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Preston County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

Melvin C. Snyder, Congressman, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2855
Scope and Contents Melvin Claude Snyder (1898-1972) was a lawyer, Republican Congressman, and judge from Preston County, West Virginia. Legal, personal, and political correspondence; speeches; and campaign materials document the political life of Melvin C. Snyder from 1946 to 1953. Box 1 contains speeches from 1947 and 1948 that concern political issues such as repealing New Deal policies, tax decreases, and communism. Box 2 houses letters from 1946 to 1953 that are chiefly from legal clients, political...
Dates: 1946-1953
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Methodist Episcopal Church, Oakland District Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1839
Overview

Handwritten journal of the Oakland District Conference, 1895-1910. The district includes Preston and Tucker counties in West Virginia, also western Maryland and bordering areas of Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1895-1910
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Michael Anthony Cover, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1781
Overview Naturalization papers of Feit Spindler, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1844; three smallpox immunization certificates, 1804, 1811, 1830, in German; confirmation certificate of Andrew Spindler, 1868; deed between George Maust and Trustees of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 1870, for land in Preston County; church record of the St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran congregation of Hazelrun, Preston County, 1861-1870, 1879-1902. The originals are two diplomas of Watson Moore from Merchant's...
Dates: 1844-1902
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Michael K. Johnson, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2345
Overview Correspondence, business records, legal papers, and miscellaneous papers of the Haldeman, Baldwin, and Smith families of Monongalia and Preston counties in West Virginia and of Greene, Fayette, and Washington counties in Pennsylvania. The major portion of the collection relates to the business dealings of the Rev. T.A. Haldeman, who built and repaired carriages, wagons, and buggies at a shop in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and also dealt in fruits and vegetables. There is genealogical material...
Dates: 1830-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Morrison, Gross and Company, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0994
Overview

Office correspondence, financial records, and account books of Morrison, Gross and Company, Rowlesburg and Southern Railroad Company, Woodford Lumber Company, and Keystone Manufacturing Company, in Preston and Randolph counties.

Dates: ca. 1917-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Oren F. Morton (1857-1926) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1191
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, sketch books, published and unpublished manuscripts, literary notes, business records, and printed material of a schoolteacher, newspaper writer, county historian, novelist and essayist from Kingwood, whose fiction and nonfiction writings deal primarily with the Virginia-West Virginia Allegheny highlands. His best known works are WINNING OR LOSING?: A STORY OF THE WEST VIRGINIA HILLS (1901); LAND OF THE LAUREL: A STORY OF THE ALLEGHANIES (1903); UNDER THE...
Dates: ca. 1799-1846, 1875-1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Papers regarding Early Settlers of Aurora in Preston County

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0728
Scope and Contents

Account books, and legal, business, and personal papers of some early settlers at Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia. There are records of a tannery, blacksmith shop, a general merchandise store, and a sawmill, as well as deeds and subscription lists for the Lutheran and German Reformed churches. Also included in the papers are land surveys, wills, deeds, plats, school notebooks, tax receipts, and other items.

Dates: 1788-1943 and undated ; Majority of material found within 1820-1916
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Patrick J. Crogan (1856-1949) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0201
Overview

Correspondence and legal papers of a Preston County attorney who was counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. There is much material on cases tried by Crogan for banks, utilities, lumber, and coal companies.

Dates: ca. 1900-1930
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Preston County, Aurora School History

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3204
Overview A history of the schools of Aurora, Preston Co. from their founding by early settlers of German descent to the present efforts to reconstruct the recently fire destroyed building. Mentioned are changes in location, types of schools, school principals, funding and various costs such as those for construction. Some early funding, especially to aid poor children, was raised locally by money accumulated in a literary fund. In the nineteenth century other funds were acquired from the Peabody...
Dates: 1790-1994
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Preston County Board of Education, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1296
Overview

Register, School No.6, 1878-1879; records of the Preston County School Book Board, 1897-1907; Record of Proceedings of the Board of Education, Kingwood District, 1908-1913; and Board of Education Minutes for the Kingwood, Lyon, Pleasant, Portland, Reno, and Valley districts, 1899-1933.

Dates: 1878-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center