Abstract: Originals, typescripts, and photocopies of letters, clippings, newspapers, maps, photographs, and pamphlets relating mainly to the Civil War and the Tavenner family. The Civil War materials include: "Recollections of the Civil War," by E.D. Camden; "Journal of Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr, 1862-1863," a narrative with a Confederate viewpoint relating civilian affairs at Ravenswood and military events in western Virginia, "Diary Extracts, Capt. James S. Cassady, 1866," a sketch of the Kanawha Riflemen, C.S.A.; letters written by W. Cabell Tavenner in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1860-1861, to his family in Weston, showing the development of his sympathy for the Confederacy; a letter of Lieutenant W.M. McKinney, Company I, Fifteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, 25 July 1861, describing the battle of Rich Mountain and his travels in western Virginia; and material on Jacob W. Marshall's Guerrilla Band of the Nineteenth Virginia Cavalry. Copyright records for western Virginia, 1822-1845, a Cook family genealogy, and notes on sources used by A.S. Withers in writing CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (Clarksburg, 1831), are in the collection, as well as surveys and other land papers for Wood and Harrison counties. Writers of letters and persons mentioned include: Henry Bedinger, J.M. Bennett, A.I. Boreman, John Brown, Frank Hereford, C.D. Hubbard, T.J. Jackson, and Enoch Rector.

Abstract: Seven account books of the firm of Winter and Haller, later Cather and Haller, Tryconnell Mines, West Virginia; accounts of a general store form 1881-1889 and a few later entries. Deposited by John Traxler and M. J. Haller of Morgantown and brought to the Library through the efforts of Prof L. W. Chappell.

Abstract: Clippings of newspaper articles written by Mr. Ball for the Parkersburg News, relating to Calhoun, Jackson, Kanawha, Ritchie, Wirt, and Wood County local history.

Abstract: Papers of a genealogist and former dean of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University, 1911-1932, include family correspondence, academic records, business and legal papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and genealogical studies and correspondence. Subjects include Jones' social, fraternal, and professional activities; family affairs; university affairs like the reorganization of the College of Engineering (1931-1932); the Athens Lumber Company, 1921-1932; West Virginia University in World War I; and political affairs in Monongalia County. Genealogical studies and correspondence pertain to the Butcher, Calvert, Creel, Davis, DeHaven, Dils, Foley, Foote, Ford, Gough, Gambrill, Hardin, Iglehart, Jones, Kincheloe, King, Lewis, Logan, McQuilkin, Melrose, Monroe, Neal, Peadro, Pennybacker, Phelps, Shelby, Simpson, Spencer, Tavenner, Vaulx, Warder, Waters, Wickliffe, Woodyard, and allied Ohio Valley and western Virginia families. Correspondents include Howard M. Gore, Matthew M. Neely, John R. Turner, and Thomas P. Wilgus.

Abstract: Financial records, letter books, guest registers, and other materials relating to the various business enterprises of the Salt Sulphur Springs Company, including a general store, hotel, stage line, telegraph company, and farm in Monroe County, West Virginia. There is a letter book of the Oriental Powder Mills, Charleston; daybooks of the E.D. Ballard general store; Mill Creek school records; and guest register of the Salt Sulphur Springs Hotel, 1894-1904.

Abstract: Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad, and the Iron Valley and Morgantown Railroad companies. The papers reflect many aspects of activities of the Democratic Party in West Virginia, ca.1880-1899. There is a scrapbook of Rose McGraw relating largely to Mount de Chantal Academy at Wheeling. Correspondents include J.N. Camden, John J. Cornwell, H.G. Davis, Alston G. Dayton, C.J. Faulkner, A.B. Fleming, John B. Floyd, Alvaro F. Gibbens, Septimus Hall, J.J. Jackson, John J. Jacob, Virgil A. Lewis, Earl W. Oglebay, William A. Ohley, George C. Sturgiss, A.B. White, Israel C. White, W.P. Willey, and William Wilson. See scope and contents for link to photographs in West Virginia History OnView.

Abstract: Correspondence between Chadwick and Albert Bushnell Hart, at Harvard University, relating to the writing and publishing of Chadwick's CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR (1906). There are also two letters from Newport, Rhode Island, to A.G. Dayton, requesting an appointment and mentioning John Bassett Moore.

Abstract: Deeds of Peter T. Laishley and Samuel Arnold, Preston County, 1834 and 1837; photographs of the judges of the State Supreme Court of Appeals, 1863-1937; a map of the McGraw and Yates addition to Grafton; and Dent family genealogical data. See scope and contents for link to photographs in West Virginia History OnView.

Abstract: A letter from W. Beverley, one of the commissioners for Lord Fairfax on the survey of the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, to William Fairfax, and Fairfax's reply, discussing the report on the survey and its maps.

Abstract: Pages clipped from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper showing battle plans, maps, portraits and pictures of the war.

Abstract: Typescripts of names, dates of birth and death, and names of wives, of Monongalia County Revolutionary War soldiers. Several names for Ohio County are also included, as well as copies of Revolutionary War pension applications. Also typescript records, "Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Monongalia County," and "Revolutionary Soldiers Who Applied for Pensions in Monongalia County, West Virginia."

Abstract: Journal compiled primarily from letters written by an officer in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers to his wife; a scrapbook containing official papers relating to Appleton's service in the Civil War and his postwar membership in the West Virginia Volunteers and National Guard; family papers and newspaper clippings. There are original letters and newspaper accounts of the regiment which was among the first to enlist black soldiers. Subjects include the attack on Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbor; the occupation of Jacksonville, Florida; and the regiment's return to Fort Warren of Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract: A typescript copy of a diary of a Monongalia County native who traveled with his family in a company of wagons to Oregon in 1843-1844. The entries begin at Hoskinsville, Morgan County, Ohio. Published in the sixteenth ANNUAL REPORT of the Oregon Pioneer Association, 1888.

