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Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. 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He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Fairmont, Marion County, (West) Virginia, in 1842. One of the clients he represented was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He also started a coal mine on family property in 1854 and entered into a partnership with coal pioneer James Otis Watson. During the 1840s and 1850s, he became interested in politics, joined the Whig Party, and opposed slavery. He participated in the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861. Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.","Julia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). Anna married William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter (1858-1939) in 1886.","Note that Francis Harrison spelled his surname \"Peirpoint\" until 1881, when he changed the spelling to \"Pierpont,\" the form which is now used by historians. See Charles Ambler's  Francis H. Pierpont  for further details.","The article entitled \"The Lincoln Reminiscence Manuscript in the Francis Harrison Pierpont Papers\" authored by Michael R. Ridderbusch references pencil draft 1, pencil draft 2, ink draft, and final draft.  These are located in box 4.","pencil draft 1, folder 13a, item 04-057 \npencil draft 2, folder 14, item 04-059 \nink draft, folder 16, item 04-061 \nfinal draft, folder 18a, item 04-062.5a","9, 113, 418, 419, 420, 497, 526, 559, 4171","Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6. \nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18. \nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3. \nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7. \nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8. \nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9. \nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2. \nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13. \nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16. \nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9. \nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13. \nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.  This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","Series 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.  This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","Series 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.  This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.","Series 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.  This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Series 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.  This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","Series 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.  This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.","Series 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.  This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","Series 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.  This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","Series 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16.  This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the  Derrick  (Oil City, PA),  Puck , and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter,  The Family Visitor ; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","Series 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.  This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","Series 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.  This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","Series 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.  This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln."," Descriptive System for Series 4:","Folder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date"," Item Description includes: "," 1) Original or transcript; "," 2) Title of item; "," 3) Number of leaves; "," 4) Complete or fragment; "," 5) Description of item; "," 6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location; "," 7) Condition of item.","This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others."," Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website (https://civilwarwv.lib.wvu.edu/).","This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the  Derrick  (Oil City, PA),  Puck , and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter,  The Family Visitor ; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","Items transferred to Pamphlets:","\nP0585: Regulations and List of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society..., 1869.","\nP2013: Catalogue of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879.","\nP6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883.","\nNo number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886.","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 Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For civil war telegrams related to this collection, go to wvhistory.org.","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","Grand Army of the Republic","Society of the Army of West Virginia","Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899","Ambler, Charles Henry,  1876-1957","Battelle, Gordon.","Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896","Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893","Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889","Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899.","Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878","Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885","Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900","Dayton, Spencer","Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920","Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906","Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901.","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865","McClellan, George B. 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"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFrancis Harrison Pierpont was born in Monongalia County, (West) Virginia on January 25, 1814, the son of Francis and Catherine Weaver Pierpont. He married Julia Augusta Robertson (July 26, 1828 - March 25, 1886) on December 26, 1854. He graduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and began teaching in Mississippi and then (West) Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Fairmont, Marion County, (West) Virginia, in 1842. One of the clients he represented was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He also started a coal mine on family property in 1854 and entered into a partnership with coal pioneer James Otis Watson. During the 1840s and 1850s, he became interested in politics, joined the Whig Party, and opposed slavery. He participated in the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861. Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJulia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). Anna married William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter (1858-1939) in 1886.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNote that Francis Harrison spelled his surname \"Peirpoint\" until 1881, when he changed the spelling to \"Pierpont,\" the form which is now used by historians. See Charles Ambler's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eFrancis H. Pierpont\u003c/emph\u003e for further details.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Francis Harrison Pierpont was born in Monongalia County, (West) Virginia on January 25, 1814, the son of Francis and Catherine Weaver Pierpont. He married Julia Augusta Robertson (July 26, 1828 - March 25, 1886) on December 26, 1854. He graduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and began teaching in Mississippi and then (West) Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Fairmont, Marion County, (West) Virginia, in 1842. One of the clients he represented was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He also started a coal mine on family property in 1854 and entered into a partnership with coal pioneer James Otis Watson. During the 1840s and 1850s, he became interested in politics, joined the Whig Party, and opposed slavery. He participated in the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861. Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.","Julia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). Anna married William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter (1858-1939) in 1886.","Note that Francis Harrison spelled his surname \"Peirpoint\" until 1881, when he changed the spelling to \"Pierpont,\" the form which is now used by historians. See Charles Ambler's  Francis H. Pierpont  for further details."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe article entitled \"The Lincoln Reminiscence Manuscript in the Francis Harrison Pierpont Papers\" authored by Michael R. Ridderbusch references pencil draft 1, pencil draft 2, ink draft, and final draft.  These are located in box 4.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epencil draft 1, folder 13a, item 04-057\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\npencil draft 2, folder 14, item 04-059\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nink draft, folder 16, item 04-061\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nfinal draft, folder 18a, item 04-062.5a\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["The article entitled \"The Lincoln Reminiscence Manuscript in the Francis Harrison Pierpont Papers\" authored by Michael R. Ridderbusch references pencil draft 1, pencil draft 2, ink draft, and final draft.  These are located in box 4.","pencil draft 1, folder 13a, item 04-057 \npencil draft 2, folder 14, item 04-059 \nink draft, folder 16, item 04-061 \nfinal draft, folder 18a, item 04-062.5a"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers, A\u0026amp;M 0009, 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], Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers, A\u0026M 0009, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e9, 113, 418, 419, 420, 497, 526, 559, 4171\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related A\u0026M Collections"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["9, 113, 418, 419, 420, 497, 526, 559, 4171"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\u003c/emph\u003e This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\u003c/emph\u003e This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\u003c/emph\u003e This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDerrick \u003c/emph\u003e(Oil City, PA), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePuck\u003c/emph\u003e, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Family Visitor\u003c/emph\u003e; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\u003c/emph\u003e This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Descriptive System for Series 4:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFolder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Item Description includes: \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 1) Original or transcript; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 2) Title of item; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 3) Number of leaves; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 4) Complete or fragment; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 5) Description of item; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 7) Condition of item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website (https://civilwarwv.lib.wvu.edu/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDerrick\u003c/emph\u003e (Oil City, PA), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePuck\u003c/emph\u003e, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Family Visitor\u003c/emph\u003e; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.\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"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6. \nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18. \nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3. \nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7. \nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8. \nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9. \nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2. \nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13. \nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16. \nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9. \nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13. \nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.  This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","Series 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.  This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","Series 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.  This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.","Series 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.  This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Series 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.  This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","Series 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.  This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.","Series 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.  This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","Series 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.  This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","Series 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16.  This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the  Derrick  (Oil City, PA),  Puck , and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter,  The Family Visitor ; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","Series 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.  This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","Series 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.  This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","Series 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.  This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln."," Descriptive System for Series 4:","Folder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date"," Item Description includes: "," 1) Original or transcript; "," 2) Title of item; "," 3) Number of leaves; "," 4) Complete or fragment; "," 5) Description of item; "," 6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location; "," 7) Condition of item.","This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others."," Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website (https://civilwarwv.lib.wvu.edu/).","This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the  Derrick  (Oil City, PA),  Puck , and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter,  The Family Visitor ; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eItems transferred to Pamphlets:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nP0585: Regulations and List of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society..., 1869.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nP2013: Catalogue of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nP6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nNo number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Items transferred to Pamphlets:","\nP0585: Regulations and List of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society..., 1869.","\nP2013: Catalogue of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879.","\nP6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883.","\nNo number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886."],"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_83497f699f73bc58c1cdff09fc41122f\"\u003ePapers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For civil war telegrams related to this collection, go to wvhistory.org.