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Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:","1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:","1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","\n2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4. Obituary,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. 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In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. 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He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. 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Boyd, M.D., 2000.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:","1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:","1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","\n2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4. Obituary,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900) Papers, A\u0026amp;M 1361, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. 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Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. 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Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:","1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:","1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","\n2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4. Obituary,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. 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In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. 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Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:","1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:","1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","\n2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4. Obituary,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900) Papers, A\u0026amp;M 1361, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. 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Willey Papers","Monongalia County (W. Va.)","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865","West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865.","West Virginia -- Politics and government","United States -- Politics and government","Politics and government.","Secession","Temperance","Politicians -- United States","Statehood politics -- West Virginia","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc. ","Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4.  Obituary ,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.","1361","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) ","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) ","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) ","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) ","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) ","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) ","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) ","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:"," Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) ","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) ","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) ","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) ","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) ","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) ","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) ","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) ","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) ","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) ","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) ","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) ","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) ","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) ","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) ","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) ","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) ","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) ","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) ","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) ","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) ","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) ","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) ","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) ","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) ","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) ","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) ","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) ","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) ","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) ","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) ","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) ","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) ","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) ","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) ","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) ","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) ","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) ","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) ","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) ","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) ","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) ","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) ","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) ","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) ","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) ","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) ","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) ","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) ","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) ","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) ","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) ","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) ","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) ","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) ","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) ","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) ","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) ","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) ","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) ","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) ","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) ","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) ","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) ","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) ","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) ","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) ","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) ","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) ","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) ","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) ","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) ","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) ","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) ","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) ","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) ","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) ","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) ","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) ","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) ","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) ","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) ","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) ","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230) ","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) ","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) ","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) ","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) ","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) ","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:"," Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) ","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) ","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) ","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) ","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) ","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:"," Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) ","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","United States. Congress. 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"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNotes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Corson, L.D.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLegislative Career of Waitman T. Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDictionary of American Biography\u003c/emph\u003e, p. 426.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eObituary\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMorgantown Weekly Post\u003c/emph\u003e, Thursday, May 10, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. Ware, A.F.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eA Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement\u003c/emph\u003e, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. White, L.C.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWest Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson\u003c/emph\u003e, 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePrepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4.  Obituary ,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey Papers, A\u0026amp;M 0003, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. 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There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026amp;O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 516\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFriends (e.g. 1209)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (e.g. item 1230) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReligion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSome Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSlavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIllness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSchool and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Constituents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTemperance Activities\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for Jobs\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) ","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) ","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) ","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) ","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) ","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) ","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) ","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:"," Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) ","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) ","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) ","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) ","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) ","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) ","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) ","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) ","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) ","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) ","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) ","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) ","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) ","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) ","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) ","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) ","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) ","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) ","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) ","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) ","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) ","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) ","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) ","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) ","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) ","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) ","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) ","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) ","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) ","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) ","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) ","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) ","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) ","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) ","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) ","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) ","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) ","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) ","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) ","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) ","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) ","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) ","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) ","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) ","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) ","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) ","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) ","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) ","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) ","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) ","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) ","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) ","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) ","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) ","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) ","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) ","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) ","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) ","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) ","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) ","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) ","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) ","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) ","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) ","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) ","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) ","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) ","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) ","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) ","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) ","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) ","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) ","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) ","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) ","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) ","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) ","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) ","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) ","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) ","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) ","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) ","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) ","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) ","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230) ","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) ","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) ","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) ","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) ","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) ","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:"," Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) ","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) ","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) ","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) ","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) ","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:"," Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) ","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_18cd3685d4dadbc9e748f60d929a78ab\"\u003ePapers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_5cf97afe325843f43df11ef15816113b\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["United States. Congress. 