Abstract: Two typescript narratives regarding Indian trails by John L. Johnston: 1) "The Great and 'Little Warrior' Trails" (4 pages); 2) "McCullochs Trail" (4 pages).

Abstract: Typescript narrative regarding Indian artifact by F.A. Chapman: "Ceremonial Indian Mill Located Near Johnstown, Pennsylvania". Includes diagrams.

Abstract: Papers of one of the founders of West Virginia. Included are a two-volume diary and several thousand pieces of correspondence concerning political, social, and economic affairs for the period 1830-1900. Willey, a resident of Monongalia County, was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was United States senator from the Restored Government of Virginia, 1861-1863, and senator from West Virginia, 1863-1871. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia, 1845-1860, the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, Gideon D. Camden, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, John J. Davis, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, J. Marshall Hagans, Granville D. Hall, Alpheus F. Haymond, John J. Jackson, John L. Pendleton, Francis H. Pierpont, Edwin M. Stanton, George W. Summers, Peter G. Van Winkle, Alexander L. Wade, and James O. Watson.

Abstract: Copy of two journals kept by Henry Bedinger (of the 'Beeline Brigade') while serving in the American Revolution in New England, New York, and Virginia. Included is a return of troops raised in Frederick County, Virginia. Bedinger details the daily movements of his company and its skirmishes with British soldiers, and describes weapons, methods of punishment, and a variety of military data.

Abstract: Business and personal papers of John Rogers, merchant, land agent, and owner of grist, carding, fulling, and sawmills in Monongalia County, West Virginia. Rogers served as a director of the Morgantown and Fishing Creek Turnpike; director for Virginia of the Morgantown Bridge Company; and he was associated with many committees responsible for the construction of Morgantown schools and public buildings. Correspondence includes letters from individuals and firms in Ohio, Maryland, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Correspondents include Captain R.L. Baker at the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Arsenal.

Abstract: Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, and other papers of the thirteenth governor of West Virginia, 1909-1913. Subjects include political, social, and economic affairs, 1904-1913; the presidential election of 1904 and 1912; the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek coal strikes, 1912-1913; and Glasscock's role as collector of internal revenue for West Virginia. Correspondents include George W. Atkinson, Albert J. Beveridge, William E. Edwards, Davis Elkins, Stephen B. Elkins, Henry Ford, William Green, Henry D. Hatfield, Hiram W. Johnson, James S. Lakin, Virgil A. Lewis, Isaac T. Mann, Robert R. McCormick, John T. McGraw, George W. Perkins, Gifford Pinchot, Ira E. Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Nathan B. Scott, Mark Sullivan, Howard Sutherland, William H. Taft, and I.C. White. There are also papers relating to the Morgantown REPUBLICAN, a campaign newspaper established by Glasscock to support his gubernatorial candidacy and the Taft ticket in 1908.

Abstract: Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. Correspondents include John D. Alderson, Jonathan M. Bennett, Gideon D. Camden, John S. Carlile, William E. Chilton, John J. Cornwell, Grover Cleveland, Henry G. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., A.B. Fleming, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, Arthur I. Boreman, C.W. Harkness, E.S. Harkness, N.W. Harkness, Abram S. Hewitt, C.P. Huntington, John E. Kenna, James M. Mason II, John T. McGraw, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, H.H. Rogers, William P. Thompson, Clarence W. Watson, William C. Whitney, William L. Wilson, and Henry A. Wise. The papers deal with Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his development of railroads, including the Ohio River Railroad, the West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad, and Monongahela River Railroad, 1879-1892.

Abstract: Papers of a Preston County farmer, merchant, and licensed exhorter of the Methodist Episcopal Church who served in the state legislature in the years 1870-1876. There are letters of H. Davis and William Ewin regarding land and coal properties in Preston County. Also included are minutes of the incorporators' meeting of the Iron Valley and Pennsylvania Railroad, 1873, as well as scattered items relating to the Methodist Episcopal Church, Kingwood; the Northwestern Turnpike at St. George; the Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad Company; Civil War bounty claims; the Rowlesburg Lumber and Iron Company; stave making; the Wheeling Female College; political and religious speeches; and the Morgantown District Camp Meeting Association, 1877.

