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It contains Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1946 (including photocopies, indices, and supplementary information), other Dotson family diaries and books, the marriage certificate of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson, a Dotson family history, a cabinet card and carte de visite album, a tintype album, a collection of glass plate negatives, and other assorted photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6513#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6513","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6513","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6513","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6513","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_6513.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/199406","title_ssm":["Dotson Family of Doddridge County, Diaries, Family History, and Photographs"],"title_tesim":["Dotson Family of Doddridge County, Diaries, Family History, and Photographs"],"unitdate_ssm":["1845-2018"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1845-2018"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1845/2018"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Dotson Family of Doddridge County, Diaries, Family History, and Photographs, 1845/2018"],"text":["Dotson Family of Doddridge County, Diaries, Family History, and Photographs, 1845/2018","A\u0026M 4414","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/6513","Doddridge County (W. Va.) -- History","Women authors -- Diaries","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access born digital and digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","This collection documents the Dotson family of Greenwood, West Virginia in Doddridge County.  It contains Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1946 (including photocopies, indices, and supplementary information), other Dotson family diaries and books, the marriage certificate of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson, a Dotson family history, a cabinet card and carte de visite album, a tintype album, a collection of glass plate negatives, and other assorted photographs.","Series 1. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1904-1946; boxes 1-2.\nSeries 2. Unknown Diary; 1887; box 3.\nSeries 3. Nancy Clark Dotson Bible; ca. 1890-1891; box 3.\nSeries 4. Ledgers; 1845-1910; boxes 3-4.\nSeries 5. Marriage Certificate, Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson; 1879-02-05; box 7.\nSeries 6. Photographs; 1880s-1970s; boxes 5-7.\nSeries 7. Glass Plate Negatives; 1880s-1890s; box 8.\nSeries 8. Dotson Family History; 1980-2018; box 9.\nSeries 9. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Photocopies; 1987; boxes 10-11.\nSeries 10. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index; 1988-2018; box 11.\nSeries 11. Supplemental Information to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1982-2010; box 11.","This series includes diaries written by Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) from 1904-1946. Diary entries are short, often one or two lines long, and cover subjects including the weather, who visited her and when, births, deaths, marriages, and other happenings around the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV (Doddridge County). National events, such as elections, the collapse of a theater in Washington, D.C., and other similar events, are also mentioned. A \"Ma\" and \"Dad\" are frequently mentioned; the identity of \"Ma\" is unknown, but \"Dad\" refers to Nancy Clark Dotson's husband, Franklin Dotson.","For those wishing to research the diaries, Series 9-11 can be useful for researchers. They include photocopies of each page of these diaries, an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and a set of supplementary information to these diaries, such as family trees and photographs.","This diary, originally intended to be used as a ledger book, was found at the farm of Franklin P. and Nancy Clark Dotson. Only four entries are written in this diary. The author is unknown.","This Bible (ca. 1890-1891) was given to Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) by her brother Jim Clark and his wife Tina Clark. The translation is unknown. Also included are several bookmarks, including a small pamphlet of Prayer Meeting Topics from the Christian Endeavor Society, a handwritten list of scriptures, a Christmas card with a handwritten description of Mike Dotson's funeral, and another scripture card from the American Bible Society.","This series consists of four ledger books. The first (1845-1880), titled \"Steward's Book for Pleasant Valley Mission,\" includes meeting minutes, ledgers of who brought what items to the Mission, purchasing ledgers, and recipes.","The second (ca. 1891) and third (ca. 1862-1910) are ledgers from the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV and include separate pages for each person or family who purchased livestock or produce from the farm and prices for each item.  Dates of purchase are not clearly identified.","The fourth is a combined diary and ledger owned by W.H. Sherwood, a relative of Franklin Dotson; this book is mostly written in shorthand with three pages written in cursive.","This unofficial marriage certificate, signed by Minister C. J. B. Brane and witness Beatrice G. Rose, celebrates and certifies the marriage of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson. The certificate was published by the Reformed Church Publication Board in Philadelphia, PA.","This series includes a tintype album, a cabinet card and cartes de visite album, and three other files of photographs.","The tintype album and cabinet card and cartes de visite album, owned and collated by Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949), both contain photographs of her family, friends, and neighbors in Greenwood, WV and beyond; a large majority of these photographs were labeled with the identities of each subject by Dotson.","The first file of photographs contains copies of photographs of Greenwood, WV and its people. The original photographs were donated by the family to the Doddridge County Historical Society in 2012.","The second file of photographs contains mounted photographs, loose photographs, and cabinet cards of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson and of their son, Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson and their daughter, Loxie Dotson Borror. The subjects of these images were identified and labeled by Dotson.","The final file of photographs contains a flash drive of photographs of the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV, the areas surrounding Route 50, and other areas of West Virginia. Identification information for each image is available in the title of each digital file.","This series includes ten glass plate negatives taken by Leonard Otis Dotson ca. 1903-1905, photographs and digital scans made from those negatives, and supplementary information. Subjects of these glass plate negatives include the Dotson family farm, Greenwood, WV, the West Union Courthouse in West Union, WV, members of the Dotson family, and Horatio Greenough's statue of George Washington in Washington, DC (now in the National Museum of American History).","This series consists of a Dotson Family History focusing on the ancestry of Leonard Otis Dotson, son of Franklin Dotson and Nancy Clark Dotson, and his wife, Vashti Johnson Dotson. This binder was compiled and collated by Linda Lee Warden, great-granddaughter of Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson. It includes a family tree, birth certificates, death certificates, obituaries, wills, photographs of graves, photographs of persons mentioned in this family history, and a written family history.","This series consists of bound photocopies of Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1949 (see Series 1). Series 10-11 are supplementary to this series; they include an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and information supplementing the diaries, such as family trees and photographs.","This series consists of two identical indices to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries (Series 1) that include an introduction with notes, family trees, photographs, and copies of newspaper clippings describing the Dotson family, lists of births, marriages, and deaths by name and date, and an alphabetical list of all names listed. This series is supplemental to Series 1, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries, and to Series 9, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Copies.","This series consists of two identical folios of supplemental information on the Dotson family and photographs of those mentioned, including family trees, sections of family history, newspaper articles and columns, addenda to Series 10, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index, and photographs of the extended Dotson family and the Dotson farm in Greenwood, WV.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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It contains Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1946 (including photocopies, indices, and supplementary information), other Dotson family diaries and books, the marriage certificate of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson, a Dotson family history, a cabinet card and carte de visite album, a tintype album, a collection of glass plate negatives, and other assorted photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries 1. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1904-1946; boxes 1-2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Unknown Diary; 1887; box 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Nancy Clark Dotson Bible; ca. 1890-1891; box 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Ledgers; 1845-1910; boxes 3-4.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Marriage Certificate, Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson; 1879-02-05; box 7.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Photographs; 1880s-1970s; boxes 5-7.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Glass Plate Negatives; 1880s-1890s; box 8.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Dotson Family History; 1980-2018; box 9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Photocopies; 1987; boxes 10-11.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index; 1988-2018; box 11.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Supplemental Information to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1982-2010; box 11.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes diaries written by Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) from 1904-1946. Diary entries are short, often one or two lines long, and cover subjects including the weather, who visited her and when, births, deaths, marriages, and other happenings around the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV (Doddridge County). National events, such as elections, the collapse of a theater in Washington, D.C., and other similar events, are also mentioned. A \"Ma\" and \"Dad\" are frequently mentioned; the identity of \"Ma\" is unknown, but \"Dad\" refers to Nancy Clark Dotson's husband, Franklin Dotson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor those wishing to research the diaries, Series 9-11 can be useful for researchers. They include photocopies of each page of these diaries, an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and a set of supplementary information to these diaries, such as family trees and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis diary, originally intended to be used as a ledger book, was found at the farm of Franklin P. and Nancy Clark Dotson. Only four entries are written in this diary. The author is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis Bible (ca. 1890-1891) was given to Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) by her brother Jim Clark and his wife Tina Clark. The translation is unknown. Also included are several bookmarks, including a small pamphlet of Prayer Meeting Topics from the Christian Endeavor Society, a handwritten list of scriptures, a Christmas card with a handwritten description of Mike Dotson's funeral, and another scripture card from the American Bible Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of four ledger books. The first (1845-1880), titled \"Steward's Book for Pleasant Valley Mission,\" includes meeting minutes, ledgers of who brought what items to the Mission, purchasing ledgers, and recipes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second (ca. 1891) and third (ca. 1862-1910) are ledgers from the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV and include separate pages for each person or family who purchased livestock or produce from the farm and prices for each item.  Dates of purchase are not clearly identified.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe fourth is a combined diary and ledger owned by W.H. 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The original photographs were donated by the family to the Doddridge County Historical Society in 2012.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second file of photographs contains mounted photographs, loose photographs, and cabinet cards of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson and of their son, Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson and their daughter, Loxie Dotson Borror. The subjects of these images were identified and labeled by Dotson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe final file of photographs contains a flash drive of photographs of the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV, the areas surrounding Route 50, and other areas of West Virginia. Identification information for each image is available in the title of each digital file.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes ten glass plate negatives taken by Leonard Otis Dotson ca. 1903-1905, photographs and digital scans made from those negatives, and supplementary information. Subjects of these glass plate negatives include the Dotson family farm, Greenwood, WV, the West Union Courthouse in West Union, WV, members of the Dotson family, and Horatio Greenough's statue of George Washington in Washington, DC (now in the National Museum of American History).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of a Dotson Family History focusing on the ancestry of Leonard Otis Dotson, son of Franklin Dotson and Nancy Clark Dotson, and his wife, Vashti Johnson Dotson. This binder was compiled and collated by Linda Lee Warden, great-granddaughter of Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson. It includes a family tree, birth certificates, death certificates, obituaries, wills, photographs of graves, photographs of persons mentioned in this family history, and a written family history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of bound photocopies of Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1949 (see Series 1). Series 10-11 are supplementary to this series; they include an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and information supplementing the diaries, such as family trees and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of two identical indices to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries (Series 1) that include an introduction with notes, family trees, photographs, and copies of newspaper clippings describing the Dotson family, lists of births, marriages, and deaths by name and date, and an alphabetical list of all names listed. This series is supplemental to Series 1, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries, and to Series 9, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of two identical folios of supplemental information on the Dotson family and photographs of those mentioned, including family trees, sections of family history, newspaper articles and columns, addenda to Series 10, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index, and photographs of the extended Dotson family and the Dotson farm in Greenwood, WV.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection documents the Dotson family of Greenwood, West Virginia in Doddridge County.  It contains Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1946 (including photocopies, indices, and supplementary information), other Dotson family diaries and books, the marriage certificate of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson, a Dotson family history, a cabinet card and carte de visite album, a tintype album, a collection of glass plate negatives, and other assorted photographs.","Series 1. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1904-1946; boxes 1-2.\nSeries 2. Unknown Diary; 1887; box 3.\nSeries 3. Nancy Clark Dotson Bible; ca. 1890-1891; box 3.\nSeries 4. Ledgers; 1845-1910; boxes 3-4.\nSeries 5. Marriage Certificate, Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson; 1879-02-05; box 7.\nSeries 6. Photographs; 1880s-1970s; boxes 5-7.\nSeries 7. Glass Plate Negatives; 1880s-1890s; box 8.\nSeries 8. Dotson Family History; 1980-2018; box 9.\nSeries 9. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Photocopies; 1987; boxes 10-11.\nSeries 10. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index; 1988-2018; box 11.\nSeries 11. Supplemental Information to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1982-2010; box 11.","This series includes diaries written by Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) from 1904-1946. Diary entries are short, often one or two lines long, and cover subjects including the weather, who visited her and when, births, deaths, marriages, and other happenings around the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV (Doddridge County). National events, such as elections, the collapse of a theater in Washington, D.C., and other similar events, are also mentioned. A \"Ma\" and \"Dad\" are frequently mentioned; the identity of \"Ma\" is unknown, but \"Dad\" refers to Nancy Clark Dotson's husband, Franklin Dotson.","For those wishing to research the diaries, Series 9-11 can be useful for researchers. They include photocopies of each page of these diaries, an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and a set of supplementary information to these diaries, such as family trees and photographs.","This diary, originally intended to be used as a ledger book, was found at the farm of Franklin P. and Nancy Clark Dotson. Only four entries are written in this diary. The author is unknown.","This Bible (ca. 1890-1891) was given to Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) by her brother Jim Clark and his wife Tina Clark. The translation is unknown. Also included are several bookmarks, including a small pamphlet of Prayer Meeting Topics from the Christian Endeavor Society, a handwritten list of scriptures, a Christmas card with a handwritten description of Mike Dotson's funeral, and another scripture card from the American Bible Society.","This series consists of four ledger books. The first (1845-1880), titled \"Steward's Book for Pleasant Valley Mission,\" includes meeting minutes, ledgers of who brought what items to the Mission, purchasing ledgers, and recipes.","The second (ca. 1891) and third (ca. 1862-1910) are ledgers from the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV and include separate pages for each person or family who purchased livestock or produce from the farm and prices for each item.  Dates of purchase are not clearly identified.","The fourth is a combined diary and ledger owned by W.H. Sherwood, a relative of Franklin Dotson; this book is mostly written in shorthand with three pages written in cursive.","This unofficial marriage certificate, signed by Minister C. J. B. Brane and witness Beatrice G. Rose, celebrates and certifies the marriage of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson. The certificate was published by the Reformed Church Publication Board in Philadelphia, PA.","This series includes a tintype album, a cabinet card and cartes de visite album, and three other files of photographs.","The tintype album and cabinet card and cartes de visite album, owned and collated by Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949), both contain photographs of her family, friends, and neighbors in Greenwood, WV and beyond; a large majority of these photographs were labeled with the identities of each subject by Dotson.","The first file of photographs contains copies of photographs of Greenwood, WV and its people. The original photographs were donated by the family to the Doddridge County Historical Society in 2012.","The second file of photographs contains mounted photographs, loose photographs, and cabinet cards of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson and of their son, Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson and their daughter, Loxie Dotson Borror. The subjects of these images were identified and labeled by Dotson.","The final file of photographs contains a flash drive of photographs of the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV, the areas surrounding Route 50, and other areas of West Virginia. Identification information for each image is available in the title of each digital file.","This series includes ten glass plate negatives taken by Leonard Otis Dotson ca. 1903-1905, photographs and digital scans made from those negatives, and supplementary information. Subjects of these glass plate negatives include the Dotson family farm, Greenwood, WV, the West Union Courthouse in West Union, WV, members of the Dotson family, and Horatio Greenough's statue of George Washington in Washington, DC (now in the National Museum of American History).","This series consists of a Dotson Family History focusing on the ancestry of Leonard Otis Dotson, son of Franklin Dotson and Nancy Clark Dotson, and his wife, Vashti Johnson Dotson. This binder was compiled and collated by Linda Lee Warden, great-granddaughter of Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson. It includes a family tree, birth certificates, death certificates, obituaries, wills, photographs of graves, photographs of persons mentioned in this family history, and a written family history.","This series consists of bound photocopies of Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1949 (see Series 1). Series 10-11 are supplementary to this series; they include an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and information supplementing the diaries, such as family trees and photographs.","This series consists of two identical indices to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries (Series 1) that include an introduction with notes, family trees, photographs, and copies of newspaper clippings describing the Dotson family, lists of births, marriages, and deaths by name and date, and an alphabetical list of all names listed. This series is supplemental to Series 1, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries, and to Series 9, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Copies.","This series consists of two identical folios of supplemental information on the Dotson family and photographs of those mentioned, including family trees, sections of family history, newspaper articles and columns, addenda to Series 10, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index, and photographs of the extended Dotson family and the Dotson farm in Greenwood, WV."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_044c0f9cc37b233ffb22d3a8e952e7c7\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center"],"corpname_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center"],"names_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":61,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:58:55.130Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6513","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6513","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6513","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6513","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_6513.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/199406","title_ssm":["Dotson Family of Doddridge County, Diaries, Family History, and Photographs"],"title_tesim":["Dotson Family of Doddridge County, Diaries, Family History, and Photographs"],"unitdate_ssm":["1845-2018"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1845-2018"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1845/2018"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Dotson Family of Doddridge County, Diaries, Family History, and Photographs, 1845/2018"],"text":["Dotson Family of Doddridge County, Diaries, Family History, and Photographs, 1845/2018","A\u0026M 4414","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/6513","Doddridge County (W. Va.) -- History","Women authors -- Diaries","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access born digital and digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","This collection documents the Dotson family of Greenwood, West Virginia in Doddridge County.  It contains Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1946 (including photocopies, indices, and supplementary information), other Dotson family diaries and books, the marriage certificate of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson, a Dotson family history, a cabinet card and carte de visite album, a tintype album, a collection of glass plate negatives, and other assorted photographs.","Series 1. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1904-1946; boxes 1-2.\nSeries 2. Unknown Diary; 1887; box 3.\nSeries 3. Nancy Clark Dotson Bible; ca. 1890-1891; box 3.\nSeries 4. Ledgers; 1845-1910; boxes 3-4.\nSeries 5. Marriage Certificate, Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson; 1879-02-05; box 7.\nSeries 6. Photographs; 1880s-1970s; boxes 5-7.\nSeries 7. Glass Plate Negatives; 1880s-1890s; box 8.\nSeries 8. Dotson Family History; 1980-2018; box 9.\nSeries 9. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Photocopies; 1987; boxes 10-11.\nSeries 10. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index; 1988-2018; box 11.\nSeries 11. Supplemental Information to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1982-2010; box 11.","This series includes diaries written by Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) from 1904-1946. Diary entries are short, often one or two lines long, and cover subjects including the weather, who visited her and when, births, deaths, marriages, and other happenings around the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV (Doddridge County). National events, such as elections, the collapse of a theater in Washington, D.C., and other similar events, are also mentioned. A \"Ma\" and \"Dad\" are frequently mentioned; the identity of \"Ma\" is unknown, but \"Dad\" refers to Nancy Clark Dotson's husband, Franklin Dotson.","For those wishing to research the diaries, Series 9-11 can be useful for researchers. They include photocopies of each page of these diaries, an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and a set of supplementary information to these diaries, such as family trees and photographs.","This diary, originally intended to be used as a ledger book, was found at the farm of Franklin P. and Nancy Clark Dotson. Only four entries are written in this diary. The author is unknown.","This Bible (ca. 1890-1891) was given to Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) by her brother Jim Clark and his wife Tina Clark. The translation is unknown. Also included are several bookmarks, including a small pamphlet of Prayer Meeting Topics from the Christian Endeavor Society, a handwritten list of scriptures, a Christmas card with a handwritten description of Mike Dotson's funeral, and another scripture card from the American Bible Society.","This series consists of four ledger books. The first (1845-1880), titled \"Steward's Book for Pleasant Valley Mission,\" includes meeting minutes, ledgers of who brought what items to the Mission, purchasing ledgers, and recipes.","The second (ca. 1891) and third (ca. 1862-1910) are ledgers from the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV and include separate pages for each person or family who purchased livestock or produce from the farm and prices for each item.  Dates of purchase are not clearly identified.","The fourth is a combined diary and ledger owned by W.H. Sherwood, a relative of Franklin Dotson; this book is mostly written in shorthand with three pages written in cursive.","This unofficial marriage certificate, signed by Minister C. J. B. Brane and witness Beatrice G. Rose, celebrates and certifies the marriage of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson. The certificate was published by the Reformed Church Publication Board in Philadelphia, PA.","This series includes a tintype album, a cabinet card and cartes de visite album, and three other files of photographs.","The tintype album and cabinet card and cartes de visite album, owned and collated by Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949), both contain photographs of her family, friends, and neighbors in Greenwood, WV and beyond; a large majority of these photographs were labeled with the identities of each subject by Dotson.","The first file of photographs contains copies of photographs of Greenwood, WV and its people. The original photographs were donated by the family to the Doddridge County Historical Society in 2012.","The second file of photographs contains mounted photographs, loose photographs, and cabinet cards of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson and of their son, Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson and their daughter, Loxie Dotson Borror. The subjects of these images were identified and labeled by Dotson.","The final file of photographs contains a flash drive of photographs of the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV, the areas surrounding Route 50, and other areas of West Virginia. Identification information for each image is available in the title of each digital file.","This series includes ten glass plate negatives taken by Leonard Otis Dotson ca. 1903-1905, photographs and digital scans made from those negatives, and supplementary information. Subjects of these glass plate negatives include the Dotson family farm, Greenwood, WV, the West Union Courthouse in West Union, WV, members of the Dotson family, and Horatio Greenough's statue of George Washington in Washington, DC (now in the National Museum of American History).","This series consists of a Dotson Family History focusing on the ancestry of Leonard Otis Dotson, son of Franklin Dotson and Nancy Clark Dotson, and his wife, Vashti Johnson Dotson. This binder was compiled and collated by Linda Lee Warden, great-granddaughter of Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson. It includes a family tree, birth certificates, death certificates, obituaries, wills, photographs of graves, photographs of persons mentioned in this family history, and a written family history.","This series consists of bound photocopies of Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1949 (see Series 1). Series 10-11 are supplementary to this series; they include an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and information supplementing the diaries, such as family trees and photographs.","This series consists of two identical indices to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries (Series 1) that include an introduction with notes, family trees, photographs, and copies of newspaper clippings describing the Dotson family, lists of births, marriages, and deaths by name and date, and an alphabetical list of all names listed. This series is supplemental to Series 1, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries, and to Series 9, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Copies.","This series consists of two identical folios of supplemental information on the Dotson family and photographs of those mentioned, including family trees, sections of family history, newspaper articles and columns, addenda to Series 10, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index, and photographs of the extended Dotson family and the Dotson farm in Greenwood, WV.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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It contains Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1946 (including photocopies, indices, and supplementary information), other Dotson family diaries and books, the marriage certificate of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson, a Dotson family history, a cabinet card and carte de visite album, a tintype album, a collection of glass plate negatives, and other assorted photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries 1. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1904-1946; boxes 1-2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Unknown Diary; 1887; box 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Nancy Clark Dotson Bible; ca. 1890-1891; box 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Ledgers; 1845-1910; boxes 3-4.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Marriage Certificate, Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson; 1879-02-05; box 7.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Photographs; 1880s-1970s; boxes 5-7.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Glass Plate Negatives; 1880s-1890s; box 8.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Dotson Family History; 1980-2018; box 9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Photocopies; 1987; boxes 10-11.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index; 1988-2018; box 11.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Supplemental Information to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1982-2010; box 11.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes diaries written by Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) from 1904-1946. Diary entries are short, often one or two lines long, and cover subjects including the weather, who visited her and when, births, deaths, marriages, and other happenings around the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV (Doddridge County). National events, such as elections, the collapse of a theater in Washington, D.C., and other similar events, are also mentioned. A \"Ma\" and \"Dad\" are frequently mentioned; the identity of \"Ma\" is unknown, but \"Dad\" refers to Nancy Clark Dotson's husband, Franklin Dotson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor those wishing to research the diaries, Series 9-11 can be useful for researchers. They include photocopies of each page of these diaries, an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and a set of supplementary information to these diaries, such as family trees and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis diary, originally intended to be used as a ledger book, was found at the farm of Franklin P. and Nancy Clark Dotson. Only four entries are written in this diary. The author is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis Bible (ca. 1890-1891) was given to Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) by her brother Jim Clark and his wife Tina Clark. The translation is unknown. Also included are several bookmarks, including a small pamphlet of Prayer Meeting Topics from the Christian Endeavor Society, a handwritten list of scriptures, a Christmas card with a handwritten description of Mike Dotson's funeral, and another scripture card from the American Bible Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of four ledger books. The first (1845-1880), titled \"Steward's Book for Pleasant Valley Mission,\" includes meeting minutes, ledgers of who brought what items to the Mission, purchasing ledgers, and recipes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second (ca. 1891) and third (ca. 1862-1910) are ledgers from the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV and include separate pages for each person or family who purchased livestock or produce from the farm and prices for each item.  Dates of purchase are not clearly identified.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe fourth is a combined diary and ledger owned by W.H. 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The original photographs were donated by the family to the Doddridge County Historical Society in 2012.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second file of photographs contains mounted photographs, loose photographs, and cabinet cards of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson and of their son, Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson and their daughter, Loxie Dotson Borror. The subjects of these images were identified and labeled by Dotson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe final file of photographs contains a flash drive of photographs of the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV, the areas surrounding Route 50, and other areas of West Virginia. Identification information for each image is available in the title of each digital file.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes ten glass plate negatives taken by Leonard Otis Dotson ca. 1903-1905, photographs and digital scans made from those negatives, and supplementary information. Subjects of these glass plate negatives include the Dotson family farm, Greenwood, WV, the West Union Courthouse in West Union, WV, members of the Dotson family, and Horatio Greenough's statue of George Washington in Washington, DC (now in the National Museum of American History).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of a Dotson Family History focusing on the ancestry of Leonard Otis Dotson, son of Franklin Dotson and Nancy Clark Dotson, and his wife, Vashti Johnson Dotson. This binder was compiled and collated by Linda Lee Warden, great-granddaughter of Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson. It includes a family tree, birth certificates, death certificates, obituaries, wills, photographs of graves, photographs of persons mentioned in this family history, and a written family history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of bound photocopies of Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1949 (see Series 1). Series 10-11 are supplementary to this series; they include an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and information supplementing the diaries, such as family trees and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of two identical indices to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries (Series 1) that include an introduction with notes, family trees, photographs, and copies of newspaper clippings describing the Dotson family, lists of births, marriages, and deaths by name and date, and an alphabetical list of all names listed. This series is supplemental to Series 1, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries, and to Series 9, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of two identical folios of supplemental information on the Dotson family and photographs of those mentioned, including family trees, sections of family history, newspaper articles and columns, addenda to Series 10, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index, and photographs of the extended Dotson family and the Dotson farm in Greenwood, WV.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection documents the Dotson family of Greenwood, West Virginia in Doddridge County.  It contains Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1946 (including photocopies, indices, and supplementary information), other Dotson family diaries and books, the marriage certificate of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson, a Dotson family history, a cabinet card and carte de visite album, a tintype album, a collection of glass plate negatives, and other assorted photographs.","Series 1. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1904-1946; boxes 1-2.\nSeries 2. Unknown Diary; 1887; box 3.\nSeries 3. Nancy Clark Dotson Bible; ca. 1890-1891; box 3.\nSeries 4. Ledgers; 1845-1910; boxes 3-4.\nSeries 5. Marriage Certificate, Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson; 1879-02-05; box 7.\nSeries 6. Photographs; 1880s-1970s; boxes 5-7.\nSeries 7. Glass Plate Negatives; 1880s-1890s; box 8.\nSeries 8. Dotson Family History; 1980-2018; box 9.\nSeries 9. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Photocopies; 1987; boxes 10-11.\nSeries 10. Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index; 1988-2018; box 11.\nSeries 11. Supplemental Information to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries; 1982-2010; box 11.","This series includes diaries written by Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) from 1904-1946. Diary entries are short, often one or two lines long, and cover subjects including the weather, who visited her and when, births, deaths, marriages, and other happenings around the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV (Doddridge County). National events, such as elections, the collapse of a theater in Washington, D.C., and other similar events, are also mentioned. A \"Ma\" and \"Dad\" are frequently mentioned; the identity of \"Ma\" is unknown, but \"Dad\" refers to Nancy Clark Dotson's husband, Franklin Dotson.","For those wishing to research the diaries, Series 9-11 can be useful for researchers. They include photocopies of each page of these diaries, an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and a set of supplementary information to these diaries, such as family trees and photographs.","This diary, originally intended to be used as a ledger book, was found at the farm of Franklin P. and Nancy Clark Dotson. Only four entries are written in this diary. The author is unknown.","This Bible (ca. 1890-1891) was given to Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949) by her brother Jim Clark and his wife Tina Clark. The translation is unknown. Also included are several bookmarks, including a small pamphlet of Prayer Meeting Topics from the Christian Endeavor Society, a handwritten list of scriptures, a Christmas card with a handwritten description of Mike Dotson's funeral, and another scripture card from the American Bible Society.","This series consists of four ledger books. The first (1845-1880), titled \"Steward's Book for Pleasant Valley Mission,\" includes meeting minutes, ledgers of who brought what items to the Mission, purchasing ledgers, and recipes.","The second (ca. 1891) and third (ca. 1862-1910) are ledgers from the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV and include separate pages for each person or family who purchased livestock or produce from the farm and prices for each item.  Dates of purchase are not clearly identified.","The fourth is a combined diary and ledger owned by W.H. Sherwood, a relative of Franklin Dotson; this book is mostly written in shorthand with three pages written in cursive.","This unofficial marriage certificate, signed by Minister C. J. B. Brane and witness Beatrice G. Rose, celebrates and certifies the marriage of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson. The certificate was published by the Reformed Church Publication Board in Philadelphia, PA.","This series includes a tintype album, a cabinet card and cartes de visite album, and three other files of photographs.","The tintype album and cabinet card and cartes de visite album, owned and collated by Nancy Clark Dotson (1857-1949), both contain photographs of her family, friends, and neighbors in Greenwood, WV and beyond; a large majority of these photographs were labeled with the identities of each subject by Dotson.","The first file of photographs contains copies of photographs of Greenwood, WV and its people. The original photographs were donated by the family to the Doddridge County Historical Society in 2012.","The second file of photographs contains mounted photographs, loose photographs, and cabinet cards of Franklin and Nancy Clark Dotson and of their son, Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson and their daughter, Loxie Dotson Borror. The subjects of these images were identified and labeled by Dotson.","The final file of photographs contains a flash drive of photographs of the Dotson family farm in Greenwood, WV, the areas surrounding Route 50, and other areas of West Virginia. Identification information for each image is available in the title of each digital file.","This series includes ten glass plate negatives taken by Leonard Otis Dotson ca. 1903-1905, photographs and digital scans made from those negatives, and supplementary information. Subjects of these glass plate negatives include the Dotson family farm, Greenwood, WV, the West Union Courthouse in West Union, WV, members of the Dotson family, and Horatio Greenough's statue of George Washington in Washington, DC (now in the National Museum of American History).","This series consists of a Dotson Family History focusing on the ancestry of Leonard Otis Dotson, son of Franklin Dotson and Nancy Clark Dotson, and his wife, Vashti Johnson Dotson. This binder was compiled and collated by Linda Lee Warden, great-granddaughter of Leonard and Vashti Johnson Dotson. It includes a family tree, birth certificates, death certificates, obituaries, wills, photographs of graves, photographs of persons mentioned in this family history, and a written family history.","This series consists of bound photocopies of Nancy Clark Dotson's diaries from 1904-1949 (see Series 1). Series 10-11 are supplementary to this series; they include an index to the persons, births, marriages, and deaths mentioned, and information supplementing the diaries, such as family trees and photographs.","This series consists of two identical indices to the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries (Series 1) that include an introduction with notes, family trees, photographs, and copies of newspaper clippings describing the Dotson family, lists of births, marriages, and deaths by name and date, and an alphabetical list of all names listed. This series is supplemental to Series 1, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries, and to Series 9, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Copies.","This series consists of two identical folios of supplemental information on the Dotson family and photographs of those mentioned, including family trees, sections of family history, newspaper articles and columns, addenda to Series 10, the Nancy Clark Dotson Diaries Index, and photographs of the extended Dotson family and the Dotson farm in Greenwood, WV."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Collection contains papers of William Davenport Wayt and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer; his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher; and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist, all of Marshall County. Materials include diaries for several family members; transcripts of letters; miscellaneous manuscript materials, literary books and clippings; church and farm books; and articles from the \u003cem\u003eHillbilly\u003c/em\u003e newspaper that relate to the Wayt family in particular and to life in West Virginia in general. Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. 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William attended medical school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was the country doctor for Marshall County. Nancy Wayt died on September 4, 1877, and on December 25, 1878, William D. Wayt married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Vessels (b. March 30, 1856), also of Marshall County. They also had five children, including William Blaine Wayt (b. November 29, 1879) and Jessie Logan Wayt (b. September 10, 1888). William Davenport Wayt died on April 27, 1913, and is buried in Marshall County. Mary Elizabeth Wayt died on February 16, 1943.","William Blaine Wayt was born on November 29, 1879, in Marshall County, West Virginia, the son of William Davenport and Mary Elizabeth Wayt. He was a teacher and farmer in Marshall County. On April 5, 1916, William Blaine married Margaret Allen in Moundsville, W.Va. They had three children: Lorna Wayt Williams, William Wayt, and Margaret Wayt De Bolt. William Blaine Wayt died on January 24, 1956. Margaret Allen Wayt died in January 1973.","Jessie Logan Wayt was born on September 10, 1888, in Marshall County, West Virginia, the daughter of William Davenport and Mary Elizabeth Wayt. On June 18, 1910, she married Isaac Christopher Young in Moundsville, W.Va. Jessie Logan Wayt Young died on August 16, 1965.","Margaret Wayt DeBolt, journalist, author, and genealogist, was the daughter of William Blaine and Margaret Allen Wayt. She was born in 1930 and raised in Moundsville, W.Va., and graduated with a degree in journalism from West Virginia University in 1952. Margaret Wayt married Frank DeBolt in 1953 and the couple had three children. Margaret Wayt DeBolt died in Savannah, Georgia, in July 2009.","William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection, in six series, contains the papers of William Davenport Wayt (Series 1) and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer (Series 2); his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher (Series 3); and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist (Series 4), all of Marshall County. The twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family.","Much of the material in this collection has been scanned, though it is not available online. Electronic materials include pdf files of William Blaine Wayt's diaries (from Series 2, includes the complete set of 22 volumes, 1903-1956). Digital files also contain some of the materials from Series 4, including jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin'\"; columns (1990s); and some pdf files of the Hillbilly columns. A detailed inventory of the digital Hillbilly materials is available in the library. These digital files have been consolidated on DVDs in Series 6.","Series 1. William Davenport Wayt Papers, 1867-1913 is located in Box 1 and Box 2. This series contains photocopies of his daily diaries from 1905 to 1913. These short daily entries are usually no more than several sentences and chiefly describe Wayt's work on the farm, his duties as a country doctor, and the weather. Primary topics include the weather; Wayt's daily activities (visits with friends and neighbors, work on the farm and in the garden, the animals, church); food; health; his children's activities (church, school) and health; people coming for medicine; and his work as a doctor. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.","Letters from 1867 to 1877 chiefly document William and Elizabeth's courtship and the early years of their marriage while he was in medical school in Cincinnati in 1871 and practicing medicine in Greggsville, West Virginia, in 1877. Subjects include their relationship; his medical school (students, classes, dissecting, expenses); his practice in Greggsville; and news of friends and family. Also contains one folder of miscellaneous papers from 1880 to 1913, including notes and a fire insurance policy.","Series 2. William Blaine Wayt Papers, 1897-1956 is located in Box 2-Box 5. The 22 volumes of his diaries have been scanned and are available in pdf format in the library (they are not available online); see Series 6. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.","William Blaine Wayt's materials include original volumes of his diaries from 1892 to 1956; miscellaneous notes and post cards, 1907-1913; miscellaneous financial papers, 1902-1945; and literary and composition books, literary clippings, and other material related to his home and church life, including during World War II, from 1897 to 1943. Miscellaneous financial materials are primarily tax receipts and retirement papers.","Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document Will's life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The diaries give an extensive picture of Wayt's agricultural activities; family and religious life; and social surroundings. They cover his youth, education, and teaching career; the daily operations of his farm; the youth and adult life of his three children; and local and national political activities.","Volumes 1-5 cover the years from 1892 to October 1915, when Wayt moved between the family farm in Millsboro and school in Moundsville, West Virginia, and then began his teaching career in Moundsville. They give frequent accounts of his youthful social activities (swimming, fishing, dances, and picnics; political, literary, and league meetings; playing games, baseball, and hunting; and meeting and courting different girls), school (studies, exams, and his early years teaching), the weather, and his work on the farm and in the fields (cutting apples and corn, plowing, potatoes, picking berries, etc.). There are significant gaps in the diaries from 1907 to 1909, when Will suffered from serious bouts of rheumatism. Beginning in 1913, when Will starts teaching, entries comment more frequently on school (meetings, procedures, student behavior and discipline) and his courtship with his future wife, Margaret \"Maggie\" Allen.","Volumes 6-8 cover the period from November 1915 to December 1933, approximately the first fifteen years of Will's marriage to Maggie and their family life on their farm outside Moundsville. These diaries contain a full account of Will's daily farming activities (planting fruit trees, working in the garden, buying animals, harvesting crops, selling produce in town, etc.); the weather and its impact on the farm; domestic life (the birth and childhood of his first two children, the family's health and illnesses, Maggie's domestic chores and work at local elections, shopping trips to Moundsville and Wheeling, and holiday celebrations); his teaching jobs; and their social life (church, teaching Sunday school, visits with neighbors and relatives, going for drives, and local elections). Will also comments on major events of the early 20th century, including World War I, the flu epidemic of 1918, the Depression, and the election of President Franklin Roosevelt, illustrating the impact of these national events on his family and local community.","Volumes 9-12 cover the period from January 1934 to March 1943 and continue to document the lives of Will and his family. Major topics remain the same and include the farm, the weather, the children's education and activities, the family's health, and Will and Maggie's social events. Other significant topics include the birth of their daughter, Margaret; New Deal programs and President Roosevelt; World War II; Will's retirement from teaching in 1942; and the death of his mother in February 1943, two years after she suffered a major stroke.","Volumes 13-15, document Wayt's life from March 1943 to May 1947, through Will and Maggie's move from the farm into town, the end of World War II, and daughter Margaret's graduation from high school. Topics from this time period reveal the impact of World War II on Wayt and his family as both his son and son-in-law served overseas. Entries chiefly concern Harman Williams and William Wayt's overseas military service and their return to the States in 1945; Lorna Wayt Williams'; work at a war plant; war news; Will B. Wayt's wartime work in a whip factory; and the family's move from the farm into a house in town. Other topics, including farm and garden chores, weather, and Margaret's social activities, also appear frequently.","Volumes 16-22, cover the period from May 1947 to January 1956, the last ten years of William Wayt's life. Entries continue to focus on household and garden chores (planting, gardening, canning); daily activities (shopping, hunting, church, picnics, fairs, and visits with his children, friends, and other relatives); the weather; family news (weddings, jobs, and grandchildren); holidays; and Maggie's ill health in 1954. The last journal entry is January 22, 1956, two days before William B. Wayt passed away.","Series 3. Jessie Logan Wayt Diary, 1905 is housed in Box 5 and contains a ninety-two page, typed transcript of Jessie Wayt's diary from 1905. She primarily describes social activities and games; the weather; her schoolwork; her friends and local news; and chores at home and on the farm.","Series 4. Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly Materials, 1977-2001 is housed in Box 7-Box 10 and consists of articles written and collected by DeBolt from the Hillbilly newspaper, including the \"Kitchen in the Hills\" column, 1977, 1983-1984, 1986; DeBolt's own column on \"The Wayts of Millsboro,\"; 1977-1984, 1988-2001 and undated, which chiefly contains transcriptions of William Davenport Wayt's diaries and William Blaine Wayt's diaries; and other articles related to West Virginia heritage. Also includes entire issues of the newspaper from 1986-1990. Much of this material is also available in electronic format in the library; it is not available online. See Series. 6 Digital Files.","Series 5. Wayt Family Research Materials, 1899-1913 and undated is located in Box 6 and primarily consists of files compiled by Gregory Winters during the course of his research on the Wayt and Winters families. Materials include research notes, genealogical notes, photographs, and clippings related to the Wayt family as well as drawings of buildings and homes in Millsboro and other items relating to the town.","Series 6. Digital Files, 2009 is located in Box 6 and consists of more than one thousand jpg and pdf files of material from the collection that was scanned by Gregory Winters for the collection in 2009. These electronic materials include pdf files of the complete set of William Blaine Wayt's diaries from Series 2, 1903-1956. Discs also contain jpg files of materials from Series 4, including miscellaneous Wayt family manuscript materials gathered by Margaret Wayt DeBolt; jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin\"; columns from Hillbilly (1990s); and jpg files of miscellaneous Hillbilly material. These digital files can only be accessed in the library; they are not available online. A detailed inventory of the digital Hillbilly materials is available in the library.","Addendum of 2011/03/25, ca. 1870-1950, 2 ft. 2 1/2 in. is located in boxes 11-16 and consists of photographs and other material regarding the Wayt family of Marshall County, West Virginia. This addendum also includes digital scans of materials.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collection contains papers of William Davenport Wayt and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer; his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher; and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist, all of Marshall County. Materials include diaries for several family members; transcripts of letters; miscellaneous manuscript materials, literary books and clippings; church and farm books; and articles from the Hillbilly newspaper that relate to the Wayt family in particular and to life in West Virginia in general. Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. Collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family. There is also an addendum of Wayt family material consisting mostly of photographs. See scope and content note for details.