West Virginia and Regional History Center
Isaac McNeel (b.1830) Papers
McNeel, Isaac (b. 1830)
A&M 1451
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3.7 Linear Feet
Summary: 3 ft. 7 1/2 in. (8 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.); (1 account book, 1 1/2 in.)
1850-1908
Correspondence, legal and business papers, mercantile records and tax receipt books of Isaac McNeel, who operated a store at Edray and Mill Point, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, served as sheriff of the county, operated a gristmill, raised livestock, and was appointed provost marshal of the county in 1862 by the Confederate Army. The collection also includes letters and school reports of McNeel's sons, Winters and Summers, while students at Washington and Lee and the Medical and Law Departments of the University of Virginia, 1893-1897. Other school material pertains to the Hillsboro Male and Female Academy and the Lewisburg Female Institute. Subjects include mercantile and cattle trade with Baltimore and Richmond; business conditions in the l850s and in Richmond during the Civil War; slave hiring; ginseng trade; agriculture; the American Party, 1855; Henry A. Wise; Virginia Secession Convention; effect of the Union blockade on Richmond commerce; speculation in whiskey, tobacco, and cattle during the Civil War; and postwar economic and political conditions in the Pocahontas County area.
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Baltimore (Md.)
American ginseng
Pocahontas County (W. Va.)
Richmond (Va.)
Academies (Private schools)
Agriculture
Livestock
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate States of America - secession crisis.
General stores
Mills and mill-work
Politics and government.
Slaves and slavery.
Universities and colleges
Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861
Women's history -- 1850-1899
Women's history -- 1900-1929
Women's schools.
American Party
Hillsboro Male and Female Academy
Lewisburg Female Institute (Lewisburg, W. Va.)
University of Virginia.
Washington and Lee University
McNeel, Isaac.
McNeel, Summers.
McNeel, Winters.
Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876