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Willey Papers","Monongalia County (W. Va.)","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865","West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865.","West Virginia -- Politics and government","United States -- Politics and government","Politics and government.","Secession","Temperance","Politicians -- United States","Statehood politics -- West Virginia","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc. ","Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4.  Obituary ,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.","1361","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) ","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) ","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) ","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) ","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) ","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) ","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) ","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:"," Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) ","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) ","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) ","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) ","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) ","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) ","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) ","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) ","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) ","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) ","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) ","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) ","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) ","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) ","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) ","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) ","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) ","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) ","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) ","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) ","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) ","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) ","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) ","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) ","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) ","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) ","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) ","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) ","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) ","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) ","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) ","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) ","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) ","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) ","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) ","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) ","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) ","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) ","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) ","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) ","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) ","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) ","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) ","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) ","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) ","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) ","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) ","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) ","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) ","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) ","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) ","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) ","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) ","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) ","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) ","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) ","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) ","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) ","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) ","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) ","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) ","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) ","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) ","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) ","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) ","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) ","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) ","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) ","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) ","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) ","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) ","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) ","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) ","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) ","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) ","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) ","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) ","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) ","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) ","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) ","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) ","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) ","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) ","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230) ","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) ","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) ","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) ","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) ","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) ","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:"," Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) ","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) ","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) ","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) ","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) ","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:"," Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) ","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","United States. Congress. 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"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNotes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Corson, L.D.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLegislative Career of Waitman T. Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDictionary of American Biography\u003c/emph\u003e, p. 426.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eObituary\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMorgantown Weekly Post\u003c/emph\u003e, Thursday, May 10, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. Ware, A.F.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eA Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement\u003c/emph\u003e, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. White, L.C.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWest Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson\u003c/emph\u003e, 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePrepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4.  Obituary ,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey Papers, A\u0026amp;M 0003, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey Papers, A\u0026M 0003, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e1361\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related A\u0026M Collections"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["1361"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026amp;O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 516\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFriends (e.g. 1209)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (e.g. item 1230) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReligion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSome Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSlavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIllness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSchool and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Constituents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTemperance Activities\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for Jobs\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) ","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) ","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) ","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) ","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) ","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) ","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) ","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:"," Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) ","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) ","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) ","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) ","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) ","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) ","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) ","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) ","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) ","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) ","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) ","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) ","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) ","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) ","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) ","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) ","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) ","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) ","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) ","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) ","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) ","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) ","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) ","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) ","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) ","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) ","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) ","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) ","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) ","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) ","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) ","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) ","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) ","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) ","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) ","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) ","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) ","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) ","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) ","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) ","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) ","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) ","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) ","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) ","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) ","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) ","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) ","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) ","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) ","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) ","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) ","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) ","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) ","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) ","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) ","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) ","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) ","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) ","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) ","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) ","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) ","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) ","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) ","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) ","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) ","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) ","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) ","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) ","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) ","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) ","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) ","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) ","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) ","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) ","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) ","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) ","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) ","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) ","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) ","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) ","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) ","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) ","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) ","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230) ","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) ","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) ","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) ","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) ","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) ","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:"," Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) ","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) ","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) ","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) ","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) ","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:"," Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) ","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_5cf97afe325843f43df11ef15816113b\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["United States. Congress. 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Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and Wheeling, WV, and Ireland; westward migration [1849]; gold mining, enslaved Africans; and business and family affairs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include C.J. Cox, James and Louisa Creegan; Bridget Flinn; Creed Haymond; Archbishop John Hughes; James D. Lamb; Harrison Low; William Macdonnell; Asa Squires; W.O. Tarleton; Zephaniah, Mary L., Sophia, Mary G., Delia, \u0026amp; Benjamin H. Watson; and A. M. Wheeler. Persons receiving correspondence, mentioned, or commented on, and persons or organizations, parties to various business or legal papers include Abraham and Muriel Brookbank; Orestus A. Brownsun; Matthew Campbell; Cornelius B. 