Abstract: Manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of correspondence, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, diplomas, college essays, scrapbooks, and pamphlets. There are materials relating to Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and Pierpont's later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Included also are family correspondence and personal papers; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler; and a typescript draft with holograph notes of Anna Pierpont Siviter's RECOLLECTIONS OF WAR AND PEACE, 1861-1868 (New York, 1938). Among the correspondents are Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, B.F. Butler, G.D. Camden, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln, J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Rathbone, Whitelaw Reid, W.S. Rosecrans, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, Benjamin R. Wade, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey. See scope and contents for link to photographs in West Virginia History OnView.

Abstract: Papers of Hu Maxwell (1860-1927), historian, editor, and author of several county histories of West Virginia, along with papers and records of other family members. There are manuscripts of fiction, verse, and local history written by Maxwell, as well as a number of his manuscripts and publications dealing with forestry which were prepared while he was a member of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Maxwell kept a diary during the years 1901-1919 while residing in Morgantown, Chicago, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., which is extensive for the period of World War I and which contains notes on the diary of Rufus Maxwell (1855-1907). Other Rufus Maxwell items include an 1845 map of Weston and his correspondence. There is an unpublished autobiography of Abraham Bonnifield (1837-1885), of Randolph and Tucker counties; an account book of the Tyrone Forge, Monongalia County, 1807-1814; a few records of the Rector College Literary Society, Pruntytown, 1848-1849; St. George Academy records; and other materials on politics, the statehood movement, and the Civil War in West Virginia.

Abstract: Regimental order book of troops under the command of General Sir William Howe, at Newcastle and Whitely, England, July, 1795.

Abstract: Papers of the Hagans family of Preston County, West Virginia, including Harrison, Elisha, George M., Henry C., John Marshall, Zer Hagans, and others. There are letters and accounts and other papers, 1818-1867, and account books and other business records, 1818-1895, relating to various business enterprises conducted by the family. A chain of general merchandise stores was established, with outlets in Petersburg, Somerfield, and Bryants, Pennsylvania; Oakland, Maryland; and at Brandonville, Kingwood, Greenville, and Palatine, West Virginia. Harrison Hagans was postmaster, 1822-1841, at Brandonville, and president of the Greenville Mining and Manufacturing Company which produced iron in Preston County in the 1830s. Other papers document Hagans' interests in roads, schools, churches, the Preston Telegraph Company; a fulling mill, 1827; and a linseed oil mill, 1842. Hagans developed, patented, and sold in three states, ca.1845, a washing and wringing machine, and also completed working models of mowing and threshing machines. Included in the collection is a volume of minutes of the quarterly conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1834-1859.

Abstract: Correspondence and other papers of a Democrat who served in the West Virginia Legislature, 1866-1871, and the U.S. Senate, 1871-1883. Davis was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1904 and a member of several Pan-American Commissions and agencies in the period 1889-1916. He had extensive interests in railroads, coal, lumber, and banking, and was largely responsible for development of the Elk Garden field in connection with the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh railroad. Correspondents include: John D. Alderson, George W. Atkinson, Thomas F. Bayard, August Belmont, James G. Blaine, William J. Bryan, Johnson N. Camden, Andrew Carnegie, William E. Chilton, Alston G. Dayton, Spencer Dayton, General Porfirio Diaz, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Sr., Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., John W. Garrett, Cardinal James Gibbons, Arthur P. Gorman, Benjamin Harrison, John E. Kenna, Daniel S. Lamont, Daniel B. Lucas, James M. Mason II, William A. MacCorkle, D.W. Voorhees, Thomas J. Walsh, William C. Whitney, and William Windom.

