A&M 1464Felix G. Hansford Papers A&M 1464Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Felix G. Hansford Papers, A&M 1464, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

 Related A&M Collections

1089, 1192, 1464

 Scope and Contents

Correspondence, business and legal papers, and Justice of the Peace documents of Felix G. Hansford, Kanawha County J.P., entrepreneur, and President of the Giles, Fayette, and Kanawha Turnpike.

Subjects include the George Boxley slave plot, 1816; cholera in Louisville, 1833; Missouri and westward expansion, 1841; the Kansas struggle, 1858; Albert Gallatin's western lands; and the impact of John Brown's 1859 raids on the South. Correspondents include Albert Gallatin, J. M. Maury, Edward H. Smith, Edward Herndon, William R. Finn, and Thomas E. Jackson.

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 Clifton. Kanawha County (W. Va.) Kanawha River (W. Va.) Kanawha Valley. Kansas Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) Missouri Point Pleasant (Mason County, W. Va.) Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 Church buildings Epidemics Justices of the peace Mills and mill-work Frontier and pioneer life Politics and government. Rivers and river valleys. Slaves and slavery. Transportation Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. Western expansion Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike Company James River and Kanawha Turnpike Company Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 Hansford, Felix G. Herndon, Edward Jackson, Thomas E. Maury, J.M. Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 George Boxley