Berkeley County (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Anita Buchanan Speers, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1338
Overview
Correspondence, typescripts, notes, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a local historian and promoter of patriotic societies from Berkeley Springs. Many of the papers pertain to the local history of the eastern panhandle. Subjects include the town of Bath (Berkeley Springs); James Rumsey; George Washington; Porte Crayon (David Hunter Strother); Washington Bicentennial; National Flag Day; D.A.R.; and American Indian Day. One of the clippings scrapbooks includes a photo of West...
Dates:
ca. 1916-1957
Arrest Warrant for Horse Theft
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2669
Overview
An 1869 warrant, signed by Governor William E. Stevenson, for the arrest of Samuel Wormley. The document states that Wormley was wanted in Maryland for stealing a horse, and orders the Sheriff of Berkeley County to deliver Wormley to a Maryland law officer.
Dates:
1869
Arthur I. Boreman Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview
Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates:
1830-1949
Berkeley County Justice's Docket Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2414
Overview
Justice's docket for Berkeley County, West Virginia, 1873-1924, kept by G.W. Swimley and others.
Dates:
1873-1924
Berkeley County, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1288
Overview
The papers and receipts of Sheriff Daniel Lefevre that reflect county business and his legal practice, with similar papers of other nearby residents. Also includes letters, documents, and news clippings about the socioeconomic, antebellum, and Civil War history of Berkeley County, [West] Virginia and Maryland. There are slave inventories containing descriptions and prices, and letters about the treatment of slaves and their conduct. Specific reference is made to Harriet Beecher Stowe's ...
Dates:
1835-1889
Berkeley County (W. Va.) Merchant's Day Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1029
Overview
Two microfilm copies of a merchant's day book from Middletown in Berkeley County, West Virginia, from 1 January 1795 to 31 December 1798. Records goods purchased, amount, date of purchase, and name of customer. Goods include food, such as spirits, sugar, salt, flour, and corn; paper, pins, shoe heels, combs, saddles, and other household items. This material is available on microfilm only.
Dates:
1795-1798
Berkeley or Jefferson County Store Ledger
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4215
Scope and Contents
Account ledger of a general merchandise store in the eastern panhandle of Virginia, (later West Virginia) documenting transactions of goods purchased, services rendered as payment on accounts and balances owed. The money amounts are recorded in English currency denominations. The store was probably owned and operated by the William Brown family. Several local family names listed as patrons include Morgan, Shepherd, Hoyt, Osborne, Jones, and Richardson. There are also two loose papers; one...
Dates:
1784-1799
Campbell Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1265
Scope and Contents
Financial and farm records of James Campbell who owned a plantation near Arden, Berkeley County on which he also operated a store. The collection also includes a ledger and some loose financial papers of James L. Campbell who ran the family homestead.
Dates:
1795-1873
Campbell Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1321
Scope and Contents
Account book, 1856-1901, of James Wilson Campbell. Includes estate settlement of his father, James L. Campbell, Cattle pedigrees, and various accounts, including some kept in James L.'s hand. Correspondence, 1866-1899 concerns family affairs, business, and there is one letter from a cousin at Marietta College, 1866, telling of geological field trip through the Wood, Ritchie, Pleasants, oil district of W. Va. School notes on mathematics and surveying of James Wilson Campbell, ca. 1854-1859;...
Dates:
1847-1901
Charles James Faulkner, Attorney and Politician, Facsimiles of Printed Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0912
Overview
Facsimiles of printed material of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Also includes some facsimiles of manuscript material. Materials relate to Faulkner and the eastern Panhandle. Topics include Virginia-West Virginia politics; the Strother Hotel in Berkeley Springs, (West) Virginia; Berkeley County Court of Appeals; Berkeley and Jefferson County Whig mass...
Dates:
ca. 1802, 1834-1853