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Bean Family Papers

0.6 Linear Feet 7 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 folder, 1 in.); (1 unboxed ledger, 1 in.)
Papers and six manuscript volumes of Samuel and Thomas Bean and other members of the Bean settlement near Fabius, Hardy County. The volumes, 1833-1884, are accounts for the post office at Fabius, and for school taxes, blacksmithing, shoemaking, distilling, and other goods and services. There are lists of birth dates of members of the Gilmore family; scattered agricultural records; justice of the peace judgment dockets, 1848-1887; and loose business and post office records of Samuel Bean.
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Bean Family Papers 0.6 Linear Feet 7 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 folder, 1 in.); (1 unboxed ledger, 1 in.)

Bean family
Papers and six manuscript volumes of Samuel and Thomas Bean and other members of the Bean settlement near Fabius, Hardy County. The volumes, 1833-1884, are accounts for the post office at Fabius, and for school taxes, blacksmithing, shoemaking, distilling, and other goods and services. There are lists of birth dates of members of the Gilmore family; scattered agricultural records; justice of the peace judgment dockets, 1848-1887; and loose business and post office records of Samuel Bean.
West Virginia and Regional History Center

Capt. William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers

1.3 Linear Feet 1 ft. 3 1/2 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 index card box, 10 1/2 in.)

Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.

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Capt. William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers 1.3 Linear Feet 1 ft. 3 1/2 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 index card box, 10 1/2 in.)

Sommerville, William.

Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.

West Virginia and Regional History Center

Carl B. Allen Papers Regarding Early Aviation

6.9 Linear Feet 6 ft. 10 1/2 in. (13 document cases, 5 in. each); (5 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (1 large flat storage box, 2 in.); (2 flat storage boxes, 1 1/2 in. each)
Correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, documents, photographs and other papers of Carl B. Allen, Army Air Corps officer, aviator, and newspaper writer. Subjects include the development of the Autogiro, 1930; air mail, 1933-1935; the Howell Inquiry, 1934-1937; the Army and aviation, 1934-1936; aviation achievements, 1934-1937; George W. Carver's work at Tuskegee; South American round trip, 1936; first trans-Pacific flight, 1936; Amelia Earhart; the Ford Air Tour, 1926-1927; America First Committee; the Air Safety Board, 1936-1940 and the Glenn L. Martin Company.
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Carl B. Allen Papers Regarding Early Aviation 6.9 Linear Feet 6 ft. 10 1/2 in. (13 document cases, 5 in. each); (5 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (1 large flat storage box, 2 in.); (2 flat storage boxes, 1 1/2 in. each)

Allen, Carl B.
Correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, documents, photographs and other papers of Carl B. Allen, Army Air Corps officer, aviator, and newspaper writer. Subjects include the development of the Autogiro, 1930; air mail, 1933-1935; the Howell Inquiry, 1934-1937; the Army and aviation, 1934-1936; aviation achievements, 1934-1937; George W. Carver's work at Tuskegee; South American round trip, 1936; first trans-Pacific flight, 1936; Amelia Earhart; the Ford Air Tour, 1926-1927; America First Committee; the Air Safety Board, 1936-1940 and the Glenn L. Martin Company.
West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles L. Campbell (b. 1876), Compiler, Typescripts

0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (ca. 50 pages, 1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)
Typescripts compiled by a Wellsburg local historian, on the history of Holliday's Cove and the Hancock-Brooke County area. Subjects include prominent settlers, churches, schools, post office, toll roads, oil and gas wells, floods, gristmills, manufacture of gunpowder, iron and brick industries, newspapers, Indians, and the James Campbell and Alexander Morrow family genealogy.
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Charles L. Campbell (b. 1876), Compiler, Typescripts 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (ca. 50 pages, 1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Campbell, Charles L., 1876-1961
Typescripts compiled by a Wellsburg local historian, on the history of Holliday's Cove and the Hancock-Brooke County area. Subjects include prominent settlers, churches, schools, post office, toll roads, oil and gas wells, floods, gristmills, manufacture of gunpowder, iron and brick industries, newspapers, Indians, and the James Campbell and Alexander Morrow family genealogy.
Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Fairfield, Virginia Postermaster Notice of Appointment

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Letter of appointment for John W. Wheat to replace Gabriel Lilley, who resigned his post as Postmaster of Fairfield, Virginia from the U. S. Postmaster General. Note signed by James W. Man for William Mahone, the 1st Assistant to the Postermaster General.