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For civil war telegrams related to this collection, go to wvhistory.org."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_9041a843e76829e94338dabe45bca976\"\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. 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Va.)","United States -- Politics and government","Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County","Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)","Women's history -- 1800-1849","Women's history -- 1850-1899","Politicians -- United States","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or 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. ","Francis Harrison Pierpont was born in Monongalia County, (West) Virginia on January 25, 1814, the son of Francis and Catherine Weaver Pierpont. He married Julia Augusta Robertson (July 26, 1828 - March 25, 1886) on December 26, 1854. He graduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and began teaching in Mississippi and then (West) Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Fairmont, Marion County, (West) Virginia, in 1842. One of the clients he represented was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He also started a coal mine on family property in 1854 and entered into a partnership with coal pioneer James Otis Watson. During the 1840s and 1850s, he became interested in politics, joined the Whig Party, and opposed slavery. He participated in the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861. Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.","Julia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). Anna married William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter (1858-1939) in 1886.","Note that Francis Harrison spelled his surname \"Peirpoint\" until 1881, when he changed the spelling to \"Pierpont,\" the form which is now used by historians. See Charles Ambler's  Francis H. Pierpont  for further details.","The article entitled \"The Lincoln Reminiscence Manuscript in the Francis Harrison Pierpont Papers\" authored by Michael R. Ridderbusch references pencil draft 1, pencil draft 2, ink draft, and final draft.  These are located in box 4.","pencil draft 1, folder 13a, item 04-057 \npencil draft 2, folder 14, item 04-059 \nink draft, folder 16, item 04-061 \nfinal draft, folder 18a, item 04-062.5a","9, 113, 418, 419, 420, 497, 526, 559, 4171","Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6. \nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18. \nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3. \nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7. \nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8. \nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9. \nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2. \nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13. \nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16. \nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9. \nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13. \nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.  This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","Series 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.  This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","Series 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.  This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.","Series 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.  This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Series 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.  This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","Series 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.  This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.","Series 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.  This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","Series 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.  This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","Series 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16.  This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the  Derrick  (Oil City, PA),  Puck , and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter,  The Family Visitor ; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","Series 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.  This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","Series 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.  This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","Series 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.  This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln."," Descriptive System for Series 4:","Folder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date"," Item Description includes: "," 1) Original or transcript; "," 2) Title of item; "," 3) Number of leaves; "," 4) Complete or fragment; "," 5) Description of item; "," 6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location; "," 7) Condition of item.","This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others."," Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website (https://civilwarwv.lib.wvu.edu/).","This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the  Derrick  (Oil City, PA),  Puck , and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter,  The Family Visitor ; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","Items transferred to Pamphlets:","\nP0585: Regulations and List of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society..., 1869.","\nP2013: Catalogue of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879.","\nP6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883.","\nNo number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886.","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 Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For civil war telegrams related to this collection, go to wvhistory.org.","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","Grand Army of the Republic","Society of the Army of West Virginia","Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899","Ambler, Charles Henry,  1876-1957","Battelle, Gordon.","Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896","Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893","Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889","Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899.","Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878","Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885","Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900","Dayton, Spencer","Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920","Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906","Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901.","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865","McClellan, George B. 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Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJulia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). 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He also started a coal mine on family property in 1854 and entered into a partnership with coal pioneer James Otis Watson. During the 1840s and 1850s, he became interested in politics, joined the Whig Party, and opposed slavery. He participated in the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861. Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. 