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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">0.5 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">Summary: 5 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (3 scrapbooks, 3 in.)</extent>
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    <abstract id="aspace_52a78e71a83a988b3ab61c88909c8799">Papers of the Mortimer Wilson Smith family, Clarksburg, West Virginia. There are letters of the Chapin family of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Clarksburg, 1800-1904. Subjects include descriptions of Clarksburg, schools, churches, and family affairs. Included are three scrapbooks of the Mortimer W. Smith family, covering family history, and typescripts of speeches made by Smith, 1936-1939, as chief engineer of the West Virginia State Road Commission and as director of the Motor Carrier Department, Public Service Commission of West Virginia.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Smith Family Papers, A&amp;M 0840, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81149493" source="lcsh">Clarksburg (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="local">Churches  -- Clarksburg (W. Va.)</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040989" source="lcsh">Education</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Politics and government.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Schools. SEE ALSO Academies</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">West Virginia. Motor Carrier Department</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50004853" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">West Virginia. Public Service Commission</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50004489" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">West Virginia. State Road Commission</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Smith, Mortimer Wilson.</persname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002010694" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Chapin family</famname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123667" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Smith family</famname>
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