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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She was born in 1930 and raised in Moundsville, W.Va., and graduated with a degree in journalism from West Virginia University in 1952. Margaret Wayt married Frank DeBolt in 1953 and the couple had three children. 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The collection, in six series, contains the papers of William Davenport Wayt (Series 1) and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer (Series 2); his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher (Series 3); and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist (Series 4), all of Marshall County. The twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch of the material in this collection has been scanned, though it is not available online. Electronic materials include pdf files of William Blaine Wayt's diaries (from Series 2, includes the complete set of 22 volumes, 1903-1956). Digital files also contain some of the materials from Series 4, including jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin'\"; columns (1990s); and some pdf files of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e columns. A detailed inventory of the digital \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e materials is available in the library. These digital files have been consolidated on DVDs in Series 6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. William Davenport Wayt Papers, 1867-1913\u003c/emph\u003e is located in Box 1 and Box 2. This series contains photocopies of his daily diaries from 1905 to 1913. These short daily entries are usually no more than several sentences and chiefly describe Wayt's work on the farm, his duties as a country doctor, and the weather. Primary topics include the weather; Wayt's daily activities (visits with friends and neighbors, work on the farm and in the garden, the animals, church); food; health; his children's activities (church, school) and health; people coming for medicine; and his work as a doctor. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from 1867 to 1877 chiefly document William and Elizabeth's courtship and the early years of their marriage while he was in medical school in Cincinnati in 1871 and practicing medicine in Greggsville, West Virginia, in 1877. Subjects include their relationship; his medical school (students, classes, dissecting, expenses); his practice in Greggsville; and news of friends and family. Also contains one folder of miscellaneous papers from 1880 to 1913, including notes and a fire insurance policy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. William Blaine Wayt Papers, 1897-1956\u003c/emph\u003e is located in Box 2-Box 5. The 22 volumes of his diaries have been scanned and are available in pdf format in the library (they are not available online); see Series 6. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Blaine Wayt's materials include original volumes of his diaries from 1892 to 1956; miscellaneous notes and post cards, 1907-1913; miscellaneous financial papers, 1902-1945; and literary and composition books, literary clippings, and other material related to his home and church life, including during World War II, from 1897 to 1943. Miscellaneous financial materials are primarily tax receipts and retirement papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document Will's life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The diaries give an extensive picture of Wayt's agricultural activities; family and religious life; and social surroundings. They cover his youth, education, and teaching career; the daily operations of his farm; the youth and adult life of his three children; and local and national political activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolumes 1-5 cover the years from 1892 to October 1915, when Wayt moved between the family farm in Millsboro and school in Moundsville, West Virginia, and then began his teaching career in Moundsville. They give frequent accounts of his youthful social activities (swimming, fishing, dances, and picnics; political, literary, and league meetings; playing games, baseball, and hunting; and meeting and courting different girls), school (studies, exams, and his early years teaching), the weather, and his work on the farm and in the fields (cutting apples and corn, plowing, potatoes, picking berries, etc.). There are significant gaps in the diaries from 1907 to 1909, when Will suffered from serious bouts of rheumatism. Beginning in 1913, when Will starts teaching, entries comment more frequently on school (meetings, procedures, student behavior and discipline) and his courtship with his future wife, Margaret \"Maggie\" Allen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolumes 6-8 cover the period from November 1915 to December 1933, approximately the first fifteen years of Will's marriage to Maggie and their family life on their farm outside Moundsville. These diaries contain a full account of Will's daily farming activities (planting fruit trees, working in the garden, buying animals, harvesting crops, selling produce in town, etc.); the weather and its impact on the farm; domestic life (the birth and childhood of his first two children, the family's health and illnesses, Maggie's domestic chores and work at local elections, shopping trips to Moundsville and Wheeling, and holiday celebrations); his teaching jobs; and their social life (church, teaching Sunday school, visits with neighbors and relatives, going for drives, and local elections). Will also comments on major events of the early 20th century, including World War I, the flu epidemic of 1918, the Depression, and the election of President Franklin Roosevelt, illustrating the impact of these national events on his family and local community.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolumes 9-12 cover the period from January 1934 to March 1943 and continue to document the lives of Will and his family. Major topics remain the same and include the farm, the weather, the children's education and activities, the family's health, and Will and Maggie's social events. Other significant topics include the birth of their daughter, Margaret; New Deal programs and President Roosevelt; World War II; Will's retirement from teaching in 1942; and the death of his mother in February 1943, two years after she suffered a major stroke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolumes 13-15, document Wayt's life from March 1943 to May 1947, through Will and Maggie's move from the farm into town, the end of World War II, and daughter Margaret's graduation from high school. Topics from this time period reveal the impact of World War II on Wayt and his family as both his son and son-in-law served overseas. Entries chiefly concern Harman Williams and William Wayt's overseas military service and their return to the States in 1945; Lorna Wayt Williams'; work at a war plant; war news; Will B. Wayt's wartime work in a whip factory; and the family's move from the farm into a house in town. Other topics, including farm and garden chores, weather, and Margaret's social activities, also appear frequently.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolumes 16-22, cover the period from May 1947 to January 1956, the last ten years of William Wayt's life. Entries continue to focus on household and garden chores (planting, gardening, canning); daily activities (shopping, hunting, church, picnics, fairs, and visits with his children, friends, and other relatives); the weather; family news (weddings, jobs, and grandchildren); holidays; and Maggie's ill health in 1954. The last journal entry is January 22, 1956, two days before William B. Wayt passed away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Jessie Logan Wayt Diary, 1905\u003c/emph\u003e is housed in Box 5 and contains a ninety-two page, typed transcript of Jessie Wayt's diary from 1905. She primarily describes social activities and games; the weather; her schoolwork; her friends and local news; and chores at home and on the farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Margaret Wayt DeBolt's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/emph\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e Materials, 1977-2001\u003c/emph\u003e is housed in Box 7-Box 10 and consists of articles written and collected by DeBolt from the Hillbilly newspaper, including the \"Kitchen in the Hills\" column, 1977, 1983-1984, 1986; DeBolt's own column on \"The Wayts of Millsboro,\"; 1977-1984, 1988-2001 and undated, which chiefly contains transcriptions of William Davenport Wayt's diaries and William Blaine Wayt's diaries; and other articles related to West Virginia heritage. Also includes entire issues of the newspaper from 1986-1990. Much of this material is also available in electronic format in the library; it is not available online. See Series. 6 Digital Files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. Wayt Family Research Materials, 1899-1913 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e is located in Box 6 and primarily consists of files compiled by Gregory Winters during the course of his research on the Wayt and Winters families. Materials include research notes, genealogical notes, photographs, and clippings related to the Wayt family as well as drawings of buildings and homes in Millsboro and other items relating to the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. Digital Files, 2009\u003c/emph\u003e is located in Box 6 and consists of more than one thousand jpg and pdf files of material from the collection that was scanned by Gregory Winters for the collection in 2009. These electronic materials include pdf files of the complete set of William Blaine Wayt's diaries from Series 2, 1903-1956. Discs also contain jpg files of materials from Series 4, including miscellaneous Wayt family manuscript materials gathered by Margaret Wayt DeBolt; jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin\"; columns from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly \u003c/emph\u003e(1990s); and jpg files of miscellaneous Hillbilly material. These digital files can only be accessed in the library; they are not available online. A detailed inventory of the digital \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e materials is available in the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2011/03/25, ca. 1870-1950, 2 ft. 2 1/2 in.\u003c/emph\u003e is located in boxes 11-16 and consists of photographs and other material regarding the Wayt family of Marshall County, West Virginia. This addendum also includes digital scans of materials.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection, in six series, contains the papers of William Davenport Wayt (Series 1) and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer (Series 2); his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher (Series 3); and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist (Series 4), all of Marshall County. The twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family.","Much of the material in this collection has been scanned, though it is not available online. Electronic materials include pdf files of William Blaine Wayt's diaries (from Series 2, includes the complete set of 22 volumes, 1903-1956). Digital files also contain some of the materials from Series 4, including jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin'\"; columns (1990s); and some pdf files of the Hillbilly columns. A detailed inventory of the digital Hillbilly materials is available in the library. These digital files have been consolidated on DVDs in Series 6.","Series 1. William Davenport Wayt Papers, 1867-1913 is located in Box 1 and Box 2. This series contains photocopies of his daily diaries from 1905 to 1913. These short daily entries are usually no more than several sentences and chiefly describe Wayt's work on the farm, his duties as a country doctor, and the weather. Primary topics include the weather; Wayt's daily activities (visits with friends and neighbors, work on the farm and in the garden, the animals, church); food; health; his children's activities (church, school) and health; people coming for medicine; and his work as a doctor. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.","Letters from 1867 to 1877 chiefly document William and Elizabeth's courtship and the early years of their marriage while he was in medical school in Cincinnati in 1871 and practicing medicine in Greggsville, West Virginia, in 1877. Subjects include their relationship; his medical school (students, classes, dissecting, expenses); his practice in Greggsville; and news of friends and family. Also contains one folder of miscellaneous papers from 1880 to 1913, including notes and a fire insurance policy.","Series 2. William Blaine Wayt Papers, 1897-1956 is located in Box 2-Box 5. The 22 volumes of his diaries have been scanned and are available in pdf format in the library (they are not available online); see Series 6. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.","William Blaine Wayt's materials include original volumes of his diaries from 1892 to 1956; miscellaneous notes and post cards, 1907-1913; miscellaneous financial papers, 1902-1945; and literary and composition books, literary clippings, and other material related to his home and church life, including during World War II, from 1897 to 1943. Miscellaneous financial materials are primarily tax receipts and retirement papers.","Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document Will's life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The diaries give an extensive picture of Wayt's agricultural activities; family and religious life; and social surroundings. They cover his youth, education, and teaching career; the daily operations of his farm; the youth and adult life of his three children; and local and national political activities.","Volumes 1-5 cover the years from 1892 to October 1915, when Wayt moved between the family farm in Millsboro and school in Moundsville, West Virginia, and then began his teaching career in Moundsville. They give frequent accounts of his youthful social activities (swimming, fishing, dances, and picnics; political, literary, and league meetings; playing games, baseball, and hunting; and meeting and courting different girls), school (studies, exams, and his early years teaching), the weather, and his work on the farm and in the fields (cutting apples and corn, plowing, potatoes, picking berries, etc.). There are significant gaps in the diaries from 1907 to 1909, when Will suffered from serious bouts of rheumatism. Beginning in 1913, when Will starts teaching, entries comment more frequently on school (meetings, procedures, student behavior and discipline) and his courtship with his future wife, Margaret \"Maggie\" Allen.","Volumes 6-8 cover the period from November 1915 to December 1933, approximately the first fifteen years of Will's marriage to Maggie and their family life on their farm outside Moundsville. These diaries contain a full account of Will's daily farming activities (planting fruit trees, working in the garden, buying animals, harvesting crops, selling produce in town, etc.); the weather and its impact on the farm; domestic life (the birth and childhood of his first two children, the family's health and illnesses, Maggie's domestic chores and work at local elections, shopping trips to Moundsville and Wheeling, and holiday celebrations); his teaching jobs; and their social life (church, teaching Sunday school, visits with neighbors and relatives, going for drives, and local elections). Will also comments on major events of the early 20th century, including World War I, the flu epidemic of 1918, the Depression, and the election of President Franklin Roosevelt, illustrating the impact of these national events on his family and local community.","Volumes 9-12 cover the period from January 1934 to March 1943 and continue to document the lives of Will and his family. Major topics remain the same and include the farm, the weather, the children's education and activities, the family's health, and Will and Maggie's social events. Other significant topics include the birth of their daughter, Margaret; New Deal programs and President Roosevelt; World War II; Will's retirement from teaching in 1942; and the death of his mother in February 1943, two years after she suffered a major stroke.","Volumes 13-15, document Wayt's life from March 1943 to May 1947, through Will and Maggie's move from the farm into town, the end of World War II, and daughter Margaret's graduation from high school. Topics from this time period reveal the impact of World War II on Wayt and his family as both his son and son-in-law served overseas. Entries chiefly concern Harman Williams and William Wayt's overseas military service and their return to the States in 1945; Lorna Wayt Williams'; work at a war plant; war news; Will B. Wayt's wartime work in a whip factory; and the family's move from the farm into a house in town. Other topics, including farm and garden chores, weather, and Margaret's social activities, also appear frequently.","Volumes 16-22, cover the period from May 1947 to January 1956, the last ten years of William Wayt's life. Entries continue to focus on household and garden chores (planting, gardening, canning); daily activities (shopping, hunting, church, picnics, fairs, and visits with his children, friends, and other relatives); the weather; family news (weddings, jobs, and grandchildren); holidays; and Maggie's ill health in 1954. The last journal entry is January 22, 1956, two days before William B. Wayt passed away.","Series 3. Jessie Logan Wayt Diary, 1905 is housed in Box 5 and contains a ninety-two page, typed transcript of Jessie Wayt's diary from 1905. She primarily describes social activities and games; the weather; her schoolwork; her friends and local news; and chores at home and on the farm.","Series 4. Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly Materials, 1977-2001 is housed in Box 7-Box 10 and consists of articles written and collected by DeBolt from the Hillbilly newspaper, including the \"Kitchen in the Hills\" column, 1977, 1983-1984, 1986; DeBolt's own column on \"The Wayts of Millsboro,\"; 1977-1984, 1988-2001 and undated, which chiefly contains transcriptions of William Davenport Wayt's diaries and William Blaine Wayt's diaries; and other articles related to West Virginia heritage. Also includes entire issues of the newspaper from 1986-1990. Much of this material is also available in electronic format in the library; it is not available online. See Series. 6 Digital Files.","Series 5. Wayt Family Research Materials, 1899-1913 and undated is located in Box 6 and primarily consists of files compiled by Gregory Winters during the course of his research on the Wayt and Winters families. Materials include research notes, genealogical notes, photographs, and clippings related to the Wayt family as well as drawings of buildings and homes in Millsboro and other items relating to the town.","Series 6. Digital Files, 2009 is located in Box 6 and consists of more than one thousand jpg and pdf files of material from the collection that was scanned by Gregory Winters for the collection in 2009. These electronic materials include pdf files of the complete set of William Blaine Wayt's diaries from Series 2, 1903-1956. Discs also contain jpg files of materials from Series 4, including miscellaneous Wayt family manuscript materials gathered by Margaret Wayt DeBolt; jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin\"; columns from Hillbilly (1990s); and jpg files of miscellaneous Hillbilly material. These digital files can only be accessed in the library; they are not available online. A detailed inventory of the digital Hillbilly materials is available in the library.","Addendum of 2011/03/25, ca. 1870-1950, 2 ft. 2 1/2 in. is located in boxes 11-16 and consists of photographs and other material regarding the Wayt family of Marshall County, West Virginia. This addendum also includes digital scans of materials."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_5a5f309f546d3143f9b144ae290ac54f\"\u003eWilliam Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collection contains papers of William Davenport Wayt and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer; his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher; and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist, all of Marshall County. Materials include diaries for several family members; transcripts of letters; miscellaneous manuscript materials, literary books and clippings; church and farm books; and articles from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e newspaper that relate to the Wayt family in particular and to life in West Virginia in general. Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. Collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family. There is also an addendum of Wayt family material consisting mostly of photographs. See scope and content note for details.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collection contains papers of William Davenport Wayt and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer; his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher; and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist, all of Marshall County. Materials include diaries for several family members; transcripts of letters; miscellaneous manuscript materials, literary books and clippings; church and farm books; and articles from the Hillbilly newspaper that relate to the Wayt family in particular and to life in West Virginia in general. Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. Collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family. There is also an addendum of Wayt family material consisting mostly of photographs. See scope and content note for details."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_6a35e55a29267418203408572607a0c1\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Va.) --  History","Marshall County (W. Va.) --  Religious life and customs","Marshall County (W. Va.) -- Social life and customs","West Virginia -- History -- 20th century","West Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century","Families -- West Virginia -- Social life and customs","Farm life -- West Virginia","Farms and farming.","Schools -- West Virginia -- 20th century","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","William Davenport Wayt, the son of Eliza Jane Armstrong Wayt and John Wayt, was born on July 6, 1846, in Kentucky. He settled in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he remained for the rest of his life. On November 21, 1867, William Davenport Wayt married Nancy Elizabeth Null (b. March 6, 1841), and they had five children. William attended medical school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was the country doctor for Marshall County. Nancy Wayt died on September 4, 1877, and on December 25, 1878, William D. Wayt married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Vessels (b. March 30, 1856), also of Marshall County. They also had five children, including William Blaine Wayt (b. November 29, 1879) and Jessie Logan Wayt (b. September 10, 1888). William Davenport Wayt died on April 27, 1913, and is buried in Marshall County. Mary Elizabeth Wayt died on February 16, 1943.","William Blaine Wayt was born on November 29, 1879, in Marshall County, West Virginia, the son of William Davenport and Mary Elizabeth Wayt. He was a teacher and farmer in Marshall County. On April 5, 1916, William Blaine married Margaret Allen in Moundsville, W.Va. They had three children: Lorna Wayt Williams, William Wayt, and Margaret Wayt De Bolt. William Blaine Wayt died on January 24, 1956. Margaret Allen Wayt died in January 1973.","Jessie Logan Wayt was born on September 10, 1888, in Marshall County, West Virginia, the daughter of William Davenport and Mary Elizabeth Wayt. On June 18, 1910, she married Isaac Christopher Young in Moundsville, W.Va. Jessie Logan Wayt Young died on August 16, 1965.","Margaret Wayt DeBolt, journalist, author, and genealogist, was the daughter of William Blaine and Margaret Allen Wayt. She was born in 1930 and raised in Moundsville, W.Va., and graduated with a degree in journalism from West Virginia University in 1952. Margaret Wayt married Frank DeBolt in 1953 and the couple had three children. Margaret Wayt DeBolt died in Savannah, Georgia, in July 2009.","William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection, in six series, contains the papers of William Davenport Wayt (Series 1) and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer (Series 2); his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher (Series 3); and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist (Series 4), all of Marshall County. The twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family.","Much of the material in this collection has been scanned, though it is not available online. Electronic materials include pdf files of William Blaine Wayt's diaries (from Series 2, includes the complete set of 22 volumes, 1903-1956). Digital files also contain some of the materials from Series 4, including jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin'\"; columns (1990s); and some pdf files of the Hillbilly columns. A detailed inventory of the digital Hillbilly materials is available in the library. These digital files have been consolidated on DVDs in Series 6.","Series 1. William Davenport Wayt Papers, 1867-1913 is located in Box 1 and Box 2. This series contains photocopies of his daily diaries from 1905 to 1913. These short daily entries are usually no more than several sentences and chiefly describe Wayt's work on the farm, his duties as a country doctor, and the weather. Primary topics include the weather; Wayt's daily activities (visits with friends and neighbors, work on the farm and in the garden, the animals, church); food; health; his children's activities (church, school) and health; people coming for medicine; and his work as a doctor. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.","Letters from 1867 to 1877 chiefly document William and Elizabeth's courtship and the early years of their marriage while he was in medical school in Cincinnati in 1871 and practicing medicine in Greggsville, West Virginia, in 1877. Subjects include their relationship; his medical school (students, classes, dissecting, expenses); his practice in Greggsville; and news of friends and family. Also contains one folder of miscellaneous papers from 1880 to 1913, including notes and a fire insurance policy.","Series 2. William Blaine Wayt Papers, 1897-1956 is located in Box 2-Box 5. The 22 volumes of his diaries have been scanned and are available in pdf format in the library (they are not available online); see Series 6. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.","William Blaine Wayt's materials include original volumes of his diaries from 1892 to 1956; miscellaneous notes and post cards, 1907-1913; miscellaneous financial papers, 1902-1945; and literary and composition books, literary clippings, and other material related to his home and church life, including during World War II, from 1897 to 1943. Miscellaneous financial materials are primarily tax receipts and retirement papers.","Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document Will's life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The diaries give an extensive picture of Wayt's agricultural activities; family and religious life; and social surroundings. They cover his youth, education, and teaching career; the daily operations of his farm; the youth and adult life of his three children; and local and national political activities.","Volumes 1-5 cover the years from 1892 to October 1915, when Wayt moved between the family farm in Millsboro and school in Moundsville, West Virginia, and then began his teaching career in Moundsville. They give frequent accounts of his youthful social activities (swimming, fishing, dances, and picnics; political, literary, and league meetings; playing games, baseball, and hunting; and meeting and courting different girls), school (studies, exams, and his early years teaching), the weather, and his work on the farm and in the fields (cutting apples and corn, plowing, potatoes, picking berries, etc.). There are significant gaps in the diaries from 1907 to 1909, when Will suffered from serious bouts of rheumatism. Beginning in 1913, when Will starts teaching, entries comment more frequently on school (meetings, procedures, student behavior and discipline) and his courtship with his future wife, Margaret \"Maggie\" Allen.","Volumes 6-8 cover the period from November 1915 to December 1933, approximately the first fifteen years of Will's marriage to Maggie and their family life on their farm outside Moundsville. These diaries contain a full account of Will's daily farming activities (planting fruit trees, working in the garden, buying animals, harvesting crops, selling produce in town, etc.); the weather and its impact on the farm; domestic life (the birth and childhood of his first two children, the family's health and illnesses, Maggie's domestic chores and work at local elections, shopping trips to Moundsville and Wheeling, and holiday celebrations); his teaching jobs; and their social life (church, teaching Sunday school, visits with neighbors and relatives, going for drives, and local elections). Will also comments on major events of the early 20th century, including World War I, the flu epidemic of 1918, the Depression, and the election of President Franklin Roosevelt, illustrating the impact of these national events on his family and local community.","Volumes 9-12 cover the period from January 1934 to March 1943 and continue to document the lives of Will and his family. Major topics remain the same and include the farm, the weather, the children's education and activities, the family's health, and Will and Maggie's social events. Other significant topics include the birth of their daughter, Margaret; New Deal programs and President Roosevelt; World War II; Will's retirement from teaching in 1942; and the death of his mother in February 1943, two years after she suffered a major stroke.","Volumes 13-15, document Wayt's life from March 1943 to May 1947, through Will and Maggie's move from the farm into town, the end of World War II, and daughter Margaret's graduation from high school. Topics from this time period reveal the impact of World War II on Wayt and his family as both his son and son-in-law served overseas. Entries chiefly concern Harman Williams and William Wayt's overseas military service and their return to the States in 1945; Lorna Wayt Williams'; work at a war plant; war news; Will B. Wayt's wartime work in a whip factory; and the family's move from the farm into a house in town. Other topics, including farm and garden chores, weather, and Margaret's social activities, also appear frequently.","Volumes 16-22, cover the period from May 1947 to January 1956, the last ten years of William Wayt's life. Entries continue to focus on household and garden chores (planting, gardening, canning); daily activities (shopping, hunting, church, picnics, fairs, and visits with his children, friends, and other relatives); the weather; family news (weddings, jobs, and grandchildren); holidays; and Maggie's ill health in 1954. The last journal entry is January 22, 1956, two days before William B. Wayt passed away.","Series 3. Jessie Logan Wayt Diary, 1905 is housed in Box 5 and contains a ninety-two page, typed transcript of Jessie Wayt's diary from 1905. She primarily describes social activities and games; the weather; her schoolwork; her friends and local news; and chores at home and on the farm.","Series 4. Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly Materials, 1977-2001 is housed in Box 7-Box 10 and consists of articles written and collected by DeBolt from the Hillbilly newspaper, including the \"Kitchen in the Hills\" column, 1977, 1983-1984, 1986; DeBolt's own column on \"The Wayts of Millsboro,\"; 1977-1984, 1988-2001 and undated, which chiefly contains transcriptions of William Davenport Wayt's diaries and William Blaine Wayt's diaries; and other articles related to West Virginia heritage. Also includes entire issues of the newspaper from 1986-1990. Much of this material is also available in electronic format in the library; it is not available online. See Series. 6 Digital Files.","Series 5. Wayt Family Research Materials, 1899-1913 and undated is located in Box 6 and primarily consists of files compiled by Gregory Winters during the course of his research on the Wayt and Winters families. Materials include research notes, genealogical notes, photographs, and clippings related to the Wayt family as well as drawings of buildings and homes in Millsboro and other items relating to the town.","Series 6. Digital Files, 2009 is located in Box 6 and consists of more than one thousand jpg and pdf files of material from the collection that was scanned by Gregory Winters for the collection in 2009. These electronic materials include pdf files of the complete set of William Blaine Wayt's diaries from Series 2, 1903-1956. Discs also contain jpg files of materials from Series 4, including miscellaneous Wayt family manuscript materials gathered by Margaret Wayt DeBolt; jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin\"; columns from Hillbilly (1990s); and jpg files of miscellaneous Hillbilly material. These digital files can only be accessed in the library; they are not available online. A detailed inventory of the digital Hillbilly materials is available in the library.","Addendum of 2011/03/25, ca. 1870-1950, 2 ft. 2 1/2 in. is located in boxes 11-16 and consists of photographs and other material regarding the Wayt family of Marshall County, West Virginia. This addendum also includes digital scans of materials.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collection contains papers of William Davenport Wayt and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer; his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher; and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist, all of Marshall County. Materials include diaries for several family members; transcripts of letters; miscellaneous manuscript materials, literary books and clippings; church and farm books; and articles from the Hillbilly newspaper that relate to the Wayt family in particular and to life in West Virginia in general. Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. Collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family. There is also an addendum of Wayt family material consisting mostly of photographs. See scope and content note for details.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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He settled in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he remained for the rest of his life. On November 21, 1867, William Davenport Wayt married Nancy Elizabeth Null (b. March 6, 1841), and they had five children. William attended medical school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was the country doctor for Marshall County. Nancy Wayt died on September 4, 1877, and on December 25, 1878, William D. Wayt married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Vessels (b. March 30, 1856), also of Marshall County. They also had five children, including William Blaine Wayt (b. November 29, 1879) and Jessie Logan Wayt (b. September 10, 1888). William Davenport Wayt died on April 27, 1913, and is buried in Marshall County. Mary Elizabeth Wayt died on February 16, 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eWilliam Blaine Wayt\u003c/emph\u003e was born on November 29, 1879, in Marshall County, West Virginia, the son of William Davenport and Mary Elizabeth Wayt. He was a teacher and farmer in Marshall County. On April 5, 1916, William Blaine married Margaret Allen in Moundsville, W.Va. They had three children: Lorna Wayt Williams, William Wayt, and Margaret Wayt De Bolt. William Blaine Wayt died on January 24, 1956. Margaret Allen Wayt died in January 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eJessie Logan Wayt\u003c/emph\u003e was born on September 10, 1888, in Marshall County, West Virginia, the daughter of William Davenport and Mary Elizabeth Wayt. On June 18, 1910, she married Isaac Christopher Young in Moundsville, W.Va. Jessie Logan Wayt Young died on August 16, 1965.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMargaret Wayt DeBolt\u003c/emph\u003e, journalist, author, and genealogist, was the daughter of William Blaine and Margaret Allen Wayt. She was born in 1930 and raised in Moundsville, W.Va., and graduated with a degree in journalism from West Virginia University in 1952. Margaret Wayt married Frank DeBolt in 1953 and the couple had three children. Margaret Wayt DeBolt died in Savannah, Georgia, in July 2009.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["William Davenport Wayt, the son of Eliza Jane Armstrong Wayt and John Wayt, was born on July 6, 1846, in Kentucky. He settled in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he remained for the rest of his life. On November 21, 1867, William Davenport Wayt married Nancy Elizabeth Null (b. March 6, 1841), and they had five children. William attended medical school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was the country doctor for Marshall County. Nancy Wayt died on September 4, 1877, and on December 25, 1878, William D. Wayt married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Vessels (b. March 30, 1856), also of Marshall County. They also had five children, including William Blaine Wayt (b. November 29, 1879) and Jessie Logan Wayt (b. September 10, 1888). William Davenport Wayt died on April 27, 1913, and is buried in Marshall County. Mary Elizabeth Wayt died on February 16, 1943.","William Blaine Wayt was born on November 29, 1879, in Marshall County, West Virginia, the son of William Davenport and Mary Elizabeth Wayt. He was a teacher and farmer in Marshall County. On April 5, 1916, William Blaine married Margaret Allen in Moundsville, W.Va. They had three children: Lorna Wayt Williams, William Wayt, and Margaret Wayt De Bolt. William Blaine Wayt died on January 24, 1956. Margaret Allen Wayt died in January 1973.","Jessie Logan Wayt was born on September 10, 1888, in Marshall County, West Virginia, the daughter of William Davenport and Mary Elizabeth Wayt. On June 18, 1910, she married Isaac Christopher Young in Moundsville, W.Va. Jessie Logan Wayt Young died on August 16, 1965.","Margaret Wayt DeBolt, journalist, author, and genealogist, was the daughter of William Blaine and Margaret Allen Wayt. She was born in 1930 and raised in Moundsville, W.Va., and graduated with a degree in journalism from West Virginia University in 1952. Margaret Wayt married Frank DeBolt in 1953 and the couple had three children. 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The collection, in six series, contains the papers of William Davenport Wayt (Series 1) and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer (Series 2); his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher (Series 3); and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist (Series 4), all of Marshall County. The twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch of the material in this collection has been scanned, though it is not available online. Electronic materials include pdf files of William Blaine Wayt's diaries (from Series 2, includes the complete set of 22 volumes, 1903-1956). Digital files also contain some of the materials from Series 4, including jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin'\"; columns (1990s); and some pdf files of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e columns. A detailed inventory of the digital \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e materials is available in the library. These digital files have been consolidated on DVDs in Series 6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. William Davenport Wayt Papers, 1867-1913\u003c/emph\u003e is located in Box 1 and Box 2. This series contains photocopies of his daily diaries from 1905 to 1913. These short daily entries are usually no more than several sentences and chiefly describe Wayt's work on the farm, his duties as a country doctor, and the weather. Primary topics include the weather; Wayt's daily activities (visits with friends and neighbors, work on the farm and in the garden, the animals, church); food; health; his children's activities (church, school) and health; people coming for medicine; and his work as a doctor. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from 1867 to 1877 chiefly document William and Elizabeth's courtship and the early years of their marriage while he was in medical school in Cincinnati in 1871 and practicing medicine in Greggsville, West Virginia, in 1877. Subjects include their relationship; his medical school (students, classes, dissecting, expenses); his practice in Greggsville; and news of friends and family. Also contains one folder of miscellaneous papers from 1880 to 1913, including notes and a fire insurance policy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. William Blaine Wayt Papers, 1897-1956\u003c/emph\u003e is located in Box 2-Box 5. The 22 volumes of his diaries have been scanned and are available in pdf format in the library (they are not available online); see Series 6. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Blaine Wayt's materials include original volumes of his diaries from 1892 to 1956; miscellaneous notes and post cards, 1907-1913; miscellaneous financial papers, 1902-1945; and literary and composition books, literary clippings, and other material related to his home and church life, including during World War II, from 1897 to 1943. Miscellaneous financial materials are primarily tax receipts and retirement papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document Will's life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The diaries give an extensive picture of Wayt's agricultural activities; family and religious life; and social surroundings. They cover his youth, education, and teaching career; the daily operations of his farm; the youth and adult life of his three children; and local and national political activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolumes 1-5 cover the years from 1892 to October 1915, when Wayt moved between the family farm in Millsboro and school in Moundsville, West Virginia, and then began his teaching career in Moundsville. They give frequent accounts of his youthful social activities (swimming, fishing, dances, and picnics; political, literary, and league meetings; playing games, baseball, and hunting; and meeting and courting different girls), school (studies, exams, and his early years teaching), the weather, and his work on the farm and in the fields (cutting apples and corn, plowing, potatoes, picking berries, etc.). There are significant gaps in the diaries from 1907 to 1909, when Will suffered from serious bouts of rheumatism. Beginning in 1913, when Will starts teaching, entries comment more frequently on school (meetings, procedures, student behavior and discipline) and his courtship with his future wife, Margaret \"Maggie\" Allen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolumes 6-8 cover the period from November 1915 to December 1933, approximately the first fifteen years of Will's marriage to Maggie and their family life on their farm outside Moundsville. These diaries contain a full account of Will's daily farming activities (planting fruit trees, working in the garden, buying animals, harvesting crops, selling produce in town, etc.); the weather and its impact on the farm; domestic life (the birth and childhood of his first two children, the family's health and illnesses, Maggie's domestic chores and work at local elections, shopping trips to Moundsville and Wheeling, and holiday celebrations); his teaching jobs; and their social life (church, teaching Sunday school, visits with neighbors and relatives, going for drives, and local elections). Will also comments on major events of the early 20th century, including World War I, the flu epidemic of 1918, the Depression, and the election of President Franklin Roosevelt, illustrating the impact of these national events on his family and local community.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolumes 9-12 cover the period from January 1934 to March 1943 and continue to document the lives of Will and his family. Major topics remain the same and include the farm, the weather, the children's education and activities, the family's health, and Will and Maggie's social events. Other significant topics include the birth of their daughter, Margaret; New Deal programs and President Roosevelt; World War II; Will's retirement from teaching in 1942; and the death of his mother in February 1943, two years after she suffered a major stroke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolumes 13-15, document Wayt's life from March 1943 to May 1947, through Will and Maggie's move from the farm into town, the end of World War II, and daughter Margaret's graduation from high school. Topics from this time period reveal the impact of World War II on Wayt and his family as both his son and son-in-law served overseas. Entries chiefly concern Harman Williams and William Wayt's overseas military service and their return to the States in 1945; Lorna Wayt Williams'; work at a war plant; war news; Will B. Wayt's wartime work in a whip factory; and the family's move from the farm into a house in town. 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See Series. 6 Digital Files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. Wayt Family Research Materials, 1899-1913 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e is located in Box 6 and primarily consists of files compiled by Gregory Winters during the course of his research on the Wayt and Winters families. Materials include research notes, genealogical notes, photographs, and clippings related to the Wayt family as well as drawings of buildings and homes in Millsboro and other items relating to the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. Digital Files, 2009\u003c/emph\u003e is located in Box 6 and consists of more than one thousand jpg and pdf files of material from the collection that was scanned by Gregory Winters for the collection in 2009. These electronic materials include pdf files of the complete set of William Blaine Wayt's diaries from Series 2, 1903-1956. 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This addendum also includes digital scans of materials.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection, in six series, contains the papers of William Davenport Wayt (Series 1) and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer (Series 2); his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher (Series 3); and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist (Series 4), all of Marshall County. The twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family.","Much of the material in this collection has been scanned, though it is not available online. Electronic materials include pdf files of William Blaine Wayt's diaries (from Series 2, includes the complete set of 22 volumes, 1903-1956). Digital files also contain some of the materials from Series 4, including jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin'\"; columns (1990s); and some pdf files of the Hillbilly columns. A detailed inventory of the digital Hillbilly materials is available in the library. These digital files have been consolidated on DVDs in Series 6.","Series 1. William Davenport Wayt Papers, 1867-1913 is located in Box 1 and Box 2. This series contains photocopies of his daily diaries from 1905 to 1913. These short daily entries are usually no more than several sentences and chiefly describe Wayt's work on the farm, his duties as a country doctor, and the weather. Primary topics include the weather; Wayt's daily activities (visits with friends and neighbors, work on the farm and in the garden, the animals, church); food; health; his children's activities (church, school) and health; people coming for medicine; and his work as a doctor. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.","Letters from 1867 to 1877 chiefly document William and Elizabeth's courtship and the early years of their marriage while he was in medical school in Cincinnati in 1871 and practicing medicine in Greggsville, West Virginia, in 1877. Subjects include their relationship; his medical school (students, classes, dissecting, expenses); his practice in Greggsville; and news of friends and family. Also contains one folder of miscellaneous papers from 1880 to 1913, including notes and a fire insurance policy.","Series 2. William Blaine Wayt Papers, 1897-1956 is located in Box 2-Box 5. The 22 volumes of his diaries have been scanned and are available in pdf format in the library (they are not available online); see Series 6. Excerpts of the diaries have also been transcribed and published in Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly column, \"The Wayts of Millsboro.\" Most of these columns are also part of this collection; see Series 4.","William Blaine Wayt's materials include original volumes of his diaries from 1892 to 1956; miscellaneous notes and post cards, 1907-1913; miscellaneous financial papers, 1902-1945; and literary and composition books, literary clippings, and other material related to his home and church life, including during World War II, from 1897 to 1943. Miscellaneous financial materials are primarily tax receipts and retirement papers.","Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document Will's life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. The diaries give an extensive picture of Wayt's agricultural activities; family and religious life; and social surroundings. They cover his youth, education, and teaching career; the daily operations of his farm; the youth and adult life of his three children; and local and national political activities.","Volumes 1-5 cover the years from 1892 to October 1915, when Wayt moved between the family farm in Millsboro and school in Moundsville, West Virginia, and then began his teaching career in Moundsville. They give frequent accounts of his youthful social activities (swimming, fishing, dances, and picnics; political, literary, and league meetings; playing games, baseball, and hunting; and meeting and courting different girls), school (studies, exams, and his early years teaching), the weather, and his work on the farm and in the fields (cutting apples and corn, plowing, potatoes, picking berries, etc.). There are significant gaps in the diaries from 1907 to 1909, when Will suffered from serious bouts of rheumatism. Beginning in 1913, when Will starts teaching, entries comment more frequently on school (meetings, procedures, student behavior and discipline) and his courtship with his future wife, Margaret \"Maggie\" Allen.","Volumes 6-8 cover the period from November 1915 to December 1933, approximately the first fifteen years of Will's marriage to Maggie and their family life on their farm outside Moundsville. These diaries contain a full account of Will's daily farming activities (planting fruit trees, working in the garden, buying animals, harvesting crops, selling produce in town, etc.); the weather and its impact on the farm; domestic life (the birth and childhood of his first two children, the family's health and illnesses, Maggie's domestic chores and work at local elections, shopping trips to Moundsville and Wheeling, and holiday celebrations); his teaching jobs; and their social life (church, teaching Sunday school, visits with neighbors and relatives, going for drives, and local elections). Will also comments on major events of the early 20th century, including World War I, the flu epidemic of 1918, the Depression, and the election of President Franklin Roosevelt, illustrating the impact of these national events on his family and local community.","Volumes 9-12 cover the period from January 1934 to March 1943 and continue to document the lives of Will and his family. Major topics remain the same and include the farm, the weather, the children's education and activities, the family's health, and Will and Maggie's social events. Other significant topics include the birth of their daughter, Margaret; New Deal programs and President Roosevelt; World War II; Will's retirement from teaching in 1942; and the death of his mother in February 1943, two years after she suffered a major stroke.","Volumes 13-15, document Wayt's life from March 1943 to May 1947, through Will and Maggie's move from the farm into town, the end of World War II, and daughter Margaret's graduation from high school. Topics from this time period reveal the impact of World War II on Wayt and his family as both his son and son-in-law served overseas. Entries chiefly concern Harman Williams and William Wayt's overseas military service and their return to the States in 1945; Lorna Wayt Williams'; work at a war plant; war news; Will B. Wayt's wartime work in a whip factory; and the family's move from the farm into a house in town. Other topics, including farm and garden chores, weather, and Margaret's social activities, also appear frequently.","Volumes 16-22, cover the period from May 1947 to January 1956, the last ten years of William Wayt's life. Entries continue to focus on household and garden chores (planting, gardening, canning); daily activities (shopping, hunting, church, picnics, fairs, and visits with his children, friends, and other relatives); the weather; family news (weddings, jobs, and grandchildren); holidays; and Maggie's ill health in 1954. The last journal entry is January 22, 1956, two days before William B. Wayt passed away.","Series 3. Jessie Logan Wayt Diary, 1905 is housed in Box 5 and contains a ninety-two page, typed transcript of Jessie Wayt's diary from 1905. She primarily describes social activities and games; the weather; her schoolwork; her friends and local news; and chores at home and on the farm.","Series 4. Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly Materials, 1977-2001 is housed in Box 7-Box 10 and consists of articles written and collected by DeBolt from the Hillbilly newspaper, including the \"Kitchen in the Hills\" column, 1977, 1983-1984, 1986; DeBolt's own column on \"The Wayts of Millsboro,\"; 1977-1984, 1988-2001 and undated, which chiefly contains transcriptions of William Davenport Wayt's diaries and William Blaine Wayt's diaries; and other articles related to West Virginia heritage. Also includes entire issues of the newspaper from 1986-1990. Much of this material is also available in electronic format in the library; it is not available online. See Series. 6 Digital Files.","Series 5. Wayt Family Research Materials, 1899-1913 and undated is located in Box 6 and primarily consists of files compiled by Gregory Winters during the course of his research on the Wayt and Winters families. Materials include research notes, genealogical notes, photographs, and clippings related to the Wayt family as well as drawings of buildings and homes in Millsboro and other items relating to the town.","Series 6. Digital Files, 2009 is located in Box 6 and consists of more than one thousand jpg and pdf files of material from the collection that was scanned by Gregory Winters for the collection in 2009. These electronic materials include pdf files of the complete set of William Blaine Wayt's diaries from Series 2, 1903-1956. Discs also contain jpg files of materials from Series 4, including miscellaneous Wayt family manuscript materials gathered by Margaret Wayt DeBolt; jpg files of Margaret Wayt DeBolt's Hillbilly columns on the Wayt family (1975-2001); jpg and pdf files of \"Hill Cookin\"; columns from Hillbilly (1990s); and jpg files of miscellaneous Hillbilly material. These digital files can only be accessed in the library; they are not available online. A detailed inventory of the digital Hillbilly materials is available in the library.","Addendum of 2011/03/25, ca. 1870-1950, 2 ft. 2 1/2 in. is located in boxes 11-16 and consists of photographs and other material regarding the Wayt family of Marshall County, West Virginia. This addendum also includes digital scans of materials."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_5a5f309f546d3143f9b144ae290ac54f\"\u003eWilliam Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collection contains papers of William Davenport Wayt and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer; his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher; and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist, all of Marshall County. Materials include diaries for several family members; transcripts of letters; miscellaneous manuscript materials, literary books and clippings; church and farm books; and articles from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e newspaper that relate to the Wayt family in particular and to life in West Virginia in general. Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. Collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family. There is also an addendum of Wayt family material consisting mostly of photographs. See scope and content note for details.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 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The scrapbooks are mostly full of clippings, with subjects including the Northwestern Turnpike, politics, and the development of Parkersburg (1827-1902, undated). One of the scrapbooks also includes journal entries (1834-1844).\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Personal papers and scrapbooks of Peter G. Van Winkle (1808-1872), a Parkersburg attorney, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851, member of the Second Wheeling Convention of 1861, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861-1862, legislator from Wood County in 1863, U.S. Senator from 1863-1869, and participant in West Virginia railroad and business enterprises. Includes manuscripts speeches, essays, correspondence, and three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. 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This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]). There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. 