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Carney; Isaac and William Collins, Susanna Cook; Joseph Cunningham; Thomas Dison; Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Co.; Peter Flinn; Thomas Fowler; Abraham \u0026 Jacob S. Hayden; W. C. Haymond; Jeremiah Highfield; Martin Hurley; Basil Patterson; George W. Paris; Joseph and Charles Peach; Benjamin Reader; Margaret Reeves; Richard Smith; Thomas G. Steele; James Eliazor; and Azariah, Zachariah, Elizabeth, Sarah, James, Ann, Dent, Thomas, Henry, and Louisa Watson.","Subjects include: Travel -- Wheeling, VA [now WV] to Keokuk, IA by boat, Keokuk to Burlington, IA by stage; traveling conditions; comment on Cinn. [Cincinnati], OH and St. Louis, MO; description of cathedral in St. Louis; mention of St. Patrick's church; comment on Keokuk; disturbance at Nauvoo and comment on the temple; comparison of Iowa to Virginia; and family news and friends.","Subjects include: Travel -- Wheeling, VA [now WV] to Burlington, IA by boat (name of steamboat given); Cincinnati, OH (comment on Catholic churches, museum); Andrew Jackson (comment on A.J.'s role in the Battle of New Orleans, LA); Louisville, KY (comparison to Cincinnati); St. Louis, MO (comment on business as compared to Cincinnati); stage coach travel; Nauvoo (comment on the Mormon temple); Burlington, IA (comment on size in comparison to Morgantown, VA [now WV]); description of farm (wheat growing on prairie land, description of soil); and family news (Harrison and James mentioned regarding their business).","Subjects include: travel -- comment on members of party going to California; number of miles traveled per day; camp and traveling routine; comment on sickness of wagon train people; number of wagons; estimate of time it will take to reach California; and prices of supplies.","Subjects include: the church -- NY vice (answer to letter from Watson calling the Bishop's attention to the vice prevailing in New York City); suggests pecuniary aid to the church to combat the problem would be welcome; comment on large number of immigrants arriving in city daily and difficulty \"to preserve them intact, poverty and many other causes conspiring to their destruction;\" and hope to remedy this condition in part by erection of Magdalen Asylum.","Subjects include: politics; \"Know Nothings\" -- the Irish in America -- Catholic Church; intolerance of Americans for the Irish as a class; opinion of the conduct of Irishmen; opinion on the platform of the Know Nothings; comment on hostility of political parties to Catholics; dislike of Brownson's action on the Know Nothings, his extremes in upholding the Catholic Church; and intention of not supporting the Whigs if they identify with the Know Nothings: \"...the American people as a Nation are the most entensely [sic] intolerant of all people under the sun...\"","Subjects include: Catholic Church and the Know Nothings; comment on Steele being refused membership by the Know Nothings in Fairmont, VA [now WV]; opinion on Catholicism and Protestantism and persecution of the Catholic Church; opinion on Brownson's article; comment on the foreign populations, the industrious labor class, and wish they would come as fast as steamers can bring them; the American people who are ruled by their prejudices maltreating and abusing the privileges of the foreigner; prejudice against the Catholic Church adversely affecting the business affairs of the Catholic; and advises silence rather [than] ineffectual efforts to remedy the situation, trusting that the \"Church must and will triumph as she has ever done.\""],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Va.)","Churches  -- Morgantown First Presbyterian","Coal mining.","Democratic National Convention of 1924.","Elections","Family histories.","Genealogy","Labor","Literature -- Societies, etc","Morgantown - Newspapers.","Morgantown - schools.","Frontier and pioneer life","Political campaigns","Politics - Western Virginia.","Politics and government.","Scrapbooks","Universities and colleges","World War, 1939-1945 -- Letters","World War, 1939-1945","Special access restriction applies.","William A. Moreland was born in 1916 to James R. and Ethel (Finnicum) Moreland of Morgantown, West Virginia. Moreland served in the U.S. Army during World War II and later became a lawyer. He served as a member of the West Virginia State House of Delegates from Monongalia County from 1951 until 1958. He then served as the West Virginia State Senator from the 14th District from 1959 until 1982.","Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Also includes material documenting his WWII service, including transporting troops by train on the home front, and service in Japan and the Philippines. The collection includes photographs and certificates from various organizations received during his career.","Addendum of 2010/10/29  includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs (including photos of his father, James Moreland). (ca. 1900-1965; 7 1/2 in.)","Addendum of 2011/03/21  includes papers of William Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Genealogy (1898-1948, undated), News Clippings (1898-1945, undated), Photographs (ca. 1860-1942, undated), Historical Narratives (1939, 1942), James R. Moreland Papers (1899-1945, undated), Joseph Moreland Papers (1898-1913, undated), Scrapbook (1897-1950), Miscellaneous (1868, undated), and Photo Album (ca. 1855-1875). (ca. 1855-1950; 1 ft. 7 in.)","The photo album (3 in. x 4 in. x 5 in.) contains 40 cartes de visite (CDVs) and 1 tintype.","Locations of photographers identified on the cards in the album include:  \nBaltimore, MD \nBrownsville, PA \nFrederick, MD \nIndiana, PA \nMorgantown, WV \nWheeling, WV","Some portraits in the album are identified. Names include:  \nDavis Bowens \nJane Bowens \nElisha M. Hagans \nAnnie Hagans \nReverend Martin (in Brownsville?)  \nMrs. Martin (in Brownsville?)  \nJohn Bowie \nEliza Bowie \nJames A. Brown (in Baltimore?)  \nJohn A. Dille (in Morgantown?)  \nRachel Boyce","Addendum of 2011/06/20  includes papers of William A. Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Historical Information; West Virginia University; 1924 Democratic National Convention; Ethel Finnicum Moreland; Morgantown African-American History; Brown Family Papers; Publications; Newspapers and News Clippings; Artifacts, Oversize; and Photographs. There is also unsorted material. (1824-1984; 4 ft. 9 in.)","Historical Information; 1877-1902; box 19. Contains short biographical sketches of Joseph Moreland and James R. Moreland, as well as a scrapbook and two legal documents related to the history of the Moreland family.","West Virginia University; 1869-1900; box 19. Includes records related to Joseph Moreland's term as a regent of the University (1882-1894), James R. Moreland's service with the University Cadet Corps (1896-1900), WVU's 28th annual commencement (1895-06-12), and other material.","1924 Democratic National Convention; 1924; box 19. Includes ephemera, such as an I.D. card, membership cards, a pass to Coney Island, etc. relating to Ethel Finnicum Moreland's travel to New York City as the West Virginia delegate to the Democratic National Convention.","Ethel Finnicum Moreland; 1901, 1920-1924; box 19. Papers of Ethel Finnicum Moreland, wife of James R. Moreland, including school records and material related to her political activities.","Morgantown African-American History; 1934-3-28; box 19. Includes a newspaper article concerning the death of William Stewart, a Morgantown resident and former slave. Stewart had worked for the Moreland family for nearly two decades. This series also includes an undated photograph of Stewart.","Brown Family Papers; 1824-1891; box 19. Papers of the Brown family of northern (West) Virginia, who were ancestors and relatives of the Morelands. Series contains legal documents and correspondence, including three letters (1854-1856) written from Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania.","Publications; 1860-1981; box 19. Contains pamphlets, programs, handbills, and other publications, including a program for a competition between the Columbian and Monongalian Literary Societies of the Monongalia Academy (1860), a handbill by Joseph Moreland addressed \"To the Voters of Monongalia County\"; (1869), and two copies of the program for the \"Sword Presentation to Captain F.E. Chadwick\" (1899), among other items.","Newspapers and News Clippings; 1875, 1890, 1984; boxes 19 and 22. Contains an issue of The Herald (Kingwood, WV) dated 1875-10-30; an issue of the Weekly Post (Morgantown, WV) dated 1875-11-6; an issue of The New Dominion dated 1890-5-17; a 1984 article about Joseph Moreland written by Earl L. Core; and various news clippings from unidentified sources.","Artifacts; ca. 1830s; box 19. Hair clippings of two Moreland ancestors, with identifications written by James R. Moreland.","Oversize; 1898-1901; box 20. Documents related to James R. Moreland's service with the West Virginia University Cadet Corp as well as his presence at the inauguration of President William McKinley","Photographs; ca. 1850-1980; boxes 21-24. Includes ambrotypes, tintypes, CDVs, card mounted prints, black and white prints, newspaper print blocks, and negatives. Subjects include individual and group portraits of Moreland family members and photographs relating to the professional activities of William A. Moreland, James R. Moreland, Joseph Moreland, and others. The majority of photographs are identified. Items of interest within this series include a hand-painted tintype, a group photograph of West Virginia University cadet officers, including James R. Moreland (ca. 1900), four cased and one uncased ambrotypes, and an engraved steel plate. Two of the ambrotypes are identified; one is labeled \"Aunt Mary McNab\" and the other Sarah Suter.","Unsorted material; ca. 1860-1970; boxes 25-26. Unsorted material contains papers of William Moreland, James R. Moreland, and Joseph Moreland, including genealogical information concerning the Moreland family; typescripts concerning West Virginia history and other subjects; personal and professional correspondence; newspapers and news clippings; and publications.","Addendum of 2014/06/12  papers and artifacts of the Moreland family. (ca. 1824-1950; 12 ft. 11 1/2 in.)","box 27; biography of Joseph Moreland by James Moreland","box 28; wooden stocking stretchers, bed warmer, spectacles (worn by Eleanor Brown Moreland), gravy boat (1824), and 2 Tiffany (steak) knifes","box 29; 2 (handmade) blankets that feature blue and white design","box 30; baby clothes (for William A. Moreland), white garments","box 31; \"Ruth's wedding gown, veil, slip\" (for wedding between Ruth Moreland and William A. Moreland)","box 32; a few photos, marriage license, matches, photo in frame of Ethel F. Moreland (1903), photo of Moreland home (ca. 1900-1910), WWII belt buckle, 2 small books published in Morgantown (1942), and other material","box 33; 3 quilts, 1 identified with creator (\"EBM\" or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 34; 2 WWII military jackets with slacks","box 35; purple dress with sash and hat (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 36; grey dress with belt, lilac dress, black beaded shawl (?), short white lace jacket","box 37; black Victorian dress (?) (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 38; 2 crayon portraits, 2 photos, prints, WWII scrapbook page","box 39; folded flag (that had been draped over coffin of William A. Moreland)","box 40; genealogy charts of the Moreland family","box 41; folder 1; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland and World War II subjects; ca. 1940s","box 41; folder 2; Newspaper clippings about Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) wrestling and sports (from cigarette tin); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 3; Cigarette tin; undated","box 41; folder 4; West Virginia University Corps of Cadets certificates and military papers (regarding William A. Moreland); ca. 1936-1939","box 41; folder 4; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Programs; 1937","box 41; folder 4; Photographs of students (group portraits); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 5; Photograph of woman, possibly Eleanor \"Nell\" Moreland; undated","box 41; folder 5; Letter from John Laird to Alex Smith and receipts concerning real estate of John Suter, 1819","box 41; folder 5; West Virginia University Commencement program; 1940","box 41; folder 5; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Program; 1937","box 41; folder 5; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletic letter; undated, ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 5; Honeymoon Isle, Florida postcard, other materials; ca. 1940","box 41; folder 6; Photographs of William A. Moreland, World War II airplanes, other subjects, ca. 1940s","box 41; folder 6; Photograph of Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) sports team (group portrait) including William A. Moreland; ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 6; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland, including group portrait of sports team","box 41; folder 7; William A. Moreland correspondence related to military reserves service; 1939-1940","box 41; folder 7; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletics program and materials; ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 7; National Collegiate Wrestling Championships Program; 1937","box 41; folder 7; Negative of building; ca. 1930s-1940s","box 41; folder 8; Postcards (12 items; non-West Virginia subjects; includes birthplace of William Jennings Bryan); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 9; Romeo and Juliet dance card from Dixie Ball (see box 43 for dance card pencils); 1940","box 41; folder 10; \"Morgantown Centennial with Addresses and Papers, 1795-1885\" (book); 1902","box 41; folder 11; \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: With Short Biographical Sketches of its Pastors, Missionaries, Ministers and Lay Leaders\" by James R. Moreland (book); 1938","box 42; folders 1-19; World War II era correspondence and letters of William A. Moreland (Includes letters written by William A. Moreland about his wartime service within the United States at Camp Perry, Ohio, Camp Harrison, Indiana, and others. Also includes Moreland's letters during his service in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Japan, mostly written to his wife Ruth. Also includes some letters written by Donald R. Roberts, Moreland's brother-in-law, from his wartime service in North Africa and Europe); 1938-1945","box 42; folder 20; German postcards from Donald R. Roberts (9 items); 1945","box 43; oversized; folder 1; The New Dominion Post, Illustrated Edition newspaper; undated","box 43; oversized; folder 2; Wizard of Oz movie premiere program from Grauman's Chinese Theater; 1939","box 43; oversized; folder 3; Pictorial History of XIV Corps during World War II; undated","box 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifact, West Virginia Football ribbon; undated","box 43, oversized, unfoldered; Artifact, Mercersburg Academy patch; undated, ca. 1930s","box 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifacts, Military buttons and insignia, dance card pencils (see box 41, folder 9 for dance card); undated, ca. 1930s-1940s","unboxed; large wooden clothes pin","unboxed; trunk with belts and WWII wooden desk signs inside","Addendum of 2016/07/27; ca. 1890-2008; boxes 44-45","box 44; unfoldered; political campaign materials and other material regarding William A. Moreland, including stickers, matchbooks, clippings, photographs, and artifacts including a WWII dog tag and lapel insignia; 1934-2008, undated","box 45; oversized; unfoldered; drawings of properties, some with oil and gas holdings marked, and housing developments in Monongalia County, as well as rubbings of headstones and notes regarding cemeteries; ca. 1890-1980 Addendum of 2017/05/22; 1933-1970; box 46 \nContains two scrapbooks of clippings documenting Moreland from 1933-1970.