Siler Family Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Lori Hostuttler
Phone: (304) 293-3536
Restrictions:

No special access restriction applies.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Siler Family Papers, A&M 2200, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
66.6 Linear Feet Summary: 66 ft. 7 in. (149 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 small flat storage box, 3 1/2 in.); (2 oversize folders, 2 in.); (25 wrapped packages, 3 ft. 8 in.)
Creator:
Seiler family
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Siler Family Papers, A&M 2200, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This is a collection of letters and documents tracing the personal and business life of an eastern panhandle West Virginia family. The papers concern a broad range of political, social, financial, and legal topics, particularly focusing on J. Hammond Siler, Jr., his parents, J. Hammond Siler, Sr. and Jessie Castleman Siler (residents of the Town of Bath better known as Berkeley Springs). Also includes correspondence and other papers from related families. Subjects include banking, the Civil War, the Episcopal church, secession of Virginia, Virginia Loyalty Oath, women's diaries, and women's letters and papers. A notable item in the collection is the diary of Anne Doyne Wolff Strother, wife of artist and writer David Hunter Strother, documenting a trip with husband and daughter Emily to New Orleans in 1857 (S2/Box 67, folder 1a).

Series include:

Series 1. J. Hammond Siler, Jr. (ca. 1848-1968), boxes S1/Box 1-S1/Box 50
Series 2. J. Hammond Siler, Sr. (ca. 1848-1968), boxes S2/Box 1-S2/Box 89
Series 3. Jessie Castleman Siler (ca. 1848-1968), boxes S3/Box 1-S3/Box 2
Series 4. A.C. Hammond (ca. 1848-1968), boxes S4/Box 1-S4/Box 4
Series 5. Ann R. Castleman (ca. 1848-1968), boxes S5/Box 1-S5/Box 2
Series 6. Photographs (ca. 1848-1968), box S6/Box 1
Series 7. Wrapped Packages (ca. 1848-1968), Wrapped Packages 1-26
Series 8. Oversize Material (ca. 1848-1968), box S8/Box 1

Acquisition information:
Purchase from (in process), (in process)
Physical location:
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: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Bank of Berkeley Springs - Banks and Banking.
Banks and Banking - American Institute of Banking.
Banks and Banking - Bank of Berkeley Springs.
Banks and Banking - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Banks and Banking - Financial Public Relations Association.
Banks and Banking - First Virginia Corporation.
Banks and banking
Berkeley Glass Sand Company -- Glass Sand Industry
Berkeley Springs Water Works and Improvement Co. -- Power Industry
Bibles
Blueprints
Bonds -- Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia
Bowling
Poetry -- Nannie S. Castleman
Church schools -- Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.)
Churches -- Episcopal
Civil War -- Confederate newspapers
Civil War -- Description
Civil War - political factions.
Civil War -- Confederate letters
Confederate States of America - secession crisis.
Diaries and journals.
Episcopal Church - Churches.
Church schools -- Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.)
Estates and estate settlements.
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - Banks and Banking.
Financial Public Relations Association - Banks and Banking.
First Virginia Corporation - Banks and Banking.
General stores - Hammond and Siler.
Glass Sand Industry - Berkeley Glass Sand Company.
Glass Sand Industry - Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation.
Hancock Steel Company - Steel.
Insurance - V. E. Johnson Insurance Agency.
Land - deeds and grants.
Land Plat.
Lawyers - letters and papers.
Ledgers.
Libraries - Morgan County Library.
Magazines.
Freemasons
Morgan County - Circuit Court.
Morgan County Library - Libraries.
Music - Sheet music.
Northern Virginia Power Company - Power Industry.
Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation - Glass Sand Industry.
Poetry -- Nannie S. Castleman
Political factions - Civil War.
Politics - Secession of Virginia.
Politics and government.
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Railroads - Western Maryland Railroad Company.
Rhodes scholarships
Rock Gap Coal and Mining Company - Stocks.
Scrapbooks
Secession of Virginia - Politics.
Business correspondence
Names:
American Institute of Banking
Baltimore Trust Company
Bull and Bear Club
Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia - Bonds.
Emerald Shillelagh Chowder and Marching Society, Inc.
Hammond and Siler General Store.
Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates
Montgomery Ward
American Red Cross
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Steel - Hancock Steel Company.
Great Cacapon Silica Sand Company
Campbell family
Castleman family - Genealogy
Hammond family - Genealogy
Humphries family - Genealogy
Isler family - Genealogy
Shepard family - Genealogy
Seller family - Genealogy
Seiler family
Armstrong, James D.
Castleman, Ann Rebecca Isler.
Castleman, Estelle.
Castleman, Frank A.
Castleman, Sarah Jane.
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884
Hammond, Allen C.
Hammond, Cadet N.
Hotee, John.
Randolph, Emily Strother.
Rinehart, E. A.
Siler, J. Hammond Jr.
Siler, J. Hammond Sr.
Siler, Jessie Castleman.
Siler, John T.
Strother, Anne Doyne.
Van Gosen, James D.
Whisner, Samuel.
Widmyer, P. S.
Hardin, Moses
Places:
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.)
Town of Bath, West Virginia - Berkeley Springs.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865