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Va., 1861","Railroads -- West Virginia","Rivers -- West Virginia","Roads -- West Virginia","Salt industry and trade - West Virginia.","Schools","Slavery -- West Virginia","Steamboats","Toll roads  -- West Virginia","Valleys -- West Virginia","West Virginia - Church history.","Women's history -- 1800-1849","Women's history -- 1850-1899","Women's history -- 1900-1929","Women's history -- 1929-1950","Women's history -- 1951-present","Women's history -- Pre-1800","Diaries","Special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","List of Bound Notebooks in Series 8:","Notebook 1 - Civil War Diary of James F. Ellis, Corporal, Company B, 15th (West) Virginia - Box 16\nNotebook 2 - Jackson Letters - Box 16\nNotebook 2A-K - Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers, volumes 1-11 - Boxes 16-20\nNotebook 3 - Index to 1st-2nd-3rd Biennial Reports, Dept. of Archives and History, 1906-1911 - Box 20\nNotebook 4 - Douglas Freeman, Historian - Box 20\nNotebook 5A - Kanawha County Court Records, 1788-1803 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 20\nNotebook 5B - Kanawha County Court Records, 1825-1831 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 21\nNotebook 6 - Fitzhugh (bio of Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh and diary of Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr) - Box 21\nNotebook 7 - Thomas Jackson Arnold Letters (includes letters from TJA to Roy Bird Cook) - Box 21\nNotebook 8 - Granville Davisson Hall Papers - Box 21\nNotebook 9 - Jackson Papers (includes many items once held by Mrs. Jackson) - Box 22\nNotebook 10 - Weston Newspapers (includes material from 1800s) - Box 22\nNotebook 11 - Bennett Papers (re J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family; see also Notebook 44) - Box 22\nNotebook 12 - Pioneer Sketches of Lewis County (By Roy Bird Cook) - Box 22\nNotebook 13 - Jackson's Mill (contains thesis 'The Pioneer State 4-H Camp: Jackson's Mill') - Box 23\nNotebook 14 - B\u0026O Railroad (extracts from dissertation re B\u0026O in the Civil War by Festus Summers) - Box 23\nNotebook 15 - Lewis County (historical sketches by Robert L. Bland of 'The Weston Democrat' ca. 1920) - Box 23\nNotebook 16 - Oliver Letters (contains newspaper column re history of Weston, 1892) - Box 23\nNotebook 17 - Vandalia (contains typescript re the Ohio Land Company and George Washington) - Box 23\nNotebook 18 - Narrative of Colonel John Stuart of Greenbrier, 1798 (incl. info. on Indian wars) - Box 23\nNotebook 19 - A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches - see Series 13\nNotebook 20 - West Virginia Index (incl. material related to work of Commission on Historic Markers) - Box 23\nNotebook 21 - West Virginia Review Index (incl. list of articles by RBC, and TOC for 1923-1942) - Box 24\nNotebook 22 - Charleston Typescripts (regarding local history) - Box 24\nNotebook 23 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 1 - Box 25\nNotebook 24 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 2 - Box 25\nNotebook 25 - General Albert Jenkins, Confederate States Army (incl. biographical information) - Box 25\nNotebook 26 - Civil War I (mostly typescripts re various topics connected to the Civil War) - Box 26\nNotebook 27 - Civil War II - Box 26\nNotebook 28 - Civil War III - Box 27\nNotebook 29 - 'West Virginia' by Colonel Robert White (part of volume 2 of a series) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Mason Mathews Collection (notebook pp. 1-19; transcription of Civil War letters) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Alkire Collection (pp. 20-49; trans. of Civil War scrapbooks made by Marcia Phillips) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Diary of Henry F. Westfall (pp. 50-92; incl. typescript copy of Civil War diary) - Box 27\nNotebook 31 - Young Family Civil War Papers - Box 27\nNotebook 32 - Stonewall Jackson (includes mostly articles about Stonewall Jackson) - Box 28\nNotebook 33 - Civil War, No. 3 - Box 28\nNotebook 34 - Civil War, No. 4 - Box 28\nNotebook 35 - Civil War, No. 5 - Box 28\nNotebook 36 - Civil War, No. 6 - Box 29\nNotebook 37 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 38 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 38A - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 39 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 30\nNotebook 40 - Civil War--Camden (contains Civil War recollections by Thomas B. Camden) - Box 30\nNotebook 41 - Johnson Newlon Camden - Box 31\nNotebook 42 - Camden-Newlon-Sprigg-Williams Papers (genealogies) - Box 31\nNotebook 43 - Camden Papers - Box 31\nNotebook 44 - Bennett Papers (thesis re Civil War, VA Politics, and J. Bennett; see Notebk. 11) - Box 32\nNotebook 45 - West Virginia Sketch Book I (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\nNotebook 46 - West Virginia Sketch Book II (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\nNotebook 47 - West Virginia Sketch Book III (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 33\nNotebook 48 - Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book - Box 33\nNotebook 49 - Romance of the Kanawha (scrapbook contains maps, clippings, letters, etc.) - Box 33\nNotebook 50 - Daniel Boone--Early Kanawha Valley (material re D. Boone and General A. Lewis) - Box 34\nNotebook 51 - Lewis County Sketch Book I - Box 34\nNotebook 52 - Lewis County Sketch Book II - Box 34\nNotebook 53 - Weston--Lewis County (scrapbook includes mostly newspaper clippings) - Box 35\nNotebook 54 - Blennerhassett - Box 35\nNotebook 55 - Hamilton-Holt-Byrne-Newlon - Box 35\nNotebook 56 - Colonel George Jackson and Family - Box 35\nNotebook 57 - Washington Papers (includes copies of maps of land owned by GW) - Box 36\nNotebook 58 - Washington Papers - Box 36\nNotebook 59 - Washington Papers (includes material regarding Fort Dearborn) - Box 36\nNotebook 60 - Cooke Papers (includes many articles written by John Esten Cooke) - Box 37\nNotebook 61 - Washington Papers - Box 37\nNotebook 62 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 63 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 64 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 65 - West Virginia Archaeology - Box 38\nNotebook 66 - 'Wood County Formation' by Alvaro F. Gibbens - Box 39\nNotebook 67A - Jackson VMI (contains Board of Visitors report, July 1863) - Box 39\nNotebook 67 - Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers - Box 39\nNotebook 68 - Kanawha County - Box 40\nNotebook 69 - Hardesty's Lewis County (incl. Lewis, Barbour, and Upshur Counties) - Box 40\nNotebook 70 - Alexander Scott Withers (author of 'Chronicles of Border Warfare') - Box 40","Roy Bird Cook (April 1, 1886 - November 21, 1961) was born in Lewis County, near Roanoke, WV. Cook was a pharmacist and prominent West Virginia historian. Cook wrote several books on the history of Lewis County and biographies of Stonewall Jackson and Alexander Scott Withers, and contributed historical articles to a wide variety of publications. He also collected Civil War and early West Virginia documents and memorabilia. More biographical information on Mr. Cook is available in the \"Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.\" (see link in Instances).","The 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was formed in the early weeks of the Civil War when Confederate General Robert E. Lee ordered the recruitment of troops to protect railroad lines running through western Virginia's northern counties. On May 4, Lee appointed Colonel George Porterfield to assume command of these forces, which were being raised primarily in Taylor, Marion, Harrison, Monongalia, and Barbour Counties. In the next few weeks, these new recruits found themselves in the war's first arena, a tactical struggle for control of the Confederacy's northwestern flank--the hills, rails, and rivers of what would soon become the nation's 35th state, West Virginia.","Composed of some of the war's earliest recruits, the 31st Virginia Infantry would see action under General Garnett, William L. \"Mudwall\" Jackson, Jones and Imboden, Stonewall Jackson, Jubal Early, and many more legendary Confederate commanders, at battles including Corrick's Ford, Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, New Market, and others. Approximately 57 of the 850 men who joined the regiment in 1861 witnessed Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.","A detailed history of the 31st Virginia by James Dell Cooke is available online (see link in Instances).","Researchers are also referred to John M. Ashcraft's '31st Virginia Infantry' (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1988).","Granville Davisson Hall (September 17, 1837 - June 24, 1934) worked for the Wheeling 'Intelligencer' as a reporter and editor. He also recorded the proceedings of the Wheeling Conventions, which led to the creation of the state of West Virginia. His notes were later published as 'The Rending of Virginia.' Hall also served as secretary to Governor Francis H. Pierpont when the Reorganized Government of Virginia was set up by the Second Wheeling Convention in 1861. In the new state government, Hall was elected the first clerk of the House of Delegates on June 20, 1863. In 1865, he was elected Secretary of State and also served as private secretary to West Virginia's first governor, Arthur I. Boreman. After the Civil War, Hall held several positions in the railroad industry.","Congressman and Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins (November 10, 1830 - May 21, 1864) was born at Green Bottom, Cabell County. He practiced law in (West) Virginia and served in the U.S. Congress from 1857 to 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War, he enlisted recruits for a Virginia unit called the Border Rangers and was elected their captain. In August of 1861, he formed the 8th Virginia Cavalry and became its colonel. In early 1862, Jenkins was elected to the First Confederate Congress. In August of 1862, he was appointed brigadier general. He went on to command a battalion of cavalry at the Battle of Gettysburg. Jenkins died of wounds he received at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain. Jenkins' Green Bottom plantation house, maintained as an historic site by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.","Jonathan McCally Bennett (October 4, 1816 - October 28, 1887) was born in Lewis County, (West) Virginia. He married Margaret Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Captain George W. Jackson, cousin of Stonewall Jackson. Bennett was law partner of Gideon D. Camden, and in 1846 became the first Mayor of Weston. He served as a member of the General Assembly in 1852-1853, was president of the Exchange Bank of Virginia at Weston in 1853, served as First Auditor of Virginia from 1857 to 1865, and served on the West Virginia Senate from 1872 to 1876. During the Civil War, he sided with the Confederacy. For additional collections related to J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family, see also A\u0026M 32, 35, 572, and others.","81, 858, 895, 1309, 1379, 1528, 1561","Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics.","Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook-style notebooks of Roy Bird Cook (1896-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]) (the original letter by T.J. Jackson has been separated to A\u0026M 435); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]).","There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.","Please note: Additional processing took place in spring and summer 2012. Box and folder numbers from previous citations may no longer be accurate.","Series 1. Hays Family Papers; 1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1.","Series 2. Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry; ca. 1856-1955, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 2-3.","Series 3. Roy Bird Cook Personal Papers; 1896-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-5.","Series 4. Miscellaneous History; 1783-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 6-7b.","Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers; 1793-1974, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 8-9.","Series 6. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; 1801-1963, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 10-14c.","Series 7. Historical Articles and Other Printed Papers; 1928-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 15.","Series 8. Bound Notebooks; 1679-1984, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 16-40.","Series 9. Miscellaneous; ca. 1850-1866, 1909-1958, undated; box 41, folders 1-4.","Series 10. History of Pharmacy and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association; ca. 1832-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); box 41, folder 5 - box 42, folder 3 (includes unfoldered material).","Series 11. West Virginia Medical History and Biography; 1870-1911, 1936-1958, undated (includes facsimiles); box 42, folders 4-7.","Series 12. American Pharmaceutical Association; 1868, 1939-1961, undated; box 43.","Series 13. A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches; ca. 1880, 1915-1954, 2012, undated (includes facsimiles); box 44.","Series 14. Glass Plate Negatives; undated; box 45.","Series 15. Oversize Material; 1774-1964, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 46-52 and map cabinet 1, drawer 19.","This series includes correspondence, business papers, and biographical notes of Samuel L. Hays, his son Peregrine, and the Hays family of Gilmer County. Subjects include: the formation of Gilmer, Calhoun, Roane, and Upshur Counties; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; \"Stonewall\" Jackson's boyhood; early frontier conditions in the Wisconsin Territory; immigration, farming, milling, and land speculation in Minnesota, 1857-1870; Charleston and Braxton turnpike; slave sales; Early's Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864; conditions in Richmond during the Civil War pertaining to livestock, tobacco, and cotton trade; the West Virginia Capitol question, 1877; and the Senatorial contest, 1876. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, Louis Bennett, John Brannon, Gideon Camden, J.N. Camden, William P. Cooper, H. G. Davis, John J. Davis, Spencer Dayton, John S. Hoffman, William L. Jackson, John E. Kenna, Theodore Lang, and George W. Silcott. [note: not all of the subjects and personal names listed for series 1 were verified during reprocessing]","This series includes military records pertaining to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army. Military records include personnel papers (regarding death, desertion, and discharge), financial papers (receipts, inventories, etc.), judicial materials (charges and courts martial), correspondence, orders, a company book, muster rolls, etc. The series also includes maps, clippings, photographs, research correspondence, manuscript and typescript writings pertaining to the 31st Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army, and the correspondence and papers of D.C. Gallaher. D.C. Gallaher collected some of this material on the 31st regiment, which later came into the hands of Roy Bird Cook. For additional D.C. Gallaher material, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks 26-28, Civil War I-III.","Military correspondence and orders include letters from J.M. Bennett, G. D. Camden Jr. and Sr., W.P. Cooper, John W. Daniel, Cyrus Hall, John S. Hoffman, A.H. Jackson, William L. Jackson, and William Smith. Additional correspondence includes letters to Roy Bird Cook pertaining to the regiment. Military orders are from the Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of Northwestern Virginia, Early's Division, and the 31st Virginia Infantry. Typescript writings include material related to soldiers and Civil War activities in Pocahontas, Upshur, and Lewis Counties; \"A History of the Thirty-First Virginia Regiment Volunteers C.S.A.\" by James Dell Cooke of WVU (1955); copies of W.P. [William Pope] Cooper diaries, letters, etc.; and \"Material Pertaining to Civil War Soldiers [Most of Whom Fought in the 31st Regiment, Virginia Infantry]\" (ca. 1926-1940).","Please note, typescript copies of some of the original material in box 2, folders 1-9 can be found in box 3, folders 10-14.","For additional records of the 31st Virginia Infantry, see also: Series 15, Oversize Material -- 31st Virginia Infantry, boxes 49-51; and A\u0026M 1528 Series 6, Military Records, and Series 9, Oversized.","This series includes correspondence (box 4) and personal papers of Roy Bird Cook (box 5).","Correspondence includes mainly incoming invitations, letters, photo postcards, clippings, etc. Topics include: T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson; comments on several books (including 'Lee the American' by Gamaliel Bradford, 'Lewis County in the Civil War' by Cook, and 'They Called Him Stonewall' by Burke Davis); various areas of West Virginia history; family histories (notably of the Peterson and Rhea families); Civil War participants (e.g. General Jubal A. Early); the Civil War Round Table, Incorporated; the Jackson House (in letters from Isabel Arnold); Ann Bailey; George Washington's Ohio River trip; an exploration by James Patton; material on Fred Fousse, a Civil War illustrator; and biographical material on Roy Bird Cook.","Correspondents include: Thomas Perkins Abernathy (Corcoran School of History, University of Virginia), Holmes M. Alexander, Isabel Arnold (descendent of Stonewall Jackson's sister Laura, who married an Arnold), Thomas J. Arnold, John Bakeless, Albert J. Beveridge, Edward Bok, Alva J.C. Bond (Dean Emeritus, School of Theology, Alfred University), Gamaliel Bradford, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Lenoir Chambers, Dr. Earl L. Core, Burke Davis, Ruth Woods Dayton, H.A. DuPont, Douglas Southall Freeman, Granville Davisson Hall, Dr. Matthew S. Holt (father of Rush D. Holt), Jay W. Johns (President, Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Incorporated), Harnett T. Kane, John A. Klein (Adjutant General of the United States), Dr. O.D. Lambert, Foreman M. Lebold, Eli Lilly, Henry T. McDonald (President, Storer College), Clarence W. Meadows (former Governor), Meade Minnigerode, Judge Ben Moore, Oren F. Morton, Drew Pearson, Mrs. Randolph (Julia J.) Preston (Stonewall Jackson's granddaughter), Frederick F. Seely (Department of English, Allegheny College), Lawrence Sherwood, Kenneth Stuart (Art Editor, 'The Saturday Evening Post'), Boyd B. Stutler, Allen Tate, Albert Payson Terhune, Cecil H. Underwood, and John W. Wayland.","Personal papers include photographs of Cook and scrapbook-style notebooks containing correspondence, printed materials, and ephemera from Cook's life. Topics include Cook's time in school, American Pharmaceutical Association meetings, Cook's honorary LL.D. awarded by West Virginia University, his Kiwanis Personal Achievement Award, and an attempted burglary at his home.","Additional correspondence to and from Cook, writings by Cook, etc. can be found throughout the collection. For Cook family genealogy and other Cook material, see Series 8, Bound Notebook 67, Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers, and Series 15, Oversize Material.","This series includes manuscript originals and facsimiles, newspaper and magazine clippings, typescripts, and printed items regarding Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia businesses, Geary Securities Company (see also Series 15, Oversize Material), book reviews and excerpts, West Virginia elections, the West Virginia Capitol and capital city, and the history of West Virginia.","For material that was separated from this series, see Series 15, Oversize Material, box 47, folders 3 and 8.","Includes original and facsimile clippings on: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston; Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill at Richwood; horse-powered boat \"Adventurer\" built at Coatsmouth [Coalsmouth?] in 1840s; facsimile, top of page 1, Parkersburg's West Virginia Walking Beam, vol. 2, no. 13 [October 9, 1880]; old grist mills; \"The Story of Salt,\" illustrated; Gatts Mound [at Cresap]; covered bridges; Hinkle Fort, Pendleton County, illustrated; the Mercer Grant, Mason County; Bailey's Hotel, Weston; early history of the 'Weston Democrat'; Harman Blennerhassett naturalization papers, Wood County court records; Blennerhassett episode--depositions of John Graham and Alex. Henderson, also J. Graham letter to Henderson; the Philippi Bar of the 1880s; doubts about Morgan, first white settler in West Virginia; Teays River; Spanish War Vets Convention, Weston; erosion, Canaan Valley and Blackwater Falls, illustrated; the Greenbrier Hotel in 1908; Fairfax survey map and Lower Shenandoah Valley Settlement; Selby House, Shepherdstown; Claudius Crozet; delegates to Commercial Convention in Memphis; list of U.S. Navy ships with West Virginia names; Old Richards Fort, Harrison County; John L. Cole; George Rogers Clark; etc.;","This series includes individual and family papers (manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, images, etc.) of West Virginians; manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, commissions, etc. regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other topics; a manuscript roll book of a Confederate sergeant (1862); and two manuscript Civil War diaries (Confederate diary: 1864; Union diary: 1864-1865).","The individual and family papers include material related to the Barney, Bennett, Boyle, Cook, Jackson, Broun, Burner, Camden, Keister, McCausland, Quarrier, Laidley, Ruffner, Tavenner, Tompkins, and O'Neill families, among others; and material related to Mordecai Levi, J.A.J. Lightburn, James C. McFarland, Major T.P. Moore, John Morgan, Francis H. Pierpont, Adam See, Colonel William C. Tavenner, William Tompkins, and Robert E. Lee, among others. Topics of the family and individual papers include family matters, genealogy, business, and the Civil War. Mordecai Levi (1835-1914) invented the first method of brick paving in the U.S. and was an early paver of Charleston, WV. His papers include facsimile and original typescripts and correspondence, official documents, clippings, and other material [1871-1890, 1914-1974, undated].","Correspondence (mostly original letters) regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other letters includes the following correspondents, among others: John Echols, William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, Harman Blennerhassett, Lawrence A. Washington, Louis Philippe (King of France), Joseph Johnson (Governor of Virginia), and John Letcher (Governor of Virginia), among others. Original letters from McKinley, Hayes, McClellan, Louis Philippe, and Theodore Roosevelt have been separated to A\u0026M 435.","Includes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: John Henry and writing of the ballad; Judge Ben Wheeler Moore; Lydia Boggs [Shepherd] Cruger/Kruger [also includes typescript]; John Henry Shaw; J.E. Hanger; Caroline Beeghley; Captain Jackson Everson [Apperson]; William Henry Tappey Squires; [Josias] Hanson Link [family] [includes Captain Leib's description of Clarksburg during Civil War period]; Colonel Benjamin J. Wilson; Donnally family; Clendennin family; Huddleston family; Herold family; White family.","Includes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: Willa Hood Strickler [first female pharmacist in the state]; Prof. Milton W. Humphreys; S.B. Elkins; Boyd Stutler; Hu Maxwell; Nathan Goff Jr.; Renick family and Calvin Brown Renick; John Champe; General Hugh Mercer; and Francis Marion Franklin Smith [typescript]. Also includes miscellaneous topics, such as: West Virginia newspaper editors and publications; reburial of Chief Cornstalk's remains; Jama Shamoon, Fairmont resident in camp of Pancho Villa; road from Monterey to Pocahontas County, 1781-1782; Robert Crain and Margaret Bennett, daughter of Judge W.G. Bennett, wedding in Weston; campaign ribbon, W.G. Bennett for Governor; and Mrs. Lewis Bennett's donation of uniform, medals, etc. of her son, Lieutenant Lewis B. Jr., to the National Museum in Washington, D.C.","Contains clippings on various subjects, including: General Cox's message to the people of Charleston, General Orders, No. 8, Headquarters, District of the Kanawha, Elk River, July 25, 1861; Scary Creek battlefield [includes map]; Confederate money in Stockholm, Sweden; Capture of Steamboat \"Levi\" [General Eliakim P. Scammon], illustrated; Hawk's Nest incident [1862]; Kanawha Valley [includes map, photo of General Wise, copy of 1861 broadside \"Men of Virginia! Men of the Kanawha! To Arms!\"]; Lightburn's Retreat, Kanawha Valley 1862, illustrated; occupation of Charleston by Union Troops in 1861; \"Fort Hill\" Charleston, illustrated; Colonel George S. Patton and the \"Kanawha Riflemen,\" illustrated; \"The Dixie Rifles,\" Beuhring H. Jones, and the burning of Gauley Bridge, illustrated; Duskey's Raid on Ripley, illustrated; Wise's retreat from the Kanawha [includes map, illustrated].","Includes clippings on various subjects, such as: Hart residence and Rich Mountain battlefield, illustrated; monument to Gus Bailey of Fayette County; West Virginia's Generals in Gray, illustrated; Clarksburg, 1861, illustrated; role of the 'Wheeling Intelligencer' in the birth of West Virginia; Isaac J. Settle's Diary; preparing for action on the Kanawha, illustrated; Old Jack and Old Jube; list of issues of 'The Confederate Veteran' that have a West Virginia interest history of Company B, 14th West Virginia Infantry; \"Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864\" painting; etc. Also includes stamps and an envelope regarding the Centennial of the Philippi Covered Bridge in 1952.","Diary describes: marches and engagements in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia [including Greenbrier, Berkeley, and Jefferson County]; casualties and ordnance losses in various engagements; towns on route of march; desertions from the company; and reports of the movement and engagements of other units [Confederate and Union] [May 6, 1864-October 11, 1864]. Engagement sites include: Winchester and Fisher's Hill, 1st Brigadier General Breckenridge's Division, September 19 and 22; New Market, May 15, Confederate General John C. Breckenridge, Union General Seigle [sic: Sigel]; east of Atlee's Station, May 29-31 and June 1; Chickhominey River, Coal Harbor, June 2-3; near Lynchburg, June 18; near Salem, June 21; Frederick City, MD, July 9; between Purcellville and Snickerville, July 16; on the Shenandoah near Snicker's Gap, July 18; near Kerntown, July 24; near Charles Town, August 21; Berryville Road, September 4; near Winchester, September 19; Brown's Gap Road, September 26 [all 1864]. Martinsburg entries: July 4, 26, 27, 28-30, and August 7, 1864; Charlestown August 23, 1864. Last pages of diary list towns and countries traveled through, and distance traveled from May 6 - August 31, 1864.","Diary includes: descriptions of various engagements and maneuvers preceding Ellis' capture at Cedar Creek; names of men serving with Ellis who were wounded, discharged, deserters, etc.; description of living conditions at Camp Salisbury, NC; number of Federal prisoners joining the Confederate Army; number of deaths; and rations received. West Virginia counties in which the regiment saw action: Greenbrier, Mineral, Monroe, Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, Kanawha, Fayette, Raleigh, and Mercer. Ellis' location as mentioned in various entries in 1864: Ridgeville [Mineral County?], Hancock [MD?], \"Rebs reported at Peterson's Creek\" [Pattersons Creek, Mineral County?] on February 2; fight at New Creek [Mineral County] on February 3; \"Alpine Depot, Morgan Co. [Morgan County] West Virginia\" on April 1; other April entries mention Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, Pomeroy [OH], Charleston; Camp Piatt [?] Kanawha County on April 26; May entries mention Fayette County, Raleigh County, and Mercer County [captured Fort Breckenridge at Princeton, May 6]; Monroe County on May 13; New River on May 10; Lewisburg on May 22; White Sulphur Springs on June 2; Fayette County on June 20; Camp Piatt on July 1; Clarksburg on July 9; Piedmont on July 10; Martinsburg on July 11; Harpers Ferry on July 15; Libby Prison on November 1; Salisbury, NC on November 4. For a typescript copy of the diary, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks, box 16, Notebook 1.","This series includes correspondence, military orders, battle reports, legal documents, clippings, typescripts, print material, ephemera, photographs, and other material. Topics include T.J. Jackson's military service, his time as constable of Lewis County, his entrance into West Point, his application for position on the faculty of University of Virginia, the Jackson and Arnold families, memorial busts and statues of Jackson, Jackson biographies, etc.","Also includes personal belongings of Jackson and associated memorabilia, such as Stonewall Jackson souvenir or commemorative coins and medals, and hair from the tail of Jackson's horse, Old Sorrel.","Also includes letters, pension documents, clippings, and financial statements of Mary Anna Jackson, T.J. Jackson's wife. Topics include family life and books written by Mrs. Jackson about her daughter and her husband.","For additional memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, see Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives, and Series 15, Oversize Material. For other Jackson materials, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks.","This series includes unbound pamphlets and reprints of articles, as well as articles written by Roy Bird Cook. Topics include the history of Virginia and West Virginia, and the Civil War, among others.","This series includes typescripts, correspondence, clippings, genealogies, maps, ephemera, pamphlets, articles, photographs, and other material.","Prominent subjects include T.J. Jackson and his family, and the Civil War.","Material about T.J. Jackson includes articles and pamphlets about his life and military service; letters to, from, and about him; court records and legal documents regarding Jackson and his family; images of Jackson, Jackson's Mill, Jackson statues and memorials; reviews of books written about him, including Cook's 'The Family and Early Life of Stonewall Jackson'; and other items. Prominent Jackson family members include Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold. (Notebooks prominently featuring T.J. Jackson and his family include 2, 2A-2K, 4, 7, 9, 13, 23, 24, 32, 37, 38, 38A, 39, and 56.)","Civil War materials include historical sketches of battles; originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; historical sketches and rosters of companies and regiments; articles and narratives about life during the Civil War; etc.","Additional subjects include genealogy, West Virginia history, prominent individuals, the Virginia Military Institute, Weston newspapers, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the West Virginia Commission on Historic Markers.","Genealogical subjects include the Jackson, Neale, Arnold, Camden, Newlon, Sprigg, Williams, Ruffner, Hamilton, Holt, Byrne, Cook, Bird, Hull, and Conrad families, among others (Notebooks 2D, 42, 43, 48, 55, 67, and others).","West Virginia history subjects include Kanawha County Court records; Lewis County; Weston; Charleston; colonial and Civil War history of West Virginia; George Washington's travels and surveys in and around West Virginia; the Kanawha River, valley, and surrounding area; Blennerhassett Island; Wood County; and Parkersburg.","Prominent individuals include Andrew Jackson, Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh, Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr, Granville Davisson Hall, Jonathan McCally Bennett and the Bennett family, Colonel John Stuart, General Albert Jenkins, David Creigh, Mason Mathews, Henry F. Westfall, John Valley Young and family, Thomas Bland Camden, Johnson Newlon Camden, Daniel Boone, Harman Blennerhassett, John Esten Cooke, Colonel George Jackson, and Alexander Scott Withers, among others.","Correspondents include T.J. Jackson, members of the Bennett family, Charles W. Dabney, Douglas Southall Freeman, Thomas Jackson Arnold, Lyman C. Draper, Boyd B. Stutler, and Roy Bird Cook, among others.","For additional materials on David Creigh, see A\u0026M 2201, Preston Family Papers, Box 1.","Descriptive System for Series 8:","The contents of the notebooks are described to the item level in the Contents List. \n These items level descriptions are preceded with the items' genre and format in brackets.","Genres include:","article (from magazine or journal) \n clipping (usually from newspaper) \n ephemera \n pamphlet \n photo \n typescript \n ms [manuscript] letter \n ts [typescript] letter \n other","Formats include:","original \n transcription \n copy (for photocopies and other facsimiles)","Transcriptions are dated by creation date of the transcription, not the original. \n Copies are dated by creation date of original.","Examples:","[ephemera and photo; original] invitation to the dedication of the equestrian statue of Jackson and Lee in Baltimore, two tickets to the dedication, and a photo of the statue","[ts letters; transcription] letters regarding T.J. Jackson's appointment as a cadet at Military Academy (This record describes a set of typescript letters transcribed from originals.)","[other; copy] T.J. Jackson's appointment as Brevet Second Lieutenant (This record describes a facsimile of an official appointment document.)","This series includes diaries, lists, clippings, and pamphlets regarding Civil War experiences, music, battles, etc.; medical practice in (West) Virginia in the 1850s; and U.S. Presidents. The typescript copies of diaries relate to the years just before, during, and after the Civil War.","This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, prescriptions, account statements, advertisements, correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, and other material. Topics include the James H. Rogers Drug Store and other drug stores in Charleston, WV; Dr. Henry Rogers and other Charleston pharmacists; medicines of the mid to late 1800s; the 1960 meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association; West Virginia pharmacists' World War II service; and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association (now known as the West Virginia Pharmacists Association).","This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, magazine and journal articles, clippings, and correspondence regarding the history of the medical profession in West Virginia, including James Edward Hanger (first amputee soldier of the Civil War and founder of a prosthetics company), Dr. J.L. Miller (collector of medical material); and Dr. W.P. King.","This series includes pamphlets of original and reprinted articles regarding various pharmacists and the history of pharmacy. Also included are three bound volumes of material pertaining to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.","This series includes correspondence, a magazine, typescripts, and clippings related to Adalbert J. Volck. Also included are copies of 29 etchings by Volck regarding Civil War topics.","This series includes six glass plate negatives of T.J. Jackson portraits and Jackson's Mill.","This series is divided into two subseries, general material and material of the 31st Virginia Infantry.","This subseries includes memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, the Civil War, and Jackson's Mill. For additional T.J. Jackson material, see also Series 6, Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; Series 8, Bound Notebooks; and Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives.","Also included are family trees, maps, ephemera, clippings, Confederate bonds, and military records, among other material. Family trees show the genealogy of the Lee, Cook, Washington, and Cable families. Subjects of the maps include various counties in West Virginia; Civil War battles and troop movements; Charleston, WV; the Kanawha River; the Coal River; and George Washington's travels and surveys; among other subjects.","This subseries includes semi-monthly reports; lost or destroyed property reports; captains' monthly returns; abstracts of monthly payments and stationery issued; lists of officers; payroll and clothing distribution records; descriptive lists and accounting of pay and clothing records; morning reports; and muster rolls. The bulk of the material pertains to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Digitized copies of these items can be found online (see link in Instances).","See also, Series 2, Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry.","Many items were transferred to the Printed Ephemera Collection, including \"Mark Twain's Family in Early History of West Virginia,\" by Robert Harrison Ferguson, A.M. Superintendent Mason County Schools, Point Pleasant, West Virginia (see P8616 in the Printed Ephemera Collection).","An original letter from T.J. Jackson to Laura Ann Jackson Arnold, 26 October 1847, from Mexico City, Mexico, has been separated to the rare signature collection, A\u0026M 435.","Five original letters have been separated from Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers to A\u0026M 435. These are original manuscript letters authored by William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, John S. Mosby, and Louis Philippe, and an original typescript letter from Theodore Roosevelt.","\"Front Elevation of Lunatic Asylum, West of the Alleghany Mountains\", \"R. Snowden Andrews, Architect, Baltimore, MD\" (1859; 12 1/2 in. x 49 in.) separated to A\u0026M 4071, Weston State Hospital.","Most photographs in this collection have been separated and digitized -- see scope and content note for link to photographs in West Virginia History OnView. Two of the photos were separated to A\u0026M 4168, Panoramic Photos Collection: Sheltering Arms Hosptial and Kanawha Falls.","Lists of separated materials in the following categories can be found in the control folder: Broadsides \u0026 Programs, Newspapers/Periodicals, Circulars \u0026 West Virginia Pamphlets, and Maps.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]). There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center","West Virginia and Regional History Center","American Pharmaceutical Association","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st","West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association","Bennett family","Camden family","Hayes family","Jackson family","Quarrier family","Ruffner family","Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961","Arnold, Thomas Jackson.","Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925","Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887.","Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820","Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896","Brown, John, 1800-1859","Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg.","Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910","Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886.","Cooper, William P.","Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900","Crook, George, 1828-1890","Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916","Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894","Ellis, James F.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884","Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953","Gallaher, D.C.","Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934","Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893","Hays, Peregrine.","Hays, Samuel L.","Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889","Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891","Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895","Jackson, George.","Jackson, J.J.","Jackson, Mary Anna, 1831-1915","Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863","Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864","Kenna, John Edward, 1848-1893","Letcher, John, 1813-1884","Levi, Mordecai.","Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901.","MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930","Mastin, John A.","McCausland, John, 1836-1927","McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885","McFarland, James C.","McKinley, William, 1843-1901","Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916","Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899","Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924","Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912","Washington, George, 1732-1799","Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960"],"collection_ssim":["Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["A\u0026M 1561","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/6199"],"unitid_tesim":["A\u0026M 1561","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/6199"],"repository_ssm":["West Virginia and Regional History Center"],"repository_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center"],"geogname_ssm":["Charleston (W. 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(George Wesley), 1845-1925","Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887.","Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820","Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896","Brown, John, 1800-1859","Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg.","Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910","Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886.","Cooper, William P.","Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900","Crook, George, 1828-1890","Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916","Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894","Ellis, James F.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884","Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953","Gallaher, D.C.","Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934","Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893","Hays, Peregrine.","Hays, Samuel L.","Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889","Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891","Imboden, John D. 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Ellis, Corporal, Company B, 15th (West) Virginia - Box 16\nNotebook 2 - Jackson Letters - Box 16\nNotebook 2A-K - Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers, volumes 1-11 - Boxes 16-20\nNotebook 3 - Index to 1st-2nd-3rd Biennial Reports, Dept. of Archives and History, 1906-1911 - Box 20\nNotebook 4 - Douglas Freeman, Historian - Box 20\nNotebook 5A - Kanawha County Court Records, 1788-1803 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 20\nNotebook 5B - Kanawha County Court Records, 1825-1831 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 21\nNotebook 6 - Fitzhugh (bio of Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh and diary of Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr) - Box 21\nNotebook 7 - Thomas Jackson Arnold Letters (includes letters from TJA to Roy Bird Cook) - Box 21\nNotebook 8 - Granville Davisson Hall Papers - Box 21\nNotebook 9 - Jackson Papers (includes many items once held by Mrs. Jackson) - Box 22\nNotebook 10 - Weston Newspapers (includes material from 1800s) - Box 22\nNotebook 11 - Bennett Papers (re J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family; see also Notebook 44) - Box 22\nNotebook 12 - Pioneer Sketches of Lewis County (By Roy Bird Cook) - Box 22\nNotebook 13 - Jackson's Mill (contains thesis 'The Pioneer State 4-H Camp: Jackson's Mill') - Box 23\nNotebook 14 - B\u0026O Railroad (extracts from dissertation re B\u0026O in the Civil War by Festus Summers) - Box 23\nNotebook 15 - Lewis County (historical sketches by Robert L. Bland of 'The Weston Democrat' ca. 1920) - Box 23\nNotebook 16 - Oliver Letters (contains newspaper column re history of Weston, 1892) - Box 23\nNotebook 17 - Vandalia (contains typescript re the Ohio Land Company and George Washington) - Box 23\nNotebook 18 - Narrative of Colonel John Stuart of Greenbrier, 1798 (incl. info. on Indian wars) - Box 23\nNotebook 19 - A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches - see Series 13\nNotebook 20 - West Virginia Index (incl. material related to work of Commission on Historic Markers) - Box 23\nNotebook 21 - West Virginia Review Index (incl. list of articles by RBC, and TOC for 1923-1942) - Box 24\nNotebook 22 - Charleston Typescripts (regarding local history) - Box 24\nNotebook 23 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 1 - Box 25\nNotebook 24 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 2 - Box 25\nNotebook 25 - General Albert Jenkins, Confederate States Army (incl. biographical information) - Box 25\nNotebook 26 - Civil War I (mostly typescripts re various topics connected to the Civil War) - Box 26\nNotebook 27 - Civil War II - Box 26\nNotebook 28 - Civil War III - Box 27\nNotebook 29 - 'West Virginia' by Colonel Robert White (part of volume 2 of a series) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Mason Mathews Collection (notebook pp. 1-19; transcription of Civil War letters) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Alkire Collection (pp. 20-49; trans. of Civil War scrapbooks made by Marcia Phillips) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Diary of Henry F. Westfall (pp. 50-92; incl. typescript copy of Civil War diary) - Box 27\nNotebook 31 - Young Family Civil War Papers - Box 27\nNotebook 32 - Stonewall Jackson (includes mostly articles about Stonewall Jackson) - Box 28\nNotebook 33 - Civil War, No. 3 - Box 28\nNotebook 34 - Civil War, No. 4 - Box 28\nNotebook 35 - Civil War, No. 5 - Box 28\nNotebook 36 - Civil War, No. 6 - Box 29\nNotebook 37 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 38 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 38A - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 39 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 30\nNotebook 40 - Civil War--Camden (contains Civil War recollections by Thomas B. Camden) - Box 30\nNotebook 41 - Johnson Newlon Camden - Box 31\nNotebook 42 - Camden-Newlon-Sprigg-Williams Papers (genealogies) - Box 31\nNotebook 43 - Camden Papers - Box 31\nNotebook 44 - Bennett Papers (thesis re Civil War, VA Politics, and J. Bennett; see Notebk. 11) - Box 32\nNotebook 45 - West Virginia Sketch Book I (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\nNotebook 46 - West Virginia Sketch Book II (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\nNotebook 47 - West Virginia Sketch Book III (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 33\nNotebook 48 - Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book - Box 33\nNotebook 49 - Romance of the Kanawha (scrapbook contains maps, clippings, letters, etc.) - Box 33\nNotebook 50 - Daniel Boone--Early Kanawha Valley (material re D. Boone and General A. Lewis) - Box 34\nNotebook 51 - Lewis County Sketch Book I - Box 34\nNotebook 52 - Lewis County Sketch Book II - Box 34\nNotebook 53 - Weston--Lewis County (scrapbook includes mostly newspaper clippings) - Box 35\nNotebook 54 - Blennerhassett - Box 35\nNotebook 55 - Hamilton-Holt-Byrne-Newlon - Box 35\nNotebook 56 - Colonel George Jackson and Family - Box 35\nNotebook 57 - Washington Papers (includes copies of maps of land owned by GW) - Box 36\nNotebook 58 - Washington Papers - Box 36\nNotebook 59 - Washington Papers (includes material regarding Fort Dearborn) - Box 36\nNotebook 60 - Cooke Papers (includes many articles written by John Esten Cooke) - Box 37\nNotebook 61 - Washington Papers - Box 37\nNotebook 62 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 63 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 64 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 65 - West Virginia Archaeology - Box 38\nNotebook 66 - 'Wood County Formation' by Alvaro F. Gibbens - Box 39\nNotebook 67A - Jackson VMI (contains Board of Visitors report, July 1863) - Box 39\nNotebook 67 - Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers - Box 39\nNotebook 68 - Kanawha County - Box 40\nNotebook 69 - Hardesty's Lewis County (incl. Lewis, Barbour, and Upshur Counties) - Box 40\nNotebook 70 - Alexander Scott Withers (author of 'Chronicles of Border Warfare') - Box 40"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eRoy Bird Cook\u003c/emph\u003e (April 1, 1886 - November 21, 1961) was born in Lewis County, near Roanoke, WV. Cook was a pharmacist and prominent West Virginia historian. Cook wrote several books on the history of Lewis County and biographies of Stonewall Jackson and Alexander Scott Withers, and contributed historical articles to a wide variety of publications. He also collected Civil War and early West Virginia documents and memorabilia. More biographical information on Mr. Cook is available in the \"Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.\" (see link in Instances).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment\u003c/emph\u003e was formed in the early weeks of the Civil War when Confederate General Robert E. Lee ordered the recruitment of troops to protect railroad lines running through western Virginia's northern counties. On May 4, Lee appointed Colonel George Porterfield to assume command of these forces, which were being raised primarily in Taylor, Marion, Harrison, Monongalia, and Barbour Counties. In the next few weeks, these new recruits found themselves in the war's first arena, a tactical struggle for control of the Confederacy's northwestern flank--the hills, rails, and rivers of what would soon become the nation's 35th state, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComposed of some of the war's earliest recruits, the 31st Virginia Infantry would see action under General Garnett, William L. \"Mudwall\" Jackson, Jones and Imboden, Stonewall Jackson, Jubal Early, and many more legendary Confederate commanders, at battles including Corrick's Ford, Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, New Market, and others. Approximately 57 of the 850 men who joined the regiment in 1861 witnessed Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA detailed history of the 31st Virginia by James Dell Cooke is available online (see link in Instances).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearchers are also referred to John M. Ashcraft's '31st Virginia Infantry' (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1988).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eGranville Davisson Hall\u003c/emph\u003e (September 17, 1837 - June 24, 1934) worked for the Wheeling 'Intelligencer' as a reporter and editor. He also recorded the proceedings of the Wheeling Conventions, which led to the creation of the state of West Virginia. His notes were later published as 'The Rending of Virginia.' Hall also served as secretary to Governor Francis H. Pierpont when the Reorganized Government of Virginia was set up by the Second Wheeling Convention in 1861. In the new state government, Hall was elected the first clerk of the House of Delegates on June 20, 1863. In 1865, he was elected Secretary of State and also served as private secretary to West Virginia's first governor, Arthur I. Boreman. After the Civil War, Hall held several positions in the railroad industry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman and Confederate General \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAlbert Gallatin Jenkins\u003c/emph\u003e (November 10, 1830 - May 21, 1864) was born at Green Bottom, Cabell County. He practiced law in (West) Virginia and served in the U.S. Congress from 1857 to 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War, he enlisted recruits for a Virginia unit called the Border Rangers and was elected their captain. In August of 1861, he formed the 8th Virginia Cavalry and became its colonel. In early 1862, Jenkins was elected to the First Confederate Congress. In August of 1862, he was appointed brigadier general. He went on to command a battalion of cavalry at the Battle of Gettysburg. Jenkins died of wounds he received at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain. Jenkins' Green Bottom plantation house, maintained as an historic site by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eJonathan McCally Bennett\u003c/emph\u003e (October 4, 1816 - October 28, 1887) was born in Lewis County, (West) Virginia. He married Margaret Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Captain George W. Jackson, cousin of Stonewall Jackson. Bennett was law partner of Gideon D. Camden, and in 1846 became the first Mayor of Weston. He served as a member of the General Assembly in 1852-1853, was president of the Exchange Bank of Virginia at Weston in 1853, served as First Auditor of Virginia from 1857 to 1865, and served on the West Virginia Senate from 1872 to 1876. During the Civil War, he sided with the Confederacy. For additional collections related to J.M. 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On May 4, Lee appointed Colonel George Porterfield to assume command of these forces, which were being raised primarily in Taylor, Marion, Harrison, Monongalia, and Barbour Counties. In the next few weeks, these new recruits found themselves in the war's first arena, a tactical struggle for control of the Confederacy's northwestern flank--the hills, rails, and rivers of what would soon become the nation's 35th state, West Virginia.","Composed of some of the war's earliest recruits, the 31st Virginia Infantry would see action under General Garnett, William L. \"Mudwall\" Jackson, Jones and Imboden, Stonewall Jackson, Jubal Early, and many more legendary Confederate commanders, at battles including Corrick's Ford, Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, New Market, and others. Approximately 57 of the 850 men who joined the regiment in 1861 witnessed Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.","A detailed history of the 31st Virginia by James Dell Cooke is available online (see link in Instances).","Researchers are also referred to John M. Ashcraft's '31st Virginia Infantry' (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1988).","Granville Davisson Hall (September 17, 1837 - June 24, 1934) worked for the Wheeling 'Intelligencer' as a reporter and editor. He also recorded the proceedings of the Wheeling Conventions, which led to the creation of the state of West Virginia. His notes were later published as 'The Rending of Virginia.' Hall also served as secretary to Governor Francis H. Pierpont when the Reorganized Government of Virginia was set up by the Second Wheeling Convention in 1861. In the new state government, Hall was elected the first clerk of the House of Delegates on June 20, 1863. In 1865, he was elected Secretary of State and also served as private secretary to West Virginia's first governor, Arthur I. Boreman. After the Civil War, Hall held several positions in the railroad industry.","Congressman and Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins (November 10, 1830 - May 21, 1864) was born at Green Bottom, Cabell County. He practiced law in (West) Virginia and served in the U.S. Congress from 1857 to 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War, he enlisted recruits for a Virginia unit called the Border Rangers and was elected their captain. In August of 1861, he formed the 8th Virginia Cavalry and became its colonel. In early 1862, Jenkins was elected to the First Confederate Congress. In August of 1862, he was appointed brigadier general. He went on to command a battalion of cavalry at the Battle of Gettysburg. Jenkins died of wounds he received at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain. Jenkins' Green Bottom plantation house, maintained as an historic site by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.","Jonathan McCally Bennett (October 4, 1816 - October 28, 1887) was born in Lewis County, (West) Virginia. He married Margaret Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Captain George W. Jackson, cousin of Stonewall Jackson. Bennett was law partner of Gideon D. Camden, and in 1846 became the first Mayor of Weston. He served as a member of the General Assembly in 1852-1853, was president of the Exchange Bank of Virginia at Weston in 1853, served as First Auditor of Virginia from 1857 to 1865, and served on the West Virginia Senate from 1872 to 1876. During the Civil War, he sided with the Confederacy. For additional collections related to J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family, see also A\u0026M 32, 35, 572, and others."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, A\u0026amp;M 1561, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, A\u0026M 1561, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e81, 858, 895, 1309, 1379, 1528, 1561\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related A\u0026M Collections"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["81, 858, 895, 1309, 1379, 1528, 1561"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook-style notebooks of Roy Bird Cook (1896-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]) (the original letter by T.J. Jackson has been separated to A\u0026amp;M 435); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease note: Additional processing took place in spring and summer 2012. Box and folder numbers from previous citations may no longer be accurate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Hays Family Papers; 1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry; ca. 1856-1955, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 2-3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries 3. Roy Bird Cook Personal Papers; 1896-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4. Miscellaneous History; 1783-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 6-7b.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers; 1793-1974, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 8-9.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 6. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; 1801-1963, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 10-14c.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7. Historical Articles and Other Printed Papers; 1928-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 15.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8. Bound Notebooks; 1679-1984, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 16-40.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9. Miscellaneous; ca. 1850-1866, 1909-1958, undated; box 41, folders 1-4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10. History of Pharmacy and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association; ca. 1832-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); box 41, folder 5 - box 42, folder 3 (includes unfoldered material).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11. West Virginia Medical History and Biography; 1870-1911, 1936-1958, undated (includes facsimiles); box 42, folders 4-7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12. American Pharmaceutical Association; 1868, 1939-1961, undated; box 43.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13. A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches; ca. 1880, 1915-1954, 2012, undated (includes facsimiles); box 44.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 14. Glass Plate Negatives; undated; box 45.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 15. Oversize Material; 1774-1964, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 46-52 and map cabinet 1, drawer 19.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, business papers, and biographical notes of Samuel L. Hays, his son Peregrine, and the Hays family of Gilmer County. Subjects include: the formation of Gilmer, Calhoun, Roane, and Upshur Counties; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; \"Stonewall\" Jackson's boyhood; early frontier conditions in the Wisconsin Territory; immigration, farming, milling, and land speculation in Minnesota, 1857-1870; Charleston and Braxton turnpike; slave sales; Early's Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864; conditions in Richmond during the Civil War pertaining to livestock, tobacco, and cotton trade; the West Virginia Capitol question, 1877; and the Senatorial contest, 1876. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, Louis Bennett, John Brannon, Gideon Camden, J.N. Camden, William P. Cooper, H. G. Davis, John J. Davis, Spencer Dayton, John S. Hoffman, William L. Jackson, John E. Kenna, Theodore Lang, and George W. Silcott. [note: not all of the subjects and personal names listed for series 1 were verified during reprocessing]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes military records pertaining to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army. Military records include personnel papers (regarding death, desertion, and discharge), financial papers (receipts, inventories, etc.), judicial materials (charges and courts martial), correspondence, orders, a company book, muster rolls, etc. The series also includes maps, clippings, photographs, research correspondence, manuscript and typescript writings pertaining to the 31st Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army, and the correspondence and papers of D.C. Gallaher. D.C. Gallaher collected some of this material on the 31st regiment, which later came into the hands of Roy Bird Cook. For additional D.C. Gallaher material, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks 26-28, Civil War I-III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Military correspondence and orders include letters from J.M. Bennett, G. D. Camden Jr. and Sr., W.P. Cooper, John W. Daniel, Cyrus Hall, John S. Hoffman, A.H. Jackson, William L. Jackson, and William Smith. Additional correspondence includes letters to Roy Bird Cook pertaining to the regiment. Military orders are from the Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of Northwestern Virginia, Early's Division, and the 31st Virginia Infantry. Typescript writings include material related to soldiers and Civil War activities in Pocahontas, Upshur, and Lewis Counties; \"A History of the Thirty-First Virginia Regiment Volunteers C.S.A.\" by James Dell Cooke of WVU (1955); copies of W.P. [William Pope] Cooper diaries, letters, etc.; and \"Material Pertaining to Civil War Soldiers [Most of Whom Fought in the 31st Regiment, Virginia Infantry]\" (ca. 1926-1940).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Please note, typescript copies of some of the original material in box 2, folders 1-9 can be found in box 3, folders 10-14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e For additional records of the 31st Virginia Infantry, see also: Series 15, Oversize Material -- 31st Virginia Infantry, boxes 49-51; and A\u0026amp;M 1528 Series 6, Military Records, and Series 9, Oversized.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence (box 4) and personal papers of Roy Bird Cook (box 5).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Correspondence includes mainly incoming invitations, letters, photo postcards, clippings, etc. Topics include: T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson; comments on several books (including 'Lee the American' by Gamaliel Bradford, 'Lewis County in the Civil War' by Cook, and 'They Called Him Stonewall' by Burke Davis); various areas of West Virginia history; family histories (notably of the Peterson and Rhea families); Civil War participants (e.g. General Jubal A. Early); the Civil War Round Table, Incorporated; the Jackson House (in letters from Isabel Arnold); Ann Bailey; George Washington's Ohio River trip; an exploration by James Patton; material on Fred Fousse, a Civil War illustrator; and biographical material on Roy Bird Cook.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Correspondents include: Thomas Perkins Abernathy (Corcoran School of History, University of Virginia), Holmes M. Alexander, Isabel Arnold (descendent of Stonewall Jackson's sister Laura, who married an Arnold), Thomas J. Arnold, John Bakeless, Albert J. Beveridge, Edward Bok, Alva J.C. Bond (Dean Emeritus, School of Theology, Alfred University), Gamaliel Bradford, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Lenoir Chambers, Dr. Earl L. Core, Burke Davis, Ruth Woods Dayton, H.A. DuPont, Douglas Southall Freeman, Granville Davisson Hall, Dr. Matthew S. Holt (father of Rush D. Holt), Jay W. Johns (President, Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Incorporated), Harnett T. Kane, John A. Klein (Adjutant General of the United States), Dr. O.D. Lambert, Foreman M. Lebold, Eli Lilly, Henry T. McDonald (President, Storer College), Clarence W. Meadows (former Governor), Meade Minnigerode, Judge Ben Moore, Oren F. Morton, Drew Pearson, Mrs. Randolph (Julia J.) Preston (Stonewall Jackson's granddaughter), Frederick F. Seely (Department of English, Allegheny College), Lawrence Sherwood, Kenneth Stuart (Art Editor, 'The Saturday Evening Post'), Boyd B. Stutler, Allen Tate, Albert Payson Terhune, Cecil H. Underwood, and John W. Wayland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Personal papers include photographs of Cook and scrapbook-style notebooks containing correspondence, printed materials, and ephemera from Cook's life. Topics include Cook's time in school, American Pharmaceutical Association meetings, Cook's honorary LL.D. awarded by West Virginia University, his Kiwanis Personal Achievement Award, and an attempted burglary at his home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Additional correspondence to and from Cook, writings by Cook, etc. can be found throughout the collection. For Cook family genealogy and other Cook material, see Series 8, Bound Notebook 67, Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers, and Series 15, Oversize Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes manuscript originals and facsimiles, newspaper and magazine clippings, typescripts, and printed items regarding Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia businesses, Geary Securities Company (see also Series 15, Oversize Material), book reviews and excerpts, West Virginia elections, the West Virginia Capitol and capital city, and the history of West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e For material that was separated from this series, see Series 15, Oversize Material, box 47, folders 3 and 8.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes original and facsimile clippings on: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston; Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill at Richwood; horse-powered boat \"Adventurer\" built at Coatsmouth [Coalsmouth?] in 1840s; facsimile, top of page 1, Parkersburg's West Virginia Walking Beam, vol. 2, no. 13 [October 9, 1880]; old grist mills; \"The Story of Salt,\" illustrated; Gatts Mound [at Cresap]; covered bridges; Hinkle Fort, Pendleton County, illustrated; the Mercer Grant, Mason County; Bailey's Hotel, Weston; early history of the 'Weston Democrat'; Harman Blennerhassett naturalization papers, Wood County court records; Blennerhassett episode--depositions of John Graham and Alex. Henderson, also J. Graham letter to Henderson; the Philippi Bar of the 1880s; doubts about Morgan, first white settler in West Virginia; Teays River; Spanish War Vets Convention, Weston; erosion, Canaan Valley and Blackwater Falls, illustrated; the Greenbrier Hotel in 1908; Fairfax survey map and Lower Shenandoah Valley Settlement; Selby House, Shepherdstown; Claudius Crozet; delegates to Commercial Convention in Memphis; list of U.S. Navy ships with West Virginia names; Old Richards Fort, Harrison County; John L. Cole; George Rogers Clark; etc.;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes individual and family papers (manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, images, etc.) of West Virginians; manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, commissions, etc. regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other topics; a manuscript roll book of a Confederate sergeant (1862); and two manuscript Civil War diaries (Confederate diary: 1864; Union diary: 1864-1865).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The individual and family papers include material related to the Barney, Bennett, Boyle, Cook, Jackson, Broun, Burner, Camden, Keister, McCausland, Quarrier, Laidley, Ruffner, Tavenner, Tompkins, and O'Neill families, among others; and material related to Mordecai Levi, J.A.J. Lightburn, James C. McFarland, Major T.P. Moore, John Morgan, Francis H. Pierpont, Adam See, Colonel William C. Tavenner, William Tompkins, and Robert E. Lee, among others. Topics of the family and individual papers include family matters, genealogy, business, and the Civil War. Mordecai Levi (1835-1914) invented the first method of brick paving in the U.S. and was an early paver of Charleston, WV. His papers include facsimile and original typescripts and correspondence, official documents, clippings, and other material [1871-1890, 1914-1974, undated].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Correspondence (mostly original letters) regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other letters includes the following correspondents, among others: John Echols, William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, Harman Blennerhassett, Lawrence A. Washington, Louis Philippe (King of France), Joseph Johnson (Governor of Virginia), and John Letcher (Governor of Virginia), among others. Original letters from McKinley, Hayes, McClellan, Louis Philippe, and Theodore Roosevelt have been separated to A\u0026amp;M 435.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: John Henry and writing of the ballad; Judge Ben Wheeler Moore; Lydia Boggs [Shepherd] Cruger/Kruger [also includes typescript]; John Henry Shaw; J.E. Hanger; Caroline Beeghley; Captain Jackson Everson [Apperson]; William Henry Tappey Squires; [Josias] Hanson Link [family] [includes Captain Leib's description of Clarksburg during Civil War period]; Colonel Benjamin J. Wilson; Donnally family; Clendennin family; Huddleston family; Herold family; White family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: Willa Hood Strickler [first female pharmacist in the state]; Prof. Milton W. Humphreys; S.B. Elkins; Boyd Stutler; Hu Maxwell; Nathan Goff Jr.; Renick family and Calvin Brown Renick; John Champe; General Hugh Mercer; and Francis Marion Franklin Smith [typescript]. Also includes miscellaneous topics, such as: West Virginia newspaper editors and publications; reburial of Chief Cornstalk's remains; Jama Shamoon, Fairmont resident in camp of Pancho Villa; road from Monterey to Pocahontas County, 1781-1782; Robert Crain and Margaret Bennett, daughter of Judge W.G. Bennett, wedding in Weston; campaign ribbon, W.G. Bennett for Governor; and Mrs. Lewis Bennett's donation of uniform, medals, etc. of her son, Lieutenant Lewis B. Jr., to the National Museum in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains clippings on various subjects, including: General Cox's message to the people of Charleston, General Orders, No. 8, Headquarters, District of the Kanawha, Elk River, July 25, 1861; Scary Creek battlefield [includes map]; Confederate money in Stockholm, Sweden; Capture of Steamboat \"Levi\" [General Eliakim P. Scammon], illustrated; Hawk's Nest incident [1862]; Kanawha Valley [includes map, photo of General Wise, copy of 1861 broadside \"Men of Virginia! Men of the Kanawha! To Arms!\"]; Lightburn's Retreat, Kanawha Valley 1862, illustrated; occupation of Charleston by Union Troops in 1861; \"Fort Hill\" Charleston, illustrated; Colonel George S. Patton and the \"Kanawha Riflemen,\" illustrated; \"The Dixie Rifles,\" Beuhring H. Jones, and the burning of Gauley Bridge, illustrated; Duskey's Raid on Ripley, illustrated; Wise's retreat from the Kanawha [includes map, illustrated].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes clippings on various subjects, such as: Hart residence and Rich Mountain battlefield, illustrated; monument to Gus Bailey of Fayette County; West Virginia's Generals in Gray, illustrated; Clarksburg, 1861, illustrated; role of the 'Wheeling Intelligencer' in the birth of West Virginia; Isaac J. Settle's Diary; preparing for action on the Kanawha, illustrated; Old Jack and Old Jube; list of issues of 'The Confederate Veteran' that have a West Virginia interest history of Company B, 14th West Virginia Infantry; \"Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864\" painting; etc. Also includes stamps and an envelope regarding the Centennial of the Philippi Covered Bridge in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary describes: marches and engagements in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia [including Greenbrier, Berkeley, and Jefferson County]; casualties and ordnance losses in various engagements; towns on route of march; desertions from the company; and reports of the movement and engagements of other units [Confederate and Union] [May 6, 1864-October 11, 1864]. Engagement sites include: Winchester and Fisher's Hill, 1st Brigadier General Breckenridge's Division, September 19 and 22; New Market, May 15, Confederate General John C. Breckenridge, Union General Seigle [sic: Sigel]; east of Atlee's Station, May 29-31 and June 1; Chickhominey River, Coal Harbor, June 2-3; near Lynchburg, June 18; near Salem, June 21; Frederick City, MD, July 9; between Purcellville and Snickerville, July 16; on the Shenandoah near Snicker's Gap, July 18; near Kerntown, July 24; near Charles Town, August 21; Berryville Road, September 4; near Winchester, September 19; Brown's Gap Road, September 26 [all 1864]. Martinsburg entries: July 4, 26, 27, 28-30, and August 7, 1864; Charlestown August 23, 1864. Last pages of diary list towns and countries traveled through, and distance traveled from May 6 - August 31, 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary includes: descriptions of various engagements and maneuvers preceding Ellis' capture at Cedar Creek; names of men serving with Ellis who were wounded, discharged, deserters, etc.; description of living conditions at Camp Salisbury, NC; number of Federal prisoners joining the Confederate Army; number of deaths; and rations received. West Virginia counties in which the regiment saw action: Greenbrier, Mineral, Monroe, Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, Kanawha, Fayette, Raleigh, and Mercer. Ellis' location as mentioned in various entries in 1864: Ridgeville [Mineral County?], Hancock [MD?], \"Rebs reported at Peterson's Creek\" [Pattersons Creek, Mineral County?] on February 2; fight at New Creek [Mineral County] on February 3; \"Alpine Depot, Morgan Co. [Morgan County] West Virginia\" on April 1; other April entries mention Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, Pomeroy [OH], Charleston; Camp Piatt [?] Kanawha County on April 26; May entries mention Fayette County, Raleigh County, and Mercer County [captured Fort Breckenridge at Princeton, May 6]; Monroe County on May 13; New River on May 10; Lewisburg on May 22; White Sulphur Springs on June 2; Fayette County on June 20; Camp Piatt on July 1; Clarksburg on July 9; Piedmont on July 10; Martinsburg on July 11; Harpers Ferry on July 15; Libby Prison on November 1; Salisbury, NC on November 4. For a typescript copy of the diary, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks, box 16, Notebook 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, military orders, battle reports, legal documents, clippings, typescripts, print material, ephemera, photographs, and other material. Topics include T.J. Jackson's military service, his time as constable of Lewis County, his entrance into West Point, his application for position on the faculty of University of Virginia, the Jackson and Arnold families, memorial busts and statues of Jackson, Jackson biographies, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes personal belongings of Jackson and associated memorabilia, such as Stonewall Jackson souvenir or commemorative coins and medals, and hair from the tail of Jackson's horse, Old Sorrel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes letters, pension documents, clippings, and financial statements of Mary Anna Jackson, T.J. Jackson's wife. Topics include family life and books written by Mrs. Jackson about her daughter and her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e For additional memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, see Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives, and Series 15, Oversize Material. For other Jackson materials, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes unbound pamphlets and reprints of articles, as well as articles written by Roy Bird Cook. Topics include the history of Virginia and West Virginia, and the Civil War, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes typescripts, correspondence, clippings, genealogies, maps, ephemera, pamphlets, articles, photographs, and other material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Prominent subjects include T.J. Jackson and his family, and the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Material about T.J. Jackson includes articles and pamphlets about his life and military service; letters to, from, and about him; court records and legal documents regarding Jackson and his family; images of Jackson, Jackson's Mill, Jackson statues and memorials; reviews of books written about him, including Cook's 'The Family and Early Life of Stonewall Jackson'; and other items. Prominent Jackson family members include Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold. (Notebooks prominently featuring T.J. Jackson and his family include 2, 2A-2K, 4, 7, 9, 13, 23, 24, 32, 37, 38, 38A, 39, and 56.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Civil War materials include historical sketches of battles; originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; historical sketches and rosters of companies and regiments; articles and narratives about life during the Civil War; etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Additional subjects include genealogy, West Virginia history, prominent individuals, the Virginia Military Institute, Weston newspapers, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the West Virginia Commission on Historic Markers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Genealogical subjects include the Jackson, Neale, Arnold, Camden, Newlon, Sprigg, Williams, Ruffner, Hamilton, Holt, Byrne, Cook, Bird, Hull, and Conrad families, among others (Notebooks 2D, 42, 43, 48, 55, 67, and others).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e West Virginia history subjects include Kanawha County Court records; Lewis County; Weston; Charleston; colonial and Civil War history of West Virginia; George Washington's travels and surveys in and around West Virginia; the Kanawha River, valley, and surrounding area; Blennerhassett Island; Wood County; and Parkersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Prominent individuals include Andrew Jackson, Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh, Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr, Granville Davisson Hall, Jonathan McCally Bennett and the Bennett family, Colonel John Stuart, General Albert Jenkins, David Creigh, Mason Mathews, Henry F. Westfall, John Valley Young and family, Thomas Bland Camden, Johnson Newlon Camden, Daniel Boone, Harman Blennerhassett, John Esten Cooke, Colonel George Jackson, and Alexander Scott Withers, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Correspondents include T.J. Jackson, members of the Bennett family, Charles W. Dabney, Douglas Southall Freeman, Thomas Jackson Arnold, Lyman C. Draper, Boyd B. Stutler, and Roy Bird Cook, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e For additional materials on David Creigh, see A\u0026amp;M 2201, Preston Family Papers, Box 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eDescriptive System for Series 8:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The contents of the notebooks are described to the item level in the Contents List. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n These items level descriptions are preceded with the items' genre and format in brackets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eGenres include:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e article (from magazine or journal) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n clipping (usually from newspaper) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n ephemera \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n pamphlet \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n photo \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n typescript \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n ms [manuscript] letter \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n ts [typescript] letter \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n other\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFormats include:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e original \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n transcription \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n copy (for photocopies and other facsimiles)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Transcriptions are dated by creation date of the transcription, not the original. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Copies are dated by creation date of original.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eExamples:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [ephemera and photo; original] invitation to the dedication of the equestrian statue of Jackson and Lee in Baltimore, two tickets to the dedication, and a photo of the statue\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [ts letters; transcription] letters regarding T.J. Jackson's appointment as a cadet at Military Academy (This record describes a set of typescript letters transcribed from originals.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [other; copy] T.J. Jackson's appointment as Brevet Second Lieutenant (This record describes a facsimile of an official appointment document.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes diaries, lists, clippings, and pamphlets regarding Civil War experiences, music, battles, etc.; medical practice in (West) Virginia in the 1850s; and U.S. Presidents. The typescript copies of diaries relate to the years just before, during, and after the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes typescripts, pamphlets, prescriptions, account statements, advertisements, correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, and other material. Topics include the James H. Rogers Drug Store and other drug stores in Charleston, WV; Dr. Henry Rogers and other Charleston pharmacists; medicines of the mid to late 1800s; the 1960 meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association; West Virginia pharmacists' World War II service; and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association (now known as the West Virginia Pharmacists Association).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes typescripts, pamphlets, magazine and journal articles, clippings, and correspondence regarding the history of the medical profession in West Virginia, including James Edward Hanger (first amputee soldier of the Civil War and founder of a prosthetics company), Dr. J.L. Miller (collector of medical material); and Dr. W.P. King.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets of original and reprinted articles regarding various pharmacists and the history of pharmacy. Also included are three bound volumes of material pertaining to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, a magazine, typescripts, and clippings related to Adalbert J. Volck. Also included are copies of 29 etchings by Volck regarding Civil War topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes six glass plate negatives of T.J. Jackson portraits and Jackson's Mill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided into two subseries, general material and material of the 31st Virginia Infantry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, the Civil War, and Jackson's Mill. For additional T.J. Jackson material, see also Series 6, Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; Series 8, Bound Notebooks; and Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also included are family trees, maps, ephemera, clippings, Confederate bonds, and military records, among other material. Family trees show the genealogy of the Lee, Cook, Washington, and Cable families. Subjects of the maps include various counties in West Virginia; Civil War battles and troop movements; Charleston, WV; the Kanawha River; the Coal River; and George Washington's travels and surveys; among other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes semi-monthly reports; lost or destroyed property reports; captains' monthly returns; abstracts of monthly payments and stationery issued; lists of officers; payroll and clothing distribution records; descriptive lists and accounting of pay and clothing records; morning reports; and muster rolls. The bulk of the material pertains to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Digitized copies of these items can be found online (see link in Instances).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also, Series 2, Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics.","Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook-style notebooks of Roy Bird Cook (1896-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]) (the original letter by T.J. Jackson has been separated to A\u0026M 435); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]).","There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.","Please note: Additional processing took place in spring and summer 2012. Box and folder numbers from previous citations may no longer be accurate.","Series 1. Hays Family Papers; 1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1.","Series 2. Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry; ca. 1856-1955, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 2-3.","Series 3. Roy Bird Cook Personal Papers; 1896-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-5.","Series 4. Miscellaneous History; 1783-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 6-7b.","Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers; 1793-1974, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 8-9.","Series 6. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; 1801-1963, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 10-14c.","Series 7. Historical Articles and Other Printed Papers; 1928-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 15.","Series 8. Bound Notebooks; 1679-1984, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 16-40.","Series 9. Miscellaneous; ca. 1850-1866, 1909-1958, undated; box 41, folders 1-4.","Series 10. History of Pharmacy and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association; ca. 1832-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); box 41, folder 5 - box 42, folder 3 (includes unfoldered material).","Series 11. West Virginia Medical History and Biography; 1870-1911, 1936-1958, undated (includes facsimiles); box 42, folders 4-7.","Series 12. American Pharmaceutical Association; 1868, 1939-1961, undated; box 43.","Series 13. A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches; ca. 1880, 1915-1954, 2012, undated (includes facsimiles); box 44.","Series 14. Glass Plate Negatives; undated; box 45.","Series 15. Oversize Material; 1774-1964, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 46-52 and map cabinet 1, drawer 19.","This series includes correspondence, business papers, and biographical notes of Samuel L. Hays, his son Peregrine, and the Hays family of Gilmer County. Subjects include: the formation of Gilmer, Calhoun, Roane, and Upshur Counties; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; \"Stonewall\" Jackson's boyhood; early frontier conditions in the Wisconsin Territory; immigration, farming, milling, and land speculation in Minnesota, 1857-1870; Charleston and Braxton turnpike; slave sales; Early's Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864; conditions in Richmond during the Civil War pertaining to livestock, tobacco, and cotton trade; the West Virginia Capitol question, 1877; and the Senatorial contest, 1876. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, Louis Bennett, John Brannon, Gideon Camden, J.N. Camden, William P. Cooper, H. G. Davis, John J. Davis, Spencer Dayton, John S. Hoffman, William L. Jackson, John E. Kenna, Theodore Lang, and George W. Silcott. [note: not all of the subjects and personal names listed for series 1 were verified during reprocessing]","This series includes military records pertaining to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army. Military records include personnel papers (regarding death, desertion, and discharge), financial papers (receipts, inventories, etc.), judicial materials (charges and courts martial), correspondence, orders, a company book, muster rolls, etc. The series also includes maps, clippings, photographs, research correspondence, manuscript and typescript writings pertaining to the 31st Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army, and the correspondence and papers of D.C. Gallaher. D.C. Gallaher collected some of this material on the 31st regiment, which later came into the hands of Roy Bird Cook. For additional D.C. Gallaher material, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks 26-28, Civil War I-III.","Military correspondence and orders include letters from J.M. Bennett, G. D. Camden Jr. and Sr., W.P. Cooper, John W. Daniel, Cyrus Hall, John S. Hoffman, A.H. Jackson, William L. Jackson, and William Smith. Additional correspondence includes letters to Roy Bird Cook pertaining to the regiment. Military orders are from the Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of Northwestern Virginia, Early's Division, and the 31st Virginia Infantry. Typescript writings include material related to soldiers and Civil War activities in Pocahontas, Upshur, and Lewis Counties; \"A History of the Thirty-First Virginia Regiment Volunteers C.S.A.\" by James Dell Cooke of WVU (1955); copies of W.P. [William Pope] Cooper diaries, letters, etc.; and \"Material Pertaining to Civil War Soldiers [Most of Whom Fought in the 31st Regiment, Virginia Infantry]\" (ca. 1926-1940).","Please note, typescript copies of some of the original material in box 2, folders 1-9 can be found in box 3, folders 10-14.","For additional records of the 31st Virginia Infantry, see also: Series 15, Oversize Material -- 31st Virginia Infantry, boxes 49-51; and A\u0026M 1528 Series 6, Military Records, and Series 9, Oversized.","This series includes correspondence (box 4) and personal papers of Roy Bird Cook (box 5).","Correspondence includes mainly incoming invitations, letters, photo postcards, clippings, etc. Topics include: T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson; comments on several books (including 'Lee the American' by Gamaliel Bradford, 'Lewis County in the Civil War' by Cook, and 'They Called Him Stonewall' by Burke Davis); various areas of West Virginia history; family histories (notably of the Peterson and Rhea families); Civil War participants (e.g. General Jubal A. Early); the Civil War Round Table, Incorporated; the Jackson House (in letters from Isabel Arnold); Ann Bailey; George Washington's Ohio River trip; an exploration by James Patton; material on Fred Fousse, a Civil War illustrator; and biographical material on Roy Bird Cook.","Correspondents include: Thomas Perkins Abernathy (Corcoran School of History, University of Virginia), Holmes M. Alexander, Isabel Arnold (descendent of Stonewall Jackson's sister Laura, who married an Arnold), Thomas J. Arnold, John Bakeless, Albert J. Beveridge, Edward Bok, Alva J.C. Bond (Dean Emeritus, School of Theology, Alfred University), Gamaliel Bradford, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Lenoir Chambers, Dr. Earl L. Core, Burke Davis, Ruth Woods Dayton, H.A. DuPont, Douglas Southall Freeman, Granville Davisson Hall, Dr. Matthew S. Holt (father of Rush D. Holt), Jay W. Johns (President, Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Incorporated), Harnett T. Kane, John A. Klein (Adjutant General of the United States), Dr. O.D. Lambert, Foreman M. Lebold, Eli Lilly, Henry T. McDonald (President, Storer College), Clarence W. Meadows (former Governor), Meade Minnigerode, Judge Ben Moore, Oren F. Morton, Drew Pearson, Mrs. Randolph (Julia J.) Preston (Stonewall Jackson's granddaughter), Frederick F. Seely (Department of English, Allegheny College), Lawrence Sherwood, Kenneth Stuart (Art Editor, 'The Saturday Evening Post'), Boyd B. Stutler, Allen Tate, Albert Payson Terhune, Cecil H. Underwood, and John W. Wayland.","Personal papers include photographs of Cook and scrapbook-style notebooks containing correspondence, printed materials, and ephemera from Cook's life. Topics include Cook's time in school, American Pharmaceutical Association meetings, Cook's honorary LL.D. awarded by West Virginia University, his Kiwanis Personal Achievement Award, and an attempted burglary at his home.","Additional correspondence to and from Cook, writings by Cook, etc. can be found throughout the collection. For Cook family genealogy and other Cook material, see Series 8, Bound Notebook 67, Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers, and Series 15, Oversize Material.","This series includes manuscript originals and facsimiles, newspaper and magazine clippings, typescripts, and printed items regarding Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia businesses, Geary Securities Company (see also Series 15, Oversize Material), book reviews and excerpts, West Virginia elections, the West Virginia Capitol and capital city, and the history of West Virginia.","For material that was separated from this series, see Series 15, Oversize Material, box 47, folders 3 and 8.","Includes original and facsimile clippings on: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston; Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill at Richwood; horse-powered boat \"Adventurer\" built at Coatsmouth [Coalsmouth?] in 1840s; facsimile, top of page 1, Parkersburg's West Virginia Walking Beam, vol. 2, no. 13 [October 9, 1880]; old grist mills; \"The Story of Salt,\" illustrated; Gatts Mound [at Cresap]; covered bridges; Hinkle Fort, Pendleton County, illustrated; the Mercer Grant, Mason County; Bailey's Hotel, Weston; early history of the 'Weston Democrat'; Harman Blennerhassett naturalization papers, Wood County court records; Blennerhassett episode--depositions of John Graham and Alex. Henderson, also J. Graham letter to Henderson; the Philippi Bar of the 1880s; doubts about Morgan, first white settler in West Virginia; Teays River; Spanish War Vets Convention, Weston; erosion, Canaan Valley and Blackwater Falls, illustrated; the Greenbrier Hotel in 1908; Fairfax survey map and Lower Shenandoah Valley Settlement; Selby House, Shepherdstown; Claudius Crozet; delegates to Commercial Convention in Memphis; list of U.S. Navy ships with West Virginia names; Old Richards Fort, Harrison County; John L. Cole; George Rogers Clark; etc.;","This series includes individual and family papers (manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, images, etc.) of West Virginians; manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, commissions, etc. regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other topics; a manuscript roll book of a Confederate sergeant (1862); and two manuscript Civil War diaries (Confederate diary: 1864; Union diary: 1864-1865).","The individual and family papers include material related to the Barney, Bennett, Boyle, Cook, Jackson, Broun, Burner, Camden, Keister, McCausland, Quarrier, Laidley, Ruffner, Tavenner, Tompkins, and O'Neill families, among others; and material related to Mordecai Levi, J.A.J. Lightburn, James C. McFarland, Major T.P. Moore, John Morgan, Francis H. Pierpont, Adam See, Colonel William C. Tavenner, William Tompkins, and Robert E. Lee, among others. Topics of the family and individual papers include family matters, genealogy, business, and the Civil War. Mordecai Levi (1835-1914) invented the first method of brick paving in the U.S. and was an early paver of Charleston, WV. His papers include facsimile and original typescripts and correspondence, official documents, clippings, and other material [1871-1890, 1914-1974, undated].","Correspondence (mostly original letters) regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other letters includes the following correspondents, among others: John Echols, William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, Harman Blennerhassett, Lawrence A. Washington, Louis Philippe (King of France), Joseph Johnson (Governor of Virginia), and John Letcher (Governor of Virginia), among others. Original letters from McKinley, Hayes, McClellan, Louis Philippe, and Theodore Roosevelt have been separated to A\u0026M 435.","Includes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: John Henry and writing of the ballad; Judge Ben Wheeler Moore; Lydia Boggs [Shepherd] Cruger/Kruger [also includes typescript]; John Henry Shaw; J.E. Hanger; Caroline Beeghley; Captain Jackson Everson [Apperson]; William Henry Tappey Squires; [Josias] Hanson Link [family] [includes Captain Leib's description of Clarksburg during Civil War period]; Colonel Benjamin J. Wilson; Donnally family; Clendennin family; Huddleston family; Herold family; White family.","Includes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: Willa Hood Strickler [first female pharmacist in the state]; Prof. Milton W. Humphreys; S.B. Elkins; Boyd Stutler; Hu Maxwell; Nathan Goff Jr.; Renick family and Calvin Brown Renick; John Champe; General Hugh Mercer; and Francis Marion Franklin Smith [typescript]. Also includes miscellaneous topics, such as: West Virginia newspaper editors and publications; reburial of Chief Cornstalk's remains; Jama Shamoon, Fairmont resident in camp of Pancho Villa; road from Monterey to Pocahontas County, 1781-1782; Robert Crain and Margaret Bennett, daughter of Judge W.G. Bennett, wedding in Weston; campaign ribbon, W.G. Bennett for Governor; and Mrs. Lewis Bennett's donation of uniform, medals, etc. of her son, Lieutenant Lewis B. Jr., to the National Museum in Washington, D.C.","Contains clippings on various subjects, including: General Cox's message to the people of Charleston, General Orders, No. 8, Headquarters, District of the Kanawha, Elk River, July 25, 1861; Scary Creek battlefield [includes map]; Confederate money in Stockholm, Sweden; Capture of Steamboat \"Levi\" [General Eliakim P. Scammon], illustrated; Hawk's Nest incident [1862]; Kanawha Valley [includes map, photo of General Wise, copy of 1861 broadside \"Men of Virginia! Men of the Kanawha! To Arms!\"]; Lightburn's Retreat, Kanawha Valley 1862, illustrated; occupation of Charleston by Union Troops in 1861; \"Fort Hill\" Charleston, illustrated; Colonel George S. Patton and the \"Kanawha Riflemen,\" illustrated; \"The Dixie Rifles,\" Beuhring H. Jones, and the burning of Gauley Bridge, illustrated; Duskey's Raid on Ripley, illustrated; Wise's retreat from the Kanawha [includes map, illustrated].","Includes clippings on various subjects, such as: Hart residence and Rich Mountain battlefield, illustrated; monument to Gus Bailey of Fayette County; West Virginia's Generals in Gray, illustrated; Clarksburg, 1861, illustrated; role of the 'Wheeling Intelligencer' in the birth of West Virginia; Isaac J. Settle's Diary; preparing for action on the Kanawha, illustrated; Old Jack and Old Jube; list of issues of 'The Confederate Veteran' that have a West Virginia interest history of Company B, 14th West Virginia Infantry; \"Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864\" painting; etc. Also includes stamps and an envelope regarding the Centennial of the Philippi Covered Bridge in 1952.","Diary describes: marches and engagements in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia [including Greenbrier, Berkeley, and Jefferson County]; casualties and ordnance losses in various engagements; towns on route of march; desertions from the company; and reports of the movement and engagements of other units [Confederate and Union] [May 6, 1864-October 11, 1864]. Engagement sites include: Winchester and Fisher's Hill, 1st Brigadier General Breckenridge's Division, September 19 and 22; New Market, May 15, Confederate General John C. Breckenridge, Union General Seigle [sic: Sigel]; east of Atlee's Station, May 29-31 and June 1; Chickhominey River, Coal Harbor, June 2-3; near Lynchburg, June 18; near Salem, June 21; Frederick City, MD, July 9; between Purcellville and Snickerville, July 16; on the Shenandoah near Snicker's Gap, July 18; near Kerntown, July 24; near Charles Town, August 21; Berryville Road, September 4; near Winchester, September 19; Brown's Gap Road, September 26 [all 1864]. Martinsburg entries: July 4, 26, 27, 28-30, and August 7, 1864; Charlestown August 23, 1864. Last pages of diary list towns and countries traveled through, and distance traveled from May 6 - August 31, 1864.","Diary includes: descriptions of various engagements and maneuvers preceding Ellis' capture at Cedar Creek; names of men serving with Ellis who were wounded, discharged, deserters, etc.; description of living conditions at Camp Salisbury, NC; number of Federal prisoners joining the Confederate Army; number of deaths; and rations received. West Virginia counties in which the regiment saw action: Greenbrier, Mineral, Monroe, Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, Kanawha, Fayette, Raleigh, and Mercer. Ellis' location as mentioned in various entries in 1864: Ridgeville [Mineral County?], Hancock [MD?], \"Rebs reported at Peterson's Creek\" [Pattersons Creek, Mineral County?] on February 2; fight at New Creek [Mineral County] on February 3; \"Alpine Depot, Morgan Co. [Morgan County] West Virginia\" on April 1; other April entries mention Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, Pomeroy [OH], Charleston; Camp Piatt [?] Kanawha County on April 26; May entries mention Fayette County, Raleigh County, and Mercer County [captured Fort Breckenridge at Princeton, May 6]; Monroe County on May 13; New River on May 10; Lewisburg on May 22; White Sulphur Springs on June 2; Fayette County on June 20; Camp Piatt on July 1; Clarksburg on July 9; Piedmont on July 10; Martinsburg on July 11; Harpers Ferry on July 15; Libby Prison on November 1; Salisbury, NC on November 4. For a typescript copy of the diary, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks, box 16, Notebook 1.","This series includes correspondence, military orders, battle reports, legal documents, clippings, typescripts, print material, ephemera, photographs, and other material. Topics include T.J. Jackson's military service, his time as constable of Lewis County, his entrance into West Point, his application for position on the faculty of University of Virginia, the Jackson and Arnold families, memorial busts and statues of Jackson, Jackson biographies, etc.","Also includes personal belongings of Jackson and associated memorabilia, such as Stonewall Jackson souvenir or commemorative coins and medals, and hair from the tail of Jackson's horse, Old Sorrel.","Also includes letters, pension documents, clippings, and financial statements of Mary Anna Jackson, T.J. Jackson's wife. Topics include family life and books written by Mrs. Jackson about her daughter and her husband.","For additional memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, see Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives, and Series 15, Oversize Material. For other Jackson materials, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks.","This series includes unbound pamphlets and reprints of articles, as well as articles written by Roy Bird Cook. Topics include the history of Virginia and West Virginia, and the Civil War, among others.","This series includes typescripts, correspondence, clippings, genealogies, maps, ephemera, pamphlets, articles, photographs, and other material.","Prominent subjects include T.J. Jackson and his family, and the Civil War.","Material about T.J. Jackson includes articles and pamphlets about his life and military service; letters to, from, and about him; court records and legal documents regarding Jackson and his family; images of Jackson, Jackson's Mill, Jackson statues and memorials; reviews of books written about him, including Cook's 'The Family and Early Life of Stonewall Jackson'; and other items. Prominent Jackson family members include Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold. (Notebooks prominently featuring T.J. Jackson and his family include 2, 2A-2K, 4, 7, 9, 13, 23, 24, 32, 37, 38, 38A, 39, and 56.)","Civil War materials include historical sketches of battles; originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; historical sketches and rosters of companies and regiments; articles and narratives about life during the Civil War; etc.","Additional subjects include genealogy, West Virginia history, prominent individuals, the Virginia Military Institute, Weston newspapers, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the West Virginia Commission on Historic Markers.","Genealogical subjects include the Jackson, Neale, Arnold, Camden, Newlon, Sprigg, Williams, Ruffner, Hamilton, Holt, Byrne, Cook, Bird, Hull, and Conrad families, among others (Notebooks 2D, 42, 43, 48, 55, 67, and others).","West Virginia history subjects include Kanawha County Court records; Lewis County; Weston; Charleston; colonial and Civil War history of West Virginia; George Washington's travels and surveys in and around West Virginia; the Kanawha River, valley, and surrounding area; Blennerhassett Island; Wood County; and Parkersburg.","Prominent individuals include Andrew Jackson, Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh, Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr, Granville Davisson Hall, Jonathan McCally Bennett and the Bennett family, Colonel John Stuart, General Albert Jenkins, David Creigh, Mason Mathews, Henry F. Westfall, John Valley Young and family, Thomas Bland Camden, Johnson Newlon Camden, Daniel Boone, Harman Blennerhassett, John Esten Cooke, Colonel George Jackson, and Alexander Scott Withers, among others.","Correspondents include T.J. Jackson, members of the Bennett family, Charles W. Dabney, Douglas Southall Freeman, Thomas Jackson Arnold, Lyman C. Draper, Boyd B. Stutler, and Roy Bird Cook, among others.","For additional materials on David Creigh, see A\u0026M 2201, Preston Family Papers, Box 1.","Descriptive System for Series 8:","The contents of the notebooks are described to the item level in the Contents List. \n These items level descriptions are preceded with the items' genre and format in brackets.","Genres include:","article (from magazine or journal) \n clipping (usually from newspaper) \n ephemera \n pamphlet \n photo \n typescript \n ms [manuscript] letter \n ts [typescript] letter \n other","Formats include:","original \n transcription \n copy (for photocopies and other facsimiles)","Transcriptions are dated by creation date of the transcription, not the original. \n Copies are dated by creation date of original.","Examples:","[ephemera and photo; original] invitation to the dedication of the equestrian statue of Jackson and Lee in Baltimore, two tickets to the dedication, and a photo of the statue","[ts letters; transcription] letters regarding T.J. Jackson's appointment as a cadet at Military Academy (This record describes a set of typescript letters transcribed from originals.)","[other; copy] T.J. Jackson's appointment as Brevet Second Lieutenant (This record describes a facsimile of an official appointment document.)","This series includes diaries, lists, clippings, and pamphlets regarding Civil War experiences, music, battles, etc.; medical practice in (West) Virginia in the 1850s; and U.S. Presidents. The typescript copies of diaries relate to the years just before, during, and after the Civil War.","This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, prescriptions, account statements, advertisements, correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, and other material. Topics include the James H. Rogers Drug Store and other drug stores in Charleston, WV; Dr. Henry Rogers and other Charleston pharmacists; medicines of the mid to late 1800s; the 1960 meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association; West Virginia pharmacists' World War II service; and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association (now known as the West Virginia Pharmacists Association).","This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, magazine and journal articles, clippings, and correspondence regarding the history of the medical profession in West Virginia, including James Edward Hanger (first amputee soldier of the Civil War and founder of a prosthetics company), Dr. J.L. Miller (collector of medical material); and Dr. W.P. King.","This series includes pamphlets of original and reprinted articles regarding various pharmacists and the history of pharmacy. Also included are three bound volumes of material pertaining to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.","This series includes correspondence, a magazine, typescripts, and clippings related to Adalbert J. Volck. Also included are copies of 29 etchings by Volck regarding Civil War topics.","This series includes six glass plate negatives of T.J. Jackson portraits and Jackson's Mill.","This series is divided into two subseries, general material and material of the 31st Virginia Infantry.","This subseries includes memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, the Civil War, and Jackson's Mill. For additional T.J. Jackson material, see also Series 6, Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; Series 8, Bound Notebooks; and Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives.","Also included are family trees, maps, ephemera, clippings, Confederate bonds, and military records, among other material. Family trees show the genealogy of the Lee, Cook, Washington, and Cable families. Subjects of the maps include various counties in West Virginia; Civil War battles and troop movements; Charleston, WV; the Kanawha River; the Coal River; and George Washington's travels and surveys; among other subjects.","This subseries includes semi-monthly reports; lost or destroyed property reports; captains' monthly returns; abstracts of monthly payments and stationery issued; lists of officers; payroll and clothing distribution records; descriptive lists and accounting of pay and clothing records; morning reports; and muster rolls. The bulk of the material pertains to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Digitized copies of these items can be found online (see link in Instances).","See also, Series 2, Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMany items were transferred to the Printed Ephemera Collection, including \"Mark Twain's Family in Early History of West Virginia,\" by Robert Harrison Ferguson, A.M. Superintendent Mason County Schools, Point Pleasant, West Virginia (see P8616 in the Printed Ephemera Collection).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nAn original letter from T.J. Jackson to Laura Ann Jackson Arnold, 26 October 1847, from Mexico City, Mexico, has been separated to the rare signature collection, A\u0026amp;M 435.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nFive original letters have been separated from Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers to A\u0026amp;M 435. These are original manuscript letters authored by William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, John S. Mosby, and Louis Philippe, and an original typescript letter from Theodore Roosevelt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"Front Elevation of Lunatic Asylum, West of the Alleghany Mountains\", \"R. Snowden Andrews, Architect, Baltimore, MD\" (1859; 12 1/2 in. x 49 in.) separated to A\u0026amp;M 4071, Weston State Hospital.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nMost photographs in this collection have been separated and digitized -- see scope and content note for link to photographs in West Virginia History OnView. Two of the photos were separated to A\u0026amp;M 4168, Panoramic Photos Collection: Sheltering Arms Hosptial and Kanawha Falls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nLists of separated materials in the following categories can be found in the control folder: Broadsides \u0026amp; Programs, Newspapers/Periodicals, Circulars \u0026amp; West Virginia Pamphlets, and Maps.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Many items were transferred to the Printed Ephemera Collection, including \"Mark Twain's Family in Early History of West Virginia,\" by Robert Harrison Ferguson, A.M. Superintendent Mason County Schools, Point Pleasant, West Virginia (see P8616 in the Printed Ephemera Collection).","An original letter from T.J. Jackson to Laura Ann Jackson Arnold, 26 October 1847, from Mexico City, Mexico, has been separated to the rare signature collection, A\u0026M 435.","Five original letters have been separated from Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers to A\u0026M 435. These are original manuscript letters authored by William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, John S. Mosby, and Louis Philippe, and an original typescript letter from Theodore Roosevelt.","\"Front Elevation of Lunatic Asylum, West of the Alleghany Mountains\", \"R. Snowden Andrews, Architect, Baltimore, MD\" (1859; 12 1/2 in. x 49 in.) separated to A\u0026M 4071, Weston State Hospital.","Most photographs in this collection have been separated and digitized -- see scope and content note for link to photographs in West Virginia History OnView. Two of the photos were separated to A\u0026M 4168, Panoramic Photos Collection: Sheltering Arms Hosptial and Kanawha Falls.","Lists of separated materials in the following categories can be found in the control folder: Broadsides \u0026 Programs, Newspapers/Periodicals, Circulars \u0026 West Virginia Pamphlets, and Maps."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_3ccc07af556ba9d4c7990eed73312fc9\"\u003ePapers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]). There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]). There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_e37bcc605bdcccbb7485ff3cacdfccb0\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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(Stonewall) Jackson Papers, volumes 1-11 - Boxes 16-20\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 3 - Index to 1st-2nd-3rd Biennial Reports, Dept. of Archives and History, 1906-1911 - Box 20\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 4 - Douglas Freeman, Historian - Box 20\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 5A - Kanawha County Court Records, 1788-1803 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 20\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 5B - Kanawha County Court Records, 1825-1831 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 21\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 6 - Fitzhugh (bio of Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh and diary of Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr) - Box 21\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 7 - Thomas Jackson Arnold Letters (includes letters from TJA to Roy Bird Cook) - Box 21\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 8 - Granville Davisson Hall Papers - Box 21\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 9 - Jackson Papers (includes many items once held by Mrs. Jackson) - Box 22\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 10 - Weston Newspapers (includes material from 1800s) - Box 22\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 11 - Bennett Papers (re J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family; see also Notebook 44) - Box 22\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 12 - Pioneer Sketches of Lewis County (By Roy Bird Cook) - Box 22\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 13 - Jackson's Mill (contains thesis 'The Pioneer State 4-H Camp: Jackson's Mill') - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 14 - B\u0026amp;O Railroad (extracts from dissertation re B\u0026amp;O in the Civil War by Festus Summers) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 15 - Lewis County (historical sketches by Robert L. Bland of 'The Weston Democrat' ca. 1920) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 16 - Oliver Letters (contains newspaper column re history of Weston, 1892) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 17 - Vandalia (contains typescript re the Ohio Land Company and George Washington) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 18 - Narrative of Colonel John Stuart of Greenbrier, 1798 (incl. info. on Indian wars) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 19 - A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches - see Series 13\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 20 - West Virginia Index (incl. material related to work of Commission on Historic Markers) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 21 - West Virginia Review Index (incl. list of articles by RBC, and TOC for 1923-1942) - Box 24\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 22 - Charleston Typescripts (regarding local history) - Box 24\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 23 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 1 - Box 25\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 24 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 2 - Box 25\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 25 - General Albert Jenkins, Confederate States Army (incl. biographical information) - Box 25\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 26 - Civil War I (mostly typescripts re various topics connected to the Civil War) - Box 26\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 27 - Civil War II - Box 26\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 28 - Civil War III - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 29 - 'West Virginia' by Colonel Robert White (part of volume 2 of a series) - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 30 - Mason Mathews Collection (notebook pp. 1-19; transcription of Civil War letters) - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 30 - Alkire Collection (pp. 20-49; trans. of Civil War scrapbooks made by Marcia Phillips) - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 30 - Diary of Henry F. Westfall (pp. 50-92; incl. typescript copy of Civil War diary) - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 31 - Young Family Civil War Papers - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 32 - Stonewall Jackson (includes mostly articles about Stonewall Jackson) - Box 28\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 33 - Civil War, No. 3 - Box 28\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 34 - Civil War, No. 4 - Box 28\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 35 - Civil War, No. 5 - Box 28\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 36 - Civil War, No. 6 - Box 29\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 37 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 38 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 38A - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 39 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 30\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 40 - Civil War--Camden (contains Civil War recollections by Thomas B. Camden) - Box 30\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 41 - Johnson Newlon Camden - Box 31\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 42 - Camden-Newlon-Sprigg-Williams Papers (genealogies) - Box 31\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 43 - Camden Papers - Box 31\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 44 - Bennett Papers (thesis re Civil War, VA Politics, and J. Bennett; see Notebk. 