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Enoch Strother Papers, 1800/1920 1.2 Linear Feet

Papers, including correspondence, accounts and deeds, of Enoch Strother, lawyer and farmer, of Fauquier County, Virginia and his family. Also includes letters of the Chapman family of Keytesville, Missouri.

  1. College of William and Mary

Helen A. Wesp, Compiler, Genealogies, 1962 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 3 in. (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.)

Genealogical records of Alexander Scott, the Scott families of Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana and such allied families as Barker, Barrickman, Bouslog, Caddis, Carpenter, Carr, Chesney, Chipps, Claypoole, Clayton, Cunningham, Daugherty, Davis, Dent, Dragoo, Drummond, Ewing, Fortney, Goodnight, Hamilton, Harrison, Hess, Lindsey, Marchand, Martin, McClelland, McFarland, Menefee, Neely, Pindall, Price, Scott, Shively, Strothers, and Wilson. These records, compiled by Helen A. Wesp, also include copies of letters and other documents relating to the early history of West Virginia.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Strother Family Grandfather Clock, 1800/1810 8.3 Linear Feet Summary: 8 ft. 3 1/2 in. (1 unboxed artifact, 97 in. tall, 21 1/2 in. wide, 10 1/2 in. deep); (1 small storage box, 1 in.); (1 small box, 1 1/2 in.) 0.03 Gigabytes 17 files, formats include .jpg and .mov

One grandfather clock (97 in. tall) once owned by the Strother family of the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. According to family lore, this clock was built in 1803 by a Swiss clockmaker in Martinsburg (Virginia). David Hunter Strother (1816-1888) is a well known member of the family that owned this clock. He was an illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine, whose pseudonym, "Porte Crayon", was a household word; he later served the Union cause, and was General Consul to Mexico within the Rutherford B. Hayes presidential administration. There are also 2 keys and 1 small hand crank. Also included in the collection are 16 .jpg photographs of the clock in the West Virginia & Regional History Center and the internal clock mechanism as well as 1 .mov video file of the clock chiming, taken during a 2014 visit to repair the clock.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Strother Family Papers, 1846/1990 1.25 Linear Feet 1 ft 3 in. (3 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (2 flat storage boxes, 3 1/2 in. each); (2 flat storage box, 1 1/2 in. each)

Strother family

Papers regarding the Strother family, particularly David Hunter Strother, a writer and illustrator for Harpers Magazine, who published under the pseudonym "Porte Crayon." Contains artwork (including some from Strother's time in Mexico and some by other artists), correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and material regarding the genealogy and history of the Strother family.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Strother Family Papers, 1993/1994 0.50 Linear Feet

Four volumes of Strother family genealogy and one newsletter. Included are "Houses of Strother: Descendants of William Strother I, King George County, Virginia," Vols. I & II.

  1. College of William and Mary

Thomas Ray Dille Papers, 1774/1939 7.33 Linear Feet Summary: 7 ft. 4 in. (10 document cases, 5 in. each); (10 ledgers, 17 in.); (12 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Dille, Thomas Ray

Gift of the brothers and sisters of Thomas Ray Dille, lawyer, historian, and genealogist of Morgantown W.Va. This collection contains the family histories of the Dille, David Evans, and John Evans families, as well as the Ray, Stewart, McFarland, and Tennant families.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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