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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Adolphus P. Howard Papers, A&amp;M 0517, 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 business and personal correspondence, accounts, legal papers, bank statements, maps, etc. Business correspondence, 1850-1938, include letters concerning A. P. Howard's various business enterprises; farm, livestock, fruit and produce, Wellsville, Ohio; printing firm, Columbus, Ohio; tannery, Corry, Penna.; bank and metal works, Pittsburgh, PA; farm, Congo, WV; subscription agent in Wellsville, Ohio for National Era, Washington, D.C. Earlier letters are  to A. G. DeSellem, an uncle, including several concerning missionary work and anti-slavery activities; mention is made of several colleges, Western Reserve, Oberlin, and a school in Albany.                                                     </p><p>Personal correspondence, 1853-1912, includes family letters from J.F. Howard, father, J.W. Howard, cousin; and Frank, Carl, Perle, and Homer, sons. Also, some letters from A.P. Howard to his sons and his wife. Several regarding his service in Civil War; choice of site and inscription for a monument to the 15th Pennsylvania, Cavalry.</p><p>Legal papers include inventory and appraisement of William Taggart's estate. Map of Chicago during Columbia Exposition.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="local_LC">Abolition of slavery</subject>
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    <subject source="ingest">Printers and printing.</subject>
    <subject source="local">Women's history -- 1850-1899</subject>
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    <corpname source="local_LC">J.W. and A. P. Howard Company</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">DeSellem, A.G.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Howard, Adolphus P.</persname>
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