\n Addendum of 2017/10/06; 1899-1947; box 47 \nbox 47; unfoldered; scrapbook kept by James Moreland titled \"My Immediate Family\"; 1899-1947\n \nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown\"; 1902\n \nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Karux\", yearbook of the Mercerburg Academy; 1934\n \nbox 47; folder 1; Photographs previously attached to yearbook; ca. 1934\n \nbox 47; folder 2; Issue of \"The Mercersburg News\"; 1934","Books:","\nCallahan, James Morton. History of the Making of Morgantown, West Virginia. Morgantown, W. Va. [Morgantown Printing and Binding Co.], 1926.","\nLambert, Oscar Doane. West Virginia, Its People and Its Progress, Volume 2, Biographical. Charleston, West Virginia: Historical Record Association, [1958].","\nCallahan, James Morton, History of the Making of Morgantown, West Virginia","\nMorgantown (W. Va.), Committee of Arrangement. The Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown, 1785-100-1885: With Addresses and Papers. Morgantown, West Virginia: Committee of Arrangements, 1902.","\nWest Virginia University, Public History Option. Morgantown: A Bicentennial History. Morgantown, West Virginia: Monongalia Historical Society, 1985.","\nPeriodical:","\nWest Virginia Review Magazine, October, 1936.","\nFrom addendum 2011/06/20:","Bulletin No. 3 Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia . 1921.","Bulletin No. 7 Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia . Parkersburg, West Virginia: The School Printing Company, 1925.","\nHaymond, Henry.  Historical Reference to Prickett's Fort and its Defenders with Incidents of Border Warfare in the Monongahela Valley and Ceremonies at Unveiling of Monument Marking Site of Prickett's Fort, Erected in 1774, including Brief Sketches of Major William Haymond and the ancestors of the Morgan and Prickett Families .","History of Dunlap's Creek Academy . Brownsville, Pennsylvania: Press of the Clipper-Moniter, 1908.","\nLatimer, Ira S., John C. Ludlum, R.C. Tucker, and James C. Welden, editors.  West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey: Its Accomplishments and Outlook . Volume XXIII. 1963.","\nMoreland, James R.  The Early Cheat Mountain Iron Works . ca. 1940.","\nMoreland, James R.  The Early Cheat Mountain Iron Works . Morgantown, West Virginia: Monongalia Historical Society.","\nMoreland, James R.  The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia with Short Biographical Sketches of Its Pastors, Missionaries, Ministers, and Lay Leaders . Morgantown, West Virginia: First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, 1938.","\nMoreland, Joseph.  Morgantown, Its Practical Jokes; Its Thrice Told Tales; Legends, Ghost Stories, Exaggerations, Doings and Sayings, Marvelous and Incredible, Its Fun, Wit, Humor, \u0026c . Morgantown, West Virginia: New Dominion Steam Printing House, 1885. [two copies]","West Virginia Antiquities Commission Annual Report 1973 . 1973.","West Virginia Manual of the Legislature Session of 1915 . Charleston, West Virginia: Tribune Printing Co., 1915.","Woman's Edition of The New Dominion . Morgantown, West Virginia: The New Dominion, 1896.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Addendum of 2010/10/29 includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs. Addenda of 2011/03/21 and 2011/06/20 include papers of William Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. Addendum of 2014/06/12 includes some papers and many artifacts. Addendum of 2016/07/27 includes drawings of properties in Monongalia County and political campaign and other material. See \"Scope and Content Note\" for details.  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Moreland was born in 1916 to James R. and Ethel (Finnicum) Moreland of Morgantown, West Virginia. Moreland served in the U.S. Army during World War II and later became a lawyer. He served as a member of the West Virginia State House of Delegates from Monongalia County from 1951 until 1958. He then served as the West Virginia State Senator from the 14th District from 1959 until 1982.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["William A. Moreland was born in 1916 to James R. and Ethel (Finnicum) Moreland of Morgantown, West Virginia. Moreland served in the U.S. Army during World War II and later became a lawyer. He served as a member of the West Virginia State House of Delegates from Monongalia County from 1951 until 1958. He then served as the West Virginia State Senator from the 14th District from 1959 until 1982."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William A. 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The collection includes photographs and certificates from various organizations received during his career.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2010/10/29\u003c/emph\u003e includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs (including photos of his father, James Moreland). (ca. 1900-1965; 7 1/2 in.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2011/03/21\u003c/emph\u003e includes papers of William Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Genealogy (1898-1948, undated), News Clippings (1898-1945, undated), Photographs (ca. 1860-1942, undated), Historical Narratives (1939, 1942), James R. Moreland Papers (1899-1945, undated), Joseph Moreland Papers (1898-1913, undated), Scrapbook (1897-1950), Miscellaneous (1868, undated), and Photo Album (ca. 1855-1875). (ca. 1855-1950; 1 ft. 7 in.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe photo album (3 in. x 4 in. x 5 in.) contains 40 cartes de visite (CDVs) and 1 tintype.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLocations of photographers identified on the cards in the album include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nBaltimore, MD\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nBrownsville, PA\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrederick, MD\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nIndiana, PA\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMorgantown, WV\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWheeling, WV\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSome portraits in the album are identified. Names include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavis Bowens\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJane Bowens\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nElisha M. Hagans\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAnnie Hagans\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nReverend Martin (in Brownsville?) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMrs. Martin (in Brownsville?) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn Bowie\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEliza Bowie\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames A. Brown (in Baltimore?) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn A. Dille (in Morgantown?) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRachel Boyce\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2011/06/20\u003c/emph\u003e includes papers of William A. Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Historical Information; West Virginia University; 1924 Democratic National Convention; Ethel Finnicum Moreland; Morgantown African-American History; Brown Family Papers; Publications; Newspapers and News Clippings; Artifacts, Oversize; and Photographs. There is also unsorted material. (1824-1984; 4 ft. 9 in.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHistorical Information; 1877-1902; box 19. Contains short biographical sketches of Joseph Moreland and James R. Moreland, as well as a scrapbook and two legal documents related to the history of the Moreland family.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWest Virginia University; 1869-1900; box 19. Includes records related to Joseph Moreland's term as a regent of the University (1882-1894), James R. Moreland's service with the University Cadet Corps (1896-1900), WVU's 28th annual commencement (1895-06-12), and other material.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1924 Democratic National Convention; 1924; box 19. Includes ephemera, such as an I.D. card, membership cards, a pass to Coney Island, etc. relating to Ethel Finnicum Moreland's travel to New York City as the West Virginia delegate to the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEthel Finnicum Moreland; 1901, 1920-1924; box 19. Papers of Ethel Finnicum Moreland, wife of James R. Moreland, including school records and material related to her political activities.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMorgantown African-American History; 1934-3-28; box 19. Includes a newspaper article concerning the death of William Stewart, a Morgantown resident and former slave. Stewart had worked for the Moreland family for nearly two decades. This series also includes an undated photograph of Stewart.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBrown Family Papers; 1824-1891; box 19. Papers of the Brown family of northern (West) Virginia, who were ancestors and relatives of the Morelands. Series contains legal documents and correspondence, including three letters (1854-1856) written from Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePublications; 1860-1981; box 19. Contains pamphlets, programs, handbills, and other publications, including a program for a competition between the Columbian and Monongalian Literary Societies of the Monongalia Academy (1860), a handbill by Joseph Moreland addressed \"To the Voters of Monongalia County\"; (1869), and two copies of the program for the \"Sword Presentation to Captain F.E. Chadwick\" (1899), among other items.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers and News Clippings; 1875, 1890, 1984; boxes 19 and 22. Contains an issue of The Herald (Kingwood, WV) dated 1875-10-30; an issue of the Weekly Post (Morgantown, WV) dated 1875-11-6; an issue of The New Dominion dated 1890-5-17; a 1984 article about Joseph Moreland written by Earl L. Core; and various news clippings from unidentified sources.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eArtifacts; ca. 1830s; box 19. Hair clippings of two Moreland ancestors, with identifications written by James R. Moreland.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOversize; 1898-1901; box 20. Documents related to James R. Moreland's service with the West Virginia University Cadet Corp as well as his presence at the inauguration of President William McKinley\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs; ca. 1850-1980; boxes 21-24. Includes ambrotypes, tintypes, CDVs, card mounted prints, black and white prints, newspaper print blocks, and negatives. Subjects include individual and group portraits of Moreland family members and photographs relating to the professional activities of William A. Moreland, James R. Moreland, Joseph Moreland, and others. The majority of photographs are identified. Items of interest within this series include a hand-painted tintype, a group photograph of West Virginia University cadet officers, including James R. Moreland (ca. 1900), four cased and one uncased ambrotypes, and an engraved steel plate. Two of the ambrotypes are identified; one is labeled \"Aunt Mary McNab\" and the other Sarah Suter.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnsorted material; ca. 1860-1970; boxes 25-26. Unsorted material contains papers of William Moreland, James R. Moreland, and Joseph Moreland, including genealogical information concerning the Moreland family; typescripts concerning West Virginia history and other subjects; personal and professional correspondence; newspapers and news clippings; and publications.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2014/06/12\u003c/emph\u003e papers and artifacts of the Moreland family. (ca. 1824-1950; 12 ft. 11 1/2 in.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 27; biography of Joseph Moreland by James Moreland\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 28; wooden stocking stretchers, bed warmer, spectacles (worn by Eleanor Brown Moreland), gravy boat (1824), and 2 Tiffany (steak) knifes\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 29; 2 (handmade) blankets that feature blue and white design\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 30; baby clothes (for William A. Moreland), white garments\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 31; \"Ruth's wedding gown, veil, slip\" (for wedding between Ruth Moreland and William A. Moreland)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 32; a few photos, marriage license, matches, photo in frame of Ethel F. Moreland (1903), photo of Moreland home (ca. 1900-1910), WWII belt buckle, 2 small books published in Morgantown (1942), and other material\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 33; 3 quilts, 1 identified with creator (\"EBM\" or Eleanor Brown Moreland)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 34; 2 WWII military jackets with slacks\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 35; purple dress with sash and hat (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 36; grey dress with belt, lilac dress, black beaded shawl (?), short white lace jacket\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 37; black Victorian dress (?) (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 38; 2 crayon portraits, 2 photos, prints, WWII scrapbook page\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 39; folded flag (that had been draped over coffin of William A. Moreland)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 40; genealogy charts of the Moreland family\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 1; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland and World War II subjects; ca. 1940s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 2; Newspaper clippings about Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) wrestling and sports (from cigarette tin); ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 3; Cigarette tin; undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 4; West Virginia University Corps of Cadets certificates and military papers (regarding William A. Moreland); ca. 1936-1939\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 4; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Programs; 1937\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 4; Photographs of students (group portraits); ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; Photograph of woman, possibly Eleanor \"Nell\" Moreland; undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; Letter from John Laird to Alex Smith and receipts concerning real estate of John Suter, 1819\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; West Virginia University Commencement program; 1940\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Program; 1937\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletic letter; undated, ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; Honeymoon Isle, Florida postcard, other materials; ca. 1940\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 6; Photographs of William A. Moreland, World War II airplanes, other subjects, ca. 1940s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 6; Photograph of Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) sports team (group portrait) including William A. Moreland; ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 6; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland, including group portrait of sports team\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 7; William A. Moreland correspondence related to military reserves service; 1939-1940\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 7; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletics program and materials; ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 7; National Collegiate Wrestling Championships Program; 1937\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 7; Negative of building; ca. 1930s-1940s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 8; Postcards (12 items; non-West Virginia subjects; includes birthplace of William Jennings Bryan); ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 9; Romeo and Juliet dance card from Dixie Ball (see box 43 for dance card pencils); 1940\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 10; \"Morgantown Centennial with Addresses and Papers, 1795-1885\" (book); 1902\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 