11) - Box 32\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 45 - West Virginia Sketch Book I (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 46 - West Virginia Sketch Book II (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 47 - West Virginia Sketch Book III (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 33\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 48 - Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book - Box 33\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 49 - Romance of the Kanawha (scrapbook contains maps, clippings, letters, etc.) - Box 33\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 50 - Daniel Boone--Early Kanawha Valley (material re D. Boone and General A. Lewis) - Box 34\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 51 - Lewis County Sketch Book I - Box 34\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 52 - Lewis County Sketch Book II - Box 34\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 53 - Weston--Lewis County (scrapbook includes mostly newspaper clippings) - Box 35\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 54 - Blennerhassett - Box 35\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 55 - Hamilton-Holt-Byrne-Newlon - Box 35\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 56 - Colonel George Jackson and Family - Box 35\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 57 - Washington Papers (includes copies of maps of land owned by GW) - Box 36\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 58 - Washington Papers - Box 36\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 59 - Washington Papers (includes material regarding Fort Dearborn) - Box 36\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 60 - Cooke Papers (includes many articles written by John Esten Cooke) - Box 37\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 61 - Washington Papers - Box 37\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 62 - Washington Papers - Box 38\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 63 - Washington Papers - Box 38\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 64 - Washington Papers - Box 38\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 65 - West Virginia Archaeology - Box 38\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 66 - 'Wood County Formation' by Alvaro F. Gibbens - Box 39\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 67A - Jackson VMI (contains Board of Visitors report, July 1863) - Box 39\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 67 - Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers - Box 39\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 68 - Kanawha County - Box 40\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 69 - Hardesty's Lewis County (incl. Lewis, Barbour, and Upshur Counties) - Box 40\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 70 - Alexander Scott Withers (author of 'Chronicles of Border Warfare') - Box 40\u003c/p\u003e"],"collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6199","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6199","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6199","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_6199","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_6199.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/199148","title_ssm":["Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers"],"title_tesim":["Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1679-1984, undated","1840-1960"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1679-1984, undated"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1840-1960"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960"],"text":["Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960","A\u0026M 1561","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/6199","Charleston (W. 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(Stonewall) Jackson Papers, volumes 1-11 - Boxes 16-20\nNotebook 3 - Index to 1st-2nd-3rd Biennial Reports, Dept. of Archives and History, 1906-1911 - Box 20\nNotebook 4 - Douglas Freeman, Historian - Box 20\nNotebook 5A - Kanawha County Court Records, 1788-1803 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 20\nNotebook 5B - Kanawha County Court Records, 1825-1831 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 21\nNotebook 6 - Fitzhugh (bio of Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh and diary of Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr) - Box 21\nNotebook 7 - Thomas Jackson Arnold Letters (includes letters from TJA to Roy Bird Cook) - Box 21\nNotebook 8 - Granville Davisson Hall Papers - Box 21\nNotebook 9 - Jackson Papers (includes many items once held by Mrs. Jackson) - Box 22\nNotebook 10 - Weston Newspapers (includes material from 1800s) - Box 22\nNotebook 11 - Bennett Papers (re J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family; see also Notebook 44) - Box 22\nNotebook 12 - Pioneer Sketches of Lewis County (By Roy Bird Cook) - Box 22\nNotebook 13 - Jackson's Mill (contains thesis 'The Pioneer State 4-H Camp: Jackson's Mill') - Box 23\nNotebook 14 - B\u0026O Railroad (extracts from dissertation re B\u0026O in the Civil War by Festus Summers) - Box 23\nNotebook 15 - Lewis County (historical sketches by Robert L. Bland of 'The Weston Democrat' ca. 1920) - Box 23\nNotebook 16 - Oliver Letters (contains newspaper column re history of Weston, 1892) - Box 23\nNotebook 17 - Vandalia (contains typescript re the Ohio Land Company and George Washington) - Box 23\nNotebook 18 - Narrative of Colonel John Stuart of Greenbrier, 1798 (incl. info. on Indian wars) - Box 23\nNotebook 19 - A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches - see Series 13\nNotebook 20 - West Virginia Index (incl. material related to work of Commission on Historic Markers) - Box 23\nNotebook 21 - West Virginia Review Index (incl. list of articles by RBC, and TOC for 1923-1942) - Box 24\nNotebook 22 - Charleston Typescripts (regarding local history) - Box 24\nNotebook 23 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 1 - Box 25\nNotebook 24 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 2 - Box 25\nNotebook 25 - General Albert Jenkins, Confederate States Army (incl. biographical information) - Box 25\nNotebook 26 - Civil War I (mostly typescripts re various topics connected to the Civil War) - Box 26\nNotebook 27 - Civil War II - Box 26\nNotebook 28 - Civil War III - Box 27\nNotebook 29 - 'West Virginia' by Colonel Robert White (part of volume 2 of a series) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Mason Mathews Collection (notebook pp. 1-19; transcription of Civil War letters) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Alkire Collection (pp. 20-49; trans. of Civil War scrapbooks made by Marcia Phillips) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Diary of Henry F. Westfall (pp. 50-92; incl. typescript copy of Civil War diary) - Box 27\nNotebook 31 - Young Family Civil War Papers - Box 27\nNotebook 32 - Stonewall Jackson (includes mostly articles about Stonewall Jackson) - Box 28\nNotebook 33 - Civil War, No. 3 - Box 28\nNotebook 34 - Civil War, No. 4 - Box 28\nNotebook 35 - Civil War, No. 5 - Box 28\nNotebook 36 - Civil War, No. 6 - Box 29\nNotebook 37 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 38 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 38A - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 39 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 30\nNotebook 40 - Civil War--Camden (contains Civil War recollections by Thomas B. Camden) - Box 30\nNotebook 41 - Johnson Newlon Camden - Box 31\nNotebook 42 - Camden-Newlon-Sprigg-Williams Papers (genealogies) - Box 31\nNotebook 43 - Camden Papers - Box 31\nNotebook 44 - Bennett Papers (thesis re Civil War, VA Politics, and J. Bennett; see Notebk. 11) - Box 32\nNotebook 45 - West Virginia Sketch Book I (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\nNotebook 46 - West Virginia Sketch Book II (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\nNotebook 47 - West Virginia Sketch Book III (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 33\nNotebook 48 - Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book - Box 33\nNotebook 49 - Romance of the Kanawha (scrapbook contains maps, clippings, letters, etc.) - Box 33\nNotebook 50 - Daniel Boone--Early Kanawha Valley (material re D. Boone and General A. Lewis) - Box 34\nNotebook 51 - Lewis County Sketch Book I - Box 34\nNotebook 52 - Lewis County Sketch Book II - Box 34\nNotebook 53 - Weston--Lewis County (scrapbook includes mostly newspaper clippings) - Box 35\nNotebook 54 - Blennerhassett - Box 35\nNotebook 55 - Hamilton-Holt-Byrne-Newlon - Box 35\nNotebook 56 - Colonel George Jackson and Family - Box 35\nNotebook 57 - Washington Papers (includes copies of maps of land owned by GW) - Box 36\nNotebook 58 - Washington Papers - Box 36\nNotebook 59 - Washington Papers (includes material regarding Fort Dearborn) - Box 36\nNotebook 60 - Cooke Papers (includes many articles written by John Esten Cooke) - Box 37\nNotebook 61 - Washington Papers - Box 37\nNotebook 62 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 63 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 64 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 65 - West Virginia Archaeology - Box 38\nNotebook 66 - 'Wood County Formation' by Alvaro F. Gibbens - Box 39\nNotebook 67A - Jackson VMI (contains Board of Visitors report, July 1863) - Box 39\nNotebook 67 - Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers - Box 39\nNotebook 68 - Kanawha County - Box 40\nNotebook 69 - Hardesty's Lewis County (incl. Lewis, Barbour, and Upshur Counties) - Box 40\nNotebook 70 - Alexander Scott Withers (author of 'Chronicles of Border Warfare') - Box 40","Roy Bird Cook (April 1, 1886 - November 21, 1961) was born in Lewis County, near Roanoke, WV. Cook was a pharmacist and prominent West Virginia historian. Cook wrote several books on the history of Lewis County and biographies of Stonewall Jackson and Alexander Scott Withers, and contributed historical articles to a wide variety of publications. He also collected Civil War and early West Virginia documents and memorabilia. More biographical information on Mr. Cook is available in the \"Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.\" (see link in Instances).","The 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was formed in the early weeks of the Civil War when Confederate General Robert E. Lee ordered the recruitment of troops to protect railroad lines running through western Virginia's northern counties. On May 4, Lee appointed Colonel George Porterfield to assume command of these forces, which were being raised primarily in Taylor, Marion, Harrison, Monongalia, and Barbour Counties. In the next few weeks, these new recruits found themselves in the war's first arena, a tactical struggle for control of the Confederacy's northwestern flank--the hills, rails, and rivers of what would soon become the nation's 35th state, West Virginia.","Composed of some of the war's earliest recruits, the 31st Virginia Infantry would see action under General Garnett, William L. \"Mudwall\" Jackson, Jones and Imboden, Stonewall Jackson, Jubal Early, and many more legendary Confederate commanders, at battles including Corrick's Ford, Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, New Market, and others. Approximately 57 of the 850 men who joined the regiment in 1861 witnessed Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.","A detailed history of the 31st Virginia by James Dell Cooke is available online (see link in Instances).","Researchers are also referred to John M. Ashcraft's '31st Virginia Infantry' (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1988).","Granville Davisson Hall (September 17, 1837 - June 24, 1934) worked for the Wheeling 'Intelligencer' as a reporter and editor. He also recorded the proceedings of the Wheeling Conventions, which led to the creation of the state of West Virginia. His notes were later published as 'The Rending of Virginia.' Hall also served as secretary to Governor Francis H. Pierpont when the Reorganized Government of Virginia was set up by the Second Wheeling Convention in 1861. In the new state government, Hall was elected the first clerk of the House of Delegates on June 20, 1863. In 1865, he was elected Secretary of State and also served as private secretary to West Virginia's first governor, Arthur I. Boreman. After the Civil War, Hall held several positions in the railroad industry.","Congressman and Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins (November 10, 1830 - May 21, 1864) was born at Green Bottom, Cabell County. He practiced law in (West) Virginia and served in the U.S. Congress from 1857 to 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War, he enlisted recruits for a Virginia unit called the Border Rangers and was elected their captain. In August of 1861, he formed the 8th Virginia Cavalry and became its colonel. In early 1862, Jenkins was elected to the First Confederate Congress. In August of 1862, he was appointed brigadier general. He went on to command a battalion of cavalry at the Battle of Gettysburg. Jenkins died of wounds he received at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain. Jenkins' Green Bottom plantation house, maintained as an historic site by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.","Jonathan McCally Bennett (October 4, 1816 - October 28, 1887) was born in Lewis County, (West) Virginia. He married Margaret Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Captain George W. Jackson, cousin of Stonewall Jackson. Bennett was law partner of Gideon D. Camden, and in 1846 became the first Mayor of Weston. He served as a member of the General Assembly in 1852-1853, was president of the Exchange Bank of Virginia at Weston in 1853, served as First Auditor of Virginia from 1857 to 1865, and served on the West Virginia Senate from 1872 to 1876. During the Civil War, he sided with the Confederacy. For additional collections related to J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family, see also A\u0026M 32, 35, 572, and others.","81, 858, 895, 1309, 1379, 1528, 1561","Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics.","Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook-style notebooks of Roy Bird Cook (1896-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]) (the original letter by T.J. Jackson has been separated to A\u0026M 435); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]).","There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.","Please note: Additional processing took place in spring and summer 2012. Box and folder numbers from previous citations may no longer be accurate.","Series 1. Hays Family Papers; 1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1.","Series 2. Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry; ca. 1856-1955, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 2-3.","Series 3. Roy Bird Cook Personal Papers; 1896-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-5.","Series 4. Miscellaneous History; 1783-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 6-7b.","Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers; 1793-1974, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 8-9.","Series 6. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; 1801-1963, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 10-14c.","Series 7. Historical Articles and Other Printed Papers; 1928-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 15.","Series 8. Bound Notebooks; 1679-1984, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 16-40.","Series 9. Miscellaneous; ca. 1850-1866, 1909-1958, undated; box 41, folders 1-4.","Series 10. History of Pharmacy and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association; ca. 1832-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); box 41, folder 5 - box 42, folder 3 (includes unfoldered material).","Series 11. West Virginia Medical History and Biography; 1870-1911, 1936-1958, undated (includes facsimiles); box 42, folders 4-7.","Series 12. American Pharmaceutical Association; 1868, 1939-1961, undated; box 43.","Series 13. A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches; ca. 1880, 1915-1954, 2012, undated (includes facsimiles); box 44.","Series 14. Glass Plate Negatives; undated; box 45.","Series 15. Oversize Material; 1774-1964, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 46-52 and map cabinet 1, drawer 19.","This series includes correspondence, business papers, and biographical notes of Samuel L. Hays, his son Peregrine, and the Hays family of Gilmer County. Subjects include: the formation of Gilmer, Calhoun, Roane, and Upshur Counties; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; \"Stonewall\" Jackson's boyhood; early frontier conditions in the Wisconsin Territory; immigration, farming, milling, and land speculation in Minnesota, 1857-1870; Charleston and Braxton turnpike; slave sales; Early's Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864; conditions in Richmond during the Civil War pertaining to livestock, tobacco, and cotton trade; the West Virginia Capitol question, 1877; and the Senatorial contest, 1876. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, Louis Bennett, John Brannon, Gideon Camden, J.N. Camden, William P. Cooper, H. G. Davis, John J. Davis, Spencer Dayton, John S. Hoffman, William L. Jackson, John E. Kenna, Theodore Lang, and George W. Silcott. [note: not all of the subjects and personal names listed for series 1 were verified during reprocessing]","This series includes military records pertaining to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army. Military records include personnel papers (regarding death, desertion, and discharge), financial papers (receipts, inventories, etc.), judicial materials (charges and courts martial), correspondence, orders, a company book, muster rolls, etc. The series also includes maps, clippings, photographs, research correspondence, manuscript and typescript writings pertaining to the 31st Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army, and the correspondence and papers of D.C. Gallaher. D.C. Gallaher collected some of this material on the 31st regiment, which later came into the hands of Roy Bird Cook. For additional D.C. Gallaher material, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks 26-28, Civil War I-III.","Military correspondence and orders include letters from J.M. Bennett, G. D. Camden Jr. and Sr., W.P. Cooper, John W. Daniel, Cyrus Hall, John S. Hoffman, A.H. Jackson, William L. Jackson, and William Smith. Additional correspondence includes letters to Roy Bird Cook pertaining to the regiment. Military orders are from the Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of Northwestern Virginia, Early's Division, and the 31st Virginia Infantry. Typescript writings include material related to soldiers and Civil War activities in Pocahontas, Upshur, and Lewis Counties; \"A History of the Thirty-First Virginia Regiment Volunteers C.S.A.\" by James Dell Cooke of WVU (1955); copies of W.P. [William Pope] Cooper diaries, letters, etc.; and \"Material Pertaining to Civil War Soldiers [Most of Whom Fought in the 31st Regiment, Virginia Infantry]\" (ca. 1926-1940).","Please note, typescript copies of some of the original material in box 2, folders 1-9 can be found in box 3, folders 10-14.","For additional records of the 31st Virginia Infantry, see also: Series 15, Oversize Material -- 31st Virginia Infantry, boxes 49-51; and A\u0026M 1528 Series 6, Military Records, and Series 9, Oversized.","This series includes correspondence (box 4) and personal papers of Roy Bird Cook (box 5).","Correspondence includes mainly incoming invitations, letters, photo postcards, clippings, etc. Topics include: T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson; comments on several books (including 'Lee the American' by Gamaliel Bradford, 'Lewis County in the Civil War' by Cook, and 'They Called Him Stonewall' by Burke Davis); various areas of West Virginia history; family histories (notably of the Peterson and Rhea families); Civil War participants (e.g. General Jubal A. Early); the Civil War Round Table, Incorporated; the Jackson House (in letters from Isabel Arnold); Ann Bailey; George Washington's Ohio River trip; an exploration by James Patton; material on Fred Fousse, a Civil War illustrator; and biographical material on Roy Bird Cook.","Correspondents include: Thomas Perkins Abernathy (Corcoran School of History, University of Virginia), Holmes M. Alexander, Isabel Arnold (descendent of Stonewall Jackson's sister Laura, who married an Arnold), Thomas J. Arnold, John Bakeless, Albert J. Beveridge, Edward Bok, Alva J.C. Bond (Dean Emeritus, School of Theology, Alfred University), Gamaliel Bradford, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Lenoir Chambers, Dr. Earl L. Core, Burke Davis, Ruth Woods Dayton, H.A. DuPont, Douglas Southall Freeman, Granville Davisson Hall, Dr. Matthew S. Holt (father of Rush D. Holt), Jay W. Johns (President, Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Incorporated), Harnett T. Kane, John A. Klein (Adjutant General of the United States), Dr. O.D. Lambert, Foreman M. Lebold, Eli Lilly, Henry T. McDonald (President, Storer College), Clarence W. Meadows (former Governor), Meade Minnigerode, Judge Ben Moore, Oren F. Morton, Drew Pearson, Mrs. Randolph (Julia J.) Preston (Stonewall Jackson's granddaughter), Frederick F. Seely (Department of English, Allegheny College), Lawrence Sherwood, Kenneth Stuart (Art Editor, 'The Saturday Evening Post'), Boyd B. Stutler, Allen Tate, Albert Payson Terhune, Cecil H. Underwood, and John W. Wayland.","Personal papers include photographs of Cook and scrapbook-style notebooks containing correspondence, printed materials, and ephemera from Cook's life. Topics include Cook's time in school, American Pharmaceutical Association meetings, Cook's honorary LL.D. awarded by West Virginia University, his Kiwanis Personal Achievement Award, and an attempted burglary at his home.","Additional correspondence to and from Cook, writings by Cook, etc. can be found throughout the collection. For Cook family genealogy and other Cook material, see Series 8, Bound Notebook 67, Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers, and Series 15, Oversize Material.","This series includes manuscript originals and facsimiles, newspaper and magazine clippings, typescripts, and printed items regarding Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia businesses, Geary Securities Company (see also Series 15, Oversize Material), book reviews and excerpts, West Virginia elections, the West Virginia Capitol and capital city, and the history of West Virginia.","For material that was separated from this series, see Series 15, Oversize Material, box 47, folders 3 and 8.","Includes original and facsimile clippings on: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston; Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill at Richwood; horse-powered boat \"Adventurer\" built at Coatsmouth [Coalsmouth?] in 1840s; facsimile, top of page 1, Parkersburg's West Virginia Walking Beam, vol. 2, no. 13 [October 9, 1880]; old grist mills; \"The Story of Salt,\" illustrated; Gatts Mound [at Cresap]; covered bridges; Hinkle Fort, Pendleton County, illustrated; the Mercer Grant, Mason County; Bailey's Hotel, Weston; early history of the 'Weston Democrat'; Harman Blennerhassett naturalization papers, Wood County court records; Blennerhassett episode--depositions of John Graham and Alex. Henderson, also J. Graham letter to Henderson; the Philippi Bar of the 1880s; doubts about Morgan, first white settler in West Virginia; Teays River; Spanish War Vets Convention, Weston; erosion, Canaan Valley and Blackwater Falls, illustrated; the Greenbrier Hotel in 1908; Fairfax survey map and Lower Shenandoah Valley Settlement; Selby House, Shepherdstown; Claudius Crozet; delegates to Commercial Convention in Memphis; list of U.S. Navy ships with West Virginia names; Old Richards Fort, Harrison County; John L. Cole; George Rogers Clark; etc.;","This series includes individual and family papers (manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, images, etc.) of West Virginians; manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, commissions, etc. regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other topics; a manuscript roll book of a Confederate sergeant (1862); and two manuscript Civil War diaries (Confederate diary: 1864; Union diary: 1864-1865).","The individual and family papers include material related to the Barney, Bennett, Boyle, Cook, Jackson, Broun, Burner, Camden, Keister, McCausland, Quarrier, Laidley, Ruffner, Tavenner, Tompkins, and O'Neill families, among others; and material related to Mordecai Levi, J.A.J. Lightburn, James C. McFarland, Major T.P. Moore, John Morgan, Francis H. Pierpont, Adam See, Colonel William C. Tavenner, William Tompkins, and Robert E. Lee, among others. Topics of the family and individual papers include family matters, genealogy, business, and the Civil War. Mordecai Levi (1835-1914) invented the first method of brick paving in the U.S. and was an early paver of Charleston, WV. His papers include facsimile and original typescripts and correspondence, official documents, clippings, and other material [1871-1890, 1914-1974, undated].","Correspondence (mostly original letters) regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other letters includes the following correspondents, among others: John Echols, William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, Harman Blennerhassett, Lawrence A. Washington, Louis Philippe (King of France), Joseph Johnson (Governor of Virginia), and John Letcher (Governor of Virginia), among others. Original letters from McKinley, Hayes, McClellan, Louis Philippe, and Theodore Roosevelt have been separated to A\u0026M 435.","Includes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: John Henry and writing of the ballad; Judge Ben Wheeler Moore; Lydia Boggs [Shepherd] Cruger/Kruger [also includes typescript]; John Henry Shaw; J.E. Hanger; Caroline Beeghley; Captain Jackson Everson [Apperson]; William Henry Tappey Squires; [Josias] Hanson Link [family] [includes Captain Leib's description of Clarksburg during Civil War period]; Colonel Benjamin J. Wilson; Donnally family; Clendennin family; Huddleston family; Herold family; White family.","Includes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: Willa Hood Strickler [first female pharmacist in the state]; Prof. Milton W. Humphreys; S.B. Elkins; Boyd Stutler; Hu Maxwell; Nathan Goff Jr.; Renick family and Calvin Brown Renick; John Champe; General Hugh Mercer; and Francis Marion Franklin Smith [typescript]. Also includes miscellaneous topics, such as: West Virginia newspaper editors and publications; reburial of Chief Cornstalk's remains; Jama Shamoon, Fairmont resident in camp of Pancho Villa; road from Monterey to Pocahontas County, 1781-1782; Robert Crain and Margaret Bennett, daughter of Judge W.G. Bennett, wedding in Weston; campaign ribbon, W.G. Bennett for Governor; and Mrs. Lewis Bennett's donation of uniform, medals, etc. of her son, Lieutenant Lewis B. Jr., to the National Museum in Washington, D.C.","Contains clippings on various subjects, including: General Cox's message to the people of Charleston, General Orders, No. 8, Headquarters, District of the Kanawha, Elk River, July 25, 1861; Scary Creek battlefield [includes map]; Confederate money in Stockholm, Sweden; Capture of Steamboat \"Levi\" [General Eliakim P. Scammon], illustrated; Hawk's Nest incident [1862]; Kanawha Valley [includes map, photo of General Wise, copy of 1861 broadside \"Men of Virginia! Men of the Kanawha! To Arms!\"]; Lightburn's Retreat, Kanawha Valley 1862, illustrated; occupation of Charleston by Union Troops in 1861; \"Fort Hill\" Charleston, illustrated; Colonel George S. Patton and the \"Kanawha Riflemen,\" illustrated; \"The Dixie Rifles,\" Beuhring H. Jones, and the burning of Gauley Bridge, illustrated; Duskey's Raid on Ripley, illustrated; Wise's retreat from the Kanawha [includes map, illustrated].","Includes clippings on various subjects, such as: Hart residence and Rich Mountain battlefield, illustrated; monument to Gus Bailey of Fayette County; West Virginia's Generals in Gray, illustrated; Clarksburg, 1861, illustrated; role of the 'Wheeling Intelligencer' in the birth of West Virginia; Isaac J. Settle's Diary; preparing for action on the Kanawha, illustrated; Old Jack and Old Jube; list of issues of 'The Confederate Veteran' that have a West Virginia interest history of Company B, 14th West Virginia Infantry; \"Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864\" painting; etc. Also includes stamps and an envelope regarding the Centennial of the Philippi Covered Bridge in 1952.","Diary describes: marches and engagements in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia [including Greenbrier, Berkeley, and Jefferson County]; casualties and ordnance losses in various engagements; towns on route of march; desertions from the company; and reports of the movement and engagements of other units [Confederate and Union] [May 6, 1864-October 11, 1864]. Engagement sites include: Winchester and Fisher's Hill, 1st Brigadier General Breckenridge's Division, September 19 and 22; New Market, May 15, Confederate General John C. Breckenridge, Union General Seigle [sic: Sigel]; east of Atlee's Station, May 29-31 and June 1; Chickhominey River, Coal Harbor, June 2-3; near Lynchburg, June 18; near Salem, June 21; Frederick City, MD, July 9; between Purcellville and Snickerville, July 16; on the Shenandoah near Snicker's Gap, July 18; near Kerntown, July 24; near Charles Town, August 21; Berryville Road, September 4; near Winchester, September 19; Brown's Gap Road, September 26 [all 1864]. Martinsburg entries: July 4, 26, 27, 28-30, and August 7, 1864; Charlestown August 23, 1864. Last pages of diary list towns and countries traveled through, and distance traveled from May 6 - August 31, 1864.","Diary includes: descriptions of various engagements and maneuvers preceding Ellis' capture at Cedar Creek; names of men serving with Ellis who were wounded, discharged, deserters, etc.; description of living conditions at Camp Salisbury, NC; number of Federal prisoners joining the Confederate Army; number of deaths; and rations received. West Virginia counties in which the regiment saw action: Greenbrier, Mineral, Monroe, Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, Kanawha, Fayette, Raleigh, and Mercer. Ellis' location as mentioned in various entries in 1864: Ridgeville [Mineral County?], Hancock [MD?], \"Rebs reported at Peterson's Creek\" [Pattersons Creek, Mineral County?] on February 2; fight at New Creek [Mineral County] on February 3; \"Alpine Depot, Morgan Co. [Morgan County] West Virginia\" on April 1; other April entries mention Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, Pomeroy [OH], Charleston; Camp Piatt [?] Kanawha County on April 26; May entries mention Fayette County, Raleigh County, and Mercer County [captured Fort Breckenridge at Princeton, May 6]; Monroe County on May 13; New River on May 10; Lewisburg on May 22; White Sulphur Springs on June 2; Fayette County on June 20; Camp Piatt on July 1; Clarksburg on July 9; Piedmont on July 10; Martinsburg on July 11; Harpers Ferry on July 15; Libby Prison on November 1; Salisbury, NC on November 4. For a typescript copy of the diary, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks, box 16, Notebook 1.","This series includes correspondence, military orders, battle reports, legal documents, clippings, typescripts, print material, ephemera, photographs, and other material. Topics include T.J. Jackson's military service, his time as constable of Lewis County, his entrance into West Point, his application for position on the faculty of University of Virginia, the Jackson and Arnold families, memorial busts and statues of Jackson, Jackson biographies, etc.","Also includes personal belongings of Jackson and associated memorabilia, such as Stonewall Jackson souvenir or commemorative coins and medals, and hair from the tail of Jackson's horse, Old Sorrel.","Also includes letters, pension documents, clippings, and financial statements of Mary Anna Jackson, T.J. Jackson's wife. Topics include family life and books written by Mrs. Jackson about her daughter and her husband.","For additional memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, see Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives, and Series 15, Oversize Material. For other Jackson materials, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks.","This series includes unbound pamphlets and reprints of articles, as well as articles written by Roy Bird Cook. Topics include the history of Virginia and West Virginia, and the Civil War, among others.","This series includes typescripts, correspondence, clippings, genealogies, maps, ephemera, pamphlets, articles, photographs, and other material.","Prominent subjects include T.J. Jackson and his family, and the Civil War.","Material about T.J. Jackson includes articles and pamphlets about his life and military service; letters to, from, and about him; court records and legal documents regarding Jackson and his family; images of Jackson, Jackson's Mill, Jackson statues and memorials; reviews of books written about him, including Cook's 'The Family and Early Life of Stonewall Jackson'; and other items. Prominent Jackson family members include Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold. (Notebooks prominently featuring T.J. Jackson and his family include 2, 2A-2K, 4, 7, 9, 13, 23, 24, 32, 37, 38, 38A, 39, and 56.)","Civil War materials include historical sketches of battles; originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; historical sketches and rosters of companies and regiments; articles and narratives about life during the Civil War; etc.","Additional subjects include genealogy, West Virginia history, prominent individuals, the Virginia Military Institute, Weston newspapers, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the West Virginia Commission on Historic Markers.","Genealogical subjects include the Jackson, Neale, Arnold, Camden, Newlon, Sprigg, Williams, Ruffner, Hamilton, Holt, Byrne, Cook, Bird, Hull, and Conrad families, among others (Notebooks 2D, 42, 43, 48, 55, 67, and others).","West Virginia history subjects include Kanawha County Court records; Lewis County; Weston; Charleston; colonial and Civil War history of West Virginia; George Washington's travels and surveys in and around West Virginia; the Kanawha River, valley, and surrounding area; Blennerhassett Island; Wood County; and Parkersburg.","Prominent individuals include Andrew Jackson, Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh, Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr, Granville Davisson Hall, Jonathan McCally Bennett and the Bennett family, Colonel John Stuart, General Albert Jenkins, David Creigh, Mason Mathews, Henry F. Westfall, John Valley Young and family, Thomas Bland Camden, Johnson Newlon Camden, Daniel Boone, Harman Blennerhassett, John Esten Cooke, Colonel George Jackson, and Alexander Scott Withers, among others.","Correspondents include T.J. Jackson, members of the Bennett family, Charles W. Dabney, Douglas Southall Freeman, Thomas Jackson Arnold, Lyman C. Draper, Boyd B. Stutler, and Roy Bird Cook, among others.","For additional materials on David Creigh, see A\u0026M 2201, Preston Family Papers, Box 1.","Descriptive System for Series 8:","The contents of the notebooks are described to the item level in the Contents List. \n These items level descriptions are preceded with the items' genre and format in brackets.","Genres include:","article (from magazine or journal) \n clipping (usually from newspaper) \n ephemera \n pamphlet \n photo \n typescript \n ms [manuscript] letter \n ts [typescript] letter \n other","Formats include:","original \n transcription \n copy (for photocopies and other facsimiles)","Transcriptions are dated by creation date of the transcription, not the original. \n Copies are dated by creation date of original.","Examples:","[ephemera and photo; original] invitation to the dedication of the equestrian statue of Jackson and Lee in Baltimore, two tickets to the dedication, and a photo of the statue","[ts letters; transcription] letters regarding T.J. Jackson's appointment as a cadet at Military Academy (This record describes a set of typescript letters transcribed from originals.)","[other; copy] T.J. Jackson's appointment as Brevet Second Lieutenant (This record describes a facsimile of an official appointment document.)","This series includes diaries, lists, clippings, and pamphlets regarding Civil War experiences, music, battles, etc.; medical practice in (West) Virginia in the 1850s; and U.S. Presidents. The typescript copies of diaries relate to the years just before, during, and after the Civil War.","This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, prescriptions, account statements, advertisements, correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, and other material. Topics include the James H. Rogers Drug Store and other drug stores in Charleston, WV; Dr. Henry Rogers and other Charleston pharmacists; medicines of the mid to late 1800s; the 1960 meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association; West Virginia pharmacists' World War II service; and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association (now known as the West Virginia Pharmacists Association).","This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, magazine and journal articles, clippings, and correspondence regarding the history of the medical profession in West Virginia, including James Edward Hanger (first amputee soldier of the Civil War and founder of a prosthetics company), Dr. J.L. Miller (collector of medical material); and Dr. W.P. King.","This series includes pamphlets of original and reprinted articles regarding various pharmacists and the history of pharmacy. Also included are three bound volumes of material pertaining to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.","This series includes correspondence, a magazine, typescripts, and clippings related to Adalbert J. Volck. Also included are copies of 29 etchings by Volck regarding Civil War topics.","This series includes six glass plate negatives of T.J. Jackson portraits and Jackson's Mill.","This series is divided into two subseries, general material and material of the 31st Virginia Infantry.","This subseries includes memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, the Civil War, and Jackson's Mill. For additional T.J. Jackson material, see also Series 6, Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; Series 8, Bound Notebooks; and Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives.","Also included are family trees, maps, ephemera, clippings, Confederate bonds, and military records, among other material. Family trees show the genealogy of the Lee, Cook, Washington, and Cable families. Subjects of the maps include various counties in West Virginia; Civil War battles and troop movements; Charleston, WV; the Kanawha River; the Coal River; and George Washington's travels and surveys; among other subjects.","This subseries includes semi-monthly reports; lost or destroyed property reports; captains' monthly returns; abstracts of monthly payments and stationery issued; lists of officers; payroll and clothing distribution records; descriptive lists and accounting of pay and clothing records; morning reports; and muster rolls. The bulk of the material pertains to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Digitized copies of these items can be found online (see link in Instances).","See also, Series 2, Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry.","Many items were transferred to the Printed Ephemera Collection, including \"Mark Twain's Family in Early History of West Virginia,\" by Robert Harrison Ferguson, A.M. Superintendent Mason County Schools, Point Pleasant, West Virginia (see P8616 in the Printed Ephemera Collection).","An original letter from T.J. Jackson to Laura Ann Jackson Arnold, 26 October 1847, from Mexico City, Mexico, has been separated to the rare signature collection, A\u0026M 435.","Five original letters have been separated from Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers to A\u0026M 435. These are original manuscript letters authored by William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, John S. Mosby, and Louis Philippe, and an original typescript letter from Theodore Roosevelt.","\"Front Elevation of Lunatic Asylum, West of the Alleghany Mountains\", \"R. Snowden Andrews, Architect, Baltimore, MD\" (1859; 12 1/2 in. x 49 in.) separated to A\u0026M 4071, Weston State Hospital.","Most photographs in this collection have been separated and digitized -- see scope and content note for link to photographs in West Virginia History OnView. Two of the photos were separated to A\u0026M 4168, Panoramic Photos Collection: Sheltering Arms Hosptial and Kanawha Falls.","Lists of separated materials in the following categories can be found in the control folder: Broadsides \u0026 Programs, Newspapers/Periodicals, Circulars \u0026 West Virginia Pamphlets, and Maps.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]). 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Ellis, Corporal, Company B, 15th (West) Virginia - Box 16\nNotebook 2 - Jackson Letters - Box 16\nNotebook 2A-K - Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers, volumes 1-11 - Boxes 16-20\nNotebook 3 - Index to 1st-2nd-3rd Biennial Reports, Dept. of Archives and History, 1906-1911 - Box 20\nNotebook 4 - Douglas Freeman, Historian - Box 20\nNotebook 5A - Kanawha County Court Records, 1788-1803 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 20\nNotebook 5B - Kanawha County Court Records, 1825-1831 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 21\nNotebook 6 - Fitzhugh (bio of Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh and diary of Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr) - Box 21\nNotebook 7 - Thomas Jackson Arnold Letters (includes letters from TJA to Roy Bird Cook) - Box 21\nNotebook 8 - Granville Davisson Hall Papers - Box 21\nNotebook 9 - Jackson Papers (includes many items once held by Mrs. Jackson) - Box 22\nNotebook 10 - Weston Newspapers (includes material from 1800s) - Box 22\nNotebook 11 - Bennett Papers (re J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family; see also Notebook 44) - Box 22\nNotebook 12 - Pioneer Sketches of Lewis County (By Roy Bird Cook) - Box 22\nNotebook 13 - Jackson's Mill (contains thesis 'The Pioneer State 4-H Camp: Jackson's Mill') - Box 23\nNotebook 14 - B\u0026O Railroad (extracts from dissertation re B\u0026O in the Civil War by Festus Summers) - Box 23\nNotebook 15 - Lewis County (historical sketches by Robert L. Bland of 'The Weston Democrat' ca. 1920) - Box 23\nNotebook 16 - Oliver Letters (contains newspaper column re history of Weston, 1892) - Box 23\nNotebook 17 - Vandalia (contains typescript re the Ohio Land Company and George Washington) - Box 23\nNotebook 18 - Narrative of Colonel John Stuart of Greenbrier, 1798 (incl. info. on Indian wars) - Box 23\nNotebook 19 - A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches - see Series 13\nNotebook 20 - West Virginia Index (incl. material related to work of Commission on Historic Markers) - Box 23\nNotebook 21 - West Virginia Review Index (incl. list of articles by RBC, and TOC for 1923-1942) - Box 24\nNotebook 22 - Charleston Typescripts (regarding local history) - Box 24\nNotebook 23 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 1 - Box 25\nNotebook 24 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 2 - Box 25\nNotebook 25 - General Albert Jenkins, Confederate States Army (incl. biographical information) - Box 25\nNotebook 26 - Civil War I (mostly typescripts re various topics connected to the Civil War) - Box 26\nNotebook 27 - Civil War II - Box 26\nNotebook 28 - Civil War III - Box 27\nNotebook 29 - 'West Virginia' by Colonel Robert White (part of volume 2 of a series) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Mason Mathews Collection (notebook pp. 1-19; transcription of Civil War letters) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Alkire Collection (pp. 20-49; trans. of Civil War scrapbooks made by Marcia Phillips) - Box 27\nNotebook 30 - Diary of Henry F. Westfall (pp. 50-92; incl. typescript copy of Civil War diary) - Box 27\nNotebook 31 - Young Family Civil War Papers - Box 27\nNotebook 32 - Stonewall Jackson (includes mostly articles about Stonewall Jackson) - Box 28\nNotebook 33 - Civil War, No. 3 - Box 28\nNotebook 34 - Civil War, No. 4 - Box 28\nNotebook 35 - Civil War, No. 5 - Box 28\nNotebook 36 - Civil War, No. 6 - Box 29\nNotebook 37 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 38 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 38A - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\nNotebook 39 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 30\nNotebook 40 - Civil War--Camden (contains Civil War recollections by Thomas B. Camden) - Box 30\nNotebook 41 - Johnson Newlon Camden - Box 31\nNotebook 42 - Camden-Newlon-Sprigg-Williams Papers (genealogies) - Box 31\nNotebook 43 - Camden Papers - Box 31\nNotebook 44 - Bennett Papers (thesis re Civil War, VA Politics, and J. Bennett; see Notebk. 11) - Box 32\nNotebook 45 - West Virginia Sketch Book I (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\nNotebook 46 - West Virginia Sketch Book II (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\nNotebook 47 - West Virginia Sketch Book III (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 33\nNotebook 48 - Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book - Box 33\nNotebook 49 - Romance of the Kanawha (scrapbook contains maps, clippings, letters, etc.) - Box 33\nNotebook 50 - Daniel Boone--Early Kanawha Valley (material re D. Boone and General A. Lewis) - Box 34\nNotebook 51 - Lewis County Sketch Book I - Box 34\nNotebook 52 - Lewis County Sketch Book II - Box 34\nNotebook 53 - Weston--Lewis County (scrapbook includes mostly newspaper clippings) - Box 35\nNotebook 54 - Blennerhassett - Box 35\nNotebook 55 - Hamilton-Holt-Byrne-Newlon - Box 35\nNotebook 56 - Colonel George Jackson and Family - Box 35\nNotebook 57 - Washington Papers (includes copies of maps of land owned by GW) - Box 36\nNotebook 58 - Washington Papers - Box 36\nNotebook 59 - Washington Papers (includes material regarding Fort Dearborn) - Box 36\nNotebook 60 - Cooke Papers (includes many articles written by John Esten Cooke) - Box 37\nNotebook 61 - Washington Papers - Box 37\nNotebook 62 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 63 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 64 - Washington Papers - Box 38\nNotebook 65 - West Virginia Archaeology - Box 38\nNotebook 66 - 'Wood County Formation' by Alvaro F. Gibbens - Box 39\nNotebook 67A - Jackson VMI (contains Board of Visitors report, July 1863) - Box 39\nNotebook 67 - Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers - Box 39\nNotebook 68 - Kanawha County - Box 40\nNotebook 69 - Hardesty's Lewis County (incl. Lewis, Barbour, and Upshur Counties) - Box 40\nNotebook 70 - Alexander Scott Withers (author of 'Chronicles of Border Warfare') - Box 40"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eRoy Bird Cook\u003c/emph\u003e (April 1, 1886 - November 21, 1961) was born in Lewis County, near Roanoke, WV. Cook was a pharmacist and prominent West Virginia historian. Cook wrote several books on the history of Lewis County and biographies of Stonewall Jackson and Alexander Scott Withers, and contributed historical articles to a wide variety of publications. He also collected Civil War and early West Virginia documents and memorabilia. More biographical information on Mr. Cook is available in the \"Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.\" (see link in Instances).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment\u003c/emph\u003e was formed in the early weeks of the Civil War when Confederate General Robert E. Lee ordered the recruitment of troops to protect railroad lines running through western Virginia's northern counties. On May 4, Lee appointed Colonel George Porterfield to assume command of these forces, which were being raised primarily in Taylor, Marion, Harrison, Monongalia, and Barbour Counties. In the next few weeks, these new recruits found themselves in the war's first arena, a tactical struggle for control of the Confederacy's northwestern flank--the hills, rails, and rivers of what would soon become the nation's 35th state, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComposed of some of the war's earliest recruits, the 31st Virginia Infantry would see action under General Garnett, William L. \"Mudwall\" Jackson, Jones and Imboden, Stonewall Jackson, Jubal Early, and many more legendary Confederate commanders, at battles including Corrick's Ford, Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, New Market, and others. Approximately 57 of the 850 men who joined the regiment in 1861 witnessed Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA detailed history of the 31st Virginia by James Dell Cooke is available online (see link in Instances).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearchers are also referred to John M. Ashcraft's '31st Virginia Infantry' (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1988).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eGranville Davisson Hall\u003c/emph\u003e (September 17, 1837 - June 24, 1934) worked for the Wheeling 'Intelligencer' as a reporter and editor. He also recorded the proceedings of the Wheeling Conventions, which led to the creation of the state of West Virginia. His notes were later published as 'The Rending of Virginia.' Hall also served as secretary to Governor Francis H. Pierpont when the Reorganized Government of Virginia was set up by the Second Wheeling Convention in 1861. In the new state government, Hall was elected the first clerk of the House of Delegates on June 20, 1863. In 1865, he was elected Secretary of State and also served as private secretary to West Virginia's first governor, Arthur I. Boreman. After the Civil War, Hall held several positions in the railroad industry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman and Confederate General \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAlbert Gallatin Jenkins\u003c/emph\u003e (November 10, 1830 - May 21, 1864) was born at Green Bottom, Cabell County. He practiced law in (West) Virginia and served in the U.S. Congress from 1857 to 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War, he enlisted recruits for a Virginia unit called the Border Rangers and was elected their captain. In August of 1861, he formed the 8th Virginia Cavalry and became its colonel. In early 1862, Jenkins was elected to the First Confederate Congress. In August of 1862, he was appointed brigadier general. He went on to command a battalion of cavalry at the Battle of Gettysburg. Jenkins died of wounds he received at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain. Jenkins' Green Bottom plantation house, maintained as an historic site by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eJonathan McCally Bennett\u003c/emph\u003e (October 4, 1816 - October 28, 1887) was born in Lewis County, (West) Virginia. He married Margaret Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Captain George W. Jackson, cousin of Stonewall Jackson. Bennett was law partner of Gideon D. Camden, and in 1846 became the first Mayor of Weston. He served as a member of the General Assembly in 1852-1853, was president of the Exchange Bank of Virginia at Weston in 1853, served as First Auditor of Virginia from 1857 to 1865, and served on the West Virginia Senate from 1872 to 1876. During the Civil War, he sided with the Confederacy. For additional collections related to J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family, see also A\u0026amp;M 32, 35, 572, and others.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Roy Bird Cook (April 1, 1886 - November 21, 1961) was born in Lewis County, near Roanoke, WV. Cook was a pharmacist and prominent West Virginia historian. Cook wrote several books on the history of Lewis County and biographies of Stonewall Jackson and Alexander Scott Withers, and contributed historical articles to a wide variety of publications. He also collected Civil War and early West Virginia documents and memorabilia. More biographical information on Mr. Cook is available in the \"Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.\" (see link in Instances).","The 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was formed in the early weeks of the Civil War when Confederate General Robert E. Lee ordered the recruitment of troops to protect railroad lines running through western Virginia's northern counties. On May 4, Lee appointed Colonel George Porterfield to assume command of these forces, which were being raised primarily in Taylor, Marion, Harrison, Monongalia, and Barbour Counties. In the next few weeks, these new recruits found themselves in the war's first arena, a tactical struggle for control of the Confederacy's northwestern flank--the hills, rails, and rivers of what would soon become the nation's 35th state, West Virginia.","Composed of some of the war's earliest recruits, the 31st Virginia Infantry would see action under General Garnett, William L. \"Mudwall\" Jackson, Jones and Imboden, Stonewall Jackson, Jubal Early, and many more legendary Confederate commanders, at battles including Corrick's Ford, Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, New Market, and others. Approximately 57 of the 850 men who joined the regiment in 1861 witnessed Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.","A detailed history of the 31st Virginia by James Dell Cooke is available online (see link in Instances).","Researchers are also referred to John M. Ashcraft's '31st Virginia Infantry' (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1988).","Granville Davisson Hall (September 17, 1837 - June 24, 1934) worked for the Wheeling 'Intelligencer' as a reporter and editor. He also recorded the proceedings of the Wheeling Conventions, which led to the creation of the state of West Virginia. His notes were later published as 'The Rending of Virginia.' Hall also served as secretary to Governor Francis H. Pierpont when the Reorganized Government of Virginia was set up by the Second Wheeling Convention in 1861. In the new state government, Hall was elected the first clerk of the House of Delegates on June 20, 1863. In 1865, he was elected Secretary of State and also served as private secretary to West Virginia's first governor, Arthur I. Boreman. After the Civil War, Hall held several positions in the railroad industry.","Congressman and Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins (November 10, 1830 - May 21, 1864) was born at Green Bottom, Cabell County. He practiced law in (West) Virginia and served in the U.S. Congress from 1857 to 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War, he enlisted recruits for a Virginia unit called the Border Rangers and was elected their captain. In August of 1861, he formed the 8th Virginia Cavalry and became its colonel. In early 1862, Jenkins was elected to the First Confederate Congress. In August of 1862, he was appointed brigadier general. He went on to command a battalion of cavalry at the Battle of Gettysburg. Jenkins died of wounds he received at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain. Jenkins' Green Bottom plantation house, maintained as an historic site by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.","Jonathan McCally Bennett (October 4, 1816 - October 28, 1887) was born in Lewis County, (West) Virginia. He married Margaret Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Captain George W. Jackson, cousin of Stonewall Jackson. Bennett was law partner of Gideon D. Camden, and in 1846 became the first Mayor of Weston. He served as a member of the General Assembly in 1852-1853, was president of the Exchange Bank of Virginia at Weston in 1853, served as First Auditor of Virginia from 1857 to 1865, and served on the West Virginia Senate from 1872 to 1876. During the Civil War, he sided with the Confederacy. For additional collections related to J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family, see also A\u0026M 32, 35, 572, and others."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, A\u0026amp;M 1561, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, A\u0026M 1561, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e81, 858, 895, 1309, 1379, 1528, 1561\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related A\u0026M Collections"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["81, 858, 895, 1309, 1379, 1528, 1561"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook-style notebooks of Roy Bird Cook (1896-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]) (the original letter by T.J. Jackson has been separated to A\u0026amp;M 435); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease note: Additional processing took place in spring and summer 2012. Box and folder numbers from previous citations may no longer be accurate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Hays Family Papers; 1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry; ca. 1856-1955, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 2-3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries 3. Roy Bird Cook Personal Papers; 1896-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4. Miscellaneous History; 1783-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 6-7b.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers; 1793-1974, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 8-9.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 6. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; 1801-1963, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 10-14c.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7. Historical Articles and Other Printed Papers; 1928-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 15.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8. Bound Notebooks; 1679-1984, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 16-40.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9. Miscellaneous; ca. 1850-1866, 1909-1958, undated; box 41, folders 1-4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10. History of Pharmacy and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association; ca. 1832-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); box 41, folder 5 - box 42, folder 3 (includes unfoldered material).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11. West Virginia Medical History and Biography; 1870-1911, 1936-1958, undated (includes facsimiles); box 42, folders 4-7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12. American Pharmaceutical Association; 1868, 1939-1961, undated; box 43.