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Centerville Presbyterian Church Papers 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Centerville Presbyterian Church
This collection consists of material from the Centerville Presbyterian Church including histories, correspondence, scrapbooks, programs, and papers about the women's auxiliary, missionary society work, finances, and social activities.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

David R. Preston Diary 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1/2 in. (1 folder)

Preston, David R.
Manuscript diary of David R. Preston, Presbyterian minister and missionary assigned to Pensacola, Florida, and St. Charles, Missouri, 1828-1829, containing information on the number of missionaries and regularly assigned ministers of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Episcopal churches in the areas, the number of church services held, attendance and interest of the congregations, organization of Bible classes, and Sunday schools. Preston also preached to black congregations and comments on their attendance and attitude. There is comment on the Roman Catholic Church, its activities, means to combat its influence, and its social and business life. Preston also held services in the Escambia River area of Alabama. Names of people living in the areas are given as well as descriptions of land and business enterprises, and opinions concerning future settlement and economic development. The names of U.S. Navy ships in the Pensacola harbor are mentioned with comments on the officers, condition of the ships, and discipline maintained. Conditions and cost of travel by stage and boat are commented on with accounts of Preston's journeys from Philadelphia to Pensacola, and from Pensacola to St. Charles.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Davis Family Papers 0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)

Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916

One box of material including original and typescript copies of letters exchanged between Anna Kennedy and J.J. Davis for the period 1860-1862. Also included is material on the Chapin family, Davis and Steen family genealogy and Reed family Bible. Correspondents are J.J. Davis, Anna Kennedy, J.W. Davis, Phineas Chapin, Rev. Asa Brooks, and J. W. Wayland. John W. Davis' certificate of Admission to practice before the Supreme Court of West Virginia dated 1896. His sponsor was Melville Davisson Post and President of the Court was Homer Holt. Also, Davis' commission as a Notary Public dated 1898.

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Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers 1.76 Linear Feet Summary: 1 ft. 9 in. (9 items in 1 folder, 0.1 in.); (12 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Lambert, Fred B., 1873-1967

Historical and genealogical notebooks, notes on census reports, cemetery readings, newspaper history, copies of church and school records, notes on slavery, newspaper clipping scrapbooks, and correspondence.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm (310 items), 1.75 in.)

Pamphlets include Henry Ruffner's antislavery pamphlet, 1847, and his Union speech, 1856. Subjects of the manuscripts and correspondence include family history; travel; Kanawha Salt Works; schools in Virginia and Kanawha County; Lane Seminary Library; Presbyterian Church; slavery, coal, gas, iron, and timber; Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee, Harvard, Hobart, Cornell, and Hampden-Sydney colleges; Greenbrier County; Alabama; election of 1904; University of Virginia; Kanawha Valley floods; Venezuela; American Colonization Society; and the Philippine Islands. Persons mentioned or commented on include Philip Doddridge, John Letcher, Hugh Mercer, and Nelson A. Miles. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, John Eaton, John P. Hale, H.R. Helper, W.S. Laidley, David L. Ruffner, John W. Wayland, and William L. Wilson.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

John J. Davis (1824-1916) Papers 3.9 Linear Feet 3 ft. 10 1/2 in. (8 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 flat storage box, 4 in.)

Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916
Papers of John J. Davis, a lawyer and politician from Clarksburg, West Virginia. This collection contains correspondence, account books, photographs, essays, speeches, and other material. Also included in this collection are writings of Davis' granddaughter, Julia McDonald Davis. There are also artifacts, including a school slate and three leather billfolds. Please see "Scope and Contents" for further detail.
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Joseph F. McNeely Papers 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 4 items (1 folder)

McNeely, Joseph F. (b. 1868)

Mimeographed letters of Joseph F. McNeely requesting the restoration by the Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, of the McNeely family monument removed from the Presbyterian cemetery on the site of the new church.

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Thomas W. Dixon, Collector, Papers 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Dixon, Thomas W.

Accounts of businesses and the Grange, in Alderson, WV. Include: Flash 1, 1872-1883, Alderson Presbyterian Church and Masonic Hall journal and day book. Flash 2, 1883-1887, cash book, bank account and journal, separate account for R. W. Gardner and R. J. Bell. Flash 3, 1897, 1898 day book record of fines and costs for cases listed as debits, rest of book is cash book listing people almost exclusively. Flash 4, in 4 parts, journal and ledger of Brights Mill, Alderson; in addition to standard mill items, lists coal and covers periods of 1889 Jul-1891 Apr: 1892 Jul-1893 Nov; 1892 Jul-1894 Feb; 1898 Apr-1899 Oct.

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Thomas W. Dixon, Collector, Papers 0.42 Linear Feet 5 in. (1 document case)

Dixon, Thomas W.

Xerox copies of the correspondence of William White, Cregan Cave (Greenbrier County) 1871-1897. William White (II) fitted himself to become a land surveyor, and for many years held the official position of surveyor of Greenbrier County. Letters relate to surveys and sale of several acres of land for George S. and John C. Knox and E. C. Halliday.

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