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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">12.75 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">Summary: 12 ft. 8 1/2 in. (17 document cases, 5 in. each); (4 records cartons, 15 in. each); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.); (1 large flat storage box, 3 in.); (1 large flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.)</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1849/1960" type="inclusive">1849-1960</unitdate>
    <abstract id="aspace_a9d058839fa05b62ef054dac2b3a4065">Family genealogies and correspondence for Ruth Woods and Arthur S. Dayton. Includes estate records and Photographs for the Jarvis, Stickler, Dayton, Bosworth, and Woods families. Personal correspondence with and/or pertaining to the Rare Book Room at West Virginia University, World Wars I and II, John W. Draper, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and Dayton Park in Philippi, West Virginia. Also included are research and writings by both Ruth and Arthur Dayton.  Newspaper headlines are stored unfolded in an oversize flat storage box; they include: 1. Charleston Gazette, 1944/06/06, D-Day invasion; 2. Charleston Gazette, 1945/05/07, surrender of Nazi Germany; 3. Charleston Gazzette, 1945/08/14, surrender of Japan.

A detailed paper guide to this collection can be found in the control folder for A&amp;M 0052.  An electronic copy of the same guide is available through a curator at the History Center.</abstract>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Dayton and Woods Families Genealogies and Correspondence, A&amp;M 3022, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Related A&amp;M Collections</head>
<p>52, 206, 211, 215, 530, 741, 1066, 1111, 1216, 1445, 1723, 3022, 3023</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the <a href="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright" target="_blank">Permissions and Copyright page</a> on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <geogname source="ingest">Dayton Park, Phillippi.</geogname>
    <subject source="local_LC">West Virginia University. Library. Rare Book Room</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148273" source="lcsh">World War, 1939-1945</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148236" source="lcsh">World War, 1914-1918</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Sunset Memorial Park (Phillipi, W. Va.)</corpname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012048354" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Dayton, Arthur Spencer, 1887-1948</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89639145" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Dayton, Ruth Woods, 1894-</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Draper, John M.</persname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015957" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Bosworth family</famname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035980" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Dayton family</famname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92003200" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Strickler family</famname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147875" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Wood family</famname>
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