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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Adolphus P. Howard Papers, A&amp;M 0515, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>511, 515, 517</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>Includes the wills of A. P. Howard, Corry, Pennsylvania; 1897, and Sarah H. Howard, Wellsville, N. Y., correspondence, reports, leases, tax receipts, and mortgage. Information on J. W. Howard and Hugh H. McCullough estates. Copy of Bradstreet's report on the University Company of Olympia, Washington and J. R. Chaplin, manager of the Company. Also, report on various business enterprises and financial standing of A. P. Howard. Some correspondence of Edward Spencer and tax receipts for land in Kansas. One copy of "The Practical Engineer," John Wallace, Pittsburgh, Penna., 1865, and one copy of "The Popular Educator," Vols. III and IV, London, N. C.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="ingest">Farms and farming.</subject>
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    <subject source="ingest">Printers and printing.</subject>
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    <corpname source="local_LC">J.W. and A. P. Howard Company</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Howard, Adolphus P.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Howard, John F.</persname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062656" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Howard family</famname>
    <persname source="ingest">Spencer, Edward</persname>
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