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West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Primary Collecting Areas:
West Virginia and Appalachia History and Culture
Description:
The West Virginia & Regional History Center preserves and provides access to the records that document the history and culture of the state and the central Appalachian region. The Center is part of West Virginia University Libraries.
POC: Lori Hostuttler
Phone: (304) 293-3536
Start Over Repository West Virginia and Regional History Center Places Harrison County (W. Va.)

Adamston Flat Glass Factory, Glass Cutting Tool .25 Linear Feet 3 in. (1 flat storage box)

Adamston Flat Glass Company

A metal tool with a wooden handle, known as a "splitter", used for cutting glass. The tool was used at the Adamston Flat Glass Factory, which was located in Adamston, West Virginia (a former town that is now part of the city of Clarkburg).

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Armistead Abraham Lilly (1878-1956) Speeches 0 Linear Feet Summary: 4 items

Lilly, Armistead Abraham.
Three speeches of A.A. Lilly, including the welcome address delivered at the Lilly reunion, 1949; Lincoln Day dinner speech delivered at Sutton, 1936; a speech delivered before the Republican convention in Charleston, presenting Senator Guy D. Goff for nomination as a candidate for president of the United States; and a memorial of the Kanawha County circuit court on the death of A.A. Lilly in 1956.
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Ash and Purkey Families Genealogy 2.5 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 6 in. (2 records cartons, 15 in. each)

Ash and Purkey Families
Genealogy research records of the Ash family of Harrison and Doddridge counties, and the Purkey family of Taylor and Randolph counties. Includes family worksheets footnoted with sources, historical narrative, photographs, and original documentation in transcript and facsimile form. The majority of the collection is comprised of photocopies. Records assembled 1980-2000 by Sandra Delaney covering 1600s-1900s.
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Attorney's Case Book 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 item

Harrison County. (Attorney?)
Lists of suits, with judgments and costs, probably in Lewis or Harrison County, West Virginia, with information on the wills of John Morrill and several members of the Mason family.
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Brown and Parsons Families Papers 0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (2 documents cases, 2 1/2 in. each)

Papers of the Brown, Parsons, and other West Virginia families and residents. Includes correspondence sent to J. Slidell Brown, a Democratic state senator from Elkins (1916-1935); announcements and programs for reunions of the Brown family of Preston County (1913-1930); a deed and copies of maps of land in Springfield Township, Pennsylvania (1846-1893, undated); financial documents, mainly tax receipts, of the Lilley family of Mercer County (1873-1910); correspondence sent to members of the Reckart family of Preston County (1910-1928); financial documents of W. G. Cambric of Harrison County (1895-1921); wedding announcements and other event invitations (ca. 1890-1920); holiday cards (ca. 1900); and other material.
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Carder Lowe and Company Daybook 0.2 Linear Feet Summary: 1 1/2 in. (1 unboxed ledger)

Carder Lowe and Company at Shinnston
Daybook No. 3 of the Carder Lowe & Co. General Store at Shinnston, West Virginia. It contains records listing customers, merchandise sold, and monetary transactions.
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Chapin Family Papers 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in. (2 folders)

Chapin family
Letters of Phineas Chapin (1792-1857), and other family members in Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Clarksburg, West Virginia. There are: intimate sketches of the social life of Clarksburg in the first half of the nineteenth century; descriptions of a plantation house in Mississippi in 1860; and a few papers bearing on family business affairs, including cattle raising in Harrison County.
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Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers 0.2 Linear Feet Summary: 2 in. (2 folders)

Carpenter, Charles, 1889-1975

This collection includes court case papers and exhibits from Taylor & Harrison Counties; deeds; title abstracts; one land grant; a coal lease for mining & stripping; one letter; and a genealogy chart for the Morgan family.

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Charles Harmison Land Papers 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

Harmison, Charles
Photostats of land papers, including deeds, abstracts, agreements, and surveys, for land in Hampshire and Harrison counties, West Virginia; and Harrison County, Missouri, 1755-1913.
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Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1/2 in. (1 folder); (1 oversize folder, 1 item)

Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884
Papers of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884) and family. Charles J. Faulkner was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Includes business and land papers of James Faulkner of Baltimore, 1804-1811; letters to and papers of Charles J. Faulkner; a colored plat of a survey made for William McMurtrie [1786, Harrison, now Upshur County] along French Creek; and a Thomas Haymond survey plat in Harrison County, May 1844. For more information about Faulkner, see the Historical Note.
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