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    <abstract id="aspace_0728040458a1a95582ee8703375b0761">Correspondence, appointment, and notice. Correspondence includes a letter from Gideon D. Camden to Pierpont (1841); a letter from Frances Pierpont Pryor (F.H. Pierpont's granddaughter) to Professor Charles Ambler regarding documents of her grandfathers' which she is sending him and documents she will keep (1952); and a letter from Charles MacCarthy to W.H. Siviter, regarding Pierpont papers used by MacCarthy in writing his <emph render="italic">Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction</emph> (1899). Also includes Francis H. Pierpont's appointment to the West Virginia University Board of Regents (1869) and a Society of the Army of West Virginia reunion notice (1884).</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers, A&amp;M 0497, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <subject source="local_LC">Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County</subject>
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    <subject source="ingest">Politics - Western Virginia.</subject>
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