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Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\u003c/emph\u003e This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\u003c/emph\u003e This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\u003c/emph\u003e This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDerrick \u003c/emph\u003e(Oil City, PA), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePuck\u003c/emph\u003e, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Family Visitor\u003c/emph\u003e; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\u003c/emph\u003e This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Descriptive System for Series 4:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFolder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Item Description includes: \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 1) Original or transcript; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 2) Title of item; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 3) Number of leaves; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 4) Complete or fragment; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 5) Description of item; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location; \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 7) Condition of item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website (https://civilwarwv.lib.wvu.edu/).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDerrick\u003c/emph\u003e (Oil City, PA), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePuck\u003c/emph\u003e, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Family Visitor\u003c/emph\u003e; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.\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"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6. \nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18. \nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3. \nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7. \nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8. \nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9. \nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2. \nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13. \nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16. \nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9. \nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13. \nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.  This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","Series 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.  This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","Series 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.  This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.","Series 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.  This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Series 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.  This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","Series 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.  This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.","Series 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.  This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","Series 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.  This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","Series 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16.  This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the  Derrick  (Oil City, PA),  Puck , and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter,  The Family Visitor ; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","Series 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.  This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","Series 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.  This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","Series 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.  This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln."," Descriptive System for Series 4:","Folder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date"," Item Description includes: "," 1) Original or transcript; "," 2) Title of item; "," 3) Number of leaves; "," 4) Complete or fragment; "," 5) Description of item; "," 6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location; "," 7) Condition of item.","This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others."," Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website (https://civilwarwv.lib.wvu.edu/).","This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the  Derrick  (Oil City, PA),  Puck , and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter,  The Family Visitor ; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. 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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_83497f699f73bc58c1cdff09fc41122f\"\u003ePapers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. 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Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For civil war telegrams related to this collection, go to wvhistory.org."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_9041a843e76829e94338dabe45bca976\"\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. 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Includes the papers of Nathan Goff III, grandson of Nathan Goff Jr. (1843-1920), as well as his daughter Laura Ellen Goff Fireman (later Davis). Also includes correspondence of Howard Caplan, the Administrator of the Estate of Nathan Goff III, and H. Dotson Cather, the brother-in-law of Mrs. Goff Fireman Davis who may have been involved in Goff's estate. Formats in the collection include correspondence, ephemera, programs, invitations, plats, photographs, clippings, and much more. Nathan Goff's correspondence includes mostly business but also some family and personal correspondence. Correspondence includes both incoming and typescript copies of outgoing letters, as well as a few cards and telegrams. 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He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Dolly Hancher Hall, originally from Wheeling, and by two sons.","Adapted from articles in Wikipedia and the West Virginia Encyclopedia, as well as his obituary in the  Wheeling Intelligencer  and a roadside marker near Shinnston, West Virginia.","Correspondence and writings of Granville Davisson Hall, reporter for the Wheeling  Intelligencer  during the Wheeling conventions, 1861-1863; secretary of state of West Virginia, 1865-1873; and author of numerous works of fiction and historical studies about West Virginia. Includes correspondence (1861-1947, undated), mainly regarding personal matters, the early statehood period, and Civil War activities in West Virginia; and typescript copies and drafts of numerous articles by Hall (some of which were published) on topics including West Virginia statehood, the U.S. Constitution and government, and other historical subjects (ca. 1896-1925, undated). 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He was also an editior and writer for that newspaper.  Hall served as the Secretary of State of West Virginia, 1865-1867, and as the private secretary of the first governor, Arthur Boreman. After the Civil War, Hall became involved in the railroad industry in Kentucky and eventually became President of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.  Later he moved to Glencoe, Illinois where he continued writing and served as the village clerk. He died there at the age of 96. 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Includes correspondence (1861-1947, undated), mainly regarding personal matters, the early statehood period, and Civil War activities in West Virginia; and typescript copies and drafts of numerous articles by Hall (some of which were published) on topics including West Virginia statehood, the U.S. Constitution and government, and other historical subjects (ca. 1896-1925, undated). Also includes miscellaneous typescript articles, newspaper clippings, and memoranda regarding politics and history (1863-1928, undated); and miscellaneous printed material from the First Constitutional Convention of West Virginia (1861-1863). The majority of the correspondence and miscellaneous material post-dates statehood.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1. Correspondence; 1861-1947, undated; box 1.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Writings by G.D. Hall; ca. 1896-1925, undated; box 2, folders 1-47.