11; \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: With Short Biographical Sketches of its Pastors, Missionaries, Ministers and Lay Leaders\" by James R. Moreland (book); 1938\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 42; folders 1-19; World War II era correspondence and letters of William A. Moreland (Includes letters written by William A. Moreland about his wartime service within the United States at Camp Perry, Ohio, Camp Harrison, Indiana, and others. Also includes Moreland's letters during his service in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Japan, mostly written to his wife Ruth. Also includes some letters written by Donald R. Roberts, Moreland's brother-in-law, from his wartime service in North Africa and Europe); 1938-1945\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 42; folder 20; German postcards from Donald R. Roberts (9 items); 1945\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43; oversized; folder 1; The New Dominion Post, Illustrated Edition newspaper; undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43; oversized; folder 2; Wizard of Oz movie premiere program from Grauman's Chinese Theater; 1939\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43; oversized; folder 3; Pictorial History of XIV Corps during World War II; undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifact, West Virginia Football ribbon; undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43, oversized, unfoldered; Artifact, Mercersburg Academy patch; undated, ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifacts, Military buttons and insignia, dance card pencils (see box 41, folder 9 for dance card); undated, ca. 1930s-1940s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eunboxed; large wooden clothes pin\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eunboxed; trunk with belts and WWII wooden desk signs inside\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2016/07/27; ca. 1890-2008; boxes 44-45\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 44; unfoldered; political campaign materials and other material regarding William A. Moreland, including stickers, matchbooks, clippings, photographs, and artifacts including a WWII dog tag and lapel insignia; 1934-2008, undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 45; oversized; unfoldered; drawings of properties, some with oil and gas holdings marked, and housing developments in Monongalia County, as well as rubbings of headstones and notes regarding cemeteries; ca. 1890-1980\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2017/05/22; 1933-1970; box 46\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nContains two scrapbooks of clippings documenting Moreland from 1933-1970.\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2017/10/06; 1899-1947; box 47\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbox 47; unfoldered; scrapbook kept by James Moreland titled \"My Immediate Family\"; 1899-1947\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown\"; 1902\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Karux\", yearbook of the Mercerburg Academy; 1934\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbox 47; folder 1; Photographs previously attached to yearbook; ca. 1934\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbox 47; folder 2; Issue of \"The Mercersburg News\"; 1934\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Also includes material documenting his WWII service, including transporting troops by train on the home front, and service in Japan and the Philippines. The collection includes photographs and certificates from various organizations received during his career.","Addendum of 2010/10/29  includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs (including photos of his father, James Moreland). (ca. 1900-1965; 7 1/2 in.)","Addendum of 2011/03/21  includes papers of William Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Genealogy (1898-1948, undated), News Clippings (1898-1945, undated), Photographs (ca. 1860-1942, undated), Historical Narratives (1939, 1942), James R. Moreland Papers (1899-1945, undated), Joseph Moreland Papers (1898-1913, undated), Scrapbook (1897-1950), Miscellaneous (1868, undated), and Photo Album (ca. 1855-1875). (ca. 1855-1950; 1 ft. 7 in.)","The photo album (3 in. x 4 in. x 5 in.) contains 40 cartes de visite (CDVs) and 1 tintype.","Locations of photographers identified on the cards in the album include:  \nBaltimore, MD \nBrownsville, PA \nFrederick, MD \nIndiana, PA \nMorgantown, WV \nWheeling, WV","Some portraits in the album are identified. Names include:  \nDavis Bowens \nJane Bowens \nElisha M. Hagans \nAnnie Hagans \nReverend Martin (in Brownsville?)  \nMrs. Martin (in Brownsville?)  \nJohn Bowie \nEliza Bowie \nJames A. Brown (in Baltimore?)  \nJohn A. Dille (in Morgantown?)  \nRachel Boyce","Addendum of 2011/06/20  includes papers of William A. Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Historical Information; West Virginia University; 1924 Democratic National Convention; Ethel Finnicum Moreland; Morgantown African-American History; Brown Family Papers; Publications; Newspapers and News Clippings; Artifacts, Oversize; and Photographs. There is also unsorted material. (1824-1984; 4 ft. 9 in.)","Historical Information; 1877-1902; box 19. Contains short biographical sketches of Joseph Moreland and James R. Moreland, as well as a scrapbook and two legal documents related to the history of the Moreland family.","West Virginia University; 1869-1900; box 19. Includes records related to Joseph Moreland's term as a regent of the University (1882-1894), James R. Moreland's service with the University Cadet Corps (1896-1900), WVU's 28th annual commencement (1895-06-12), and other material.","1924 Democratic National Convention; 1924; box 19. Includes ephemera, such as an I.D. card, membership cards, a pass to Coney Island, etc. relating to Ethel Finnicum Moreland's travel to New York City as the West Virginia delegate to the Democratic National Convention.","Ethel Finnicum Moreland; 1901, 1920-1924; box 19. Papers of Ethel Finnicum Moreland, wife of James R. Moreland, including school records and material related to her political activities.","Morgantown African-American History; 1934-3-28; box 19. Includes a newspaper article concerning the death of William Stewart, a Morgantown resident and former slave. Stewart had worked for the Moreland family for nearly two decades. This series also includes an undated photograph of Stewart.","Brown Family Papers; 1824-1891; box 19. Papers of the Brown family of northern (West) Virginia, who were ancestors and relatives of the Morelands. Series contains legal documents and correspondence, including three letters (1854-1856) written from Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania.","Publications; 1860-1981; box 19. Contains pamphlets, programs, handbills, and other publications, including a program for a competition between the Columbian and Monongalian Literary Societies of the Monongalia Academy (1860), a handbill by Joseph Moreland addressed \"To the Voters of Monongalia County\"; (1869), and two copies of the program for the \"Sword Presentation to Captain F.E. Chadwick\" (1899), among other items.","Newspapers and News Clippings; 1875, 1890, 1984; boxes 19 and 22. Contains an issue of The Herald (Kingwood, WV) dated 1875-10-30; an issue of the Weekly Post (Morgantown, WV) dated 1875-11-6; an issue of The New Dominion dated 1890-5-17; a 1984 article about Joseph Moreland written by Earl L. Core; and various news clippings from unidentified sources.","Artifacts; ca. 1830s; box 19. Hair clippings of two Moreland ancestors, with identifications written by James R. Moreland.","Oversize; 1898-1901; box 20. Documents related to James R. Moreland's service with the West Virginia University Cadet Corp as well as his presence at the inauguration of President William McKinley","Photographs; ca. 1850-1980; boxes 21-24. Includes ambrotypes, tintypes, CDVs, card mounted prints, black and white prints, newspaper print blocks, and negatives. Subjects include individual and group portraits of Moreland family members and photographs relating to the professional activities of William A. Moreland, James R. Moreland, Joseph Moreland, and others. The majority of photographs are identified. Items of interest within this series include a hand-painted tintype, a group photograph of West Virginia University cadet officers, including James R. Moreland (ca. 1900), four cased and one uncased ambrotypes, and an engraved steel plate. Two of the ambrotypes are identified; one is labeled \"Aunt Mary McNab\" and the other Sarah Suter.","Unsorted material; ca. 1860-1970; boxes 25-26. Unsorted material contains papers of William Moreland, James R. Moreland, and Joseph Moreland, including genealogical information concerning the Moreland family; typescripts concerning West Virginia history and other subjects; personal and professional correspondence; newspapers and news clippings; and publications.","Addendum of 2014/06/12  papers and artifacts of the Moreland family. (ca. 1824-1950; 12 ft. 11 1/2 in.)","box 27; biography of Joseph Moreland by James Moreland","box 28; wooden stocking stretchers, bed warmer, spectacles (worn by Eleanor Brown Moreland), gravy boat (1824), and 2 Tiffany (steak) knifes","box 29; 2 (handmade) blankets that feature blue and white design","box 30; baby clothes (for William A. Moreland), white garments","box 31; \"Ruth's wedding gown, veil, slip\" (for wedding between Ruth Moreland and William A. Moreland)","box 32; a few photos, marriage license, matches, photo in frame of Ethel F. Moreland (1903), photo of Moreland home (ca. 1900-1910), WWII belt buckle, 2 small books published in Morgantown (1942), and other material","box 33; 3 quilts, 1 identified with creator (\"EBM\" or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 34; 2 WWII military jackets with slacks","box 35; purple dress with sash and hat (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 36; grey dress with belt, lilac dress, black beaded shawl (?), short white lace jacket","box 37; black Victorian dress (?) (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 38; 2 crayon portraits, 2 photos, prints, WWII scrapbook page","box 39; folded flag (that had been draped over coffin of William A. Moreland)","box 40; genealogy charts of the Moreland family","box 41; folder 1; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland and World War II subjects; ca. 1940s","box 41; folder 2; Newspaper clippings about Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) wrestling and sports (from cigarette tin); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 3; Cigarette tin; undated","box 41; folder 4; West Virginia University Corps of Cadets certificates and military papers (regarding William A. Moreland); ca. 1936-1939","box 41; folder 4; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Programs; 1937","box 41; folder 4; Photographs of students (group portraits); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 5; Photograph of woman, possibly Eleanor \"Nell\" Moreland; undated","box 41; folder 5; Letter from John Laird to Alex Smith and receipts concerning real estate of John Suter, 1819","box 41; folder 5; West Virginia University Commencement program; 1940","box 41; folder 5; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Program; 1937","box 41; folder 5; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletic letter; undated, ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 5; Honeymoon Isle, Florida postcard, other materials; ca. 1940","box 41; folder 6; Photographs of William A. Moreland, World War II airplanes, other subjects, ca. 1940s","box 41; folder 6; Photograph of Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) sports team (group portrait) including William A. Moreland; ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 6; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland, including group portrait of sports team","box 41; folder 7; William A. Moreland correspondence related to military reserves service; 1939-1940","box 41; folder 7; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletics program and materials; ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 7; National Collegiate Wrestling Championships Program; 1937","box 41; folder 7; Negative of building; ca. 1930s-1940s","box 41; folder 8; Postcards (12 items; non-West Virginia subjects; includes birthplace of William Jennings Bryan); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 9; Romeo and Juliet dance card from Dixie Ball (see box 43 for dance card pencils); 1940","box 41; folder 10; \"Morgantown Centennial with Addresses and Papers, 1795-1885\" (book); 1902","box 41; folder 11; \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: With Short Biographical Sketches of its Pastors, Missionaries, Ministers and Lay Leaders\" by James R. Moreland (book); 1938","box 42; folders 1-19; World War II era correspondence and letters of William A. Moreland (Includes letters written by William A. Moreland about his wartime service within the United States at Camp Perry, Ohio, Camp Harrison, Indiana, and others. Also includes Moreland's letters during his service in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Japan, mostly written to his wife Ruth. Also includes some letters written by Donald R. Roberts, Moreland's brother-in-law, from his wartime service in North Africa and Europe); 1938-1945","box 42; folder 20; German postcards from Donald R. Roberts (9 items); 1945","box 43; oversized; folder 1; The New Dominion Post, Illustrated Edition newspaper; undated","box 43; oversized; folder 2; Wizard of Oz movie premiere program from Grauman's Chinese Theater; 1939","box 43; oversized; folder 3; Pictorial History of XIV Corps during World War II; undated","box 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifact, West Virginia Football ribbon; undated","box 43, oversized, unfoldered; Artifact, Mercersburg Academy patch; undated, ca. 1930s","box 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifacts, Military buttons and insignia, dance card pencils (see box 41, folder 9 for dance card); undated, ca. 1930s-1940s","unboxed; large wooden clothes pin","unboxed; trunk with belts and WWII wooden desk signs inside","Addendum of 2016/07/27; ca. 1890-2008; boxes 44-45","box 44; unfoldered; political campaign materials and other material regarding William A. Moreland, including stickers, matchbooks, clippings, photographs, and artifacts including a WWII dog tag and lapel insignia; 1934-2008, undated","box 45; oversized; unfoldered; drawings of properties, some with oil and gas holdings marked, and housing developments in Monongalia County, as well as rubbings of headstones and notes regarding cemeteries; ca. 1890-1980 Addendum of 2017/05/22; 1933-1970; box 46 \nContains two scrapbooks of clippings documenting Moreland from 1933-1970.\n Addendum of 2017/10/06; 1899-1947; box 47 \nbox 47; unfoldered; scrapbook kept by James Moreland titled \"My Immediate Family\"; 1899-1947\n \nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown\"; 1902\n \nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Karux\", yearbook of the Mercerburg Academy; 1934\n \nbox 47; folder 1; Photographs previously attached to yearbook; ca. 1934\n \nbox 47; folder 2; Issue of \"The Mercersburg News\"; 1934"],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBooks:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCallahan, James Morton. History of the Making of Morgantown, West Virginia. Morgantown, W. Va. [Morgantown Printing and Binding Co.], 1926.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nLambert, Oscar Doane. West Virginia, Its People and Its Progress, Volume 2, Biographical. Charleston, West Virginia: Historical Record Association, [1958].\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCallahan, James Morton, History of the Making of Morgantown, West Virginia\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMorgantown (W. Va.), Committee of Arrangement. The Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown, 1785-100-1885: With Addresses and Papers. Morgantown, West Virginia: Committee of Arrangements, 1902.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWest Virginia University, Public History Option. Morgantown: A Bicentennial History. Morgantown, West Virginia: Monongalia Historical Society, 1985.