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.

Abstract: Letters to Thomas McBee and members of the McBee family in Monongalia County, West Virginia, from relatives in the Baird, Corns, England, and Noel families of Sharpsburg, Virginia*, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1859-1896. There are also several letters to Thomas and Elizabeth Price of Clinton Furnace, Monongalia County, 1873-1896; as well as subscription lists for the building of the "Union" meeting and schoolhouse, 1830, and for a school to be taught by William Price on the J. Barnes property, Monongalia County, 1825.

Abstract: Papers of a Monongalia County, West Virginia, resident, member of the Wheeling Convention, and state legislator, 1869-1873, include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, legal documents, pictures, and continental currency. The correspondence, 1858-1912, concerns farming, the cattle business, and observations on the Civil War. Land papers also relate to Greene County, Pennsylvania. There is a diary and memo book of William Price, 1861-1863, containing two references to his membership in the Wheeling Convention, 20 June 1861; an account book, 1885-1890; and a journal maintained by Price during two business trips to Philadelphia in 1865. There are also letters from Monongalia County citizens commenting on legislative enactments. Correspondents include R.L. Berkshire and Alexander Martin.

Abstract: Court case papers, 1776-1930; court and county record books; birth and death records, 1887-1888; and account and minute books of individuals, companies, and organizations, 1772-1935. The bound volumes include records of brand registrations, deeds, estrays, land entries, marriages, military service, surveys, and wills. The private account books relate to general merchandising, coal sales, dental practice, a debating society, distilling, carriage manufacturing, hotels, steamboat freighting, the Ohio County Centennial Association, Ohio Valley Glass Company, Wheeling Masonic Hall Association, West Virginia Exposition and Fair Association, and the settlement of the Ebenezer Zane trust. Alphabetical, chronological, and subject indexes to the suit papers are available.

Abstract: Correspondence and papers of a major political figure dealing largely with politics in Virginia, West Virginia, and Virginia in the Confederacy. Bennett, a lawyer and legislator, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, 1852-1853; president of the Weston Branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia; auditor of Virginia, 1857-1865; member of the senate of West Virginia, 1872-1876; and a member of the commission appointed to adjust the Virginia debt question in 1871. Correspondents include James Barbour, Arthur I. Boreman, G.D. Camden, J.N. Camden, R.P. Camden, John S. Carlile, Spencer Dayton, J.H. Diss Debar, Matthew Edmiston, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, William L. Jackson, Joseph Johnson, Edwin Maxwell, J.H. Pendleton, Francis H. Pierpont, Beverly Randolph, John H. Reagan, William Prescott Smith, Felix Sutton, William P. Thompson, John Tyler, and P.G. Van Winkle.

Abstract: One hundred and fifty-six documents, dating from 1784 to 1837, mounted and bound in a single volume. The collection contains business papers of William Ewin, of St. George, Tucker County, West Virginia, 1835 to 1850, subsequently a surveyor of prominence in West Virginia, and a member of the West Virginia State Senate (1879-1882). Approximately one third of the collection consists of patents, surveys, and other papers pertaining to wild lands in Randolph county, (West) Virginia, of which William Ewin owned a large acreage.

Abstract: Originals and photocopies of two Commissions of General Lightburn, signed by F.H. Pierpont and Abraham Lincoln; a military map of the area around Atlanta, Georgia; materials on the celebration honoring Lightburn at Weston in 1865; and a copy of a letter written by Lightburn mentioning the siege of Vicksburg and battle losses.

Abstract: The business papers and legal correspondence of Louis Bennett (1849-1918) of Weston, a wealthy landowner and lawyer. Also included are papers of his father Jonathan M. Bennett and the latter's associate Gideon D. Camden.

Abstract: A collection of postmarks from various West Virginia post offices and towns.

Abstract: Correspondence, legal papers, photographs, and printed materials of a circuit court and state supreme court judge, member of the Virginia State Debt Commission, and commissioner of Internal Revenue. Subjects include the early development of the Republican Party in West Virginia, state political campaigns, 1870-1916, Monongalia Academy, industrial development, Internal Revenue Service, 1889-1893, the Virginia debt question, early banking development at Grafton, and the development of coal companies, particularly those around Fairmont. Correspondents include George W. Atkinson, James G. Blaine, Arthur I. Boreman, A.W. Campbell, W.E. Chandler, William M.O. Dawson, A.G. Dayton, Marmaduke H. Dent, Stephen B. Elkins, D.D. Farnsworth, Nathan Goff, Jr., J.M. Hagans, Benjamin Harrison, H.D. Hatfield, J.J. Jacob, J.C. McGrew, William McKinley, J.M. Mason, F.H. Pierpont, Nathan B. Scott, W.E. Stevenson, G.C. Sturgiss, and A.B. White.

Abstract: Case papers, marriage bonds, list of names of taxpayers and taxable property.

Abstract: Letters from Berkeley Moore to Septimus Hall, written 3-12 July 1919; a copy of a letter from Colonel Charles A. Ronald, Fourth Virginia Infantry, to Governor John Letcher; and a short typed genealogy of the Davis-Cox family, 1769-1898.