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13. A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches; ca. 1880, 1915-1954, 2012, undated (includes facsimiles); box 44.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 14. Glass Plate Negatives; undated; box 45.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 15. Oversize Material; 1774-1964, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 46-52 and map cabinet 1, drawer 19.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, business papers, and biographical notes of Samuel L. Hays, his son Peregrine, and the Hays family of Gilmer County. Subjects include: the formation of Gilmer, Calhoun, Roane, and Upshur Counties; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; \"Stonewall\" Jackson's boyhood; early frontier conditions in the Wisconsin Territory; immigration, farming, milling, and land speculation in Minnesota, 1857-1870; Charleston and Braxton turnpike; slave sales; Early's Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864; conditions in Richmond during the Civil War pertaining to livestock, tobacco, and cotton trade; the West Virginia Capitol question, 1877; and the Senatorial contest, 1876. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, Louis Bennett, John Brannon, Gideon Camden, J.N. Camden, William P. Cooper, H. G. Davis, John J. Davis, Spencer Dayton, John S. Hoffman, William L. Jackson, John E. Kenna, Theodore Lang, and George W. Silcott. [note: not all of the subjects and personal names listed for series 1 were verified during reprocessing]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes military records pertaining to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army. Military records include personnel papers (regarding death, desertion, and discharge), financial papers (receipts, inventories, etc.), judicial materials (charges and courts martial), correspondence, orders, a company book, muster rolls, etc. The series also includes maps, clippings, photographs, research correspondence, manuscript and typescript writings pertaining to the 31st Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army, and the correspondence and papers of D.C. Gallaher. D.C. Gallaher collected some of this material on the 31st regiment, which later came into the hands of Roy Bird Cook. For additional D.C. Gallaher material, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks 26-28, Civil War I-III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Military correspondence and orders include letters from J.M. Bennett, G. D. Camden Jr. and Sr., W.P. Cooper, John W. Daniel, Cyrus Hall, John S. Hoffman, A.H. Jackson, William L. Jackson, and William Smith. Additional correspondence includes letters to Roy Bird Cook pertaining to the regiment. Military orders are from the Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of Northwestern Virginia, Early's Division, and the 31st Virginia Infantry. Typescript writings include material related to soldiers and Civil War activities in Pocahontas, Upshur, and Lewis Counties; \"A History of the Thirty-First Virginia Regiment Volunteers C.S.A.\" by James Dell Cooke of WVU (1955); copies of W.P. [William Pope] Cooper diaries, letters, etc.; and \"Material Pertaining to Civil War Soldiers [Most of Whom Fought in the 31st Regiment, Virginia Infantry]\" (ca. 1926-1940).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Please note, typescript copies of some of the original material in box 2, folders 1-9 can be found in box 3, folders 10-14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e For additional records of the 31st Virginia Infantry, see also: Series 15, Oversize Material -- 31st Virginia Infantry, boxes 49-51; and A\u0026amp;M 1528 Series 6, Military Records, and Series 9, Oversized.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence (box 4) and personal papers of Roy Bird Cook (box 5).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Correspondence includes mainly incoming invitations, letters, photo postcards, clippings, etc. Topics include: T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson; comments on several books (including 'Lee the American' by Gamaliel Bradford, 'Lewis County in the Civil War' by Cook, and 'They Called Him Stonewall' by Burke Davis); various areas of West Virginia history; family histories (notably of the Peterson and Rhea families); Civil War participants (e.g. General Jubal A. Early); the Civil War Round Table, Incorporated; the Jackson House (in letters from Isabel Arnold); Ann Bailey; George Washington's Ohio River trip; an exploration by James Patton; material on Fred Fousse, a Civil War illustrator; and biographical material on Roy Bird Cook.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Correspondents include: Thomas Perkins Abernathy (Corcoran School of History, University of Virginia), Holmes M. Alexander, Isabel Arnold (descendent of Stonewall Jackson's sister Laura, who married an Arnold), Thomas J. Arnold, John Bakeless, Albert J. Beveridge, Edward Bok, Alva J.C. Bond (Dean Emeritus, School of Theology, Alfred University), Gamaliel Bradford, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Lenoir Chambers, Dr. Earl L. Core, Burke Davis, Ruth Woods Dayton, H.A. DuPont, Douglas Southall Freeman, Granville Davisson Hall, Dr. Matthew S. Holt (father of Rush D. Holt), Jay W. Johns (President, Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Incorporated), Harnett T. Kane, John A. Klein (Adjutant General of the United States), Dr. O.D. Lambert, Foreman M. Lebold, Eli Lilly, Henry T. McDonald (President, Storer College), Clarence W. Meadows (former Governor), Meade Minnigerode, Judge Ben Moore, Oren F. Morton, Drew Pearson, Mrs. Randolph (Julia J.) Preston (Stonewall Jackson's granddaughter), Frederick F. Seely (Department of English, Allegheny College), Lawrence Sherwood, Kenneth Stuart (Art Editor, 'The Saturday Evening Post'), Boyd B. Stutler, Allen Tate, Albert Payson Terhune, Cecil H. Underwood, and John W. Wayland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Personal papers include photographs of Cook and scrapbook-style notebooks containing correspondence, printed materials, and ephemera from Cook's life. Topics include Cook's time in school, American Pharmaceutical Association meetings, Cook's honorary LL.D. awarded by West Virginia University, his Kiwanis Personal Achievement Award, and an attempted burglary at his home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Additional correspondence to and from Cook, writings by Cook, etc. can be found throughout the collection. For Cook family genealogy and other Cook material, see Series 8, Bound Notebook 67, Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers, and Series 15, Oversize Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes manuscript originals and facsimiles, newspaper and magazine clippings, typescripts, and printed items regarding Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia businesses, Geary Securities Company (see also Series 15, Oversize Material), book reviews and excerpts, West Virginia elections, the West Virginia Capitol and capital city, and the history of West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e For material that was separated from this series, see Series 15, Oversize Material, box 47, folders 3 and 8.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes original and facsimile clippings on: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston; Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill at Richwood; horse-powered boat \"Adventurer\" built at Coatsmouth [Coalsmouth?] in 1840s; facsimile, top of page 1, Parkersburg's West Virginia Walking Beam, vol. 2, no. 13 [October 9, 1880]; old grist mills; \"The Story of Salt,\" illustrated; Gatts Mound [at Cresap]; covered bridges; Hinkle Fort, Pendleton County, illustrated; the Mercer Grant, Mason County; Bailey's Hotel, Weston; early history of the 'Weston Democrat'; Harman Blennerhassett naturalization papers, Wood County court records; Blennerhassett episode--depositions of John Graham and Alex. Henderson, also J. Graham letter to Henderson; the Philippi Bar of the 1880s; doubts about Morgan, first white settler in West Virginia; Teays River; Spanish War Vets Convention, Weston; erosion, Canaan Valley and Blackwater Falls, illustrated; the Greenbrier Hotel in 1908; Fairfax survey map and Lower Shenandoah Valley Settlement; Selby House, Shepherdstown; Claudius Crozet; delegates to Commercial Convention in Memphis; list of U.S. Navy ships with West Virginia names; Old Richards Fort, Harrison County; John L. Cole; George Rogers Clark; etc.;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes individual and family papers (manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, images, etc.) of West Virginians; manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, commissions, etc. regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other topics; a manuscript roll book of a Confederate sergeant (1862); and two manuscript Civil War diaries (Confederate diary: 1864; Union diary: 1864-1865).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The individual and family papers include material related to the Barney, Bennett, Boyle, Cook, Jackson, Broun, Burner, Camden, Keister, McCausland, Quarrier, Laidley, Ruffner, Tavenner, Tompkins, and O'Neill families, among others; and material related to Mordecai Levi, J.A.J. Lightburn, James C. McFarland, Major T.P. Moore, John Morgan, Francis H. Pierpont, Adam See, Colonel William C. Tavenner, William Tompkins, and Robert E. Lee, among others. Topics of the family and individual papers include family matters, genealogy, business, and the Civil War. Mordecai Levi (1835-1914) invented the first method of brick paving in the U.S. and was an early paver of Charleston, WV. His papers include facsimile and original typescripts and correspondence, official documents, clippings, and other material [1871-1890, 1914-1974, undated].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Correspondence (mostly original letters) regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other letters includes the following correspondents, among others: John Echols, William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, Harman Blennerhassett, Lawrence A. Washington, Louis Philippe (King of France), Joseph Johnson (Governor of Virginia), and John Letcher (Governor of Virginia), among others. Original letters from McKinley, Hayes, McClellan, Louis Philippe, and Theodore Roosevelt have been separated to A\u0026amp;M 435.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: John Henry and writing of the ballad; Judge Ben Wheeler Moore; Lydia Boggs [Shepherd] Cruger/Kruger [also includes typescript]; John Henry Shaw; J.E. Hanger; Caroline Beeghley; Captain Jackson Everson [Apperson]; William Henry Tappey Squires; [Josias] Hanson Link [family] [includes Captain Leib's description of Clarksburg during Civil War period]; Colonel Benjamin J. Wilson; Donnally family; Clendennin family; Huddleston family; Herold family; White family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: Willa Hood Strickler [first female pharmacist in the state]; Prof. Milton W. Humphreys; S.B. Elkins; Boyd Stutler; Hu Maxwell; Nathan Goff Jr.; Renick family and Calvin Brown Renick; John Champe; General Hugh Mercer; and Francis Marion Franklin Smith [typescript]. Also includes miscellaneous topics, such as: West Virginia newspaper editors and publications; reburial of Chief Cornstalk's remains; Jama Shamoon, Fairmont resident in camp of Pancho Villa; road from Monterey to Pocahontas County, 1781-1782; Robert Crain and Margaret Bennett, daughter of Judge W.G. Bennett, wedding in Weston; campaign ribbon, W.G. Bennett for Governor; and Mrs. Lewis Bennett's donation of uniform, medals, etc. of her son, Lieutenant Lewis B. Jr., to the National Museum in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains clippings on various subjects, including: General Cox's message to the people of Charleston, General Orders, No. 8, Headquarters, District of the Kanawha, Elk River, July 25, 1861; Scary Creek battlefield [includes map]; Confederate money in Stockholm, Sweden; Capture of Steamboat \"Levi\" [General Eliakim P. Scammon], illustrated; Hawk's Nest incident [1862]; Kanawha Valley [includes map, photo of General Wise, copy of 1861 broadside \"Men of Virginia! Men of the Kanawha! To Arms!\"]; Lightburn's Retreat, Kanawha Valley 1862, illustrated; occupation of Charleston by Union Troops in 1861; \"Fort Hill\" Charleston, illustrated; Colonel George S. Patton and the \"Kanawha Riflemen,\" illustrated; \"The Dixie Rifles,\" Beuhring H. Jones, and the burning of Gauley Bridge, illustrated; Duskey's Raid on Ripley, illustrated; Wise's retreat from the Kanawha [includes map, illustrated].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes clippings on various subjects, such as: Hart residence and Rich Mountain battlefield, illustrated; monument to Gus Bailey of Fayette County; West Virginia's Generals in Gray, illustrated; Clarksburg, 1861, illustrated; role of the 'Wheeling Intelligencer' in the birth of West Virginia; Isaac J. Settle's Diary; preparing for action on the Kanawha, illustrated; Old Jack and Old Jube; list of issues of 'The Confederate Veteran' that have a West Virginia interest history of Company B, 14th West Virginia Infantry; \"Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864\" painting; etc. Also includes stamps and an envelope regarding the Centennial of the Philippi Covered Bridge in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary describes: marches and engagements in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia [including Greenbrier, Berkeley, and Jefferson County]; casualties and ordnance losses in various engagements; towns on route of march; desertions from the company; and reports of the movement and engagements of other units [Confederate and Union] [May 6, 1864-October 11, 1864]. Engagement sites include: Winchester and Fisher's Hill, 1st Brigadier General Breckenridge's Division, September 19 and 22; New Market, May 15, Confederate General John C. Breckenridge, Union General Seigle [sic: Sigel]; east of Atlee's Station, May 29-31 and June 1; Chickhominey River, Coal Harbor, June 2-3; near Lynchburg, June 18; near Salem, June 21; Frederick City, MD, July 9; between Purcellville and Snickerville, July 16; on the Shenandoah near Snicker's Gap, July 18; near Kerntown, July 24; near Charles Town, August 21; Berryville Road, September 4; near Winchester, September 19; Brown's Gap Road, September 26 [all 1864]. Martinsburg entries: July 4, 26, 27, 28-30, and August 7, 1864; Charlestown August 23, 1864. Last pages of diary list towns and countries traveled through, and distance traveled from May 6 - August 31, 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary includes: descriptions of various engagements and maneuvers preceding Ellis' capture at Cedar Creek; names of men serving with Ellis who were wounded, discharged, deserters, etc.; description of living conditions at Camp Salisbury, NC; number of Federal prisoners joining the Confederate Army; number of deaths; and rations received. West Virginia counties in which the regiment saw action: Greenbrier, Mineral, Monroe, Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, Kanawha, Fayette, Raleigh, and Mercer. Ellis' location as mentioned in various entries in 1864: Ridgeville [Mineral County?], Hancock [MD?], \"Rebs reported at Peterson's Creek\" [Pattersons Creek, Mineral County?] on February 2; fight at New Creek [Mineral County] on February 3; \"Alpine Depot, Morgan Co. [Morgan County] West Virginia\" on April 1; other April entries mention Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, Pomeroy [OH], Charleston; Camp Piatt [?] Kanawha County on April 26; May entries mention Fayette County, Raleigh County, and Mercer County [captured Fort Breckenridge at Princeton, May 6]; Monroe County on May 13; New River on May 10; Lewisburg on May 22; White Sulphur Springs on June 2; Fayette County on June 20; Camp Piatt on July 1; Clarksburg on July 9; Piedmont on July 10; Martinsburg on July 11; Harpers Ferry on July 15; Libby Prison on November 1; Salisbury, NC on November 4. For a typescript copy of the diary, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks, box 16, Notebook 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, military orders, battle reports, legal documents, clippings, typescripts, print material, ephemera, photographs, and other material. Topics include T.J. Jackson's military service, his time as constable of Lewis County, his entrance into West Point, his application for position on the faculty of University of Virginia, the Jackson and Arnold families, memorial busts and statues of Jackson, Jackson biographies, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes personal belongings of Jackson and associated memorabilia, such as Stonewall Jackson souvenir or commemorative coins and medals, and hair from the tail of Jackson's horse, Old Sorrel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes letters, pension documents, clippings, and financial statements of Mary Anna Jackson, T.J. Jackson's wife. Topics include family life and books written by Mrs. Jackson about her daughter and her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e For additional memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, see Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives, and Series 15, Oversize Material. For other Jackson materials, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes unbound pamphlets and reprints of articles, as well as articles written by Roy Bird Cook. Topics include the history of Virginia and West Virginia, and the Civil War, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes typescripts, correspondence, clippings, genealogies, maps, ephemera, pamphlets, articles, photographs, and other material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Prominent subjects include T.J. Jackson and his family, and the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Material about T.J. Jackson includes articles and pamphlets about his life and military service; letters to, from, and about him; court records and legal documents regarding Jackson and his family; images of Jackson, Jackson's Mill, Jackson statues and memorials; reviews of books written about him, including Cook's 'The Family and Early Life of Stonewall Jackson'; and other items. Prominent Jackson family members include Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold. (Notebooks prominently featuring T.J. Jackson and his family include 2, 2A-2K, 4, 7, 9, 13, 23, 24, 32, 37, 38, 38A, 39, and 56.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Civil War materials include historical sketches of battles; originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; historical sketches and rosters of companies and regiments; articles and narratives about life during the Civil War; etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Additional subjects include genealogy, West Virginia history, prominent individuals, the Virginia Military Institute, Weston newspapers, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the West Virginia Commission on Historic Markers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Genealogical subjects include the Jackson, Neale, Arnold, Camden, Newlon, Sprigg, Williams, Ruffner, Hamilton, Holt, Byrne, Cook, Bird, Hull, and Conrad families, among others (Notebooks 2D, 42, 43, 48, 55, 67, and others).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e West Virginia history subjects include Kanawha County Court records; Lewis County; Weston; Charleston; colonial and Civil War history of West Virginia; George Washington's travels and surveys in and around West Virginia; the Kanawha River, valley, and surrounding area; Blennerhassett Island; Wood County; and Parkersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Prominent individuals include Andrew Jackson, Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh, Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr, Granville Davisson Hall, Jonathan McCally Bennett and the Bennett family, Colonel John Stuart, General Albert Jenkins, David Creigh, Mason Mathews, Henry F. Westfall, John Valley Young and family, Thomas Bland Camden, Johnson Newlon Camden, Daniel Boone, Harman Blennerhassett, John Esten Cooke, Colonel George Jackson, and Alexander Scott Withers, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Correspondents include T.J. Jackson, members of the Bennett family, Charles W. Dabney, Douglas Southall Freeman, Thomas Jackson Arnold, Lyman C. Draper, Boyd B. Stutler, and Roy Bird Cook, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e For additional materials on David Creigh, see A\u0026amp;M 2201, Preston Family Papers, Box 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eDescriptive System for Series 8:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The contents of the notebooks are described to the item level in the Contents List. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n These items level descriptions are preceded with the items' genre and format in brackets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eGenres include:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e article (from magazine or journal) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n clipping (usually from newspaper) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n ephemera \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n pamphlet \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n photo \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n typescript \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n ms [manuscript] letter \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n ts [typescript] letter \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n other\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFormats include:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e original \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n transcription \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n copy (for photocopies and other facsimiles)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Transcriptions are dated by creation date of the transcription, not the original. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Copies are dated by creation date of original.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eExamples:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [ephemera and photo; original] invitation to the dedication of the equestrian statue of Jackson and Lee in Baltimore, two tickets to the dedication, and a photo of the statue\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [ts letters; transcription] letters regarding T.J. Jackson's appointment as a cadet at Military Academy (This record describes a set of typescript letters transcribed from originals.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [other; copy] T.J. Jackson's appointment as Brevet Second Lieutenant (This record describes a facsimile of an official appointment document.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes diaries, lists, clippings, and pamphlets regarding Civil War experiences, music, battles, etc.; medical practice in (West) Virginia in the 1850s; and U.S. Presidents. The typescript copies of diaries relate to the years just before, during, and after the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes typescripts, pamphlets, prescriptions, account statements, advertisements, correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, and other material. Topics include the James H. Rogers Drug Store and other drug stores in Charleston, WV; Dr. Henry Rogers and other Charleston pharmacists; medicines of the mid to late 1800s; the 1960 meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association; West Virginia pharmacists' World War II service; and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association (now known as the West Virginia Pharmacists Association).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes typescripts, pamphlets, magazine and journal articles, clippings, and correspondence regarding the history of the medical profession in West Virginia, including James Edward Hanger (first amputee soldier of the Civil War and founder of a prosthetics company), Dr. J.L. Miller (collector of medical material); and Dr. W.P. King.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets of original and reprinted articles regarding various pharmacists and the history of pharmacy. Also included are three bound volumes of material pertaining to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, a magazine, typescripts, and clippings related to Adalbert J. Volck. Also included are copies of 29 etchings by Volck regarding Civil War topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes six glass plate negatives of T.J. Jackson portraits and Jackson's Mill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided into two subseries, general material and material of the 31st Virginia Infantry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, the Civil War, and Jackson's Mill. For additional T.J. Jackson material, see also Series 6, Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; Series 8, Bound Notebooks; and Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also included are family trees, maps, ephemera, clippings, Confederate bonds, and military records, among other material. Family trees show the genealogy of the Lee, Cook, Washington, and Cable families. Subjects of the maps include various counties in West Virginia; Civil War battles and troop movements; Charleston, WV; the Kanawha River; the Coal River; and George Washington's travels and surveys; among other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes semi-monthly reports; lost or destroyed property reports; captains' monthly returns; abstracts of monthly payments and stationery issued; lists of officers; payroll and clothing distribution records; descriptive lists and accounting of pay and clothing records; morning reports; and muster rolls. The bulk of the material pertains to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Digitized copies of these items can be found online (see link in Instances).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also, Series 2, Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics.","Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook-style notebooks of Roy Bird Cook (1896-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]) (the original letter by T.J. Jackson has been separated to A\u0026M 435); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]).","There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.","Please note: Additional processing took place in spring and summer 2012. Box and folder numbers from previous citations may no longer be accurate.","Series 1. Hays Family Papers; 1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1.","Series 2. Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry; ca. 1856-1955, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 2-3.","Series 3. Roy Bird Cook Personal Papers; 1896-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-5.","Series 4. Miscellaneous History; 1783-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 6-7b.","Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers; 1793-1974, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 8-9.","Series 6. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; 1801-1963, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 10-14c.","Series 7. Historical Articles and Other Printed Papers; 1928-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 15.","Series 8. Bound Notebooks; 1679-1984, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 16-40.","Series 9. Miscellaneous; ca. 1850-1866, 1909-1958, undated; box 41, folders 1-4.","Series 10. History of Pharmacy and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association; ca. 1832-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); box 41, folder 5 - box 42, folder 3 (includes unfoldered material).","Series 11. West Virginia Medical History and Biography; 1870-1911, 1936-1958, undated (includes facsimiles); box 42, folders 4-7.","Series 12. American Pharmaceutical Association; 1868, 1939-1961, undated; box 43.","Series 13. A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches; ca. 1880, 1915-1954, 2012, undated (includes facsimiles); box 44.","Series 14. Glass Plate Negatives; undated; box 45.","Series 15. Oversize Material; 1774-1964, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 46-52 and map cabinet 1, drawer 19.","This series includes correspondence, business papers, and biographical notes of Samuel L. Hays, his son Peregrine, and the Hays family of Gilmer County. Subjects include: the formation of Gilmer, Calhoun, Roane, and Upshur Counties; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; \"Stonewall\" Jackson's boyhood; early frontier conditions in the Wisconsin Territory; immigration, farming, milling, and land speculation in Minnesota, 1857-1870; Charleston and Braxton turnpike; slave sales; Early's Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864; conditions in Richmond during the Civil War pertaining to livestock, tobacco, and cotton trade; the West Virginia Capitol question, 1877; and the Senatorial contest, 1876. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, Louis Bennett, John Brannon, Gideon Camden, J.N. Camden, William P. Cooper, H. G. Davis, John J. Davis, Spencer Dayton, John S. Hoffman, William L. Jackson, John E. Kenna, Theodore Lang, and George W. Silcott. [note: not all of the subjects and personal names listed for series 1 were verified during reprocessing]","This series includes military records pertaining to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army. Military records include personnel papers (regarding death, desertion, and discharge), financial papers (receipts, inventories, etc.), judicial materials (charges and courts martial), correspondence, orders, a company book, muster rolls, etc. The series also includes maps, clippings, photographs, research correspondence, manuscript and typescript writings pertaining to the 31st Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army, and the correspondence and papers of D.C. Gallaher. D.C. Gallaher collected some of this material on the 31st regiment, which later came into the hands of Roy Bird Cook. For additional D.C. Gallaher material, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks 26-28, Civil War I-III.","Military correspondence and orders include letters from J.M. Bennett, G. D. Camden Jr. and Sr., W.P. Cooper, John W. Daniel, Cyrus Hall, John S. Hoffman, A.H. Jackson, William L. Jackson, and William Smith. Additional correspondence includes letters to Roy Bird Cook pertaining to the regiment. Military orders are from the Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of Northwestern Virginia, Early's Division, and the 31st Virginia Infantry. Typescript writings include material related to soldiers and Civil War activities in Pocahontas, Upshur, and Lewis Counties; \"A History of the Thirty-First Virginia Regiment Volunteers C.S.A.\" by James Dell Cooke of WVU (1955); copies of W.P. [William Pope] Cooper diaries, letters, etc.; and \"Material Pertaining to Civil War Soldiers [Most of Whom Fought in the 31st Regiment, Virginia Infantry]\" (ca. 1926-1940).","Please note, typescript copies of some of the original material in box 2, folders 1-9 can be found in box 3, folders 10-14.","For additional records of the 31st Virginia Infantry, see also: Series 15, Oversize Material -- 31st Virginia Infantry, boxes 49-51; and A\u0026M 1528 Series 6, Military Records, and Series 9, Oversized.","This series includes correspondence (box 4) and personal papers of Roy Bird Cook (box 5).","Correspondence includes mainly incoming invitations, letters, photo postcards, clippings, etc. Topics include: T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson; comments on several books (including 'Lee the American' by Gamaliel Bradford, 'Lewis County in the Civil War' by Cook, and 'They Called Him Stonewall' by Burke Davis); various areas of West Virginia history; family histories (notably of the Peterson and Rhea families); Civil War participants (e.g. General Jubal A. Early); the Civil War Round Table, Incorporated; the Jackson House (in letters from Isabel Arnold); Ann Bailey; George Washington's Ohio River trip; an exploration by James Patton; material on Fred Fousse, a Civil War illustrator; and biographical material on Roy Bird Cook.","Correspondents include: Thomas Perkins Abernathy (Corcoran School of History, University of Virginia), Holmes M. Alexander, Isabel Arnold (descendent of Stonewall Jackson's sister Laura, who married an Arnold), Thomas J. Arnold, John Bakeless, Albert J. Beveridge, Edward Bok, Alva J.C. Bond (Dean Emeritus, School of Theology, Alfred University), Gamaliel Bradford, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Lenoir Chambers, Dr. Earl L. Core, Burke Davis, Ruth Woods Dayton, H.A. DuPont, Douglas Southall Freeman, Granville Davisson Hall, Dr. Matthew S. Holt (father of Rush D. Holt), Jay W. Johns (President, Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Incorporated), Harnett T. Kane, John A. Klein (Adjutant General of the United States), Dr. O.D. Lambert, Foreman M. Lebold, Eli Lilly, Henry T. McDonald (President, Storer College), Clarence W. Meadows (former Governor), Meade Minnigerode, Judge Ben Moore, Oren F. Morton, Drew Pearson, Mrs. Randolph (Julia J.) Preston (Stonewall Jackson's granddaughter), Frederick F. Seely (Department of English, Allegheny College), Lawrence Sherwood, Kenneth Stuart (Art Editor, 'The Saturday Evening Post'), Boyd B. Stutler, Allen Tate, Albert Payson Terhune, Cecil H. Underwood, and John W. Wayland.","Personal papers include photographs of Cook and scrapbook-style notebooks containing correspondence, printed materials, and ephemera from Cook's life. Topics include Cook's time in school, American Pharmaceutical Association meetings, Cook's honorary LL.D. awarded by West Virginia University, his Kiwanis Personal Achievement Award, and an attempted burglary at his home.","Additional correspondence to and from Cook, writings by Cook, etc. can be found throughout the collection. For Cook family genealogy and other Cook material, see Series 8, Bound Notebook 67, Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers, and Series 15, Oversize Material.","This series includes manuscript originals and facsimiles, newspaper and magazine clippings, typescripts, and printed items regarding Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia businesses, Geary Securities Company (see also Series 15, Oversize Material), book reviews and excerpts, West Virginia elections, the West Virginia Capitol and capital city, and the history of West Virginia.","For material that was separated from this series, see Series 15, Oversize Material, box 47, folders 3 and 8.","Includes original and facsimile clippings on: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston; Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill at Richwood; horse-powered boat \"Adventurer\" built at Coatsmouth [Coalsmouth?] in 1840s; facsimile, top of page 1, Parkersburg's West Virginia Walking Beam, vol. 2, no. 13 [October 9, 1880]; old grist mills; \"The Story of Salt,\" illustrated; Gatts Mound [at Cresap]; covered bridges; Hinkle Fort, Pendleton County, illustrated; the Mercer Grant, Mason County; Bailey's Hotel, Weston; early history of the 'Weston Democrat'; Harman Blennerhassett naturalization papers, Wood County court records; Blennerhassett episode--depositions of John Graham and Alex. Henderson, also J. Graham letter to Henderson; the Philippi Bar of the 1880s; doubts about Morgan, first white settler in West Virginia; Teays River; Spanish War Vets Convention, Weston; erosion, Canaan Valley and Blackwater Falls, illustrated; the Greenbrier Hotel in 1908; Fairfax survey map and Lower Shenandoah Valley Settlement; Selby House, Shepherdstown; Claudius Crozet; delegates to Commercial Convention in Memphis; list of U.S. Navy ships with West Virginia names; Old Richards Fort, Harrison County; John L. Cole; George Rogers Clark; etc.;","This series includes individual and family papers (manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, images, etc.) of West Virginians; manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, commissions, etc. regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other topics; a manuscript roll book of a Confederate sergeant (1862); and two manuscript Civil War diaries (Confederate diary: 1864; Union diary: 1864-1865).","The individual and family papers include material related to the Barney, Bennett, Boyle, Cook, Jackson, Broun, Burner, Camden, Keister, McCausland, Quarrier, Laidley, Ruffner, Tavenner, Tompkins, and O'Neill families, among others; and material related to Mordecai Levi, J.A.J. Lightburn, James C. McFarland, Major T.P. Moore, John Morgan, Francis H. Pierpont, Adam See, Colonel William C. Tavenner, William Tompkins, and Robert E. Lee, among others. Topics of the family and individual papers include family matters, genealogy, business, and the Civil War. Mordecai Levi (1835-1914) invented the first method of brick paving in the U.S. and was an early paver of Charleston, WV. His papers include facsimile and original typescripts and correspondence, official documents, clippings, and other material [1871-1890, 1914-1974, undated].","Correspondence (mostly original letters) regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other letters includes the following correspondents, among others: John Echols, William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, Harman Blennerhassett, Lawrence A. Washington, Louis Philippe (King of France), Joseph Johnson (Governor of Virginia), and John Letcher (Governor of Virginia), among others. Original letters from McKinley, Hayes, McClellan, Louis Philippe, and Theodore Roosevelt have been separated to A\u0026M 435.","Includes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: John Henry and writing of the ballad; Judge Ben Wheeler Moore; Lydia Boggs [Shepherd] Cruger/Kruger [also includes typescript]; John Henry Shaw; J.E. Hanger; Caroline Beeghley; Captain Jackson Everson [Apperson]; William Henry Tappey Squires; [Josias] Hanson Link [family] [includes Captain Leib's description of Clarksburg during Civil War period]; Colonel Benjamin J. Wilson; Donnally family; Clendennin family; Huddleston family; Herold family; White family.","Includes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: Willa Hood Strickler [first female pharmacist in the state]; Prof. Milton W. Humphreys; S.B. Elkins; Boyd Stutler; Hu Maxwell; Nathan Goff Jr.; Renick family and Calvin Brown Renick; John Champe; General Hugh Mercer; and Francis Marion Franklin Smith [typescript]. Also includes miscellaneous topics, such as: West Virginia newspaper editors and publications; reburial of Chief Cornstalk's remains; Jama Shamoon, Fairmont resident in camp of Pancho Villa; road from Monterey to Pocahontas County, 1781-1782; Robert Crain and Margaret Bennett, daughter of Judge W.G. Bennett, wedding in Weston; campaign ribbon, W.G. Bennett for Governor; and Mrs. Lewis Bennett's donation of uniform, medals, etc. of her son, Lieutenant Lewis B. Jr., to the National Museum in Washington, D.C.","Contains clippings on various subjects, including: General Cox's message to the people of Charleston, General Orders, No. 8, Headquarters, District of the Kanawha, Elk River, July 25, 1861; Scary Creek battlefield [includes map]; Confederate money in Stockholm, Sweden; Capture of Steamboat \"Levi\" [General Eliakim P. Scammon], illustrated; Hawk's Nest incident [1862]; Kanawha Valley [includes map, photo of General Wise, copy of 1861 broadside \"Men of Virginia! Men of the Kanawha! To Arms!\"]; Lightburn's Retreat, Kanawha Valley 1862, illustrated; occupation of Charleston by Union Troops in 1861; \"Fort Hill\" Charleston, illustrated; Colonel George S. Patton and the \"Kanawha Riflemen,\" illustrated; \"The Dixie Rifles,\" Beuhring H. Jones, and the burning of Gauley Bridge, illustrated; Duskey's Raid on Ripley, illustrated; Wise's retreat from the Kanawha [includes map, illustrated].","Includes clippings on various subjects, such as: Hart residence and Rich Mountain battlefield, illustrated; monument to Gus Bailey of Fayette County; West Virginia's Generals in Gray, illustrated; Clarksburg, 1861, illustrated; role of the 'Wheeling Intelligencer' in the birth of West Virginia; Isaac J. Settle's Diary; preparing for action on the Kanawha, illustrated; Old Jack and Old Jube; list of issues of 'The Confederate Veteran' that have a West Virginia interest history of Company B, 14th West Virginia Infantry; \"Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864\" painting; etc. Also includes stamps and an envelope regarding the Centennial of the Philippi Covered Bridge in 1952.","Diary describes: marches and engagements in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia [including Greenbrier, Berkeley, and Jefferson County]; casualties and ordnance losses in various engagements; towns on route of march; desertions from the company; and reports of the movement and engagements of other units [Confederate and Union] [May 6, 1864-October 11, 1864]. Engagement sites include: Winchester and Fisher's Hill, 1st Brigadier General Breckenridge's Division, September 19 and 22; New Market, May 15, Confederate General John C. Breckenridge, Union General Seigle [sic: Sigel]; east of Atlee's Station, May 29-31 and June 1; Chickhominey River, Coal Harbor, June 2-3; near Lynchburg, June 18; near Salem, June 21; Frederick City, MD, July 9; between Purcellville and Snickerville, July 16; on the Shenandoah near Snicker's Gap, July 18; near Kerntown, July 24; near Charles Town, August 21; Berryville Road, September 4; near Winchester, September 19; Brown's Gap Road, September 26 [all 1864]. Martinsburg entries: July 4, 26, 27, 28-30, and August 7, 1864; Charlestown August 23, 1864. Last pages of diary list towns and countries traveled through, and distance traveled from May 6 - August 31, 1864.","Diary includes: descriptions of various engagements and maneuvers preceding Ellis' capture at Cedar Creek; names of men serving with Ellis who were wounded, discharged, deserters, etc.; description of living conditions at Camp Salisbury, NC; number of Federal prisoners joining the Confederate Army; number of deaths; and rations received. West Virginia counties in which the regiment saw action: Greenbrier, Mineral, Monroe, Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, Kanawha, Fayette, Raleigh, and Mercer. Ellis' location as mentioned in various entries in 1864: Ridgeville [Mineral County?], Hancock [MD?], \"Rebs reported at Peterson's Creek\" [Pattersons Creek, Mineral County?] on February 2; fight at New Creek [Mineral County] on February 3; \"Alpine Depot, Morgan Co. [Morgan County] West Virginia\" on April 1; other April entries mention Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, Pomeroy [OH], Charleston; Camp Piatt [?] Kanawha County on April 26; May entries mention Fayette County, Raleigh County, and Mercer County [captured Fort Breckenridge at Princeton, May 6]; Monroe County on May 13; New River on May 10; Lewisburg on May 22; White Sulphur Springs on June 2; Fayette County on June 20; Camp Piatt on July 1; Clarksburg on July 9; Piedmont on July 10; Martinsburg on July 11; Harpers Ferry on July 15; Libby Prison on November 1; Salisbury, NC on November 4. For a typescript copy of the diary, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks, box 16, Notebook 1.","This series includes correspondence, military orders, battle reports, legal documents, clippings, typescripts, print material, ephemera, photographs, and other material. Topics include T.J. Jackson's military service, his time as constable of Lewis County, his entrance into West Point, his application for position on the faculty of University of Virginia, the Jackson and Arnold families, memorial busts and statues of Jackson, Jackson biographies, etc.","Also includes personal belongings of Jackson and associated memorabilia, such as Stonewall Jackson souvenir or commemorative coins and medals, and hair from the tail of Jackson's horse, Old Sorrel.","Also includes letters, pension documents, clippings, and financial statements of Mary Anna Jackson, T.J. Jackson's wife. Topics include family life and books written by Mrs. Jackson about her daughter and her husband.","For additional memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, see Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives, and Series 15, Oversize Material. For other Jackson materials, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks.","This series includes unbound pamphlets and reprints of articles, as well as articles written by Roy Bird Cook. Topics include the history of Virginia and West Virginia, and the Civil War, among others.","This series includes typescripts, correspondence, clippings, genealogies, maps, ephemera, pamphlets, articles, photographs, and other material.","Prominent subjects include T.J. Jackson and his family, and the Civil War.","Material about T.J. Jackson includes articles and pamphlets about his life and military service; letters to, from, and about him; court records and legal documents regarding Jackson and his family; images of Jackson, Jackson's Mill, Jackson statues and memorials; reviews of books written about him, including Cook's 'The Family and Early Life of Stonewall Jackson'; and other items. Prominent Jackson family members include Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold. (Notebooks prominently featuring T.J. Jackson and his family include 2, 2A-2K, 4, 7, 9, 13, 23, 24, 32, 37, 38, 38A, 39, and 56.)","Civil War materials include historical sketches of battles; originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; historical sketches and rosters of companies and regiments; articles and narratives about life during the Civil War; etc.","Additional subjects include genealogy, West Virginia history, prominent individuals, the Virginia Military Institute, Weston newspapers, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the West Virginia Commission on Historic Markers.","Genealogical subjects include the Jackson, Neale, Arnold, Camden, Newlon, Sprigg, Williams, Ruffner, Hamilton, Holt, Byrne, Cook, Bird, Hull, and Conrad families, among others (Notebooks 2D, 42, 43, 48, 55, 67, and others).","West Virginia history subjects include Kanawha County Court records; Lewis County; Weston; Charleston; colonial and Civil War history of West Virginia; George Washington's travels and surveys in and around West Virginia; the Kanawha River, valley, and surrounding area; Blennerhassett Island; Wood County; and Parkersburg.","Prominent individuals include Andrew Jackson, Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh, Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr, Granville Davisson Hall, Jonathan McCally Bennett and the Bennett family, Colonel John Stuart, General Albert Jenkins, David Creigh, Mason Mathews, Henry F. Westfall, John Valley Young and family, Thomas Bland Camden, Johnson Newlon Camden, Daniel Boone, Harman Blennerhassett, John Esten Cooke, Colonel George Jackson, and Alexander Scott Withers, among others.","Correspondents include T.J. Jackson, members of the Bennett family, Charles W. Dabney, Douglas Southall Freeman, Thomas Jackson Arnold, Lyman C. Draper, Boyd B. Stutler, and Roy Bird Cook, among others.","For additional materials on David Creigh, see A\u0026M 2201, Preston Family Papers, Box 1.","Descriptive System for Series 8:","The contents of the notebooks are described to the item level in the Contents List. \n These items level descriptions are preceded with the items' genre and format in brackets.","Genres include:","article (from magazine or journal) \n clipping (usually from newspaper) \n ephemera \n pamphlet \n photo \n typescript \n ms [manuscript] letter \n ts [typescript] letter \n other","Formats include:","original \n transcription \n copy (for photocopies and other facsimiles)","Transcriptions are dated by creation date of the transcription, not the original. \n Copies are dated by creation date of original.","Examples:","[ephemera and photo; original] invitation to the dedication of the equestrian statue of Jackson and Lee in Baltimore, two tickets to the dedication, and a photo of the statue","[ts letters; transcription] letters regarding T.J. Jackson's appointment as a cadet at Military Academy (This record describes a set of typescript letters transcribed from originals.)","[other; copy] T.J. Jackson's appointment as Brevet Second Lieutenant (This record describes a facsimile of an official appointment document.)","This series includes diaries, lists, clippings, and pamphlets regarding Civil War experiences, music, battles, etc.; medical practice in (West) Virginia in the 1850s; and U.S. Presidents. The typescript copies of diaries relate to the years just before, during, and after the Civil War.","This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, prescriptions, account statements, advertisements, correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, and other material. Topics include the James H. Rogers Drug Store and other drug stores in Charleston, WV; Dr. Henry Rogers and other Charleston pharmacists; medicines of the mid to late 1800s; the 1960 meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association; West Virginia pharmacists' World War II service; and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association (now known as the West Virginia Pharmacists Association).","This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, magazine and journal articles, clippings, and correspondence regarding the history of the medical profession in West Virginia, including James Edward Hanger (first amputee soldier of the Civil War and founder of a prosthetics company), Dr. J.L. Miller (collector of medical material); and Dr. W.P. King.","This series includes pamphlets of original and reprinted articles regarding various pharmacists and the history of pharmacy. Also included are three bound volumes of material pertaining to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.","This series includes correspondence, a magazine, typescripts, and clippings related to Adalbert J. Volck. Also included are copies of 29 etchings by Volck regarding Civil War topics.","This series includes six glass plate negatives of T.J. Jackson portraits and Jackson's Mill.","This series is divided into two subseries, general material and material of the 31st Virginia Infantry.","This subseries includes memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, the Civil War, and Jackson's Mill. For additional T.J. Jackson material, see also Series 6, Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; Series 8, Bound Notebooks; and Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives.","Also included are family trees, maps, ephemera, clippings, Confederate bonds, and military records, among other material. Family trees show the genealogy of the Lee, Cook, Washington, and Cable families. Subjects of the maps include various counties in West Virginia; Civil War battles and troop movements; Charleston, WV; the Kanawha River; the Coal River; and George Washington's travels and surveys; among other subjects.","This subseries includes semi-monthly reports; lost or destroyed property reports; captains' monthly returns; abstracts of monthly payments and stationery issued; lists of officers; payroll and clothing distribution records; descriptive lists and accounting of pay and clothing records; morning reports; and muster rolls. The bulk of the material pertains to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Digitized copies of these items can be found online (see link in Instances).","See also, Series 2, Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMany items were transferred to the Printed Ephemera Collection, including \"Mark Twain's Family in Early History of West Virginia,\" by Robert Harrison Ferguson, A.M. Superintendent Mason County Schools, Point Pleasant, West Virginia (see P8616 in the Printed Ephemera Collection).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nAn original letter from T.J. Jackson to Laura Ann Jackson Arnold, 26 October 1847, from Mexico City, Mexico, has been separated to the rare signature collection, A\u0026amp;M 435.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nFive original letters have been separated from Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers to A\u0026amp;M 435. These are original manuscript letters authored by William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, John S. Mosby, and Louis Philippe, and an original typescript letter from Theodore Roosevelt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"Front Elevation of Lunatic Asylum, West of the Alleghany Mountains\", \"R. Snowden Andrews, Architect, Baltimore, MD\" (1859; 12 1/2 in. x 49 in.) separated to A\u0026amp;M 4071, Weston State Hospital.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nMost photographs in this collection have been separated and digitized -- see scope and content note for link to photographs in West Virginia History OnView. Two of the photos were separated to A\u0026amp;M 4168, Panoramic Photos Collection: Sheltering Arms Hosptial and Kanawha Falls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nLists of separated materials in the following categories can be found in the control folder: Broadsides \u0026amp; Programs, Newspapers/Periodicals, Circulars \u0026amp; West Virginia Pamphlets, and Maps.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Many items were transferred to the Printed Ephemera Collection, including \"Mark Twain's Family in Early History of West Virginia,\" by Robert Harrison Ferguson, A.M. Superintendent Mason County Schools, Point Pleasant, West Virginia (see P8616 in the Printed Ephemera Collection).","An original letter from T.J. Jackson to Laura Ann Jackson Arnold, 26 October 1847, from Mexico City, Mexico, has been separated to the rare signature collection, A\u0026M 435.","Five original letters have been separated from Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers to A\u0026M 435. These are original manuscript letters authored by William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, John S. Mosby, and Louis Philippe, and an original typescript letter from Theodore Roosevelt.","\"Front Elevation of Lunatic Asylum, West of the Alleghany Mountains\", \"R. Snowden Andrews, Architect, Baltimore, MD\" (1859; 12 1/2 in. x 49 in.) separated to A\u0026M 4071, Weston State Hospital.","Most photographs in this collection have been separated and digitized -- see scope and content note for link to photographs in West Virginia History OnView. Two of the photos were separated to A\u0026M 4168, Panoramic Photos Collection: Sheltering Arms Hosptial and Kanawha Falls.","Lists of separated materials in the following categories can be found in the control folder: Broadsides \u0026 Programs, Newspapers/Periodicals, Circulars \u0026 West Virginia Pamphlets, and Maps."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_3ccc07af556ba9d4c7990eed73312fc9\"\u003ePapers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]). There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]). There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_e37bcc605bdcccbb7485ff3cacdfccb0\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center"],"corpname_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","American Pharmaceutical Association","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st","West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association"],"names_coll_ssim":["American Pharmaceutical Association","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B","Confederate States of America. Army. 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(John Daniel), 1823-1895","Jackson, George.","Jackson, J.J.","Jackson, Mary Anna, 1831-1915","Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863","Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864","Kenna, John Edward, 1848-1893","Letcher, John, 1813-1884","Levi, Mordecai.","Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901.","MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930","Mastin, John A.","McCausland, John, 1836-1927","McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885","McFarland, James C.","McKinley, William, 1843-1901","Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916","Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899","Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924","Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912","Washington, George, 1732-1799","Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865"],"famname_ssim":["Bennett family","Camden family","Hayes family","Jackson family","Quarrier family","Ruffner family"],"persname_ssim":["Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961","Arnold, Thomas Jackson.","Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925","Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887.","Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820","Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896","Brown, John, 1800-1859","Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg.","Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910","Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886.","Cooper, William P.","Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900","Crook, George, 1828-1890","Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916","Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894","Ellis, James F.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884","Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953","Gallaher, D.C.","Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934","Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893","Hays, Peregrine.","Hays, Samuel L.","Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889","Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891","Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895","Jackson, George.","Jackson, J.J.","Jackson, Mary Anna, 1831-1915","Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863","Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864","Kenna, John Edward, 1848-1893","Letcher, John, 1813-1884","Levi, Mordecai.","Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901.","MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930","Mastin, John A.","McCausland, John, 1836-1927","McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885","McFarland, James C.","McKinley, William, 1843-1901","Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916","Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899","Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924","Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912","Washington, George, 1732-1799","Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865"],"names_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","American Pharmaceutical Association","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st","West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association","Bennett family","Camden family","Hayes family","Jackson family","Quarrier family","Ruffner family","Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961","Arnold, Thomas Jackson.","Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925","Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887.","Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820","Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896","Brown, John, 1800-1859","Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg.","Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910","Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886.","Cooper, William P.","Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900","Crook, George, 1828-1890","Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916","Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894","Ellis, James F.