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nPeriodical:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWest Virginia Review Magazine, October, 1936.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFrom addendum 2011/06/20:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eBulletin No. 3 Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia\u003c/title\u003e. 1921.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eBulletin No. 7 Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia\u003c/title\u003e. Parkersburg, West Virginia: The School Printing Company, 1925.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHaymond, Henry. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eHistorical Reference to Prickett's Fort and its Defenders with Incidents of Border Warfare in the Monongahela Valley and Ceremonies at Unveiling of Monument Marking Site of Prickett's Fort, Erected in 1774, including Brief Sketches of Major William Haymond and the ancestors of the Morgan and Prickett Families\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of Dunlap's Creek Academy\u003c/title\u003e. Brownsville, Pennsylvania: Press of the Clipper-Moniter, 1908.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nLatimer, Ira S., John C. Ludlum, R.C. Tucker, and James C. Welden, editors. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Geological and Economic Survey: Its Accomplishments and Outlook\u003c/title\u003e. Volume XXIII. 1963.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMoreland, James R. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Early Cheat Mountain Iron Works\u003c/title\u003e. ca. 1940.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMoreland, James R. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Early Cheat Mountain Iron Works\u003c/title\u003e. Morgantown, West Virginia: Monongalia Historical Society.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMoreland, James R. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia with Short Biographical Sketches of Its Pastors, Missionaries, Ministers, and Lay Leaders\u003c/title\u003e. Morgantown, West Virginia: First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, 1938.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMoreland, Joseph. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMorgantown, Its Practical Jokes; Its Thrice Told Tales; Legends, Ghost Stories, Exaggerations, Doings and Sayings, Marvelous and Incredible, Its Fun, Wit, Humor, \u0026amp;c\u003c/title\u003e. Morgantown, West Virginia: New Dominion Steam Printing House, 1885. [two copies]\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Antiquities Commission Annual Report 1973\u003c/title\u003e. 1973.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Manual of the Legislature Session of 1915\u003c/title\u003e. Charleston, West Virginia: Tribune Printing Co., 1915.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWoman's Edition of The New Dominion\u003c/title\u003e. Morgantown, West Virginia: The New Dominion, 1896.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Books:","\nCallahan, James Morton. History of the Making of Morgantown, West Virginia. Morgantown, W. Va. [Morgantown Printing and Binding Co.], 1926.","\nLambert, Oscar Doane. West Virginia, Its People and Its Progress, Volume 2, Biographical. Charleston, West Virginia: Historical Record Association, [1958].","\nCallahan, James Morton, History of the Making of Morgantown, West Virginia","\nMorgantown (W. Va.), Committee of Arrangement. The Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown, 1785-100-1885: With Addresses and Papers. Morgantown, West Virginia: Committee of Arrangements, 1902.","\nWest Virginia University, Public History Option. Morgantown: A Bicentennial History. Morgantown, West Virginia: Monongalia Historical Society, 1985.","\nPeriodical:","\nWest Virginia Review Magazine, October, 1936.","\nFrom addendum 2011/06/20:","Bulletin No. 3 Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia . 1921.","Bulletin No. 7 Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia . Parkersburg, West Virginia: The School Printing Company, 1925.","\nHaymond, Henry.  Historical Reference to Prickett's Fort and its Defenders with Incidents of Border Warfare in the Monongahela Valley and Ceremonies at Unveiling of Monument Marking Site of Prickett's Fort, Erected in 1774, including Brief Sketches of Major William Haymond and the ancestors of the Morgan and Prickett Families .","History of Dunlap's Creek Academy . Brownsville, Pennsylvania: Press of the Clipper-Moniter, 1908.","\nLatimer, Ira S., John C. Ludlum, R.C. Tucker, and James C. Welden, editors.  West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey: Its Accomplishments and Outlook . Volume XXIII. 1963.","\nMoreland, James R.  The Early Cheat Mountain Iron Works . ca. 1940.","\nMoreland, James R.  The Early Cheat Mountain Iron Works . Morgantown, West Virginia: Monongalia Historical Society.","\nMoreland, James R.  The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia with Short Biographical Sketches of Its Pastors, Missionaries, Ministers, and Lay Leaders . Morgantown, West Virginia: First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, 1938.","\nMoreland, Joseph.  Morgantown, Its Practical Jokes; Its Thrice Told Tales; Legends, Ghost Stories, Exaggerations, Doings and Sayings, Marvelous and Incredible, Its Fun, Wit, Humor, \u0026c . Morgantown, West Virginia: New Dominion Steam Printing House, 1885. [two copies]","West Virginia Antiquities Commission Annual Report 1973 . 1973.","West Virginia Manual of the Legislature Session of 1915 . Charleston, West Virginia: Tribune Printing Co., 1915.","Woman's Edition of The New Dominion . Morgantown, West Virginia: The New Dominion, 1896."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_7846d980c65866025c579b1bc50c0857\"\u003ePapers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Addendum of 2010/10/29 includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs. Addenda of 2011/03/21 and 2011/06/20 include papers of William Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. Addendum of 2014/06/12 includes some papers and many artifacts. Addendum of 2016/07/27 includes drawings of properties in Monongalia County and political campaign and other material. See \"Scope and Content Note\" for details.  Addendum of 2017/05/22 contains two scrapbooks of clippings documenting Moreland from 1933-1970.  There are additional addenda.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Addendum of 2010/10/29 includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs. Addenda of 2011/03/21 and 2011/06/20 include papers of William Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. Addendum of 2014/06/12 includes some papers and many artifacts. Addendum of 2016/07/27 includes drawings of properties in Monongalia County and political campaign and other material. See \"Scope and Content Note\" for details.  Addendum of 2017/05/22 contains two scrapbooks of clippings documenting Moreland from 1933-1970.  There are additional addenda."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_f7ab7139019f40454ac685fdcc64bff9\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Va.)","Churches  -- Morgantown First Presbyterian","Coal mining.","Democratic National Convention of 1924.","Elections","Family histories.","Genealogy","Labor","Literature -- Societies, etc","Morgantown - Newspapers.","Morgantown - schools.","Frontier and pioneer life","Political campaigns","Politics - Western Virginia.","Politics and government.","Scrapbooks","Universities and colleges","World War, 1939-1945 -- Letters","World War, 1939-1945","Special access restriction applies.","William A. Moreland was born in 1916 to James R. and Ethel (Finnicum) Moreland of Morgantown, West Virginia. Moreland served in the U.S. Army during World War II and later became a lawyer. He served as a member of the West Virginia State House of Delegates from Monongalia County from 1951 until 1958. He then served as the West Virginia State Senator from the 14th District from 1959 until 1982.","Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Also includes material documenting his WWII service, including transporting troops by train on the home front, and service in Japan and the Philippines. The collection includes photographs and certificates from various organizations received during his career.","Addendum of 2010/10/29  includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs (including photos of his father, James Moreland). (ca. 1900-1965; 7 1/2 in.)","Addendum of 2011/03/21  includes papers of William Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Genealogy (1898-1948, undated), News Clippings (1898-1945, undated), Photographs (ca. 1860-1942, undated), Historical Narratives (1939, 1942), James R. Moreland Papers (1899-1945, undated), Joseph Moreland Papers (1898-1913, undated), Scrapbook (1897-1950), Miscellaneous (1868, undated), and Photo Album (ca. 1855-1875). (ca. 1855-1950; 1 ft. 7 in.)","The photo album (3 in. x 4 in. x 5 in.) contains 40 cartes de visite (CDVs) and 1 tintype.","Locations of photographers identified on the cards in the album include:  \nBaltimore, MD \nBrownsville, PA \nFrederick, MD \nIndiana, PA \nMorgantown, WV \nWheeling, WV","Some portraits in the album are identified. Names include:  \nDavis Bowens \nJane Bowens \nElisha M. Hagans \nAnnie Hagans \nReverend Martin (in Brownsville?)  \nMrs. Martin (in Brownsville?)  \nJohn Bowie \nEliza Bowie \nJames A. Brown (in Baltimore?)  \nJohn A. Dille (in Morgantown?)  \nRachel Boyce","Addendum of 2011/06/20  includes papers of William A. Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Historical Information; West Virginia University; 1924 Democratic National Convention; Ethel Finnicum Moreland; Morgantown African-American History; Brown Family Papers; Publications; Newspapers and News Clippings; Artifacts, Oversize; and Photographs. There is also unsorted material. (1824-1984; 4 ft. 9 in.)","Historical Information; 1877-1902; box 19. Contains short biographical sketches of Joseph Moreland and James R. Moreland, as well as a scrapbook and two legal documents related to the history of the Moreland family.","West Virginia University; 1869-1900; box 19. Includes records related to Joseph Moreland's term as a regent of the University (1882-1894), James R. Moreland's service with the University Cadet Corps (1896-1900), WVU's 28th annual commencement (1895-06-12), and other material.","1924 Democratic National Convention; 1924; box 19. Includes ephemera, such as an I.D. card, membership cards, a pass to Coney Island, etc. relating to Ethel Finnicum Moreland's travel to New York City as the West Virginia delegate to the Democratic National Convention.","Ethel Finnicum Moreland; 1901, 1920-1924; box 19. Papers of Ethel Finnicum Moreland, wife of James R. Moreland, including school records and material related to her political activities.","Morgantown African-American History; 1934-3-28; box 19. Includes a newspaper article concerning the death of William Stewart, a Morgantown resident and former slave. Stewart had worked for the Moreland family for nearly two decades. This series also includes an undated photograph of Stewart.","Brown Family Papers; 1824-1891; box 19. Papers of the Brown family of northern (West) Virginia, who were ancestors and relatives of the Morelands. Series contains legal documents and correspondence, including three letters (1854-1856) written from Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania.","Publications; 1860-1981; box 19. Contains pamphlets, programs, handbills, and other publications, including a program for a competition between the Columbian and Monongalian Literary Societies of the Monongalia Academy (1860), a handbill by Joseph Moreland addressed \"To the Voters of Monongalia County\"; (1869), and two copies of the program for the \"Sword Presentation to Captain F.E. Chadwick\" (1899), among other items.","Newspapers and News Clippings; 1875, 1890, 1984; boxes 19 and 22. Contains an issue of The Herald (Kingwood, WV) dated 1875-10-30; an issue of the Weekly Post (Morgantown, WV) dated 1875-11-6; an issue of The New Dominion dated 1890-5-17; a 1984 article about Joseph Moreland written by Earl L. Core; and various news clippings from unidentified sources.","Artifacts; ca. 1830s; box 19. Hair clippings of two Moreland ancestors, with identifications written by James R. Moreland.","Oversize; 1898-1901; box 20. Documents related to James R. Moreland's service with the West Virginia University Cadet Corp as well as his presence at the inauguration of President William McKinley","Photographs; ca. 1850-1980; boxes 21-24. Includes ambrotypes, tintypes, CDVs, card mounted prints, black and white prints, newspaper print blocks, and negatives. Subjects include individual and group portraits of Moreland family members and photographs relating to the professional activities of William A. Moreland, James R. Moreland, Joseph Moreland, and others. The majority of photographs are identified. Items of interest within this series include a hand-painted tintype, a group photograph of West Virginia University cadet officers, including James R. Moreland (ca. 1900), four cased and one uncased ambrotypes, and an engraved steel plate. Two of the ambrotypes are identified; one is labeled \"Aunt Mary McNab\" and the other Sarah Suter.","Unsorted material; ca. 1860-1970; boxes 25-26. Unsorted material contains papers of William Moreland, James R. Moreland, and Joseph Moreland, including genealogical information concerning the Moreland family; typescripts concerning West Virginia history and other subjects; personal and professional correspondence; newspapers and news clippings; and publications.","Addendum of 2014/06/12  papers and artifacts of the Moreland family. (ca. 1824-1950; 12 ft. 11 1/2 in.)","box 27; biography of Joseph Moreland by James Moreland","box 28; wooden stocking stretchers, bed warmer, spectacles (worn by Eleanor Brown Moreland), gravy boat (1824), and 2 Tiffany (steak) knifes","box 29; 2 (handmade) blankets that feature blue and white design","box 30; baby clothes (for William A. Moreland), white garments","box 31; \"Ruth's wedding gown, veil, slip\" (for wedding between Ruth Moreland and William A. Moreland)","box 32; a few photos, marriage license, matches, photo in frame of Ethel F. Moreland (1903), photo of Moreland home (ca. 1900-1910), WWII belt buckle, 2 small books published in Morgantown (1942), and other material","box 33; 3 quilts, 1 identified with creator (\"EBM\" or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 34; 2 WWII military jackets with slacks","box 35; purple dress with sash and hat (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 36; grey dress with belt, lilac dress, black beaded shawl (?), short white lace jacket","box 37; black Victorian dress (?) (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 38; 2 crayon portraits, 2 photos, prints, WWII scrapbook page","box 39; folded flag (that had been draped over coffin of William A. Moreland)","box 40; genealogy charts of the Moreland family","box 41; folder 1; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland and World War II subjects; ca. 1940s","box 41; folder 2; Newspaper clippings about Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) wrestling and sports (from cigarette tin); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 3; Cigarette tin; undated","box 41; folder 4; West Virginia University Corps of Cadets certificates and military papers (regarding William A. Moreland); ca. 1936-1939","box 41; folder 4; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Programs; 1937","box 41; folder 4; Photographs of students (group portraits); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 5; Photograph of woman, possibly Eleanor \"Nell\" Moreland; undated","box 41; folder 5; Letter from John Laird to Alex Smith and receipts concerning real estate of John Suter, 1819","box 41; folder 5; West Virginia University Commencement program; 1940","box 41; folder 5; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Program; 1937","box 41; folder 5; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletic letter; undated, ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 5; Honeymoon Isle, Florida postcard, other