Clay, 1948-49; Harris, 1955-56; Lubeck, 1939-40; Parkersburg, 1929-32; Slate, 1953-54; Steele, 1956-57. Box 2 - Tygart, 1927-28; Union, 1946-47; Walker, 1952-53; Williams, 1937-38.

Dates: 1927-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center