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Miscellaneous; 1863-1928, undated; box 2, folder 48 - box 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Printed Material; 1861-1863; box 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence (1861-1947, undated), mainly regarding personal matters, the early statehood period, and Civil War activities in West Virginia. The majority of the correspondence post-dates statehood. Correspondents include: William E. Borah, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Roy B. Cook, William M.O. Dawson, Charles J. Faulkner, A.B. Fleming, Nathan Goff, Henry Haymond, C.D. Hubbard, Dana L. Hubbard, William P. Hubbard, Flora Farnsworth Leonard, R.S. Northcott, Anna Pierpont Siviter, W.E. Stevenson, Joseph P. Tumulty, and W.T. Willey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes typescript copies and drafts of numerous articles by Hall, some of which were published. Article topics include West Virginia statehood (\"How the W.Va. 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Includes correspondence (1861-1947, undated), mainly regarding personal matters, the early statehood period, and Civil War activities in West Virginia; and typescript copies and drafts of numerous articles by Hall (some of which were published) on topics including West Virginia statehood, the U.S. Constitution and government, and other historical subjects (ca. 1896-1925, undated). Also includes miscellaneous typescript articles, newspaper clippings, and memoranda regarding politics and history (1863-1928, undated); and miscellaneous printed material from the First Constitutional Convention of West Virginia (1861-1863). The majority of the correspondence and miscellaneous material post-dates statehood.","Series include: \nSeries 1. Correspondence; 1861-1947, undated; box 1. \nSeries 2. Writings by G.D. Hall; ca. 1896-1925, undated; box 2, folders 1-47. \nSeries 3. Miscellaneous; 1863-1928, undated; box 2, folder 48 - box 3. \nSeries 4. Printed Material; 1861-1863; box 4.","This series includes correspondence (1861-1947, undated), mainly regarding personal matters, the early statehood period, and Civil War activities in West Virginia. The majority of the correspondence post-dates statehood. Correspondents include: William E. Borah, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Roy B. Cook, William M.O. Dawson, Charles J. Faulkner, A.B. Fleming, Nathan Goff, Henry Haymond, C.D. Hubbard, Dana L. Hubbard, William P. Hubbard, Flora Farnsworth Leonard, R.S. Northcott, Anna Pierpont Siviter, W.E. Stevenson, Joseph P. Tumulty, and W.T. Willey.","This series includes typescript copies and drafts of numerous articles by Hall, some of which were published. Article topics include West Virginia statehood (\"How the W.Va. Convention Tried to Conserve Slavery\"), the U.S. Constitution and government (\"The Failure of the 14th Amendment\"), and other historical subjects (\"Church's Life of Cromwell\").","This series includes printed material, typescripts and drafts of articles, newspaper clippings, memoranda, ephemera, and pamphlets. Subjects include the early statehood movement in West Virginia, Virginia and West Virginia history, general American history and politics, G.D. Hall and his books, and other topics.","This series includes miscellaneous printed material from the First Constitutional Convention of West Virginia (1861-1863)."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePamphlet titled \"Ordinances of the Convention Assembled at Wheeling, on the 11th of June, 1861,\" printed by authority of the Convention, Wheeling, Va., 1861, will be bound and added to main WVHRC stacks. 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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_1c50e4612caf4431d12f611e3e968352\"\u003eCorrespondence and writings of Granville Davisson Hall, reporter for the Wheeling \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eIntelligencer \u003c/emph\u003eduring the Wheeling conventions, 1861-1863; secretary of state of West Virginia, 1865-1873; and author of numerous works of fiction and historical studies about West Virginia.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Correspondence and writings of Granville Davisson Hall, reporter for the Wheeling  Intelligencer  during the Wheeling conventions, 1861-1863; secretary of state of West Virginia, 1865-1873; and author of numerous works of fiction and historical studies about West Virginia."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_96a45b8eaa6062179eca9d5dba33345b\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Alderson, Jonathan M. Bennett, Gideon D. Camden, John S. Carlile, William E. Chilton, John J. Cornwell, Grover Cleveland, Henry G. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., A.B. Fleming, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, Arthur I. Boreman, C.W. Harkness, E.S. Harkness, N.W. Harkness, Abram S. Hewitt, C.P. Huntington, John E. Kenna, James M. Mason II, John T. McGraw, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, H.H. Rogers, William P. Thompson, Clarence W. Watson, William C. Whitney, William L. Wilson, and Henry A. Wise.","Contents List:","Box 1; General Correspondence; 1840 - 1884/04","Box 2; General Correspondence; 1884/05 - 1885/10","Box 3; General Correspondence; 1885/11 - 1886","Box 4; General Correspondence; 1887/ - 1888/05","Box 5; General Correspondence; 1888/06 - 1889/07","Box 6; General Correspondence; 1889/08 - 1890/12","Box 7; General Correspondence; 1890/07 - 1890/12","Box 8; General Correspondence; 1891/01 - 1891/10/15","Box 9; General Correspondence; 1891/10/17 - 1892/10/20","Box 10; General Correspondence; 1892/10/21 - 1893/04","Box 11; General Correspondence; 1893/05 - 1894/07","Box 12; General Correspondence; 1894/08 - 1895/09","Box 13; General Correspondence; 1895/10 - 1897","Box 14; General Correspondence; 1898 - 1899/06","Box 15; General Correspondence; 1899/07 - 1900/02","Box 16; General Correspondence; 1900/03 - 1900/11","Box 17; General Correspondence; 1900/12 - 1901/06","Box 18; General Correspondence; 1901/07 - 1901/12","Box 19; General Correspondence; 1902/01 - 1902/09","Box 20; General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04","Box 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09","Box 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05","Box 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02","Box 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09","Box 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04","Box 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11","Box 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11","Box 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated","Box 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885","Box 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892","Box 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893","Box 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894","Box 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894","Box 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902","Box 33; Political Applications; undated","Box 33; Miscellaneous; undated","Box 33; Politics; 1888/03/04 - 1908/03/04","Box 34; Politics: A-R; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: S-Z; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: A-Z (contains Kenna letter, 1888); 1887 - 1890","Box 35; Politics: A-E; 1891 - 1893","Box 36; Politics: F-Z; 1891 - 1892","Box 36; Politics; 1893","Box 36; Politics: A-B; 1894","Box 37; Politics: C-N; 1894","Box 38; Politics: O-Z; 1894","Box 38; Politics; 1895 - 1902","Box 39; Railroads; 1883 - 1888","Box 40; Railroads; 1886 - 1901","Box 41; Railroads; 1879/08/19 - 1906/11/12","Box 42; Railroads; 1889","Box 42; Railroads: A-K; 1890","Box 43; Railroads: L-Z; 1890","Box 43; Railroads; 1891","Box 44; Railroads: A-L; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: M-Z; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: A-L; 1893","Box 46; Railroads: M-Z; 1893","Box 46; Railroads; 1894","Box 46; Railroads: A-J; 1895","Box 47; Railroads: K-Z; 1895","Box 47; Railroads; 1896 - 1897","Box 