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884","Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953","Gallaher, D.C.","Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934","Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893","Hays, Peregrine.","Hays, Samuel L.","Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889","Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891","Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895","Jackson, George.","Jackson, J.J.","Jackson, Mary Anna, 1831-1915","Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863","Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864","Kenna, John Edward, 1848-1893","Letcher, John, 1813-1884","Levi, Mordecai.","Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901.","MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930","Mastin, John A.","McCausland, John, 1836-1927","McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885","McFarland, James C.","McKinley, William, 1843-1901","Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916","Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899","Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924","Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912","Washington, George, 1732-1799","Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":3461,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:58:07.010Z","arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eList of Bound Notebooks in Series 8:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotebook 1 - Civil War Diary of James F. Ellis, Corporal, Company B, 15th (West) Virginia - Box 16\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 2 - Jackson Letters - Box 16\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 2A-K - Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers, volumes 1-11 - Boxes 16-20\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 3 - Index to 1st-2nd-3rd Biennial Reports, Dept. of Archives and History, 1906-1911 - Box 20\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 4 - Douglas Freeman, Historian - Box 20\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 5A - Kanawha County Court Records, 1788-1803 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 20\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 5B - Kanawha County Court Records, 1825-1831 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 21\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 6 - Fitzhugh (bio of Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh and diary of Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr) - Box 21\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 7 - Thomas Jackson Arnold Letters (includes letters from TJA to Roy Bird Cook) - Box 21\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 8 - Granville Davisson Hall Papers - Box 21\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 9 - Jackson Papers (includes many items once held by Mrs. Jackson) - Box 22\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 10 - Weston Newspapers (includes material from 1800s) - Box 22\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 11 - Bennett Papers (re J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family; see also Notebook 44) - Box 22\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 12 - Pioneer Sketches of Lewis County (By Roy Bird Cook) - Box 22\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 13 - Jackson's Mill (contains thesis 'The Pioneer State 4-H Camp: Jackson's Mill') - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 14 - B\u0026amp;O Railroad (extracts from dissertation re B\u0026amp;O in the Civil War by Festus Summers) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 15 - Lewis County (historical sketches by Robert L. Bland of 'The Weston Democrat' ca. 1920) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 16 - Oliver Letters (contains newspaper column re history of Weston, 1892) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 17 - Vandalia (contains typescript re the Ohio Land Company and George Washington) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 18 - Narrative of Colonel John Stuart of Greenbrier, 1798 (incl. info. on Indian wars) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 19 - A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches - see Series 13\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 20 - West Virginia Index (incl. material related to work of Commission on Historic Markers) - Box 23\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 21 - West Virginia Review Index (incl. list of articles by RBC, and TOC for 1923-1942) - Box 24\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 22 - Charleston Typescripts (regarding local history) - Box 24\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 23 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 1 - Box 25\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 24 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 2 - Box 25\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 25 - General Albert Jenkins, Confederate States Army (incl. biographical information) - Box 25\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 26 - Civil War I (mostly typescripts re various topics connected to the Civil War) - Box 26\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 27 - Civil War II - Box 26\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 28 - Civil War III - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 29 - 'West Virginia' by Colonel Robert White (part of volume 2 of a series) - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 30 - Mason Mathews Collection (notebook pp. 1-19; transcription of Civil War letters) - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 30 - Alkire Collection (pp. 20-49; trans. of Civil War scrapbooks made by Marcia Phillips) - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 30 - Diary of Henry F. Westfall (pp. 50-92; incl. typescript copy of Civil War diary) - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 31 - Young Family Civil War Papers - Box 27\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 32 - Stonewall Jackson (includes mostly articles about Stonewall Jackson) - Box 28\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 33 - Civil War, No. 3 - Box 28\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 34 - Civil War, No. 4 - Box 28\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 35 - Civil War, No. 5 - Box 28\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 36 - Civil War, No. 6 - Box 29\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 37 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 38 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 38A - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 39 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 30\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 40 - Civil War--Camden (contains Civil War recollections by Thomas B. Camden) - Box 30\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 41 - Johnson Newlon Camden - Box 31\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 42 - Camden-Newlon-Sprigg-Williams Papers (genealogies) - Box 31\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 43 - Camden Papers - Box 31\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 44 - Bennett Papers (thesis re Civil War, VA Politics, and J. Bennett; see Notebk. 11) - Box 32\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 45 - West Virginia Sketch Book I (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 46 - West Virginia Sketch Book II (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 47 - West Virginia Sketch Book III (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 33\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 48 - Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book - Box 33\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 49 - Romance of the Kanawha (scrapbook contains maps, clippings, letters, etc.) - Box 33\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNotebook 50 - Daniel Boone--Early Kanawha Valley (material re D. Boone and General A. 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The collection concerns the career of her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., particularly his student days at Yale, his pioneer efforts to organize the West Virginia Flying Corps, his service in the Royal Air Force [RAF], and his subsequent death in World War I. Additional topics include Mrs. Bennett's effort to memorialize her son, family affairs, and a South American trip in 1915. Correspondents include Louis Bennett, Sr. and Jr., and John W. 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Va.)","Aeronautics","Universities and colleges","Women's history -- 1850-1899","Women's history -- 1900-1929","World War, 1914-1918","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","Louis Bennett, Jr. became World War I's 12th ranked American flying ace. In his brief, meteoric career, he scored three aircraft and nine balloons in ten days, described by one author as \"undoubtedly, one of the most brilliant records of the air war\".","Louis Bennett, Jr. was born 22 September 1894 in Weston, West Virginia, son of Louis Bennett and Sallie Maxwell Bennett. It was a West Virginia family of wealth and prominence. Growing up in Weston, he was described as bright, likeable, and headstrong, with mechanical inclinations. He had his own car and motorcycle when 12 years old, and is said to have frequently raised the dust on his town's dirt streets with best friend Paul Hoskins.","He attended Cutler and St. Luke's preparatory schools in Pennsylvania, entering Yale University in 1913. He was apparently active in athletics and popular with women.","Interested in early aviation, Louis took pilot training from the Burgess Company at Marblehead, Massachusetts. In 1917 the Governor of West Virginia approved Louis Bennett's idea of a West Virginia Flying Corps, with intent of joining the unit to the United States Air Service. Refused by the US Army, the unit disbanded. Impatient to join the air war, Louis decided to join the British Royal Flying Corps, departing for Toronto on 5 October 1917 for training. Receiving his commission on 21 January 1918, he sailed for England.","Arriving in London on 25 February, he was sent to Flying School, receiving his Graduation Certificate on 6 March. Stationed to No. 90 Squadron, a Home Defense unit of little action, Bennett became impatient and sought transfer to a fighting squadron on the Western Front. His efforts rewarded, Louis received assignment to No. 40 Squadron at Bryas on 21 July 1918, and flew his first offensive patrol on 30 July.","The fireworks really began on 15 August when Bennett began his impressive string of victories. After killing a German balloon on the 17th, Bennett caught \"balloon fever\". \"He (Bennett) immediately set out to down every captive balloon in the area and we were all talking about it in the squadron ... each of us knew he was expendable\". With his solo destruction of four balloons on 19 August, Louis Bennett had become an ace in the space of only four days!","His final sortie on the 24th cost the enemy two balloons before anti-aircraft brought his machine down in flames. Apparently the Germans so respected his courage that they burned their hands pulling him out of his burning aircraft. He died in a German field hospital at Wavrin, with burns from waist to neck, a head wound, and a broken leg, calling for his parents.","Historical information for this biography was obtained from: Williams, George H. \"Louis Bennett, Jr.; No. 40 Squadron, RFC/RAF,\" Cross \u0026 Cockade Journal 21 (1980): 331-351.","Personal correspondence, legal and financial papers, diary, and newspaper clippings of Mrs. Sallie Maxwell Bennett of Weston, wife of Louis Bennett, Sr., the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1908. The collection concerns the career of her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., particularly his student days at Yale, his pioneer efforts to organize the West Virginia Flying Corps, his service in the Royal Air Force [RAF], and his subsequent death in World War I. Additional topics include Mrs. Bennett's effort to memorialize her son, family affairs, and a South American trip in 1915. Correspondents include Louis Bennett, Sr. and Jr., and John W. Davis.","See also C619 of Oral History Sound Archives, which contains one audio cassette and typed transcript of an interview with David B. McKinley by Wayne Sheets regarding the life and times of Sallie Maxwell Bennett. Louis Bennett, Jr. and Agra are discussed as well.","Series 1. Biographical Information; 1917-1919, 1980-ca. 2000 (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 1. Includes mostly photocopies of narrative information on the life of Louis Bennett, Jr. For more historical narrative of Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family, consult the Newspaper Clippings series.","Series 2. General Correspondence; 1908-1917; box 1, folders 2-13. Includes letters, telegrams, clippings, receipts, etc. Topics include family affairs, Yale College, and the West Virginia Flying Corps in 1917, among other subjects. Correspondents include primarily Mr. Louis Bennett, Mrs. Louis Bennett [Sallie], their son Louis Bennett, Jr., and daughter Agra.","Series 3. Outgoing Letters; 1917-1918; box 1, folders 14-18. Includes primarily letters by Louis Bennett, Jr. on Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force [RAF] stationery describing adventures in London, military matters, impatience in Shotwick, and military life and combat on the Western Front as a pilot in the 40th Squadron, RAF.","Series 4. Incoming Letters; 1918; box 1, folder 19 - box 2, folder 3. Includes letters, clippings, photographs, and other material. Letters are from Louis Bennett, Jr.'s immediate family, friends, fellow aviators, girl friends, and others regarding personal and military matters, etc.","Series 5. General; 1914-1920, undated; box 2, folders 4-9. Includes miscellaneous material regarding Louis Bennett, Jr., such as combat reports, personal ephemera, RAF Graduation Certificate, transit and burial permit, etc.","Series 6. General Correspondence--Bennett Family; 1915-1926; box 2, folder 10 - box 7, folder 2. Includes primarily letters to and from Mrs. Louis Bennett, but other family members as well, about the personal, financial, and legal affairs of the Bennett family. Many letters are testimonials and condolences regarding Louis Bennett, Jr. by his friends in England and the military. Correspondence after 1918 primarily documents Mrs. Louis Bennett's efforts in England and Europe to find the facts regarding her son's fate, and her efforts to memorialize her son and other aviators of WWI; for the latter, she corresponded with the British Air Ministry, among other military and governmental authorities. The variety of letterhead of US east coast, British Isles, and European hotels document a very peripatetic Mrs. Bennett. Letters are arranged in chronological order. Also includes a travel diary of Mrs. Bennett.","Series 7. Newspaper Clippings; 1914-1925, 1960 (includes facsimiles); box 7, folders 3-11. Contains loose clippings and clippings in scrapbook pages which document both Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family.","Series 8. Legal Papers; ca. 1918-1923; box 7, folder 12. Includes information on deeds and power of attorney; also includes agreement with the sculptor Augustus Lukeman for \"heroic bronze statue\".","Series 9. Financial Records; 1916-1926; box 7, folder 13 - box 8, folder 2. Includes appraisement and other documents relating to the Louis Bennett estate, insurance records, real estate records, balance sheets, receipts, etc.","Series 10. Publications; 1873-1882, 1907-1924; box 8, folders 3-5. Includes books and periodicals, mostly material about Louis Bennett, Jr.","Series 11. Greeting Cards; 1920, undated; box 8, folder 6.","Series 12. Calling Cards/Business Cards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 7. These cards appear to document primarily the personal and professional contacts of Mrs. Bennett, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s mother.","Series 13. Postcards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 8. Includes photo postcards. Subjects include portraits, landscapes, and WWI images.","Series 14. Ephemera; 1899-1924, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9, folders 1-4. Includes much Louis Bennett, Jr.-related material, such as his RAF Wallet (for wallet, see box 12).","Series 15. Photographs; 1904-1920, undated; box 9, folders 5-17. Includes photographs, postcards, and negatives. Subjects include a diverse range of material recording Louis Bennett, Jr.'s involvement in WWI, as well as the Bennett family. Mrs. Bennett's 1915 trip to South America is extensively documented.","Series 16. Artifacts; 1890s-1925, undated; boxes 10-10a. Includes checkbooks, a pin cushion, a sketchbook, newspaper clippings, a lock of hair, and other items.","Series 17. Dissertation; 2009; box 11. Contains Charles D. Dusch's Great War Aviation and Commemoration: Louis Bennett, Jr., Commander of the West Virginia Flying Corps (also available as an electronic resource at WVU Libraries).","Series 18. Miscellaneous; ca. 1916-1919; box 12. Contains glass plate negatives, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s RAF wallet, and his memo book.","\"Weston Legionnaire\" (These publications can be found in the pamphlet collection, under \"P7253\".):","June 1923; Vol. 1, No. 6","July 1923; Vol. 1, No. 7","October 1923; Vol. 1, No. 10","November 1923; Vol. 1, No. 11","March 1924; Vol. 2, No. 3","February 1925; Vol. 3, No. 2","November 1926; Vol. 4, No. 11","\"Arrow Head Tribe, LSA [Lone Scouts of America]\"; Weston, WV (These publications can be found in the pamphlet collection, under \"P7459\".):","April 1, 1920; Vol. 1, No. 1","May 1920; Vol. 2 [sic]","June 1920; Vol. 3 [sic]","The original photographs in the RAF Wallet have been moved to separate storage; they can be viewed in West Virginia History OnView by searching for \"1590\" combined with \"wallet\"; a facsimile set of all of these photographs have been inserted into box 9, folder 4.","Most of the original print photographs documenting Lt. Louis Bennett and his involvement in WWI have been moved to separate storage; they can be viewed in West Virginia History OnView by searching for \"1590\"; a facsimile set has been inserted into box 9, folder 5.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Personal correspondence, legal and financial papers, diary, and newspaper clippings of Mrs. Sallie Maxwell Bennett of Weston, wife of Louis Bennett, Sr., the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1908. The collection concerns the career of her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., particularly his student days at Yale, his pioneer efforts to organize the West Virginia Flying Corps, his service in the Royal Air Force [RAF], and his subsequent death in World War I. Additional topics include Mrs. Bennett's effort to memorialize her son, family affairs, and a South American trip in 1915. 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Growing up in Weston, he was described as bright, likeable, and headstrong, with mechanical inclinations. He had his own car and motorcycle when 12 years old, and is said to have frequently raised the dust on his town's dirt streets with best friend Paul Hoskins.","He attended Cutler and St. Luke's preparatory schools in Pennsylvania, entering Yale University in 1913. He was apparently active in athletics and popular with women.","Interested in early aviation, Louis took pilot training from the Burgess Company at Marblehead, Massachusetts. In 1917 the Governor of West Virginia approved Louis Bennett's idea of a West Virginia Flying Corps, with intent of joining the unit to the United States Air Service. Refused by the US Army, the unit disbanded. Impatient to join the air war, Louis decided to join the British Royal Flying Corps, departing for Toronto on 5 October 1917 for training. Receiving his commission on 21 January 1918, he sailed for England.","Arriving in London on 25 February, he was sent to Flying School, receiving his Graduation Certificate on 6 March. Stationed to No. 90 Squadron, a Home Defense unit of little action, Bennett became impatient and sought transfer to a fighting squadron on the Western Front. His efforts rewarded, Louis received assignment to No. 40 Squadron at Bryas on 21 July 1918, and flew his first offensive patrol on 30 July.","The fireworks really began on 15 August when Bennett began his impressive string of victories. After killing a German balloon on the 17th, Bennett caught \"balloon fever\". \"He (Bennett) immediately set out to down every captive balloon in the area and we were all talking about it in the squadron ... each of us knew he was expendable\". 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The collection concerns the career of her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., particularly his student days at Yale, his pioneer efforts to organize the West Virginia Flying Corps, his service in the Royal Air Force [RAF], and his subsequent death in World War I. Additional topics include Mrs. Bennett's effort to memorialize her son, family affairs, and a South American trip in 1915. Correspondents include Louis Bennett, Sr. and Jr., and John W. Davis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also C619 of Oral History Sound Archives, which contains one audio cassette and typed transcript of an interview with David B. McKinley by Wayne Sheets regarding the life and times of Sallie Maxwell Bennett. Louis Bennett, Jr. and Agra are discussed as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. Biographical Information; 1917-1919, 1980-ca. 2000 (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 1.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes mostly photocopies of narrative information on the life of Louis Bennett, Jr. For more historical narrative of Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family, consult the Newspaper Clippings series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. General Correspondence; 1908-1917; box 1, folders 2-13.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes letters, telegrams, clippings, receipts, etc. Topics include family affairs, Yale College, and the West Virginia Flying Corps in 1917, among other subjects. Correspondents include primarily Mr. Louis Bennett, Mrs. Louis Bennett [Sallie], their son Louis Bennett, Jr., and daughter Agra.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Outgoing Letters; 1917-1918; box 1, folders 14-18.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes primarily letters by Louis Bennett, Jr. on Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force [RAF] stationery describing adventures in London, military matters, impatience in Shotwick, and military life and combat on the Western Front as a pilot in the 40th Squadron, RAF.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Incoming Letters; 1918; box 1, folder 19 - box 2, folder 3.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes letters, clippings, photographs, and other material. Letters are from Louis Bennett, Jr.'s immediate family, friends, fellow aviators, girl friends, and others regarding personal and military matters, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. General; 1914-1920, undated; box 2, folders 4-9.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes miscellaneous material regarding Louis Bennett, Jr., such as combat reports, personal ephemera, RAF Graduation Certificate, transit and burial permit, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. General Correspondence--Bennett Family; 1915-1926; box 2, folder 10 - box 7, folder 2.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes primarily letters to and from Mrs. Louis Bennett, but other family members as well, about the personal, financial, and legal affairs of the Bennett family. Many letters are testimonials and condolences regarding Louis Bennett, Jr. by his friends in England and the military. Correspondence after 1918 primarily documents Mrs. Louis Bennett's efforts in England and Europe to find the facts regarding her son's fate, and her efforts to memorialize her son and other aviators of WWI; for the latter, she corresponded with the British Air Ministry, among other military and governmental authorities. The variety of letterhead of US east coast, British Isles, and European hotels document a very peripatetic Mrs. Bennett. Letters are arranged in chronological order. Also includes a travel diary of Mrs. Bennett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 7. Newspaper Clippings; 1914-1925, 1960 (includes facsimiles); box 7, folders 3-11.\u003c/emph\u003e Contains loose clippings and clippings in scrapbook pages which document both Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 8. Legal Papers; ca. 1918-1923; box 7, folder 12.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes information on deeds and power of attorney; also includes agreement with the sculptor Augustus Lukeman for \"heroic bronze statue\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 9. Financial Records; 1916-1926; box 7, folder 13 - box 8, folder 2.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes appraisement and other documents relating to the Louis Bennett estate, insurance records, real estate records, balance sheets, receipts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 10. Publications; 1873-1882, 1907-1924; box 8, folders 3-5.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes books and periodicals, mostly material about Louis Bennett, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 11. Greeting Cards; 1920, undated; box 8, folder 6.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 12. Calling Cards/Business Cards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 7.\u003c/emph\u003e These cards appear to document primarily the personal and professional contacts of Mrs. Bennett, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 13. Postcards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 8.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes photo postcards. Subjects include portraits, landscapes, and WWI images.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 14. Ephemera; 1899-1924, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9, folders 1-4.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes much Louis Bennett, Jr.-related material, such as his RAF Wallet (for wallet, see box 12).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 15. Photographs; 1904-1920, undated; box 9, folders 5-17.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes photographs, postcards, and negatives. Subjects include a diverse range of material recording Louis Bennett, Jr.'s involvement in WWI, as well as the Bennett family. Mrs. Bennett's 1915 trip to South America is extensively documented.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 16. Artifacts; 1890s-1925, undated; boxes 10-10a.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes checkbooks, a pin cushion, a sketchbook, newspaper clippings, a lock of hair, and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 17. Dissertation; 2009; box 11.\u003c/emph\u003e Contains Charles D. Dusch's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGreat War Aviation and Commemoration: Louis Bennett, Jr., Commander of the West Virginia Flying Corps\u003c/emph\u003e (also available as an electronic resource at WVU Libraries).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 18. Miscellaneous; ca. 1916-1919; box 12.\u003c/emph\u003e Contains glass plate negatives, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s RAF wallet, and his memo book.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Personal correspondence, legal and financial papers, diary, and newspaper clippings of Mrs. Sallie Maxwell Bennett of Weston, wife of Louis Bennett, Sr., the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1908. The collection concerns the career of her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., particularly his student days at Yale, his pioneer efforts to organize the West Virginia Flying Corps, his service in the Royal Air Force [RAF], and his subsequent death in World War I. Additional topics include Mrs. Bennett's effort to memorialize her son, family affairs, and a South American trip in 1915. Correspondents include Louis Bennett, Sr. and Jr., and John W. Davis.","See also C619 of Oral History Sound Archives, which contains one audio cassette and typed transcript of an interview with David B. McKinley by Wayne Sheets regarding the life and times of Sallie Maxwell Bennett. Louis Bennett, Jr. and Agra are discussed as well.","Series 1. Biographical Information; 1917-1919, 1980-ca. 2000 (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 1. Includes mostly photocopies of narrative information on the life of Louis Bennett, Jr. For more historical narrative of Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family, consult the Newspaper Clippings series.","Series 2. General Correspondence; 1908-1917; box 1, folders 2-13. Includes letters, telegrams, clippings, receipts, etc. Topics include family affairs, Yale College, and the West Virginia Flying Corps in 1917, among other subjects. Correspondents include primarily Mr. Louis Bennett, Mrs. Louis Bennett [Sallie], their son Louis Bennett, Jr., and daughter Agra.","Series 3. Outgoing Letters; 1917-1918; box 1, folders 14-18. Includes primarily letters by Louis Bennett, Jr. on Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force [RAF] stationery describing adventures in London, military matters, impatience in Shotwick, and military life and combat on the Western Front as a pilot in the 40th Squadron, RAF.","Series 4. Incoming Letters; 1918; box 1, folder 19 - box 2, folder 3. Includes letters, clippings, photographs, and other material. Letters are from Louis Bennett, Jr.'s immediate family, friends, fellow aviators, girl friends, and others regarding personal and military matters, etc.","Series 5. General; 1914-1920, undated; box 2, folders 4-9. Includes miscellaneous material regarding Louis Bennett, Jr., such as combat reports, personal ephemera, RAF Graduation Certificate, transit and burial permit, etc.","Series 6. General Correspondence--Bennett Family; 1915-1926; box 2, folder 10 - box 7, folder 2. Includes primarily letters to and from Mrs. Louis Bennett, but other family members as well, about the personal, financial, and legal affairs of the Bennett family. Many letters are testimonials and condolences regarding Louis Bennett, Jr. by his friends in England and the military. Correspondence after 1918 primarily documents Mrs. Louis Bennett's efforts in England and Europe to find the facts regarding her son's fate, and her efforts to memorialize her son and other aviators of WWI; for the latter, she corresponded with the British Air Ministry, among other military and governmental authorities. The variety of letterhead of US east coast, British Isles, and European hotels document a very peripatetic Mrs. Bennett. Letters are arranged in chronological order. Also includes a travel diary of Mrs. Bennett.","Series 7. Newspaper Clippings; 1914-1925, 1960 (includes facsimiles); box 7, folders 3-11. Contains loose clippings and clippings in scrapbook pages which document both Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family.","Series 8. Legal Papers; ca. 1918-1923; box 7, folder 12. Includes information on deeds and power of attorney; also includes agreement with the sculptor Augustus Lukeman for \"heroic bronze statue\".","Series 9. Financial Records; 1916-1926; box 7, folder 13 - box 8, folder 2. Includes appraisement and other documents relating to the Louis Bennett estate, insurance records, real estate records, balance sheets, receipts, etc.","Series 10. Publications; 1873-1882, 1907-1924; box 8, folders 3-5. Includes books and periodicals, mostly material about Louis Bennett, Jr.","Series 11. Greeting Cards; 1920, undated; box 8, folder 6.","Series 12. Calling Cards/Business Cards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 7. These cards appear to document primarily the personal and professional contacts of Mrs. Bennett, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s mother.","Series 13. Postcards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 8. Includes photo postcards. Subjects include portraits, landscapes, and WWI images.","Series 14. Ephemera; 1899-1924, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9, folders 1-4. Includes much Louis Bennett, Jr.-related material, such as his RAF Wallet (for wallet, see box 12).","Series 15. Photographs; 1904-1920, undated; box 9, folders 5-17. Includes photographs, postcards, and negatives. Subjects include a diverse range of material recording Louis Bennett, Jr.'s involvement in WWI, as well as the Bennett family. Mrs. Bennett's 1915 trip to South America is extensively documented.","Series 16. Artifacts; 1890s-1925, undated; boxes 10-10a. Includes checkbooks, a pin cushion, a sketchbook, newspaper clippings, a lock of hair, and other items.","Series 17. Dissertation; 2009; box 11. Contains Charles D. Dusch's Great War Aviation and Commemoration: Louis Bennett, Jr., Commander of the West Virginia Flying Corps (also available as an electronic resource at WVU Libraries).","Series 18. Miscellaneous; ca. 1916-1919; box 12. Contains glass plate negatives, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s RAF wallet, and his memo book."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\"Weston Legionnaire\" (These publications can be found in the pamphlet collection, under \"P7253\".):\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nJune 1923; Vol. 1, No. 6\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nJuly 1923; Vol. 1, No. 7\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nOctober 1923; Vol. 1, No. 10\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nNovember 1923; Vol. 1, No. 11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nMarch 1924; Vol. 2, No. 3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nFebruary 1925; Vol. 3, No. 2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nNovember 1926; Vol. 4, No. 11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"Arrow Head Tribe, LSA [Lone Scouts of America]\"; Weston, WV (These publications can be found in the pamphlet collection, under \"P7459\".):\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nApril 1, 1920; Vol. 1, No. 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nMay 1920; Vol. 2 [sic]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nJune 1920; Vol. 3 [sic]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe original photographs in the RAF Wallet have been moved to separate storage; they can be viewed in West Virginia History OnView by searching for \"1590\" combined with \"wallet\"; a facsimile set of all of these photographs have been inserted into box 9, folder 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nMost of the original print photographs documenting Lt. Louis Bennett and his involvement in WWI have been moved to separate storage; they can be viewed in West Virginia History OnView by searching for \"1590\"; a facsimile set has been inserted into box 9, folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["\"Weston Legionnaire\" (These publications can be found in the pamphlet collection, under \"P7253\".):","June 1923; Vol. 1, No. 6","July 1923; Vol. 1, No. 7","October 1923; Vol. 1, No. 10","November 1923; Vol. 1, No. 11","March 1924; Vol. 2, No. 3","February 1925; Vol. 3, No. 2","November 1926; Vol. 4, No. 11","\"Arrow Head Tribe, LSA [Lone Scouts of America]\"; Weston, WV (These publications can be found in the pamphlet collection, under \"P7459\".):","April 1, 1920; Vol. 1, No. 1","May 1920; Vol. 2 [sic]","June 1920; Vol. 3 [sic]","The original photographs in the RAF Wallet have been moved to separate storage; they can be viewed in West Virginia History OnView by searching for \"1590\" combined with \"wallet\"; a facsimile set of all of these photographs have been inserted into box 9, folder 4.","Most of the original print photographs documenting Lt. 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(John William), 1873-1955"],"language_ssim":["English\n."],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":237,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:57:04.936Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_4930","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_4930","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_4930","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_4930","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_4930.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/198454","title_ssm":["Sallie Bennett Papers regarding World War I Flying Ace Louis Bennett, Jr."],"title_tesim":["Sallie Bennett Papers regarding World War I Flying Ace Louis Bennett, Jr."],"unitdate_ssm":["1873-2009","1904-1926"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1873-2009"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1904-1926"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1873/2009, bulk 1904/1926"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Sallie Bennett Papers regarding World War I Flying Ace Louis Bennett, Jr., 1873/2009, bulk 1904/1926"],"text":["Sallie Bennett Papers regarding World War I Flying Ace Louis Bennett, Jr., 1873/2009, bulk 1904/1926","A\u0026M 1590","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/4930","South America","Westover (W. Va.)","Aeronautics","Universities and colleges","Women's history -- 1850-1899","Women's history -- 1900-1929","World War, 1914-1918","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","Louis Bennett, Jr. became World War I's 12th ranked American flying ace. In his brief, meteoric career, he scored three aircraft and nine balloons in ten days, described by one author as \"undoubtedly, one of the most brilliant records of the air war\".","Louis Bennett, Jr. was born 22 September 1894 in Weston, West Virginia, son of Louis Bennett and Sallie Maxwell Bennett. It was a West Virginia family of wealth and prominence. Growing up in Weston, he was described as bright, likeable, and headstrong, with mechanical inclinations. He had his own car and motorcycle when 12 years old, and is said to have frequently raised the dust on his town's dirt streets with best friend Paul Hoskins.","He attended Cutler and St. Luke's preparatory schools in Pennsylvania, entering Yale University in 1913. He was apparently active in athletics and popular with women.","Interested in early aviation, Louis took pilot training from the Burgess Company at Marblehead, Massachusetts. In 1917 the Governor of West Virginia approved Louis Bennett's idea of a West Virginia Flying Corps, with intent of joining the unit to the United States Air Service. Refused by the US Army, the unit disbanded. Impatient to join the air war, Louis decided to join the British Royal Flying Corps, departing for Toronto on 5 October 1917 for training. Receiving his commission on 21 January 1918, he sailed for England.","Arriving in London on 25 February, he was sent to Flying School, receiving his Graduation Certificate on 6 March. Stationed to No. 90 Squadron, a Home Defense unit of little action, Bennett became impatient and sought transfer to a fighting squadron on the Western Front. His efforts rewarded, Louis received assignment to No. 40 Squadron at Bryas on 21 July 1918, and flew his first offensive patrol on 30 July.","The fireworks really began on 15 August when Bennett began his impressive string of victories. After killing a German balloon on the 17th, Bennett caught \"balloon fever\". \"He (Bennett) immediately set out to down every captive balloon in the area and we were all talking about it in the squadron ... each of us knew he was expendable\". With his solo destruction of four balloons on 19 August, Louis Bennett had become an ace in the space of only four days!","His final sortie on the 24th cost the enemy two balloons before anti-aircraft brought his machine down in flames. Apparently the Germans so respected his courage that they burned their hands pulling him out of his burning aircraft. He died in a German field hospital at Wavrin, with burns from waist to neck, a head wound, and a broken leg, calling for his parents.","Historical information for this biography was obtained from: Williams, George H. \"Louis Bennett, Jr.; No. 40 Squadron, RFC/RAF,\" Cross \u0026 Cockade Journal 21 (1980): 331-351.","Personal correspondence, legal and financial papers, diary, and newspaper clippings of Mrs. Sallie Maxwell Bennett of Weston, wife of Louis Bennett, Sr., the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1908. The collection concerns the career of her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., particularly his student days at Yale, his pioneer efforts to organize the West Virginia Flying Corps, his service in the Royal Air Force [RAF], and his subsequent death in World War I. Additional topics include Mrs. Bennett's effort to memorialize her son, family affairs, and a South American trip in 1915. Correspondents include Louis Bennett, Sr. and Jr., and John W. Davis.","See also C619 of Oral History Sound Archives, which contains one audio cassette and typed transcript of an interview with David B. McKinley by Wayne Sheets regarding the life and times of Sallie Maxwell Bennett. Louis Bennett, Jr. and Agra are discussed as well.","Series 1. Biographical Information; 1917-1919, 1980-ca. 2000 (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 1. Includes mostly photocopies of narrative information on the life of Louis Bennett, Jr. For more historical narrative of Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family, consult the Newspaper Clippings series.","Series 2. General Correspondence; 1908-1917; box 1, folders 2-13. Includes letters, telegrams, clippings, receipts, etc. Topics include family affairs, Yale College, and the West Virginia Flying Corps in 1917, among other subjects. Correspondents include primarily Mr. Louis Bennett, Mrs. Louis Bennett [Sallie], their son Louis Bennett, Jr., and daughter Agra.","Series 3. Outgoing Letters; 1917-1918; box 1, folders 14-18. Includes primarily letters by Louis Bennett, Jr. on Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force [RAF] stationery describing adventures in London, military matters, impatience in Shotwick, and military life and combat on the Western Front as a pilot in the 40th Squadron, RAF.","Series 4. Incoming Letters; 1918; box 1, folder 19 - box 2, folder 3. Includes letters, clippings, photographs, and other material. Letters are from Louis Bennett, Jr.'s immediate family, friends, fellow aviators, girl friends, and others regarding personal and military matters, etc.","Series 5. General; 1914-1920, undated; box 2, folders 4-9. Includes miscellaneous material regarding Louis Bennett, Jr., such as combat reports, personal ephemera, RAF Graduation Certificate, transit and burial permit, etc.","Series 6. General Correspondence--Bennett Family; 1915-1926; box 2, folder 10 - box 7, folder 2. Includes primarily letters to and from Mrs. Louis Bennett, but other family members as well, about the personal, financial, and legal affairs of the Bennett family. Many letters are testimonials and condolences regarding Louis Bennett, Jr. by his friends in England and the military. Correspondence after 1918 primarily documents Mrs. Louis Bennett's efforts in England and Europe to find the facts regarding her son's fate, and her efforts to memorialize her son and other aviators of WWI; for the latter, she corresponded with the British Air Ministry, among other military and governmental authorities. The variety of letterhead of US east coast, British Isles, and European hotels document a very peripatetic Mrs. Bennett. Letters are arranged in chronological order. Also includes a travel diary of Mrs. Bennett.","Series 7. Newspaper Clippings; 1914-1925, 1960 (includes facsimiles); box 7, folders 3-11. Contains loose clippings and clippings in scrapbook pages which document both Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family.","Series 8. Legal Papers; ca. 1918-1923; box 7, folder 12. Includes information on deeds and power of attorney; also includes agreement with the sculptor Augustus Lukeman for \"heroic bronze statue\".","Series 9. Financial Records; 1916-1926; box 7, folder 13 - box 8, folder 2. Includes appraisement and other documents relating to the Louis Bennett estate, insurance records, real estate records, balance sheets, receipts, etc.","Series 10. Publications; 1873-1882, 1907-1924; box 8, folders 3-5. Includes books and periodicals, mostly material about Louis Bennett, Jr.","Series 11. Greeting Cards; 1920, undated; box 8, folder 6.","Series 12. Calling Cards/Business Cards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 7. These cards appear to document primarily the personal and professional contacts of Mrs. Bennett, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s mother.","Series 13. Postcards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 8. Includes photo postcards. Subjects include portraits, landscapes, and WWI images.","Series 14. Ephemera; 1899-1924, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9, folders 1-4. Includes much Louis Bennett, Jr.-related material, such as his RAF Wallet (for wallet, see box 12).","Series 15. Photographs; 1904-1920, undated; box 9, folders 5-17. Includes photographs, postcards, and negatives. Subjects include a diverse range of material recording Louis Bennett, Jr.'s involvement in WWI, as well as the Bennett family. Mrs. Bennett's 1915 trip to South America is extensively documented.","Series 16. Artifacts; 1890s-1925, undated; boxes 10-10a. Includes checkbooks, a pin cushion, a sketchbook, newspaper clippings, a lock of hair, and other items.","Series 17. Dissertation; 2009; box 11. Contains Charles D. Dusch's Great War Aviation and Commemoration: Louis Bennett, Jr., Commander of the West Virginia Flying Corps (also available as an electronic resource at WVU Libraries).","Series 18. Miscellaneous; ca. 1916-1919; box 12. Contains glass plate negatives, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s RAF wallet, and his memo book.","\"Weston Legionnaire\" (These publications can be found in the pamphlet collection, under \"P7253\".):","June 1923; Vol. 1, No. 6","July 1923; Vol. 1, No. 7","October 1923; Vol. 1, No. 10","November 1923; Vol. 1, No. 11","March 1924; Vol. 2, No. 3","February 1925; Vol. 3, No. 2","November 1926; Vol. 4, No. 11","\"Arrow Head Tribe, LSA [Lone Scouts of America]\"; Weston, WV (These publications can be found in the pamphlet collection, under \"P7459\".):","April 1, 1920; Vol. 1, No. 1","May 1920; Vol. 2 [sic]","June 1920; Vol. 3 [sic]","The original photographs in the RAF Wallet have been moved to separate storage; they can be viewed in West Virginia History OnView by searching for \"1590\" combined with \"wallet\"; a facsimile set of all of these photographs have been inserted into box 9, folder 4.","Most of the original print photographs documenting Lt. Louis Bennett and his involvement in WWI have been moved to separate storage; they can be viewed in West Virginia History OnView by searching for \"1590\"; a facsimile set has been inserted into box 9, folder 5.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Personal correspondence, legal and financial papers, diary, and newspaper clippings of Mrs. Sallie Maxwell Bennett of Weston, wife of Louis Bennett, Sr., the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1908. The collection concerns the career of her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., particularly his student days at Yale, his pioneer efforts to organize the West Virginia Flying Corps, his service in the Royal Air Force [RAF], and his subsequent death in World War I. Additional topics include Mrs. Bennett's effort to memorialize her son, family affairs, and a South American trip in 1915. Correspondents include Louis Bennett, Sr. and Jr., and John W. Davis.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center","West Virginia and Regional History Center","Yale University","Great Britain. Royal Air Force","Bennett, Sallie Maxwell, 1857-1944","Bennett, Louis, Sr., 1849-1918","Bennett, Louis, Jr., 1894-1918","Davis, John W. 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In his brief, meteoric career, he scored three aircraft and nine balloons in ten days, described by one author as \"undoubtedly, one of the most brilliant records of the air war\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouis Bennett, Jr. was born 22 September 1894 in Weston, West Virginia, son of Louis Bennett and Sallie Maxwell Bennett. It was a West Virginia family of wealth and prominence. Growing up in Weston, he was described as bright, likeable, and headstrong, with mechanical inclinations. He had his own car and motorcycle when 12 years old, and is said to have frequently raised the dust on his town's dirt streets with best friend Paul Hoskins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe attended Cutler and St. Luke's preparatory schools in Pennsylvania, entering Yale University in 1913. He was apparently active in athletics and popular with women.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInterested in early aviation, Louis took pilot training from the Burgess Company at Marblehead, Massachusetts. In 1917 the Governor of West Virginia approved Louis Bennett's idea of a West Virginia Flying Corps, with intent of joining the unit to the United States Air Service. Refused by the US Army, the unit disbanded. Impatient to join the air war, Louis decided to join the British Royal Flying Corps, departing for Toronto on 5 October 1917 for training. Receiving his commission on 21 January 1918, he sailed for England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArriving in London on 25 February, he was sent to Flying School, receiving his Graduation Certificate on 6 March. Stationed to No. 90 Squadron, a Home Defense unit of little action, Bennett became impatient and sought transfer to a fighting squadron on the Western Front. His efforts rewarded, Louis received assignment to No. 40 Squadron at Bryas on 21 July 1918, and flew his first offensive patrol on 30 July.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe fireworks really began on 15 August when Bennett began his impressive string of victories. After killing a German balloon on the 17th, Bennett caught \"balloon fever\". \"He (Bennett) immediately set out to down every captive balloon in the area and we were all talking about it in the squadron ... each of us knew he was expendable\". With his solo destruction of four balloons on 19 August, Louis Bennett had become an ace in the space of only four days!\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis final sortie on the 24th cost the enemy two balloons before anti-aircraft brought his machine down in flames. Apparently the Germans so respected his courage that they burned their hands pulling him out of his burning aircraft. He died in a German field hospital at Wavrin, with burns from waist to neck, a head wound, and a broken leg, calling for his parents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHistorical information for this biography was obtained from: Williams, George H. \"Louis Bennett, Jr.; No. 40 Squadron, RFC/RAF,\" \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eCross \u0026amp; Cockade Journal\u003c/emph\u003e 21 (1980): 331-351.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Louis Bennett, Jr. became World War I's 12th ranked American flying ace. In his brief, meteoric career, he scored three aircraft and nine balloons in ten days, described by one author as \"undoubtedly, one of the most brilliant records of the air war\".","Louis Bennett, Jr. was born 22 September 1894 in Weston, West Virginia, son of Louis Bennett and Sallie Maxwell Bennett. It was a West Virginia family of wealth and prominence. Growing up in Weston, he was described as bright, likeable, and headstrong, with mechanical inclinations. He had his own car and motorcycle when 12 years old, and is said to have frequently raised the dust on his town's dirt streets with best friend Paul Hoskins.","He attended Cutler and St. Luke's preparatory schools in Pennsylvania, entering Yale University in 1913. He was apparently active in athletics and popular with women.","Interested in early aviation, Louis took pilot training from the Burgess Company at Marblehead, Massachusetts. In 1917 the Governor of West Virginia approved Louis Bennett's idea of a West Virginia Flying Corps, with intent of joining the unit to the United States Air Service. Refused by the US Army, the unit disbanded. Impatient to join the air war, Louis decided to join the British Royal Flying Corps, departing for Toronto on 5 October 1917 for training. Receiving his commission on 21 January 1918, he sailed for England.","Arriving in London on 25 February, he was sent to Flying School, receiving his Graduation Certificate on 6 March. Stationed to No. 90 Squadron, a Home Defense unit of little action, Bennett became impatient and sought transfer to a fighting squadron on the Western Front. His efforts rewarded, Louis received assignment to No. 40 Squadron at Bryas on 21 July 1918, and flew his first offensive patrol on 30 July.","The fireworks really began on 15 August when Bennett began his impressive string of victories. After killing a German balloon on the 17th, Bennett caught \"balloon fever\". \"He (Bennett) immediately set out to down every captive balloon in the area and we were all talking about it in the squadron ... each of us knew he was expendable\". With his solo destruction of four balloons on 19 August, Louis Bennett had become an ace in the space of only four days!","His final sortie on the 24th cost the enemy two balloons before anti-aircraft brought his machine down in flames. Apparently the Germans so respected his courage that they burned their hands pulling him out of his burning aircraft. He died in a German field hospital at Wavrin, with burns from waist to neck, a head wound, and a broken leg, calling for his parents.","Historical information for this biography was obtained from: Williams, George H. \"Louis Bennett, Jr.; No. 40 Squadron, RFC/RAF,\" Cross \u0026 Cockade Journal 21 (1980): 331-351."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Sallie Bennett Papers regarding World War I Flying Ace Louis Bennett, Jr., A\u0026amp;M 1590, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Sallie Bennett Papers regarding World War I Flying Ace Louis Bennett, Jr., A\u0026M 1590, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePersonal correspondence, legal and financial papers, diary, and newspaper clippings of Mrs. Sallie Maxwell Bennett of Weston, wife of Louis Bennett, Sr., the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1908. The collection concerns the career of her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., particularly his student days at Yale, his pioneer efforts to organize the West Virginia Flying Corps, his service in the Royal Air Force [RAF], and his subsequent death in World War I. Additional topics include Mrs. Bennett's effort to memorialize her son, family affairs, and a South American trip in 1915. Correspondents include Louis Bennett, Sr. and Jr., and John W. Davis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also C619 of Oral History Sound Archives, which contains one audio cassette and typed transcript of an interview with David B. McKinley by Wayne Sheets regarding the life and times of Sallie Maxwell Bennett. Louis Bennett, Jr. and Agra are discussed as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. Biographical Information; 1917-1919, 1980-ca. 2000 (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 1.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes mostly photocopies of narrative information on the life of Louis Bennett, Jr. For more historical narrative of Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family, consult the Newspaper Clippings series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. General Correspondence; 1908-1917; box 1, folders 2-13.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes letters, telegrams, clippings, receipts, etc. Topics include family affairs, Yale College, and the West Virginia Flying Corps in 1917, among other subjects. Correspondents include primarily Mr. Louis Bennett, Mrs. Louis Bennett [Sallie], their son Louis Bennett, Jr., and daughter Agra.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Outgoing Letters; 1917-1918; box 1, folders 14-18.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes primarily letters by Louis Bennett, Jr. on Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force [RAF] stationery describing adventures in London, military matters, impatience in Shotwick, and military life and combat on the Western Front as a pilot in the 40th Squadron, RAF.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Incoming Letters; 1918; box 1, folder 19 - box 2, folder 3.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes letters, clippings, photographs, and other material. Letters are from Louis Bennett, Jr.'s immediate family, friends, fellow aviators, girl friends, and others regarding personal and military matters, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. General; 1914-1920, undated; box 2, folders 4-9.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes miscellaneous material regarding Louis Bennett, Jr., such as combat reports, personal ephemera, RAF Graduation Certificate, transit and burial permit, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. General Correspondence--Bennett Family; 1915-1926; box 2, folder 10 - box 7, folder 2.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes primarily letters to and from Mrs. Louis Bennett, but other family members as well, about the personal, financial, and legal affairs of the Bennett family. Many letters are testimonials and condolences regarding Louis Bennett, Jr. by his friends in England and the military. Correspondence after 1918 primarily documents Mrs. Louis Bennett's efforts in England and Europe to find the facts regarding her son's fate, and her efforts to memorialize her son and other aviators of WWI; for the latter, she corresponded with the British Air Ministry, among other military and governmental authorities. The variety of letterhead of US east coast, British Isles, and European hotels document a very peripatetic Mrs. Bennett. Letters are arranged in chronological order. Also includes a travel diary of Mrs. Bennett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 7. Newspaper Clippings; 1914-1925, 1960 (includes facsimiles); box 7, folders 3-11.