Abstract: Papers of the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of A.B. Fleming; and family genealogical records. Among the correspondents are J.N. Camden, H.G. Davis, A.G. Dayton, S.B. Elkins, and F.H. Pierpont.

Abstract: Correspondence of General Beckley, founder of the town which bears his name, and his wife, Emilly Craig, and a sales agreement for land in Mercer County signed by Beckley and Edmund Lilly, 1 July 1837. Subjects include the presidential election of 1832 in Kentucky, social affairs, the cholera scourge, and Andrew Jackson's reception in Lexington, Kentucky, 1832; and Beckley family affairs.

Abstract: Correspondence of Granville Davisson Hall, reporter for the Wheeling INTELLIGENCER during the Wheeling conventions, 1861-1863; secretary of state of West Virginia, 1865-1873; and author of numerous works of fiction and historical studies about West Virginia. Included are typescript copies of numerous articles by Hall, and newspaper clippings regarding the publication of his books, politics and history. The letters mainly concern the early statehood period and Civil War activities in West Virginia. Correspondents include: William E. Borah, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Roy B. Cook, William M.O. Dawson, Charles J. Faulkner, A.B. Fleming, Nathan Goff, Henry Haymond, C.D. Hubbard, Dana L. Hubbard, William P. Hubbard, Flora Farnsworth Leonard, R.S. Northcott, Anna Pierpont Siviter, W.E. Stevenson, Joseph P. Tumulty, and W.T. Willey.

Abstract: Suit papers and bound volumes of county records. A name and subject index to the loose papers and an inventory of the volumes are available. There is an account book for general merchandise sold by John Connell, 1794-1796, in Wellsburg, and other private account books, 1845-1870.

Abstract: Copies of rules and regulations determining the order of drafting by local boards; an index to serial numbers in master list; a list of names in registration of 5 June 1917; a list of registrants, 12 September 1918; names of persons inducted by the Monongalia County Board; and an alphabetical list of the selective service class of 1918.

Abstract: John Lafayette Everly (b. 1837) was a farmer and surveyor in Preston County, West Virginia, and served in the 7th West Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Two typescript copies of "A Short History of the Everly Family" document John L. Everly's family from the late 18th century to the early 20th century, with an emphasis on Everly's Civil War service and his children. (Although Kenneth Fowler's name is recorded to one of the typescripts, it is unclear who actually wrote it.)

Abstract: Copies of records from each county in West Virginia gathered by the depression-era public records survey funded by the Works Progress Administration. Included are registers of births, marriages, deaths, wills, estate settlements, and land records. Transcriptions of county and circuit court minute and order books are included as well as cemetery readings and registers; church record surveys; mimeographed calendars of the papers of West Virginia governors; and American Imprint Inventory slips of the holdings of several West Virginia libraries.

Abstract: Three original letters, 1855, 1856, and 1858; 188 photostats of letters written by Jackson from various places in the United States, Mexico, and at sea, to his sister and niece; and a script of a radio broadcast, "Stonewall Jackson," over station WLW on 21 August 1951.

Abstract: Extracts from a diary of a tour of the eastern states by a resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, with descriptions of travel through Greenbrier, Fayette, Kanawha, and Cabell counties, (West) Virginia. Subjects covered include descriptions of buildings, as well as musings about diversions and people of various U.S. cities, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. (where Reynolds attended a session of Congress and heard Clay, Calhoun and Buchanan), Richmond, Charlottesville (he visited Monticello), Charleston, and a number of smaller Virginia cities. There are also descriptions of "natural wonders", including Weirs Cave, Devil's Bake Oven, the Natural Bridge, White Sulphur Springs, and Kanawha Falls.

Abstract: Production statistics and extracts from historical files of the Smokeless Coal Operators Association, also known as the Pocahontas Operators Association, including information regarding the Pocahontas Coal Co., Lynchburg Coal & Coke Co., Southern Coal Producers Association, Turkey Gap Coal and Coke Co., Ennis Coal Co., Aileen Coal Co., Buckeye Coal & Coke Co., and the Pocahontas Fuel Co. There is a brief history of the coal industry in West Virginia, 1800-1951, and a typescript entitled "Princess Pocahontas."

Abstract: Business papers of a Keyser attorney who was judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, 1904-1920; member of the West Virginia Legislature, 1895-1896 and 1901-1904; and a member of many educational, commercial, and financial boards in Mineral County. Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, H.G. Davis, A.G. Dayton, S.B. Elkins, and Cecil B. Highland.

Abstract: Court case and other miscellaneous papers from various county offices, 1736-1749; record books, 1820-1948; and account books of banks, churches, general stores, insurance firms, physicians, estate settlements, and gristmills. There is a partial index of plaintiffs, defendants, and subjects in the case papers, and a checklist of the bound volumes.

Abstract: The papers of prominent Barbour County native, Alston G. Dayton (1857-1920), a lawyer, politician, and West Virginia Federal Court Judge, including correspondence, professional papers and manuscripts concerning West Virginia politics and development of state industry. Also included are the papers of Dayton's father, Spencer Dayton, lawyer, and Fred O. Blue, lawyer. Correspondence offers much insight into the attitudes and goals of these men and into their considerable direct and indirect influence on the state's development and welfare.