48; Railroads; 1898","Box 48; Railroads: A-M; 1899","Box 49; Railroads: N-Z; 1899","Box 49; Railroads; 1900 - 1902","Box 50; Street Railway; 1899 - 1903","Box 51; Electronic Railways; 1890/09/01 - 1890/10/04","Box 52; Coal and Coke; 1883 - 1889","Box 52; Coal and Coke: A-L; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke: M-Z; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke; 1891","Box 54; Coal and Coke; 1892 - 1894","Box 55; Coal and Coke; 1895 - 1896","Box 56; Coal and Coke; 1898","Box 56; Coal and Coke: A-D; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke: E-Z; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke; 1900 - 1908","Box 58; Coal and Coke; 1881/11/11 - 1906/07/13","Box 59; Coal and Coke; 1890/04/28 - 1908/02/20","Box 59; Oil; 1861/07/17 - 1905/07/27","Box 59; Electronic Railways; 1905/06/28 - 1906/12/15","Box 59; WV Improvements; 1888/03/03 - 190/07/11","Box 60; WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1891","Box 60; WV Improvement Company: A-B; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company: C-Z; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company; 1893","Box 61; Parkersburg Improvement Company; 1889/05/10 - 1890/04/02","Box 62; Land; 1882 - 1890","Box 63; Land A-M; 1891, 1892","Box 64; Land N-Z, A-H; 1892, 1893 - 1894, 1895 - 1898","Box 65; Land I-Z; 1895 - 1898, 1899","Box 66; Land; 1900 - 1905","Box 67; Real Estate; 1853/09/30 - 1904/01/08","Box 68; Real Estate; 1893/11/27 - 1908/02/29","Box 69; Real Estate--Ore ; 1886 - 1896","Box 70; Standard Oil Company Correspondence ; 1888/05/11 - 1891/07/27","Box 70; Law; 1860/06/17 - 1907/10/30","Box 71; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 72; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 73; Business Papers; 1876/02/12 - 1885/12/19","Box 74; Business Papers; 1868/10/28 - 1890/11/06","Box 75; Business Papers; 1891/01/01 - 1895/12/22","Box 76; Business Papers; 1896/02/22 - 1899/02/22","Box 77; Business Papers; 1891 - 1902","Box 78; Business Papers; 1900 - 1904","Box 79; Business Papers; 1789 - 1899","Box 80; Business Papers; 1859/09/28 - 1904/03/09","Box 81; Business Papers; 1873 - 1880","Box 82; Bills and Receipts; 1888 - 1899","Box 83; Bills and Receipts; 1899 - 1902","Box 84; Bills and Receipts; 1899/11/01 - 1906/11/17","Box 85; Bills and Receipts; 1906/01/01 - 1909/05/23","Box 86; Checks; 1863 - 1900","Box 87; Checks; 1877 - 1900","Box 88; Checks; 1886 - 1904","Box 89; Printed Reports and Bank Books; ca. 1860 - 1900","Box 90; Charters, Printed Forms, Advertisements, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1890 - 1900","Box 91; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900","Box 92; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900","Box 93; Maps, Printed Material, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1870 - 1900","Box 94; F.P. Summers Addendum; 1952/12/24","Box 95; Burned Papers; ca. 1870s","Box 96; Letter Book; 1887/01/07 - 1890/01/11","Box 97; Letter Book; 1889/05/13 - 1890/08/20","Box 98; Letter Book; 1890/05/14 - 1890/10/17","Box 99; Letter Book; 1890/10/17 - 1891/07/02","Box 100; Letter Book; 1891/07/02 - 1892/01/08","Box 101; Letter Book; 1892/01/08 - 1892/07/14","Box 102; Letter Book; 1892/07/14 - 1892/11/30","Box 103; Letter Book; 1892/12/01 - 1893/11/15","Box 104; Letter Book; 1893/12/05 - 1894/03/23","Box 105; Letter Book; 1894/03/24 - 1894/06/08","Box 106; Letter Book; 1894/06/09 - 1894/10/20","Box 107; Letter Book; 1894/10/25 - 1895/01/03","Box 108; Letter Book; 1895/01/03 - 1895/11/14","Box 109; Letter Book; 1895/11/15 - 1897/04/06","Box 110; Letter Book; 1897/04/06 - 1898/07/22","Box 111; Letter Book; 1898/07/22 - 1898/10/22","Box 112; Letter Book; 1898/10/22 - 1898/12/29","Box 113; Letter Book; 1898/12/29 - 1899/08/19","Box 114; Letter Book; 1899/08/19 - 1899/10/31","Box 115; Letter Book; 1899/11/01 - 1900/10/01","Box 116; Letter Book; 1900/10/01 - 1901/07/23","Box 117; Letter Book; 1901/07/27 - 1902/10/11","Box 118; Letter Book; 1902/10/11 - 1903/11/18","Box 119; Letter Book; 1903/11/18 - 1905/05/16","Box 120; Letter Book; 1905/05/07 - 1906/06/13","Box 121; Letter Book; 1906/05 - 1908/08","Box 122; Letter Book -- Private; 1858 - 1861, 1863","Box 123; Letter Book -- Private; 1875/05/18 - 1878/10/07","Box 124; Letter Book -- Private; 1877/05/07 - 1880/11/23","Box 125; Letter Book -- Private; 1880/11/25 - 1884/09/06","Box 126; Letter Book -- Private; 1883/06/07 - 1885/05/02","Box 127; Letter Book -- Private; 1884/09/11 - 1884/12/03","Box 128; Letter Book -- C.C. and O. Company; 1887/05/08 - 1880/02/25","Box 129; Letter Book -- WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1892","Box 130; Account Books -- Cash Book; 1879 - 1887","Box 131; Account Books -- Stock Account Book -- Gauley Company; 1892 - 1894","Box 132; Account Books -- Coal Account Book; 1895 - 1898","Box 133; Account Books -- Electric Railway Company, Ashland, Kentucky (mostly blank); 1900 - 1901","Box 134; Account Books; 1838 - 1839","Box 135; Account Books; 1826 - 1834","Box 136; Account Books; 1833 - 1838","Box 137; Account Books; 1832 - 1836","Box 138; Account Books; 1836 - 1838","Box 139; Account Books; 1841 - 1847","Box 140; Account Books; 1850 - 1853","Box 141; Minute Book -- Pickens Company; 1893 - 1906","Box 141; Minute Books -- Webster Springs and Railroad; 1894 - 1895","Box 142; Minute Books -- Executive Committee of the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company; 1900","Box 143; Miscellaneous Books (includes bills, miscellaneous papers, letters); 1890 - 1898","Box 144; Miscellaneous Books; 1893 - 1895","Box 144; Miscellaneous Books -- Land Notes; 1895","Box 144; Miscellaneous Books -- Coal Tariff -- Newspaper Clippings; 1890s","Box 145; Ledger Book -- Store Ledger; 1825 - 1834","Box 146; Unbound Book -- Great Coal Fields of Southwestern Kentucky -- Reports; 1903","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.","Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his development of railroads, including the Ohio River Railroad, the West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad, and Monongahela River Railroad, 1879-1892. See the \"Scope and Content Note\" for more information.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Alderson, Jonathan M. Bennett, Gideon D. Camden, John S. Carlile, William E. Chilton, John J. Cornwell, Grover Cleveland, Henry G. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., A.B. Fleming, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, Arthur I. Boreman, C.W. Harkness, E.S. Harkness, N.W. Harkness, Abram S. Hewitt, C.P. Huntington, John E. Kenna, James M. Mason II, John T. McGraw, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, H.H. Rogers, William P. Thompson, Clarence W. Watson, William C. Whitney, William L. Wilson, and Henry A. 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General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; 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Railroads; 1889\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 42; Railroads: A-K; 1890\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 43; Railroads: L-Z; 1890\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 43; Railroads; 1891\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 44; Railroads: A-L; 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 45; Railroads: M-Z; 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 45; Railroads: A-L; 1893\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 46; Railroads: M-Z; 1893\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 46; Railroads; 1894\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 46; Railroads: A-J; 1895\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 47; Railroads: K-Z; 1895\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 47; Railroads; 1896 - 1897\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 48; Railroads; 1898\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 48; Railroads: A-M; 1899\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 49; Railroads: N-Z; 1899\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 