Abstract: Facsimile of The Boston Gazette and Country Journal, Monday, Mar 12, 1770 in which was printed an account of the Boston Massacre of the previous Monday, March 5; also a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, dated 28 Jan. 1874; and inset shows Independence Hall in Philadelphia as it was in 1776.

Abstract: Muster roll of a company of Monongalia County Militia dated February 20, 1818, and printed in original spelling of the names of ninety-eight soldiers in the company. Their commander was Capt. John Launce who had orders from the President of the United States for active service. This volume was presented to the University by Siegel O. Gardner, Morgantown public schools, Morgantown W. Va., in the summer of 1945. George Sils, last survivor of Gen. Lee's army in Monongalia County, died in summer of 1943. Two large photographs. Tyrone Forge 1807-1814. Record book containing a list of employees, wages paid etc., of the Forge at Tyrone, Monongalia County.

Abstract: Includes 'Descendants of James Arnett Family of Monongalia County' by L.D. Arnett. Also includes copies of certificates, receipts, and the Bible family record of the Arnett family. The family records are those of Eleazor Judson Arnett and Lucinda Sanders Arnett and their children. There are also Sunday school certificates and clippings pertaining to the family.

Abstract: A guide to local history and genealogy compiled by L.D. Arnett. Includes an index to family Bible records compiled by Rachel Cox. Includes information for the following families: Baker, Beall, Burris, Chipps, Clark, Colebank, Crow, Dean, Evans, Fleming, Gapin, Garlow, Haldeman, Hall, Henry, Hickman, Hill, Hyman, Jenkins, Kelley, Lynch, Miller, Mitchell, Moore, Morrison, Musgrave, O'Neal, Pethtel, Pindall, Price, Ross, Rush, Scott, Shelby, Shriver, Smith, Steele, and VanCamp.

Abstract: Manuscript history (15 pages) of the Stewart family authored by Thomas Stewart in 1894 and copied by Carrie E. Stewart in 1928. It documents the history of the William and Betsey Givens Stewart family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and Morgantown, West Virginia, and their descendants from 1727 to 1894.

Abstract: A copy of the minute book of the Goshen Baptist Church, organized about 1771 by John Corbly at Garard's Fort, Greene Co., Penna.

Abstract: One volume of typed miscellany, containing information concerning the location of the graves of soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Snodgrass Tavern, Formans of Berkeley and Ohio counties, etc. Received May 2, 1946. Berkeley and Jefferson County Genealogy. Correspondence of Miss Nota K. Weaver. Information taken from original tax lists housed in the Virginia state archives, Richmond VA.

Abstract: Business, personal papers and correspondence of a Monroe County attorney, judge, state legislator, West Virginia University regent, and Confederate Army veteran. Included are papers of the law firm of Hereford and Campbell; and reports, correspondence, and other papers concerning the Deepwater Railway Company and the Tidewater Railway Company. In the Civil War materials are: rolls and lists of names of several Confederate Army units; a typed copy of Campbell's war reminiscences; and correspondence concerning the organization and annual meetings of Confederate veterans organizations. There is genealogical information on numerous Monroe County families compiled by Campbell, along with family correspondence and business records.

Abstract: Court case papers, wills, deeds, surveys and plats, ca.1772-1879, along with bound volumes of court records, deeds, estrays, road and tax records, a register for free blacks, and private account books, 1783-1923. The account books include: records of a U.S. Army post hospital at Union, 1867-1869; oil well drilling, 1886-1890; Union and Fort Spring Stage Line, 1876-1877; newspapers, 1867-1903; taverns, 1815-1872; and Union Lyceum minutes, 1845-1847.

Abstract: The West Virginia War History Commission was organized in 1943 to collect and preserve the record of West Virginia and West Virginians in World War II. Correspondence, reports, photographs, posters, maps, clippings, old radio scripts, and printed materials of state and county Civilian Defense offices; also War History Commission records, letters of servicemen, and newsletters, clippings, forms, and speeches of Festus P. Summers, chairman of the West Virginia War Commission.

Abstract: Personal and business papers of a lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and the first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the firm of Boreman and Bullock, Parkersburg. Letters to Boreman, 1866-1867, from Francis H. Pierpont, concern politics in West Virginia, the admission of Berkeley and Jefferson counties into the state, the Virginia debt, and Reconstruction in Virginia. There is little other material relating to the governorship or political activities. There are manuscripts of speeches, household accounts, Civil and court case papers concerning oil well drilling and sales; railroad property inventories and operation; coal prices, shipping data, and strikes; liquid fuel transportation; steam and tow boat cargoes, navigation data, and names of boats in service on the Ohio River. There is genealogical information on P.G. Van Winkle and Ebenezer Zane, and a letter and deposition by J.H Diss Debar. Correspondents include J.W. Davis, D.D.T. Farnsworth, Francis H. Pierpont, D.H. Strother, J.G. Jackson, Charles J. Faulkner, and E.W. Wilson.

Abstract: Annual reports issued to stockholders summarizing the economic status of the Wheeling Steel Corporation. Official news bulletins for management personnel entitled "Its Wheeling Steel." It is and intra-company newsletter containing reports, policy statements, recommendations, and announcements. Also a volume of the term loan and revolving credit agreement with the supplemental indenture (fifth) to the first mortgage and deed of trust. This 1967 compilation by Hale D. Fox records the credit agreements to resolve indebtedness arranged with major financial institutions such as Chase Manhattan Bank.