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Includes business and legal documents, Clarksburg Iron and Steel Company materials, miscellaneous correspondence, and miscellaneous printed materials (ca. 1927-2003).

Contains a "Token Album" autograph book which includes inscriptions and autographs (1850s); a diary or ledger which includes account information, recipes, and correspondence, possibly belonging to J. P. Hyde or family (1890s-1910s); a pilot log (1998); a blue diary which includes references to travel between and experiences in Clarksburg and eastern cities, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Atlantic City (1925); Ella M. Stealey's ledger of her account with the Eureka Loan and Building Association (1899); Bella Spritzer's autograph album (1920); a brown diary which includes references to the unknown author's work at Hope Natural Gas Company, church activities, WWI events, and time at Camp Meade (now Fort George G. Meade in Maryland) where the author was first assigned to the 154th Depot Brigade, 314th Infantry, 79th Division. (1918-1920); and a small blue and yellow notebook (undated).

Includes correspondence and printed materials about the Clarksburg Iron and Steel Company (ca. 1980-1999); Delta Tau Delta (ca. 1960-1999); and Hush, Inc., a music company of which Gary Weiner was a stockholder (1997-1998). There is also historical information on fraternities at West Virginia University (WVU), beginning with Gamma and Delta Prime at Monongalia Academy, heavily emphasizing the beginnings of the Delta Tau Delta chapter at WVU in the early 1900s, and concluding with information about other WVU fraternities (covers 1882-1967).

Topics include holiday greetings, business matters, and Weiner's participation in various organizations, including the Tree of Life Synagogue and Jaycees. The correspondence folders are ordered chronologically, with separate folders for materials regarding the Harrison County Historic Landmark Commission (business meeting correspondence, applications for WV State Historic Preservation grants, a project involving Salem-Teikyo University's Administration Building auditorium restoration) and Stonewall Jackson materials (Stonewall Jackson Civil War Round Table letters, and correspondence about the acquisition of highway signs to mark Clarksburg as Jackson's birthplace). Also includes information on George Braxton Bennett and a photo of him with Ronald Reagan. This box also contains Weiner family manuscripts, including invitations to JFK inauguration events, Gary's report cards, a Tree of Life Sisterhood Book of Life (1940s-1960s), and other Jewish texts and ephemera.

Contains early to mid-1900s magazines, including three needlework journals belonging to Bertha Anderson (1917), an issue of American Druggist (1931), an issue of Time (1944), and an issue of Good Housekeeping (1929); and magazines to which Gary Weiner subscribed that cover Jewish topics (1960-1994). For additional materials related to Bertha Anderson, see Series 3, Subject Files

Contains three folders of newspaper clippings: Lynch-related, Weiner-related, and miscellaneous (ca. 1900-1999). It also contains a facsimile page of the August 1773 issue of The Maryland Journal &c. (The Maryland Journal, and the Baltimore Advertiser; undated); early to mid-1900s newspapers (including two issues of The Saturday Evening Post, local papers about WWI and FDR's death; 1913-1963); and contemporary newspapers collected by Weiner (ca. 1985-1999). Contemporary newspapers include: Senate Chambers (a Florida Jaycees publication); The Harrison County Value Guide; Four Star Review (a B'nai B'rith publication); WVU Alumni News; The Senator from Davis & Elkins College; Times-West Virginian from Fairmont, WV; and The Shinnston News & Harrison County Journal/The Shinnston News.