49; Railroads; 1900 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 50; Street Railway; 1899 - 1903\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 51; 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WV Improvements; 1888/03/03 - 190/07/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 60; WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1891\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 60; WV Improvement Company: A-B; 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 61; WV Improvement Company: C-Z; 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 61; WV Improvement Company; 1893\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 61; Parkersburg Improvement Company; 1889/05/10 - 1890/04/02\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 62; Land; 1882 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 63; Land A-M; 1891, 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 64; Land N-Z, A-H; 1892, 1893 - 1894, 1895 - 1898\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 65; Land I-Z; 1895 - 1898, 1899\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 66; Land; 1900 - 1905\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 67; Real Estate; 1853/09/30 - 1904/01/08\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 68; Real Estate; 1893/11/27 - 1908/02/29\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 69; Real Estate--Ore ; 1886 - 1896\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 70; Standard Oil Company Correspondence ; 1888/05/11 - 1891/07/27\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 70; Law; 1860/06/17 - 1907/10/30\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 71; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 72; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 73; Business Papers; 1876/02/12 - 1885/12/19\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 74; Business Papers; 1868/10/28 - 1890/11/06\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 75; Business Papers; 1891/01/01 - 1895/12/22\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 76; Business Papers; 1896/02/22 - 1899/02/22\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 77; Business Papers; 1891 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 78; Business Papers; 1900 - 1904\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 79; Business Papers; 1789 - 1899\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 80; Business Papers; 1859/09/28 - 1904/03/09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 81; Business Papers; 1873 - 1880\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 82; 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Alderson, Jonathan M. Bennett, Gideon D. Camden, John S. Carlile, William E. Chilton, John J. Cornwell, Grover Cleveland, Henry G. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., A.B. Fleming, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, Arthur I. Boreman, C.W. Harkness, E.S. Harkness, N.W. Harkness, Abram S. Hewitt, C.P. Huntington, John E. Kenna, James M. Mason II, John T. McGraw, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, H.H. Rogers, William P. Thompson, Clarence W. Watson, William C. Whitney, William L. Wilson, and Henry A. Wise.","Contents List:","Box 1; General Correspondence; 1840 - 1884/04","Box 2; General Correspondence; 1884/05 - 1885/10","Box 3; General Correspondence; 1885/11 - 1886","Box 4; General Correspondence; 1887/ - 1888/05","Box 5; General Correspondence; 1888/06 - 1889/07","Box 6; General Correspondence; 1889/08 - 1890/12","Box 7; General Correspondence; 1890/07 - 1890/12","Box 8; General Correspondence; 1891/01 - 1891/10/15","Box 9; General Correspondence; 1891/10/17 - 1892/10/20","Box 10; General Correspondence; 1892/10/21 - 1893/04","Box 11; General Correspondence; 1893/05 - 1894/07","Box 12; General Correspondence; 1894/08 - 1895/09","Box 13; General Correspondence; 1895/10 - 1897","Box 14; General Correspondence; 1898 - 1899/06","Box 15; General Correspondence; 1899/07 - 1900/02","Box 16; General Correspondence; 1900/03 - 1900/11","Box 17; General Correspondence; 1900/12 - 1901/06","Box 18; General Correspondence; 1901/07 - 1901/12","Box 19; General Correspondence; 1902/01 - 1902/09","Box 20; General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04","Box 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09","Box 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05","Box 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02","Box 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09","Box 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04","Box 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11","Box 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11","Box 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated","Box 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885","Box 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892","Box 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893","Box 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894","Box 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894","Box 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902","Box 33; Political Applications; undated","Box 33; Miscellaneous; undated","Box 33; Politics; 1888/03/04 - 1908/03/04","Box 34; Politics: A-R; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: S-Z; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: A-Z (contains Kenna letter, 1888); 1887 - 1890","Box 35; Politics: A-E; 1891 - 1893","Box 36; Politics: F-Z; 1891 - 1892","Box 36; Politics; 1893","Box 36; Politics: A-B; 1894","Box 37; Politics: C-N; 1894","Box 38; Politics: O-Z; 1894","Box 38; Politics; 1895 - 1902","Box 39; Railroads; 1883 - 1888","Box 40; Railroads; 1886 - 1901","Box 41; Railroads; 1879/08/19 - 1906/11/12","Box 42; Railroads; 1889","Box 42; Railroads: A-K; 1890","Box 43; Railroads: L-Z; 1890","Box 43; Railroads; 1891","Box 44; Railroads: A-L; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: M-Z; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: A-L; 1893","Box 46; Railroads: M-Z; 1893","Box 46; Railroads; 1894","Box 46; Railroads: A-J; 1895","Box 47; Railroads: K-Z; 1895","Box 47; Railroads; 1896 - 1897","Box 48; Railroads; 1898","Box 48; Railroads: A-M; 1899","Box 49; Railroads: N-Z; 1899","Box 49; Railroads; 1900 - 1902","Box 50; Street Railway; 1899 - 1903","Box 51; Electronic Railways; 1890/09/01 - 1890/10/04","Box 52; Coal and Coke; 1883 - 1889","Box 52; Coal and Coke: A-L; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke: M-Z; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke; 1891","Box 54; Coal and Coke; 1892 - 1894","Box 55; Coal and Coke; 1895 - 1896","Box 56; Coal and Coke; 1898","Box 56; Coal and Coke: A-D; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke: E-Z; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke; 1900 - 1908","Box 58; Coal and Coke; 1881/11/11 - 1906/07/13","Box 59; Coal and Coke; 1890/04/28 - 1908/02/20","Box 59; Oil; 1861/07/17 - 1905/07/27","Box 59; Electronic Railways; 1905/06/28 - 1906/12/15","Box 59; WV Improvements; 1888/03/03 - 190/07/11","Box 60; WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1891","Box 60; WV Improvement Company: A-B; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company: C-Z; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company; 1893","Box 61; Parkersburg Improvement Company; 1889/05/10 - 1890/04/02","Box 62; Land; 1882 - 1890","Box 63; Land A-M; 1891, 1892","Box 64; Land N-Z, A-H; 1892, 1893 - 1894, 1895 - 1898","Box 65; Land I-Z; 1895 - 1898, 1899","Box 66; Land; 1900 - 1905","Box 67; Real Estate; 1853/09/30 - 1904/01/08","Box 68; Real Estate; 1893/11/27 - 1908/02/29","Box 69; Real Estate--Ore ; 1886 - 1896","Box 70; Standard Oil Company Correspondence ; 1888/05/11 - 1891/07/27","Box 70; Law; 1860/06/17 - 1907/10/30","Box 71; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 72; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 73; Business Papers; 1876/02/12 - 1885/12/19","Box 74; Business Papers; 1868/10/28 - 1890/11/06","Box 