Abstract: Papers of the editor of the Wheeling INTELLIGENCER, including clippings, correspondence, and broadsides dealing with the Civil War and political affairs. Correspondents include Jacob B. Blair, Montgomery Blair, Arthur I. Boreman, Cassius M. Clay, Schuyler Colfax, Edward Everett, Horace Greeley, Joseph Medill, Francis H. Pierpont, William H. Seward, Franz Sigel, Edwin M. Stanton, and Peter G. Van Winkle.

Abstract: Deeds, surveys, plats and other papers relating to Brown's land in Preston and Monongalia counties; personal correspondence of Brown at Kingwood; and a typed copy of a letter of J.J. Phillips of Lantz, 18 July 1931, concerning the removal of Confederate remains from the Rich Mountain Battlefield.

Abstract: Notes of William Queen and William Norris; a letter of H.N. Ogden, with a printed circular, to Peregrine Hays, 27 October 1890, regarding instruction in English being given by Ogden at West Virginia University.

Abstract: Typed copies of letters written by Goff from France, 1918-1920, as a member of General John J. Pershing's legal staff; typed copies of speeches, 1920-1931; scrapbooks of clippings on labor violence in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1911-1912, and on the appointment of Goff as United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin, 1912.

Abstract: Personal papers and clipping scrapbooks of a Parkersburg attorney who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851; a member of the Second Wheeling Convention, 1861; the Constitutional Convention of 1861-1862; a legislator from Wood County in 1863, and a participant in railroad and business enterprises in West Virginia. The papers include a private journal, holographs of speeches and essays, and contributions to newspapers. Subject areas covered are: the West Virginia statehood movement, the Liberia Colonization Society, sale of railroad bonds, the Tyler administration, national currency, and politics. There are scrapbooks concerning the Northwestern Turnpike, politics, and the development of Parkersburg.

Abstract: Papers and correspondence relating to retail merchandising in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and Clarksburg and Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. Included is information on road construction; the Hazel Run Baptist Church in Preston County; agriculture; the Civil War; and social and academic life at West Virginia University, 1868-1870.

Abstract: Letters written by a lawyer and businessman near Shanghai in Berkeley County to his sister Mary, who was residing in their father's home at New Cumberland, Virginia. There are also letters written from: Wellsburg Academy, 1849-1850; Washington College, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1851-1855; Cuba, 1857; New Orleans, 1857; and Richmond, Virginia, 1858-1860. A diary includes entries from 1 January to 20 March 1864. Porter had business relations with firms in Pittsburgh concerning brick making, coal lands, and shipping. Much of the diary concerns his wife's illness and his own poor health. There are a few minor references to the Civil War and Porter's Union sentiments. Muster records of the Panhandle Greys, a state militia unit, 1861-1863, organized and captained by George McCandless Porter, are included.

Abstract: The original manuscript of an address delivered on July 4, 1844, by Joseph Johnson, Bridgeport, (West) Virginia, who served seven terms in the United States House of Representatives from Virginia prior to 1847 and as governor of Virginia from 1851 to 1856. Also included are a typescript obituary of Johnson, from a Baltimore newspaper, and a manuscript copy of the above address.

Abstract: Ledgers, journals, letter books, correspondence and other papers concerning the business of the bank. Correspondents include George A. Jackson, cashier and local pension commissioner following the Civil War, and Jonathan M. Bennett, first president of the bank.

Abstract: Letters sent to Z.T. McBee and members of his immediate family at Clinton Furnace in Monongalia County, mainly from Jackson Steele of Kansas, concerning crops, business conditions, and prices.

Abstract: Court case papers, wills, licenses, bonds, deeds, school reports, and other papers commonly recorded and filed in the county, 1774-1938. Included are: settlement papers; bound record volumes, 1781-1936, of deeds, estrays, estates, the jail, naturalization, surveys, taxes, voter registration, and marriage and deed indexes; account books for businesses and organizations, including construction firms, gristmills, retail merchandising, the humane society, medical practice, coal and lumber firms; and minute books of the Society of the Sons of Temperance.