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    <abstract id="aspace_649b1fb6c18901dbd371eddf3db75558">Correspondence, financial records, and insurance papers of Lewisburg attorney and politician, John A. Preston. Much of the collection deals with the 1901 fire at the Lewisburg Female Institute, for which Preston was a trustee and secretary-treasurer. Related A&amp;M collections include those of Preston relatives, John J. Davis, John J. D. Preston, and Samuel Price as well as the Roy Bird Cook Collection.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], John A. Preston, Attorney and Politician, Papers, A&amp;M 3114, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <subject source="local">Academies</subject>
    <subject source="local">Churches  -- Presbyterian and Reformed</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Lawyers - letters and papers.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85026944" source="lcsh">Clergy</subject>
    <subject source="local">Women's schools.</subject>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97015382" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Lewisburg Female Institute (Lewisburg, W. Va.)</corpname>
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    <persname source="ingest">Brooke, Rev. F. J.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Fry, J. H.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Paull, Joseph F.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Preston, John A.</persname>
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