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Fairfield, Virginia Postermaster Notice of Appointment 1 Item

Wheat, John W.

Letter of appointment for John W. Wheat to replace Gabriel Lilley, who resigned his post as Postmaster of Fairfield, Virginia from the U. S. Postmaster General. Note signed by James W. Man for William Mahone, the 1st Assistant to the Postermaster General.

West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material

0.4 Linear Feet 5 in. (2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each)
Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S. Burdett, John S. Carlile, Daniel Frost, Lewis Ruffner, and Benjamin Wilson. Series 2 includes Cranmer's handwritten notes, drafts of articles, copies of documents, and letters solicited by him regarding the history of Wheeling and Ohio County, West Virginia. See Scope and Content Note for details and contents list.
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Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material 0.4 Linear Feet 5 in. (2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each)

Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S. Burdett, John S. Carlile, Daniel Frost, Lewis Ruffner, and Benjamin Wilson. Series 2 includes Cranmer's handwritten notes, drafts of articles, copies of documents, and letters solicited by him regarding the history of Wheeling and Ohio County, West Virginia. See Scope and Content Note for details and contents list.
College of William and Mary

J. A. Robinson Letter Copybook

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Letter copybook, 1858-1860, of J. A. Robinson, merchant and postmaster, Fetterman, Taylor County, Virginia [West Virginia].

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J. A. Robinson Letter Copybook 1.00 Linear Feet

Letter copybook, 1858-1860, of J. A. Robinson, merchant and postmaster, Fetterman, Taylor County, Virginia [West Virginia].

College of William and Mary

John Berkeley Papers

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Original document listing number of letters from or to England and Ireland, with their costs. Title "An Abstract of the Letters, Paequetts and parcells ...from the nine and twentyth day of June to the 29th day of September One thousand six hundred and seventy. Columns are entitled: Letters from England, Letters from the Several Stages in Ireland and Letters to the Several Stages in Ireland. Signed by Jo Berkeley (John Berkeley.

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John Berkeley Papers .01 Linear Feet

Original document listing number of letters from or to England and Ireland, with their costs. Title "An Abstract of the Letters, Paequetts and parcells ...from the nine and twentyth day of June to the 29th day of September One thousand six hundred and seventy. Columns are entitled: Letters from England, Letters from the Several Stages in Ireland and Letters to the Several Stages in Ireland. Signed by Jo Berkeley (John Berkeley.

College of William and Mary

Leroy Anderson Papers

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Circular letters, 1829, concerning subscriptions to publications of the Declaration of Independence in French and English to be published by Anderson, Sons & Co., Washington, D. C.; list of subscribers in Richmond, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, Va.; and a poem, "Archbishop Sharpe of York and the Highwayman" [concerning John Sharp.]

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Leroy Anderson Papers 0.01 Linear Foot

Circular letters, 1829, concerning subscriptions to publications of the Declaration of Independence in French and English to be published by Anderson, Sons & Co., Washington, D. C.; list of subscribers in Richmond, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, Va.; and a poem, "Archbishop Sharpe of York and the Highwayman" [concerning John Sharp.]

West Virginia and Regional History Center

Postal Records of Morgantown and Uffington

0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 3 in. (1 small flat storage box)
Includes one record book of money orders issued at the post office in Morgantown, West Virginia from September 1867 through April 1877. There are also four record books of 'Receipts and Payments' at the post office in Uffington, West Virginia from April 1922 through April 1944. Uffington record books document transactions involving postage stamp stock, incoming sales, stamps, canceled money order advances received, orders paid, as well as quarterly accounts. This collection also includes a 1928 almanac for Hagerstown, Maryland titled "J. Gruber's Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack."
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Postal Records of Morgantown and Uffington 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 3 in. (1 small flat storage box)

Includes one record book of money orders issued at the post office in Morgantown, West Virginia from September 1867 through April 1877. There are also four record books of 'Receipts and Payments' at the post office in Uffington, West Virginia from April 1922 through April 1944. Uffington record books document transactions involving postage stamp stock, incoming sales, stamps, canceled money order advances received, orders paid, as well as quarterly accounts. This collection also includes a 1928 almanac for Hagerstown, Maryland titled "J. Gruber's Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack."

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