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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], John Bassel (1840-1914) Papers, A&amp;M 0126, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>126, 1009</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>Office files of the Clarksburg attorney and counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. There are a few personal papers and none relating to the Bassel's participation in the Constitutional Convention of 1872.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="ingest">Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.</subject>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81149493" source="lcsh">Clarksburg (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <persname source="ingest">Bassel, John, 1840-1914</persname>
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