Clarksburg (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
James E. Davis, Artist, Papers and Artworks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3157
Overview
Artwork, photography, and papers of James Edward Davis, an artist born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Davis studied art at Princeton University and had a prolific and varied artistic career, being particularly noted for his experimental abstract films involving color, light, and movement. This collection contains paintings, sketches, mobiles, photographic prints, transparencies, memoirs, notes on Frank Lloyd Wright and John Marin, and other material. There are addenda to this collection,...
Dates:
1845-2013
James M. Guiher, Jr. Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3579
Overview
Personal papers of James M. Guiher, Jr. (1927- ), Editor and Head of Textbook Division of Prentice-Hall books, and son of James M. Guiher, Sr. (1897-1965), a prominent lawyer, politician, and community leader from Clarksburg, West Virginia. Includes autobiographical material, correspondence, publications, photographs, and other material regarding growing up in Clarksburg, attending Washington Irving High School (Clarksburg, WV), serving in the U.S. Army during WWII, attending Princeton and...
Dates:
1835-2014; Majority of material found within 1927-1976
John Bassel (1840-1914) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0126
Scope and Contents
Office files of the Clarksburg attorney and counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. There are a few personal papers and none relating to the Bassel's participation in the Constitutional Convention of 1872.
Dates:
1854-1916
John Bassel (1840-1914) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1009
Scope and Contents
The first 59 boxes are the papers and correspondence of Clarksburg attorney and district legal counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. John Bassel graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, was admitted to the Bar in 1864, participated in the State Convention of 1872, and for a times, served as prosecuting attorney for Clarksburg. His papers are almost exclusively concerned with his legal practice, financial interests, and his work as legal counsel for the B&O. The latter...
Dates:
1761-1948
John J. Davis (1824-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1366
Overview
Papers of John J. Davis, a lawyer and politician from Clarksburg, West Virginia. This collection contains correspondence, account books, photographs, essays, speeches, and other material. Also included in this collection are writings of Davis' granddaughter, Julia McDonald Davis. There are also artifacts, including a school slate and three leather billfolds. Please see "Scope and Contents" for further detail.
Dates:
1824-1935
John Stringer Hoffman (1821-1877) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1703
Overview
Legal correspondence and papers of a Clarksburg lawyer who specialized in land title litigation and served as associate judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, 1862-1876. Papers pertain to lands in the central counties of West Virginia. Subjects include: the James Swan lands; European immigration to West Virginia following the Civil War; New York Southern Land Company; Philadelphia International Land Association; state economic development during Reconstruction; and...
Dates:
ca. 1856-1883
John W. Davis, Lawyer, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2963
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence and papers of the noted lawyer and 1924 presidential aspirant for the Democrats, John W. Davis, kept by his daughter, a famous author, Julia (McDonald) Davis Adams. Noteworthy is a 1948 official publication in tribute to Davis' career as Solicitor General of the United States (1913-1918). There is a typescript copy of his diary recounting his wartime and post-war tenure (1918-1921) as the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. His letters include some of his...
Dates:
1842, 1861-1897, 1918-1927, 1946-1953, 1978
Katherine Williams, Collector, Williams Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4138
Scope and Contents
Family papers compiled by Katherine Williams of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Most of the papers are of the James H. Taylor family of Clarksburg, West Virginia dating from the 19th century. There are also records of the Irwin family including a genealogy, and the Civil War letters of private George Irwin, a soldier in Company F, 95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Other families documented include the Redman and Summers families. The collection includes letters, autograph books, family...
Dates:
ca. 1840-2005
L. Henry Smith Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0019
Overview
L. Henry Smith (b. circa 1805) was an attorney in Bruceton Mills, Preston County, West Virginia, in the mid-nineteenth century. He and his wife, Martha, had nine children, including Lucian H. Smith (b. circa 1830) and William W. Smith (b. circa 1848). Papers of the L. Henry Smith family chiefly include receipts, bills, notes, and letters from 1823 to 1878 and primarily concern Henry Smith, Lucian Smith, and William Smith, though materials from other family members are included. Box 1...
Dates:
1823-1878; Majority of material found within 1850-1874
Louise Dennison and Dennison Family, Photographs and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4426
Overview
Photographs and other material regarding Louise Dennison (1898-1991) and the Dennison family of West Virginia. Formats of photographs include cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, and gelatin silver prints. See Scope and Content Note for further information.
Dates:
ca. 1870-1920