materials; ca. 1940","box 41; folder 6; Photographs of William A. Moreland, World War II airplanes, other subjects, ca. 1940s","box 41; folder 6; Photograph of Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) sports team (group portrait) including William A. Moreland; ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 6; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland, including group portrait of sports team","box 41; folder 7; William A. Moreland correspondence related to military reserves service; 1939-1940","box 41; folder 7; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletics program and materials; ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 7; National Collegiate Wrestling Championships Program; 1937","box 41; folder 7; Negative of building; ca. 1930s-1940s","box 41; folder 8; Postcards (12 items; non-West Virginia subjects; includes birthplace of William Jennings Bryan); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 9; Romeo and Juliet dance card from Dixie Ball (see box 43 for dance card pencils); 1940","box 41; folder 10; \"Morgantown Centennial with Addresses and Papers, 1795-1885\" (book); 1902","box 41; folder 11; \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: With Short Biographical Sketches of its Pastors, Missionaries, Ministers and Lay Leaders\" by James R. Moreland (book); 1938","box 42; folders 1-19; World War II era correspondence and letters of William A. Moreland (Includes letters written by William A. Moreland about his wartime service within the United States at Camp Perry, Ohio, Camp Harrison, Indiana, and others. Also includes Moreland's letters during his service in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Japan, mostly written to his wife Ruth. Also includes some letters written by Donald R. Roberts, Moreland's brother-in-law, from his wartime service in North Africa and Europe); 1938-1945","box 42; folder 20; German postcards from Donald R. Roberts (9 items); 1945","box 43; oversized; folder 1; The New Dominion Post, Illustrated Edition newspaper; undated","box 43; oversized; folder 2; Wizard of Oz movie premiere program from Grauman's Chinese Theater; 1939","box 43; oversized; folder 3; Pictorial History of XIV Corps during World War II; undated","box 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifact, West Virginia Football ribbon; undated","box 43, oversized, unfoldered; Artifact, Mercersburg Academy patch; undated, ca. 1930s","box 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifacts, Military buttons and insignia, dance card pencils (see box 41, folder 9 for dance card); undated, ca. 1930s-1940s","unboxed; large wooden clothes pin","unboxed; trunk with belts and WWII wooden desk signs inside","Addendum of 2016/07/27; ca. 1890-2008; boxes 44-45","box 44; unfoldered; political campaign materials and other material regarding William A. Moreland, including stickers, matchbooks, clippings, photographs, and artifacts including a WWII dog tag and lapel insignia; 1934-2008, undated","box 45; oversized; unfoldered; drawings of properties, some with oil and gas holdings marked, and housing developments in Monongalia County, as well as rubbings of headstones and notes regarding cemeteries; ca. 1890-1980 Addendum of 2017/05/22; 1933-1970; box 46 \nContains two scrapbooks of clippings documenting Moreland from 1933-1970.\n Addendum of 2017/10/06; 1899-1947; box 47 \nbox 47; unfoldered; scrapbook kept by James Moreland titled \"My Immediate Family\"; 1899-1947\n \nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown\"; 1902\n \nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Karux\", yearbook of the Mercerburg Academy; 1934\n \nbox 47; folder 1; Photographs previously attached to yearbook; ca. 1934\n \nbox 47; folder 2; Issue of \"The Mercersburg News\"; 1934","Books:","\nCallahan, James Morton. History of the Making of Morgantown, West Virginia. Morgantown, W. Va. [Morgantown Printing and Binding Co.], 1926.","\nLambert, Oscar Doane. West Virginia, Its People and Its Progress, Volume 2, Biographical. Charleston, West Virginia: Historical Record Association, [1958].","\nCallahan, James Morton, History of the Making of Morgantown, West Virginia","\nMorgantown (W. Va.), Committee of Arrangement. The Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown, 1785-100-1885: With Addresses and Papers. Morgantown, West Virginia: Committee of Arrangements, 1902.","\nWest Virginia University, Public History Option. Morgantown: A Bicentennial History. Morgantown, West Virginia: Monongalia Historical Society, 1985.","\nPeriodical:","\nWest Virginia Review Magazine, October, 1936.","\nFrom addendum 2011/06/20:","Bulletin No. 3 Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia . 1921.","Bulletin No. 7 Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia . Parkersburg, West Virginia: The School Printing Company, 1925.","\nHaymond, Henry.  Historical Reference to Prickett's Fort and its Defenders with Incidents of Border Warfare in the Monongahela Valley and Ceremonies at Unveiling of Monument Marking Site of Prickett's Fort, Erected in 1774, including Brief Sketches of Major William Haymond and the ancestors of the Morgan and Prickett Families .","History of Dunlap's Creek Academy . Brownsville, Pennsylvania: Press of the Clipper-Moniter, 1908.","\nLatimer, Ira S., John C. Ludlum, R.C. Tucker, and James C. Welden, editors.  West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey: Its Accomplishments and Outlook . Volume XXIII. 1963.","\nMoreland, James R.  The Early Cheat Mountain Iron Works . ca. 1940.","\nMoreland, James R.  The Early Cheat Mountain Iron Works . Morgantown, West Virginia: Monongalia Historical Society.","\nMoreland, James R.  The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia with Short Biographical Sketches of Its Pastors, Missionaries, Ministers, and Lay Leaders . Morgantown, West Virginia: First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, 1938.","\nMoreland, Joseph.  Morgantown, Its Practical Jokes; Its Thrice Told Tales; Legends, Ghost Stories, Exaggerations, Doings and Sayings, Marvelous and Incredible, Its Fun, Wit, Humor, \u0026c . Morgantown, West Virginia: New Dominion Steam Printing House, 1885. [two copies]","West Virginia Antiquities Commission Annual Report 1973 . 1973.","West Virginia Manual of the Legislature Session of 1915 . Charleston, West Virginia: Tribune Printing Co., 1915.","Woman's Edition of The New Dominion . Morgantown, West Virginia: The New Dominion, 1896.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Addendum of 2010/10/29 includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs. Addenda of 2011/03/21 and 2011/06/20 include papers of William Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. Addendum of 2014/06/12 includes some papers and many artifacts. Addendum of 2016/07/27 includes drawings of properties in Monongalia County and political campaign and other material. See \"Scope and Content Note\" for details.  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Hagans\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAnnie Hagans\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nReverend Martin (in Brownsville?) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMrs. Martin (in Brownsville?) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn Bowie\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEliza Bowie\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames A. Brown (in Baltimore?) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn A. Dille (in Morgantown?) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRachel Boyce\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2011/06/20\u003c/emph\u003e includes papers of William A. Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Historical Information; West Virginia University; 1924 Democratic National Convention; Ethel Finnicum Moreland; Morgantown African-American History; Brown Family Papers; Publications; Newspapers and News Clippings; Artifacts, Oversize; and Photographs. There is also unsorted material. (1824-1984; 4 ft. 9 in.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHistorical Information; 1877-1902; box 19. Contains short biographical sketches of Joseph Moreland and James R. Moreland, as well as a scrapbook and two legal documents related to the history of the Moreland family.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWest Virginia University; 1869-1900; box 19. Includes records related to Joseph Moreland's term as a regent of the University (1882-1894), James R. Moreland's service with the University Cadet Corps (1896-1900), WVU's 28th annual commencement (1895-06-12), and other material.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1924 Democratic National Convention; 1924; box 19. Includes ephemera, such as an I.D. card, membership cards, a pass to Coney Island, etc. relating to Ethel Finnicum Moreland's travel to New York City as the West Virginia delegate to the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEthel Finnicum Moreland; 1901, 1920-1924; box 19. Papers of Ethel Finnicum Moreland, wife of James R. Moreland, including school records and material related to her political activities.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMorgantown African-American History; 1934-3-28; box 19. Includes a newspaper article concerning the death of William Stewart, a Morgantown resident and former slave. Stewart had worked for the Moreland family for nearly two decades. This series also includes an undated photograph of Stewart.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBrown Family Papers; 1824-1891; box 19. Papers of the Brown family of northern (West) Virginia, who were ancestors and relatives of the Morelands. Series contains legal documents and correspondence, including three letters (1854-1856) written from Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePublications; 1860-1981; box 19. Contains pamphlets, programs, handbills, and other publications, including a program for a competition between the Columbian and Monongalian Literary Societies of the Monongalia Academy (1860), a handbill by Joseph Moreland addressed \"To the Voters of Monongalia County\"; (1869), and two copies of the program for the \"Sword Presentation to Captain F.E. Chadwick\" (1899), among other items.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers and News Clippings; 1875, 1890, 1984; boxes 19 and 22. Contains an issue of The Herald (Kingwood, WV) dated 1875-10-30; an issue of the Weekly Post (Morgantown, WV) dated 1875-11-6; an issue of The New Dominion dated 1890-5-17; a 1984 article about Joseph Moreland written by Earl L. Core; and various news clippings from unidentified sources.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eArtifacts; ca. 1830s; box 19. Hair clippings of two Moreland ancestors, with identifications written by James R. Moreland.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOversize; 1898-1901; box 20. Documents related to James R. Moreland's service with the West Virginia University Cadet Corp as well as his presence at the inauguration of President William McKinley\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs; ca. 1850-1980; boxes 21-24. Includes ambrotypes, tintypes, CDVs, card mounted prints, black and white prints, newspaper print blocks, and negatives. Subjects include individual and group portraits of Moreland family members and photographs relating to the professional activities of William A. Moreland, James R. Moreland, Joseph Moreland, and others. The majority of photographs are identified. Items of interest within this series include a hand-painted tintype, a group photograph of West Virginia University cadet officers, including James R. Moreland (ca. 1900), four cased and one uncased ambrotypes, and an engraved steel plate. Two of the ambrotypes are identified; one is labeled \"Aunt Mary McNab\" and the other Sarah Suter.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnsorted material; ca. 1860-1970; boxes 25-26. Unsorted material contains papers of William Moreland, James R. Moreland, and Joseph Moreland, including genealogical information concerning the Moreland family; typescripts concerning West Virginia history and other subjects; personal and professional correspondence; newspapers and news clippings; and publications.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2014/06/12\u003c/emph\u003e papers and artifacts of the Moreland family. (ca. 1824-1950; 12 ft. 11 1/2 in.)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 27; biography of Joseph Moreland by James Moreland\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 28; wooden stocking stretchers, bed warmer, spectacles (worn by Eleanor Brown Moreland), gravy boat (1824), and 2 Tiffany (steak) knifes\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 29; 2 (handmade) blankets that feature blue and white design\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 30; baby clothes (for William A. Moreland), white garments\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 31; \"Ruth's wedding gown, veil, slip\" (for wedding between Ruth Moreland and William A. Moreland)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 32; a few photos, marriage license, matches, photo in frame of Ethel F. Moreland (1903), photo of Moreland home (ca. 1900-1910), WWII belt buckle, 2 small books published in Morgantown (1942), and other material\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 33; 3 quilts, 1 identified with creator (\"EBM\" or Eleanor Brown Moreland)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 34; 2 WWII military jackets with slacks\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 35; purple dress with sash and hat (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 36; grey dress with belt, lilac dress, black beaded shawl (?), short white lace jacket\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 37; black Victorian dress (?) (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 38; 2 crayon portraits, 2 photos, prints, WWII scrapbook page\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 39; folded flag (that had been draped over coffin of William A. Moreland)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 40; genealogy charts of the Moreland family\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 1; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland and World War II subjects; ca. 1940s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 2; Newspaper clippings about Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) wrestling and sports (from cigarette tin); ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 3; Cigarette tin; undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 4; West Virginia University Corps of Cadets certificates and military papers (regarding William A. Moreland); ca. 1936-1939\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 4; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Programs; 1937\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 4; Photographs of students (group portraits); ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; Photograph of woman, possibly Eleanor \"Nell\" Moreland; undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; Letter from John Laird to Alex Smith and receipts concerning real estate of John Suter, 1819\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; West Virginia University Commencement program; 1940\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Program; 1937\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletic letter; undated, ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 5; Honeymoon Isle, Florida postcard, other materials; ca. 1940\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 6; Photographs of William A. Moreland, World War II airplanes, other subjects, ca. 1940s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 6; Photograph of Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) sports team (group portrait) including William A. Moreland; ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 6; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland, including group portrait of sports team\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 7; William A. Moreland correspondence related to military reserves service; 1939-1940\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 7; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletics program and materials; ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 7; National Collegiate Wrestling Championships Program; 1937\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 7; Negative of building; ca. 1930s-1940s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 8; Postcards (12 items; non-West Virginia subjects; includes birthplace of William Jennings Bryan); ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 9; Romeo and Juliet dance card from Dixie Ball (see box 43 for dance card pencils); 1940\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 10; \"Morgantown Centennial with Addresses and Papers, 1795-1885\" (book); 1902\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 41; folder 11; \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: With Short Biographical Sketches of its Pastors, Missionaries, Ministers and Lay Leaders\" by James R. Moreland (book); 1938\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 42; folders 1-19; World War II era correspondence and letters of William A. Moreland (Includes letters written by William A. Moreland about his wartime service within the United States at Camp Perry, Ohio, Camp Harrison, Indiana, and others. Also includes Moreland's letters during his service in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Japan, mostly written to his wife Ruth. Also includes some letters written by Donald R. Roberts, Moreland's brother-in-law, from his wartime service in North Africa and Europe); 1938-1945\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 42; folder 20; German postcards from Donald R. Roberts (9 items); 1945\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43; oversized; folder 1; The New Dominion Post, Illustrated Edition newspaper; undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43; oversized; folder 2; Wizard of Oz movie premiere program from Grauman's Chinese Theater; 1939\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43; oversized; folder 3; Pictorial History of XIV Corps during World War II; undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifact, West Virginia Football ribbon; undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43, oversized, unfoldered; Artifact, Mercersburg Academy patch; undated, ca. 1930s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifacts, Military buttons and insignia, dance card pencils (see box 41, folder 9 for dance card); undated, ca. 1930s-1940s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eunboxed; large wooden clothes pin\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eunboxed; trunk with belts and WWII wooden desk signs inside\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2016/07/27; ca. 1890-2008; boxes 44-45\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 44; unfoldered; political campaign materials and other material regarding William A. Moreland, including stickers, matchbooks, clippings, photographs, and artifacts including a WWII dog tag and lapel insignia; 1934-2008, undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ebox 45; oversized; unfoldered; drawings of properties, some with oil and gas holdings marked, and housing developments in Monongalia County, as well as rubbings of headstones and notes regarding cemeteries; ca. 1890-1980\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2017/05/22; 1933-1970; box 46\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nContains two scrapbooks of clippings documenting Moreland from 1933-1970.\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddendum of 2017/10/06; 1899-1947; box 47\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbox 47; unfoldered; scrapbook kept by James Moreland titled \"My Immediate Family\"; 1899-1947\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown\"; 1902\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Karux\", yearbook of the Mercerburg Academy; 1934\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbox 47; folder 1; Photographs previously attached to yearbook; ca. 1934\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbox 47; folder 2; Issue of \"The Mercersburg News\"; 1934\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Also includes material documenting his WWII service, including transporting troops by train on the home front, and service in Japan and the Philippines. The collection includes photographs and certificates from various organizations received during his career.","Addendum of 2010/10/29  includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs (including photos of his father, James Moreland). (ca. 1900-1965; 7 1/2 in.)","Addendum of 2011/03/21  includes papers of William Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Genealogy (1898-1948, undated), News Clippings (1898-1945, undated), Photographs (ca. 1860-1942, undated), Historical Narratives (1939, 1942), James R. Moreland Papers (1899-1945, undated), Joseph Moreland Papers (1898-1913, undated), Scrapbook (1897-1950), Miscellaneous (1868, undated), and Photo Album (ca. 1855-1875). (ca. 1855-1950; 1 ft. 7 in.)","The photo album (3 in. x 4 in. x 5 in.) contains 40 cartes de visite (CDVs) and 1 tintype.","Locations of photographers identified on the cards in the album include:  \nBaltimore, MD \nBrownsville, PA \nFrederick, MD \nIndiana, PA \nMorgantown, WV \nWheeling, WV","Some portraits in the album are identified. Names include:  \nDavis Bowens \nJane Bowens \nElisha M. Hagans \nAnnie Hagans \nReverend Martin (in Brownsville?)  \nMrs. Martin (in Brownsville?)  \nJohn Bowie \nEliza Bowie \nJames A. Brown (in Baltimore?)  \nJohn A. Dille (in Morgantown?)  \nRachel Boyce","Addendum of 2011/06/20  includes papers of William A. Moreland, and papers of his father and grandfather, James R. Moreland and Joseph Moreland. There are series of Historical Information; West Virginia University; 1924 Democratic National Convention; Ethel Finnicum Moreland; Morgantown African-American History; Brown Family Papers; Publications; Newspapers and News Clippings; Artifacts, Oversize; and Photographs. There is also unsorted material. (1824-1984; 4 ft. 9 in.)","Historical Information; 1877-1902; box 19. Contains short biographical sketches of Joseph Moreland and James R. Moreland, as well as a scrapbook and two legal documents related to the history of the Moreland family.","West Virginia University; 1869-1900; box 19. Includes records related to Joseph Moreland's term as a regent of the University (1882-1894), James R. Moreland's service with the University Cadet Corps (1896-1900), WVU's 28th annual commencement (1895-06-12), and other material.","1924 Democratic National Convention; 1924; box 19. Includes ephemera, such as an I.D. card, membership cards, a pass to Coney Island, etc. relating to Ethel Finnicum Moreland's travel to New York City as the West Virginia delegate to the Democratic National Convention.","Ethel Finnicum Moreland; 1901, 1920-1924; box 19. Papers of Ethel Finnicum Moreland, wife of James R. Moreland, including school records and material related to her political activities.","Morgantown African-American History; 1934-3-28; box 19. Includes a newspaper article concerning the death of William Stewart, a Morgantown resident and former slave. Stewart had worked for the Moreland family for nearly two decades. This series also includes an undated photograph of Stewart.","Brown Family Papers; 1824-1891; box 19. Papers of the Brown family of northern (West) Virginia, who were ancestors and relatives of the Morelands. Series contains legal documents and correspondence, including three letters (1854-1856) written from Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania.","Publications; 1860-1981; box 19. Contains pamphlets, programs, handbills, and other publications, including a program for a competition between the Columbian and Monongalian Literary Societies of the Monongalia Academy (1860), a handbill by Joseph Moreland addressed \"To the Voters of Monongalia County\"; (1869), and two copies of the program for the \"Sword Presentation to Captain F.E. Chadwick\" (1899), among other items.","Newspapers and News Clippings; 1875, 1890, 1984; boxes 19 and 22. Contains an issue of The Herald (Kingwood, WV) dated 1875-10-30; an issue of the Weekly Post (Morgantown, WV) dated 1875-11-6; an issue of The New Dominion dated 1890-5-17; a 1984 article about Joseph Moreland written by Earl L. Core; and various news clippings from unidentified sources.","Artifacts; ca. 1830s; box 19. Hair clippings of two Moreland ancestors, with identifications written by James R. Moreland.","Oversize; 1898-1901; box 20. Documents related to James R. Moreland's service with the West Virginia University Cadet Corp as well as his presence at the inauguration of President William McKinley","Photographs; ca. 1850-1980; boxes 21-24. Includes ambrotypes, tintypes, CDVs, card mounted prints, black and white prints, newspaper print blocks, and negatives. Subjects include individual and group portraits of Moreland family members and photographs relating to the professional activities of William A. Moreland, James R. Moreland, Joseph Moreland, and others. The majority of photographs are identified. Items of interest within this series include a hand-painted tintype, a group photograph of West Virginia University cadet officers, including James R. Moreland (ca. 1900), four cased and one uncased ambrotypes, and an engraved steel plate. Two of the ambrotypes are identified; one is labeled \"Aunt Mary McNab\" and the other Sarah Suter.","Unsorted material; ca. 1860-1970; boxes 25-26. Unsorted material contains papers of William Moreland, James R. Moreland, and Joseph Moreland, including genealogical information concerning the Moreland family; typescripts concerning West Virginia history and other subjects; personal and professional correspondence; newspapers and news clippings; and publications.","Addendum of 2014/06/12  papers and artifacts of the Moreland family. (ca. 1824-1950; 12 ft. 11 1/2 in.)","box 27; biography of Joseph Moreland by James Moreland","box 28; wooden stocking stretchers, bed warmer, spectacles (worn by Eleanor Brown Moreland), gravy boat (1824), and 2 Tiffany (steak) knifes","box 29; 2 (handmade) blankets that feature blue and white design","box 30; baby clothes (for William A. Moreland), white garments","box 31; \"Ruth's wedding gown, veil, slip\" (for wedding between Ruth Moreland and William A. Moreland)","box 32; a few photos, marriage license, matches, photo in frame of Ethel F. Moreland (1903), photo of Moreland home (ca. 1900-1910), WWII belt buckle, 2 small books published in Morgantown (1942), and other material","box 33; 3 quilts, 1 identified with creator (\"EBM\" or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 34; 2 WWII military jackets with slacks","box 35; purple dress with sash and hat (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 36; grey dress with belt, lilac dress, black beaded shawl (?), short white lace jacket","box 37; black Victorian dress (?) (EBM? or Eleanor Brown Moreland)","box 38; 2 crayon portraits, 2 photos, prints, WWII scrapbook page","box 39; folded flag (that had been draped over coffin of William A. Moreland)","box 40; genealogy charts of the Moreland family","box 41; folder 1; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland and World War II subjects; ca. 1940s","box 41; folder 2; Newspaper clippings about Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) wrestling and sports (from cigarette tin); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 3; Cigarette tin; undated","box 41; folder 4; West Virginia University Corps of Cadets certificates and military papers (regarding William A. Moreland); ca. 1936-1939","box 41; folder 4; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Programs; 1937","box 41; folder 4; Photographs of students (group portraits); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 5; Photograph of woman, possibly Eleanor \"Nell\" Moreland; undated","box 41; folder 5; Letter from John Laird to Alex Smith and receipts concerning real estate of John Suter, 1819","box 41; folder 5; West Virginia University Commencement program; 1940","box 41; folder 5; National Collegiate Wrestling Championship Program; 1937","box 41; folder 5; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletic letter; undated, ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 5; Honeymoon Isle, Florida postcard, other materials; ca. 1940","box 41; folder 6; Photographs of William A. Moreland, World War II airplanes, other subjects, ca. 1940s","box 41; folder 6; Photograph of Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) sports team (group portrait) including William A. Moreland; ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 6; Photographs and negatives of William A. Moreland, including group portrait of sports team","box 41; folder 7; William A. Moreland correspondence related to military reserves service; 1939-1940","box 41; folder 7; Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania) athletics program and materials; ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 7; National Collegiate Wrestling Championships Program; 1937","box 41; folder 7; Negative of building; ca. 1930s-1940s","box 41; folder 8; Postcards (12 items; non-West Virginia subjects; includes birthplace of William Jennings Bryan); ca. 1930s","box 41; folder 9; Romeo and Juliet dance card from Dixie Ball (see box 43 for dance card pencils); 1940","box 41; folder 10; \"Morgantown Centennial with Addresses and Papers, 1795-1885\" (book); 1902","box 41; folder 11; \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: With Short Biographical Sketches of its Pastors, Missionaries, Ministers and Lay Leaders\" by James R. Moreland (book); 1938","box 42; folders 1-19; World War II era correspondence and letters of William A. Moreland (Includes letters written by William A. Moreland about his wartime service within the United States at Camp Perry, Ohio, Camp Harrison, Indiana, and others. Also includes Moreland's letters during his service in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Japan, mostly written to his wife Ruth. Also includes some letters written by Donald R. Roberts, Moreland's brother-in-law, from his wartime service in North Africa and Europe); 1938-1945","box 42; folder 20; German postcards from Donald R. Roberts (9 items); 1945","box 43; oversized; folder 1; The New Dominion Post, Illustrated Edition newspaper; undated","box 43; oversized; folder 2; Wizard of Oz movie premiere program from Grauman's Chinese Theater; 1939","box 43; oversized; folder 3; Pictorial History of XIV Corps during World War II; undated","box 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifact, West Virginia Football ribbon; undated","box 43, oversized, unfoldered; Artifact, Mercersburg Academy patch; undated, ca. 1930s","box 43; oversized; unfoldered; Artifacts, Military buttons and insignia, dance card pencils (see box 41, folder 9 for dance card); undated, ca. 1930s-1940s","unboxed; large wooden clothes pin","unboxed; trunk with belts and WWII wooden desk signs inside","Addendum of 2016/07/27; ca. 1890-2008; boxes 44-45","box 44; unfoldered; political campaign materials and other material regarding William A. Moreland, including stickers, matchbooks, clippings, photographs, and artifacts including a WWII dog tag and lapel insignia; 1934-2008, undated","box 45; oversized; unfoldered; drawings of properties, some with oil and gas holdings marked, and housing developments in Monongalia County, as well as rubbings of headstones and notes regarding cemeteries; ca. 1890-1980 Addendum of 2017/05/22; 1933-1970; box 46 \nContains two scrapbooks of clippings documenting Moreland from 1933-1970.\n Addendum of 2017/10/06; 1899-1947; box 47 \nbox 47; unfoldered; scrapbook kept by James Moreland titled \"My Immediate Family\"; 1899-1947\n \nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown\"; 1902\n \nbox 47; unfoldered; William Moreland's copy of \"The Karux\", yearbook of the Mercerburg Academy; 1934\n \nbox 47; folder 1; Photographs previously attached to yearbook; ca. 1934\n \nbox 47; folder 2; Issue of \"The Mercersburg News\"; 1934"],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBooks:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCallahan, James Morton. 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