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Oil and Gas Industry and Fields.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Louis Reed and Mildred Johnston Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2592
Overview Louis Reed (1899-ca. 1985) served in France and Germany during World War I. Collection contains letters he wrote to his future wife, Mildred Johnston. Reed and Johnston married many years later, after the death of Reed's first wife. Reed's letters, written between 1918 and 1920, discuss army life, the front in France, and the occupation of Germany. Collection also contains a 235-page photocopied typescript that Reed wrote about the history of Burning Springs, Wirt County, and its role in the...
Dates: 1918-1920 and undated

Lowther Oil Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0226
Overview

Includes records of meetings, by-laws, and actions of the stockholders and directors of the Lowther Oil Co, New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia, from the first general meeting of the stockholders of the Company held on 13 Aug.1900 to 29 Apr.1905 (1 volume); index of accounts of Lowther Oil Co. (1 volume); and: index of accounts of Lowther-Kaufmann Oil Co. (1 volume).

Dates: 1900-1905

Matheny-Stutler Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2156
Overview Correspondence between H. E. Matheny and Boyd B. Stutler who were antiquarian collectors of West Virginia and authors on the local history of the state. The correspondence is primarily about West Virginia imprints and historical literature. There is much discussion of the following topics as they pertain to West Virginia: colloquial language, frontier and pioneers, post offices and postal service, crimes and criminals, the Civil War, early oil industry, and printers, printing and newspapers....
Dates: 1945-1969

Pittenger Family Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3127
Overview

Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dates: 1841-1875

Rush Meadows Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2147
Overview

Papers of Rush Meadows, a Charleston, West Virginia, mining engineer and mine operator, containing correspondence, maps, reports, and photographs on companies involved in coal, oil and gas production in Appalachia, the Rocky Mountain states, and Latin America.

Dates: 1901-1967

Stiles Family Oil and Mining Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0199
Overview Papers, maps, and photos of William C. Stiles and Samuel B. Stiles, developers associated with J.C. Rathbone and J.N. Camden in the oil industry of Wood County, in particular of the oil boom town of Volcano. Most of the papers are business correspondence, receipts and oil drilling records dealing with family owned business in Parkersburg and Volcano, namely the Zero Oil Company, the Power Oil Company, and the Jackson Land and Mining Company. There are family photographs, and records and...
Dates: 1837-1951

Telluric Company, Investment Company Record Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3064
Overview A Morgantown based investment company that acquired and leased land in the oil and gas fields of north central West Virginia. The contents of the record book are chiefly stockholder meeting reports about audits, leases, royalties and agreements. Prominent company members named in the volume are Charles S. White, I. C. White, R. T. Cunningham, A. F. Ramsay, William S. Stevenson, T. M. Jackson, Clarence B. Dille and J. Lewis Williams. Although not the company president, I. C. White, an eminent...
Dates: 1891-1954

Turtle Run Oil Company, Acccount Books and Miscellaneous Genealogical Items

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2442
Overview

Account book for the Turtle Run Oil Company of Parkersburg, WV, dated Nov. 15, 1864-Aug. 31, 1865. Included are genealogical notes on the Steers, Evans, Butcher, Pribble, and related families. The memoirs of Hiram Pribble, dated 1844, is also included.

Dates: 1864-1865

West Virginia, Office of Auditor, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3155
Overview

Public utility tax reports on car lines, bus and airlines, oil and gas companies, telephone and telegraph companies, and railroads operating in West Virginia. The collection represents a portion of the microfilmed archives of the Auditors Office.

Dates: 1935-1945

William S. Downs, Engineering Professor, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2946
Scope and Contents

Downs was an engineering professor at West Virginia University and an engineer with the West Virginia State Road Commission. Includes records and photos of road-building projects in Bolivia and West Virginia, photograph albums of West Virginia hydro-electric plant construction, lists of lot owners for the area flooded by Cheat Lake, and a memoir of Downs' student years at West Virginia University, ca. 1905.

Dates: 1900-1926