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West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hunter Armentrout, Collector, Gilmer County Historical Records, 1813/2008, bulk 1840/1890

2.1 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 1 in. (5 document cases, 5 in. each)

Papers of historian and collector Hunter F. Armentrout of Gilmer County, West Virginia, primarily documenting the history of the Gilmer County region in the 19th century. Collection chiefly contains correspondence, writings, financial papers, and photographs, One major component of the collection includes the letters of Amie Evaline Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), a member of the Sexton family from New England who settled in western Virginia. Her letters contain much information regarding life in Upshur, Gilmer, and Calhoun Counties before and during the Civil War (transcriptions are available). There are also letters of her immediate family as well as other members of the Hays, Young, and Sexton families (circa 1840-1890). Other materials include Armentrout's research notes, land speculation papers of Minter Jackson (ca. 1840-1860), a local World War II era newsletter (1942-1945), court documents regarding distribution of abolitionist literature (1857), and photographs regarding Glenville Normal School (ca. 1880-1920).

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Correspondence A, 1813/1898 Box 2, Folder 11-49, Box 3, Folder 1-15

Letters in Correspondence A. are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent and include the incoming and outgoing letters of Amie Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), as well as letters to and from her close family members, including her parents, Augustus and Annie Young Sexton; her sisters, Almira Sexton Farmington and Louisa Sexton Hays; and her daughter, Ella Louis "Nellie" Silcott. Letters chiefly date from 1840 to 1880, though many are undated.

  1. Series 2. Correspondence, 1813/1898

Correspondence B, 1814/1895 Box 3, Folder 16-59

Letters in Correspondence B. are also arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Many folders contain only one or two items and most items date from 1840 to 1890. These letters were written or received by members of the Farnsworth, Hays, Sexton, Silcott, and Young families--including Moses Farnsworth, Amy Hays Haymaker, Peregrine Hays, Samuel Hays, Augustus Sexton, Elizabeth Sexton, Nellie Silcott, Henry Young, Lydia Young, and Robert Young, as well as other friends and relatives. Researchers are encouraged to consult both groupings of correspondence as letters to or from various family members can be found in each section.

  1. Series 2. Correspondence, 1813/1898
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Norfolk & Western Railroad and Railway Company Records, 1876/1935

0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box
The collection includes administrative documents and correspondence from the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company (later the Norfolk & Western Railway Company) dating from 1876 to about 1935. There are receipts and billing documents, letters, telegrams, and internal reports, as well as a few maps, blueprints, and handwritten notes.
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Charles Willis Cassell Family Papers, 1883/1950

4.2 Cubic Feet 11 boxes
This collection consists of the papers of a Wythe County, Virginia, Lutheran minister, farmer and businessman and his family. It includes Cassell's personal, professional, and business correspondence; the personal correspondence of his wife and children; financial and legal records; diaries; notes on catechetics; and scrapbooks containing historical sketches of various Lutheran Churches, obituaries, family-related social events, and newspaper clippings concerning Cassell's services as pastor.
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James Madison University

Ruth and Lowell Toliver Collection of Newman Family Papers, 1875/2005

3.8 cubic feet in 3 boxes and 12 tri-folds
The Ruth and Lowell Toliver Collection of Newman Family Papers, circa 1875-2005, comprises a manuscript, writings, personal papers, facsimile photographs, church records, and correspondence related to George A. Newman (1855-1944), his daughter Ruby Newman Temple (1898-1983), his grandsons Austin Gerald Harris (1941-2005) and Wendell Temple (1923-2005), and Harrisonburg's Northeast Neighborhood and Newtown.
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Records of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, 1873/2009

8.4 Cubic Feet 12 boxes
The Records of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors includes unofficial minutes, correspondence, reports, Executive Committee minutes and reports, material from and about individual members of the Board, and reports to the Board of Visitors.
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RG 1/3 - Committees of the Board - Executive Committee, 1877/1968

The two volumes of Executive Committee minutes contain mostly handwritten minutes from 1896-1933 and documents pertaining to the Experiment Station. Volume 1 covers 19 February 1896 to 18 January 1907. Volume 1 contains some loose items, including: notes of meeting of April 2, 1906; papers relating to cattle quarantine regulations; a request of J.G. Ferneybough, State Veterinarian, to appear before the Executive Committee, and a typed page of College Estimates for 1906/07.

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