Wheeling (W. Va.)
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Robinson Family Manuscripts
Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.
Samuel Young Letters (photocopies)
Photostatic copies of two letters from Samuel Young to John Sharp, written in 1863 at Wheeling, West Virginia, where Mr. Young was representing Pocahontas County in the West Virginia legislature. The letters deal mostly with the appointment of Sharp as Adjutant of the 127th Reg., West Virginia Militia (Pocahontas County), and with West Virginia senatorial elections.
Steamboats, Bills of Lading for Wheeling and Other Ohio River Ports
Steamboats Records
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. Also includes a promotional flyer to vote for Jeff Frame, Wharf Master, in a 1905 election.
Teamsters Local 175, Scrapbook and Diary
Thaddeus Clark Noble of Claysville (Pa.), Business Correspondence
Thaddeus Podratsky, Collector, Records Regarding the Socialist Party
Thomas Conard & Son Letter
From Thomas Conard & Son, Wheeling, West Virginia, to William Gray, Richmond, Virginia, concerning tobacco shipments to Wheeling, difficulties with prices, and dealings with Isaac W. Ellmaker, William Gray's agent.
Thornton Perry, Collector, Publications regarding West Virginia History
Publications and manuscript from the Thornton Perry Museum Collection, reflecting Perry's interest in the history of West Virginia and the immediate region. Subjects include various aspects of West Virginia history, such as the Civil War, statehood, Wheeling, John Brown, and other topics. Formats include broadsides, reports, pamphlets, almanacs, a manuscript account book, newspapers, maps, and others. See Scope and Content Note for details and contents list.
United States District Court, Wheeling, Naturalization Petitions
Naturalization petitions of the U.S. District Court for Northern WV at Wheeling. These are declarations of intent for U.S. citizenship from immigrants who are overwhelmingly either of British, Irish or German nativity.