\u003c/emph\u003e Contains loose clippings and clippings in scrapbook pages which document both Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 8. Legal Papers; ca. 1918-1923; box 7, folder 12.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes information on deeds and power of attorney; also includes agreement with the sculptor Augustus Lukeman for \"heroic bronze statue\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 9. Financial Records; 1916-1926; box 7, folder 13 - box 8, folder 2.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes appraisement and other documents relating to the Louis Bennett estate, insurance records, real estate records, balance sheets, receipts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 10. Publications; 1873-1882, 1907-1924; box 8, folders 3-5.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes books and periodicals, mostly material about Louis Bennett, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 11. Greeting Cards; 1920, undated; box 8, folder 6.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 12. Calling Cards/Business Cards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 7.\u003c/emph\u003e These cards appear to document primarily the personal and professional contacts of Mrs. Bennett, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 13. Postcards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 8.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes photo postcards. Subjects include portraits, landscapes, and WWI images.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 14. Ephemera; 1899-1924, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9, folders 1-4.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes much Louis Bennett, Jr.-related material, such as his RAF Wallet (for wallet, see box 12).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 15. Photographs; 1904-1920, undated; box 9, folders 5-17.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes photographs, postcards, and negatives. Subjects include a diverse range of material recording Louis Bennett, Jr.'s involvement in WWI, as well as the Bennett family. Mrs. Bennett's 1915 trip to South America is extensively documented.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 16. Artifacts; 1890s-1925, undated; boxes 10-10a.\u003c/emph\u003e Includes checkbooks, a pin cushion, a sketchbook, newspaper clippings, a lock of hair, and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 17. Dissertation; 2009; box 11.\u003c/emph\u003e Contains Charles D. Dusch's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGreat War Aviation and Commemoration: Louis Bennett, Jr., Commander of the West Virginia Flying Corps\u003c/emph\u003e (also available as an electronic resource at WVU Libraries).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 18. Miscellaneous; ca. 1916-1919; box 12.\u003c/emph\u003e Contains glass plate negatives, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s RAF wallet, and his memo book.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Personal correspondence, legal and financial papers, diary, and newspaper clippings of Mrs. Sallie Maxwell Bennett of Weston, wife of Louis Bennett, Sr., the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1908. The collection concerns the career of her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., particularly his student days at Yale, his pioneer efforts to organize the West Virginia Flying Corps, his service in the Royal Air Force [RAF], and his subsequent death in World War I. Additional topics include Mrs. Bennett's effort to memorialize her son, family affairs, and a South American trip in 1915. Correspondents include Louis Bennett, Sr. and Jr., and John W. Davis.","See also C619 of Oral History Sound Archives, which contains one audio cassette and typed transcript of an interview with David B. McKinley by Wayne Sheets regarding the life and times of Sallie Maxwell Bennett. Louis Bennett, Jr. and Agra are discussed as well.","Series 1. Biographical Information; 1917-1919, 1980-ca. 2000 (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 1. Includes mostly photocopies of narrative information on the life of Louis Bennett, Jr. For more historical narrative of Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family, consult the Newspaper Clippings series.","Series 2. General Correspondence; 1908-1917; box 1, folders 2-13. Includes letters, telegrams, clippings, receipts, etc. Topics include family affairs, Yale College, and the West Virginia Flying Corps in 1917, among other subjects. Correspondents include primarily Mr. Louis Bennett, Mrs. Louis Bennett [Sallie], their son Louis Bennett, Jr., and daughter Agra.","Series 3. Outgoing Letters; 1917-1918; box 1, folders 14-18. Includes primarily letters by Louis Bennett, Jr. on Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force [RAF] stationery describing adventures in London, military matters, impatience in Shotwick, and military life and combat on the Western Front as a pilot in the 40th Squadron, RAF.","Series 4. Incoming Letters; 1918; box 1, folder 19 - box 2, folder 3. Includes letters, clippings, photographs, and other material. Letters are from Louis Bennett, Jr.'s immediate family, friends, fellow aviators, girl friends, and others regarding personal and military matters, etc.","Series 5. General; 1914-1920, undated; box 2, folders 4-9. Includes miscellaneous material regarding Louis Bennett, Jr., such as combat reports, personal ephemera, RAF Graduation Certificate, transit and burial permit, etc.","Series 6. General Correspondence--Bennett Family; 1915-1926; box 2, folder 10 - box 7, folder 2. Includes primarily letters to and from Mrs. Louis Bennett, but other family members as well, about the personal, financial, and legal affairs of the Bennett family. Many letters are testimonials and condolences regarding Louis Bennett, Jr. by his friends in England and the military. Correspondence after 1918 primarily documents Mrs. Louis Bennett's efforts in England and Europe to find the facts regarding her son's fate, and her efforts to memorialize her son and other aviators of WWI; for the latter, she corresponded with the British Air Ministry, among other military and governmental authorities. The variety of letterhead of US east coast, British Isles, and European hotels document a very peripatetic Mrs. Bennett. Letters are arranged in chronological order. Also includes a travel diary of Mrs. Bennett.","Series 7. Newspaper Clippings; 1914-1925, 1960 (includes facsimiles); box 7, folders 3-11. Contains loose clippings and clippings in scrapbook pages which document both Louis Bennett, Jr. and the Bennett family.","Series 8. Legal Papers; ca. 1918-1923; box 7, folder 12. Includes information on deeds and power of attorney; also includes agreement with the sculptor Augustus Lukeman for \"heroic bronze statue\".","Series 9. Financial Records; 1916-1926; box 7, folder 13 - box 8, folder 2. Includes appraisement and other documents relating to the Louis Bennett estate, insurance records, real estate records, balance sheets, receipts, etc.","Series 10. Publications; 1873-1882, 1907-1924; box 8, folders 3-5. Includes books and periodicals, mostly material about Louis Bennett, Jr.","Series 11. Greeting Cards; 1920, undated; box 8, folder 6.","Series 12. Calling Cards/Business Cards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 7. These cards appear to document primarily the personal and professional contacts of Mrs. Bennett, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s mother.","Series 13. Postcards; ca. 1910-1925; box 8, folder 8. Includes photo postcards. Subjects include portraits, landscapes, and WWI images.","Series 14. Ephemera; 1899-1924, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9, folders 1-4. Includes much Louis Bennett, Jr.-related material, such as his RAF Wallet (for wallet, see box 12).","Series 15. Photographs; 1904-1920, undated; box 9, folders 5-17. Includes photographs, postcards, and negatives. Subjects include a diverse range of material recording Louis Bennett, Jr.'s involvement in WWI, as well as the Bennett family. Mrs. Bennett's 1915 trip to South America is extensively documented.","Series 16. Artifacts; 1890s-1925, undated; boxes 10-10a. Includes checkbooks, a pin cushion, a sketchbook, newspaper clippings, a lock of hair, and other items.","Series 17. Dissertation; 2009; box 11. Contains Charles D. Dusch's Great War Aviation and Commemoration: Louis Bennett, Jr., Commander of the West Virginia Flying Corps (also available as an electronic resource at WVU Libraries).","Series 18. Miscellaneous; ca. 1916-1919; box 12. Contains glass plate negatives, Louis Bennett, Jr.'s RAF wallet, and his memo book."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\"Weston Legionnaire\" (These publications can be found in the pamphlet collection, under \"P7253\".):\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nJune 1923; Vol. 1, No. 6\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nJuly 1923; Vol. 1, No. 7\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nOctober 1923; Vol. 1, No. 10\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nNovember 1923; Vol. 1, No. 11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nMarch 1924; Vol. 2, No. 3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nFebruary 1925; Vol. 3, No. 2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nNovember 1926; Vol. 4, No. 11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"Arrow Head Tribe, LSA [Lone Scouts of America]\"; Weston, WV (These publications can be found in the pamphlet collection, under \"P7459\".):\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nApril 1, 1920; Vol. 1, No. 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nMay 1920; Vol. 2 [sic]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nJune 1920; Vol. 3 [sic]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe original photographs in the RAF Wallet have been moved to separate storage; they can be viewed in West Virginia History OnView by searching for \"1590\" combined with \"wallet\"; a facsimile set of all of these photographs have been inserted into box 9, folder 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nMost of the original print photographs documenting Lt. 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Stanley, Company G, 36th OVI (1861-1864); military records, and post-war records documenting veterans' activities, of the 18th and 36th OVI (ca. 1861-1865, 1880-1912); and correspondence and school papers of Saida Scott, who married Palmer in 1866 and taught music (1856-1863).","Addendum of 1996/09/23 is a muster roll of Company G, 36th OVI, signed by Captain Jewett Palmer, for 10/31/1863 - 12/31/1863.","See also A\u0026M 1458."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2345#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2345","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2345","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2345","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2345","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_2345.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/196411","title_ssm":["Waitman T. Willey Papers"],"title_tesim":["Waitman T. 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Va.)","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865","West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865.","West Virginia -- Politics and government","United States -- Politics and government","Politics and government.","Secession","Temperance","Politicians -- United States","Statehood politics -- West Virginia","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.; Waitman Thomas Willey, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.; Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in Dictionary of American Biography, p. 426.","4. Obituary, Morgantown Weekly Post, Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.; A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.; West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.","1361","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter.","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898.","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900.","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics:","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University).","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22).","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson; \nW.W. Arnett; \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \nGordon Battelle; \nAlfred Beckley; \nJudge Berkshire; \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \nGideon D. Camden; \nArchibald W. Campbell; \nJohn S. Carlile; \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \nSchyler Colfax; \nJohn J. Davis; \nSpencer Dayton; \nH.C. Dean; \nM.M. Dent; \nH. Dering; \nT.J. Evans; \nHarrison Hagans; \nJ. Marshall Hagans; \nGranville D. Hall; \nAlpheus F. Haymond; \nT. and L. Haymond; \nRichard Garrett; \nNathan Goff; \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \nJohn J. Jackson; \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \nJohn L. Pendleton; \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \nT.P. Ray; \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \nF.W. Seward; \nW.M. Shinn; \nEdwin M. Stanton; \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \nDavid Hunter Strother; \nGeorge W. Summers; \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \nAlexander L. Wade; \nJames O. Watson; \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:","Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities)","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates)","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church)","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58])","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans)","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68)","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities)","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation)","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99])","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:","Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor)","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers)","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139])","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention)","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151])","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance)","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore)","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin)","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville)","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants)","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics)","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy)","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions)","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:","Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons)","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College)","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280])","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275])","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia)","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont)","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union)","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention)","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery)","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361])","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues)","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa)","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers)","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches)","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory)","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property)","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches)","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness)","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle)","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military)","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners)","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase)","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling)","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property)","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County)","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:","Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs)","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general)","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia)","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner)","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant)","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581])","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news)","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship)","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming)","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections)","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia)","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent)","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656])","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware)","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley)","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics)","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads)","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed)","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate)","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts)","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779])","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities)","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses)","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs)","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820])","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840])","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.)","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859])","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883])","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution)","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money)","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities)","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments)","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981])","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement)","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government)","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul)","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family)","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040])","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics)","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060])","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces)","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there)","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876)","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine)","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol)","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin)","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches)","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters)","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools)","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge)","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW)","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter.","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898.","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900.","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics:","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University).","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22).","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson; \nW.W. Arnett; \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \nGordon Battelle; \nAlfred Beckley; \nJudge Berkshire; \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \nGideon D. Camden; \nArchibald W. Campbell; \nJohn S. Carlile; \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \nSchyler Colfax; \nJohn J. Davis; \nSpencer Dayton; \nH.C. Dean; \nM.M. Dent; \nH. Dering; \nT.J. Evans; \nHarrison Hagans; \nJ. Marshall Hagans; \nGranville D. Hall; \nAlpheus F. Haymond; \nT. and L. Haymond; \nRichard Garrett; \nNathan Goff; \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \nJohn J. Jackson; \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \nJohn L. Pendleton; \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \nT.P. Ray; \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \nF.W. Seward; \nW.M. Shinn; \nEdwin M. Stanton; \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \nDavid Hunter Strother; \nGeorge W. Summers; \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \nAlexander L. Wade; \nJames O. Watson; \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:","Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230)","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401)","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366)","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits)","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election)","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free)","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:","Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844)","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?)","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance)","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:","Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy)","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate)","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:","Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:","Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:","Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis)","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:","Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:","Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. 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In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilley settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilley returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilley remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. Corson, L.D.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLegislative Career of Waitman T. Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDictionary of American Biography\u003c/emph\u003e, p. 426.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eObituary\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMorgantown Weekly Post\u003c/emph\u003e, Thursday, May 10, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5. Ware, A.F.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eA Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement\u003c/emph\u003e, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6. White, L.C.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWest Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson\u003c/emph\u003e, 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.; Waitman Thomas Willey, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.; Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in Dictionary of American Biography, p. 426.","4. Obituary, Morgantown Weekly Post, Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.; A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.; West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey Papers, A\u0026amp;M 0003, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. 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There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026amp;O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 516\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFriends (e.g. 1209)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (e.g. item 1230) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReligion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSlavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily Matters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Constituents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTemperance Activities\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for Jobs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter.","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898.","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900.","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics:","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University).","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22).","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson; \nW.W. Arnett; \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \nGordon Battelle; \nAlfred Beckley; \nJudge Berkshire; \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \nGideon D. Camden; \nArchibald W. Campbell; \nJohn S. Carlile; \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \nSchyler Colfax; \nJohn J. Davis; \nSpencer Dayton; \nH.C. Dean; \nM.M. Dent; \nH. Dering; \nT.J. Evans; \nHarrison Hagans; \nJ. Marshall Hagans; \nGranville D. Hall; \nAlpheus F. Haymond; \nT. and L. Haymond; \nRichard Garrett; \nNathan Goff; \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \nJohn J. Jackson; \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \nJohn L. Pendleton; \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \nT.P. Ray; \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \nF.W. Seward; \nW.M. Shinn; \nEdwin M. Stanton; \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \nDavid Hunter Strother; \nGeorge W. Summers; \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \nAlexander L. Wade; \nJames O. Watson; \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:","Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities)","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates)","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church)","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58])","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans)","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68)","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities)","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation)","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99])","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:","Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor)","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers)","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139])","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention)","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151])","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance)","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore)","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin)","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville)","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants)","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics)","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy)","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions)","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:","Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons)","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College)","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280])","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275])","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia)","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont)","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union)","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention)","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery)","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361])","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues)","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa)","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers)","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches)","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory)","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property)","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches)","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness)","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle)","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military)","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners)","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase)","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling)","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property)","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County)","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:","Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs)","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general)","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia)","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner)","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant)","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581])","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news)","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship)","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming)","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections)","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia)","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent)","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656])","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware)","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley)","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics)","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads)","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed)","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate)","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts)","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779])","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities)","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses)","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs)","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820])","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840])","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.)","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859])","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883])","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution)","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money)","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities)","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments)","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981])","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement)","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government)","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul)","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family)","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040])","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics)","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060])","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces)","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there)","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876)","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine)","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol)","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin)","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches)","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters)","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools)","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge)","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW)","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter.","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898.","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900.","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics:","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University).","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22).","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson; \nW.W. Arnett; \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \nGordon Battelle; \nAlfred Beckley; \nJudge Berkshire; \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \nGideon D. Camden; \nArchibald W. Campbell; \nJohn S. Carlile; \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \nSchyler Colfax; \nJohn J. Davis; \nSpencer Dayton; \nH.C. Dean; \nM.M. Dent; \nH. Dering; \nT.J. Evans; \nHarrison Hagans; \nJ. Marshall Hagans; \nGranville D. Hall; \nAlpheus F. Haymond; \nT. and L. Haymond; \nRichard Garrett; \nNathan Goff; \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \nJohn J. Jackson; \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \nJohn L. Pendleton; \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \nT.P. Ray; \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \nF.W. Seward; \nW.M. Shinn; \nEdwin M. Stanton; \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \nDavid Hunter Strother; \nGeorge W. Summers; \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \nAlexander L. Wade; \nJames O. Watson; \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:","Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230)","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401)","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366)","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits)","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election)","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free)","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:","Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844)","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?)","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance)","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:","Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy)","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate)","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:","Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:","Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:","Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis)","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:","Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:","Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_18cd3685d4dadbc9e748f60d929a78ab\"\u003ePapers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_5cf97afe325843f43df11ef15816113b\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Willey Papers, 1820/1917","A\u0026M 0003","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/2345","Monongalia County (W. Va.)","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865","West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865.","West Virginia -- Politics and government","United States -- Politics and government","Politics and government.","Secession","Temperance","Politicians -- United States","Statehood politics -- West Virginia","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.; Waitman Thomas Willey, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.; Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in Dictionary of American Biography, p. 426.","4. Obituary, Morgantown Weekly Post, Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.; A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.; West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.","1361","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter.","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898.","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900.","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics:","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University).","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22).","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson; \nW.W. Arnett; \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \nGordon Battelle; \nAlfred Beckley; \nJudge Berkshire; \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \nGideon D. Camden; \nArchibald W. Campbell; \nJohn S. Carlile; \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \nSchyler Colfax; \nJohn J. Davis; \nSpencer Dayton; \nH.C. Dean; \nM.M. Dent; \nH. Dering; \nT.J. Evans; \nHarrison Hagans; \nJ. Marshall Hagans; \nGranville D. Hall; \nAlpheus F. Haymond; \nT. and L. Haymond; \nRichard Garrett; \nNathan Goff; \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \nJohn J. Jackson; \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \nJohn L. Pendleton; \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \nT.P. Ray; \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \nF.W. Seward; \nW.M. Shinn; \nEdwin M. Stanton; \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \nDavid Hunter Strother; \nGeorge W. Summers; \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \nAlexander L. Wade; \nJames O. Watson; \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:","Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities)","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates)","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church)","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58])","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans)","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68)","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities)","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation)","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99])","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:","Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor)","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers)","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139])","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention)","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151])","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance)","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore)","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin)","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville)","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants)","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics)","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy)","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions)","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:","Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons)","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College)","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280])","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275])","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia)","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont)","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union)","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention)","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery)","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361])","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues)","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa)","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers)","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches)","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory)","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property)","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches)","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness)","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle)","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military)","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners)","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase)","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling)","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property)","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County)","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:","Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs)","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general)","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia)","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner)","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant)","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581])","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news)","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship)","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming)","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections)","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia)","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent)","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656])","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware)","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley)","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics)","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads)","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed)","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate)","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts)","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779])","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities)","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses)","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs)","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820])","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840])","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.)","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859])","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883])","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution)","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money)","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities)","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments)","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981])","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement)","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government)","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul)","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family)","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040])","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics)","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060])","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces)","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there)","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876)","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine)","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol)","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin)","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches)","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters)","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools)","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge)","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW)","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter.","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898.","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900.","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics:","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University).","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22).","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson; \nW.W. Arnett; \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \nGordon Battelle; \nAlfred Beckley; \nJudge Berkshire; \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \nGideon D. Camden; \nArchibald W. Campbell; \nJohn S. Carlile; \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \nSchyler Colfax; \nJohn J. Davis; \nSpencer Dayton; \nH.C. Dean; \nM.M. Dent; \nH. Dering; \nT.J. Evans; \nHarrison Hagans; \nJ. Marshall Hagans; \nGranville D. Hall; \nAlpheus F. Haymond; \nT. and L. Haymond; \nRichard Garrett; \nNathan Goff; \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \nJohn J. Jackson; \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \nJohn L. Pendleton; \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \nT.P. Ray; \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \nF.W. Seward; \nW.M. Shinn; \nEdwin M. Stanton; \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \nDavid Hunter Strother; \nGeorge W. Summers; \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \nAlexander L. Wade; \nJames O. Watson; \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:","Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230)","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401)","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366)","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits)","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election)","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free)","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:","Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844)","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?)","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance)","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:","Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy)","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate)","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:","Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:","Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:","Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis)","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:","Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:","Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. 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In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilley settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilley returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilley remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. Corson, L.D.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLegislative Career of Waitman T. Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDictionary of American Biography\u003c/emph\u003e, p. 426.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eObituary\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMorgantown Weekly Post\u003c/emph\u003e, Thursday, May 10, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5. Ware, A.F.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eA Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement\u003c/emph\u003e, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6. 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Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.; Waitman Thomas Willey, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.; Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in Dictionary of American Biography, p. 426.","4. Obituary, Morgantown Weekly Post, Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.; A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.; West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. 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There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026amp;O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 516\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFriends (e.g. 1209)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (e.g. item 1230) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReligion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSlavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily Matters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Constituents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTemperance Activities\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for Jobs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter.","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898.","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900.","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics:","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University).","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22).","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson; \nW.W. Arnett; \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \nGordon Battelle; \nAlfred Beckley; \nJudge Berkshire; \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \nGideon D. Camden; \nArchibald W. Campbell; \nJohn S. Carlile; \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \nSchyler Colfax; \nJohn J. Davis; \nSpencer Dayton; \nH.C. Dean; \nM.M. Dent; \nH. Dering; \nT.J. Evans; \nHarrison Hagans; \nJ. Marshall Hagans; \nGranville D. Hall; \nAlpheus F. Haymond; \nT. and L. Haymond; \nRichard Garrett; \nNathan Goff; \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \nJohn J. Jackson; \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \nJohn L. Pendleton; \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \nT.P. Ray; \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \nF.W. Seward; \nW.M. Shinn; \nEdwin M. Stanton; \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \nDavid Hunter Strother; \nGeorge W. Summers; \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \nAlexander L. Wade; \nJames O. Watson; \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:","Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities)","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates)","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church)","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58])","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans)","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68)","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities)","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation)","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99])","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:","Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor)","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers)","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139])","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention)","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151])","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance)","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore)","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin)","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville)","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants)","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics)","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy)","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions)","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:","Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons)","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College)","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280])","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275])","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia)","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont)","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union)","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention)","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery)","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361])","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues)","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa)","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers)","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches)","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory)","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property)","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches)","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness)","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle)","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military)","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners)","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase)","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling)","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property)","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County)","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:","Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs)","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general)","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia)","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner)","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant)","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581])","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news)","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship)","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming)","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections)","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia)","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent)","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656])","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware)","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley)","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics)","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads)","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed)","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown)","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate)","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts)","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779])","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities)","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses)","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs)","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820])","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840])","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.)","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859])","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883])","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution)","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money)","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities)","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments)","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981])","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement)","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government)","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul)","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family)","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040])","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics)","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060])","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces)","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there)","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876)","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine)","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol)","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin)","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches)","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters)","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools)","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge)","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW)","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter.","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898.","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900.","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics:","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University).","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22).","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson; \nW.W. Arnett; \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \nGordon Battelle; \nAlfred Beckley; \nJudge Berkshire; \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \nGideon D. Camden; \nArchibald W. Campbell; \nJohn S. Carlile; \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \nSchyler Colfax; \nJohn J. Davis; \nSpencer Dayton; \nH.C. Dean; \nM.M. Dent; \nH. Dering; \nT.J. Evans; \nHarrison Hagans; \nJ. Marshall Hagans; \nGranville D. Hall; \nAlpheus F. Haymond; \nT. and L. Haymond; \nRichard Garrett; \nNathan Goff; \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \nJohn J. Jackson; \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \nJohn L. Pendleton; \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \nT.P. Ray; \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \nF.W. Seward; \nW.M. Shinn; \nEdwin M. Stanton; \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \nDavid Hunter Strother; \nGeorge W. Summers; \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \nAlexander L. Wade; \nJames O. Watson; \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:","Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230)","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401)","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366)","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:","Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits)","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election)","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free)","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:","Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844)","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?)","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance)","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:","Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:","Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy)","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate)","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:","Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:","Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:","Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:","Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:","Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis)","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:","Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:","Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_18cd3685d4dadbc9e748f60d929a78ab\"\u003ePapers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_5cf97afe325843f43df11ef15816113b\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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