75; Business Papers; 1891/01/01 - 1895/12/22","Box 76; Business Papers; 1896/02/22 - 1899/02/22","Box 77; Business Papers; 1891 - 1902","Box 78; Business Papers; 1900 - 1904","Box 79; Business Papers; 1789 - 1899","Box 80; Business Papers; 1859/09/28 - 1904/03/09","Box 81; Business Papers; 1873 - 1880","Box 82; Bills and Receipts; 1888 - 1899","Box 83; Bills and Receipts; 1899 - 1902","Box 84; Bills and Receipts; 1899/11/01 - 1906/11/17","Box 85; Bills and Receipts; 1906/01/01 - 1909/05/23","Box 86; Checks; 1863 - 1900","Box 87; Checks; 1877 - 1900","Box 88; Checks; 1886 - 1904","Box 89; Printed Reports and Bank Books; ca. 1860 - 1900","Box 90; Charters, Printed Forms, Advertisements, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1890 - 1900","Box 91; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900","Box 92; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900","Box 93; Maps, Printed Material, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1870 - 1900","Box 94; F.P. Summers Addendum; 1952/12/24","Box 95; Burned Papers; ca. 1870s","Box 96; Letter Book; 1887/01/07 - 1890/01/11","Box 97; Letter Book; 1889/05/13 - 1890/08/20","Box 98; Letter Book; 1890/05/14 - 1890/10/17","Box 99; Letter Book; 1890/10/17 - 1891/07/02","Box 100; Letter Book; 1891/07/02 - 1892/01/08","Box 101; Letter Book; 1892/01/08 - 1892/07/14","Box 102; Letter Book; 1892/07/14 - 1892/11/30","Box 103; Letter Book; 1892/12/01 - 1893/11/15","Box 104; Letter Book; 1893/12/05 - 1894/03/23","Box 105; Letter Book; 1894/03/24 - 1894/06/08","Box 106; Letter Book; 1894/06/09 - 1894/10/20","Box 107; Letter Book; 1894/10/25 - 1895/01/03","Box 108; Letter Book; 1895/01/03 - 1895/11/14","Box 109; Letter Book; 1895/11/15 - 1897/04/06","Box 110; Letter Book; 1897/04/06 - 1898/07/22","Box 111; Letter Book; 1898/07/22 - 1898/10/22","Box 112; Letter Book; 1898/10/22 - 1898/12/29","Box 113; Letter Book; 1898/12/29 - 1899/08/19","Box 114; Letter Book; 1899/08/19 - 1899/10/31","Box 115; Letter Book; 1899/11/01 - 1900/10/01","Box 116; Letter Book; 1900/10/01 - 1901/07/23","Box 117; Letter Book; 1901/07/27 - 1902/10/11","Box 118; Letter Book; 1902/10/11 - 1903/11/18","Box 119; Letter Book; 1903/11/18 - 1905/05/16","Box 120; Letter Book; 1905/05/07 - 1906/06/13","Box 121; Letter Book; 1906/05 - 1908/08","Box 122; Letter Book -- Private; 1858 - 1861, 1863","Box 123; Letter Book -- Private; 1875/05/18 - 1878/10/07","Box 124; Letter Book -- Private; 1877/05/07 - 1880/11/23","Box 125; Letter Book -- Private; 1880/11/25 - 1884/09/06","Box 126; Letter Book -- Private; 1883/06/07 - 1885/05/02","Box 127; Letter Book -- Private; 1884/09/11 - 1884/12/03","Box 128; Letter Book -- C.C. and O. Company; 1887/05/08 - 1880/02/25","Box 129; Letter Book -- WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1892","Box 130; Account Books -- Cash Book; 1879 - 1887","Box 131; Account Books -- Stock Account Book -- Gauley Company; 1892 - 1894","Box 132; Account Books -- Coal Account Book; 1895 - 1898","Box 133; Account Books -- Electric Railway Company, Ashland, Kentucky (mostly blank); 1900 - 1901","Box 134; Account Books; 1838 - 1839","Box 135; Account Books; 1826 - 1834","Box 136; Account Books; 1833 - 1838","Box 137; Account Books; 1832 - 1836","Box 138; Account Books; 1836 - 1838","Box 139; Account Books; 1841 - 1847","Box 140; Account Books; 1850 - 1853","Box 141; Minute Book -- Pickens Company; 1893 - 1906","Box 141; Minute Books -- Webster Springs and Railroad; 1894 - 1895","Box 142; Minute Books -- Executive Committee of the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company; 1900","Box 143; Miscellaneous Books (includes bills, miscellaneous papers, letters); 1890 - 1898","Box 144; Miscellaneous Books; 1893 - 1895","Box 144; Miscellaneous Books -- Land Notes; 1895","Box 144; Miscellaneous Books -- Coal Tariff -- Newspaper Clippings; 1890s","Box 145; Ledger Book -- Store Ledger; 1825 - 1834","Box 146; Unbound Book -- Great Coal Fields of Southwestern Kentucky -- Reports; 1903"],"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_4aa2db80c6b95b2bc6f3b09ac9b58340\"\u003eCorrespondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his development of railroads, including the Ohio River Railroad, the West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad, and Monongahela River Railroad, 1879-1892. See the \"Scope and Content Note\" for more information.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his development of railroads, including the Ohio River Railroad, the West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad, and Monongahela River Railroad, 1879-1892. See the \"Scope and Content Note\" for more information."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_2a2614288f74e91500f9c264322b9e78\"\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. 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Alderson, Jonathan M. Bennett, Gideon D. Camden, John S. Carlile, William E. Chilton, John J. Cornwell, Grover Cleveland, Henry G. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., A.B. Fleming, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, Arthur I. Boreman, C.W. Harkness, E.S. Harkness, N.W. Harkness, Abram S. Hewitt, C.P. Huntington, John E. Kenna, James M. Mason II, John T. McGraw, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, H.H. Rogers, William P. Thompson, Clarence W. Watson, William C. Whitney, William L. Wilson, and Henry A. 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General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04","Box 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09","Box 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05","Box 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02","Box 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09","Box 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04","Box 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11","Box 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11","Box 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated","Box 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885","Box 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892","Box 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893","Box 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894","Box 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894","Box 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902","Box 33; Political Applications; undated","Box 33; Miscellaneous; undated","Box 33; Politics; 1888/03/04 - 1908/03/04","Box 34; Politics: A-R; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: S-Z; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: A-Z (contains Kenna letter, 1888); 1887 - 1890","Box 35; Politics: A-E; 1891 - 1893","Box 36; Politics: F-Z; 1891 - 1892","Box 36; Politics; 1893","Box 36; Politics: A-B; 1894","Box 37; Politics: C-N; 1894","Box 38; Politics: O-Z; 1894","Box 38; Politics; 1895 - 1902","Box 39; Railroads; 1883 - 1888","Box 40; Railroads; 1886 - 1901","Box 41; Railroads; 1879/08/19 - 1906/11/12","Box 42; Railroads; 1889","Box 42; Railroads: A-K; 1890","Box 43; Railroads: L-Z; 1890","Box 43; Railroads; 1891","Box 44; Railroads: A-L; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: M-Z; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: A-L; 1893","Box 46; Railroads: M-Z; 1893","Box 46; Railroads; 1894","Box 46; Railroads: A-J; 1895","Box 47; Railroads: K-Z; 1895","Box 47; Railroads; 1896 - 1897","Box 48; Railroads; 1898","Box 48; Railroads: A-M; 1899","Box 49; Railroads: N-Z; 1899","Box 49; Railroads; 1900 - 1902","Box 50; Street Railway; 1899 - 1903","Box 51; Electronic Railways; 1890/09/01 - 1890/10/04","Box 52; Coal and Coke; 1883 - 1889","Box 52; Coal and Coke: A-L; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke: M-Z; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke; 1891","Box 54; Coal and Coke; 1892 - 1894","Box 55; Coal and Coke; 1895 - 1896","Box 56; Coal and Coke; 1898","Box 56; Coal and Coke: A-D; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke: E-Z; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke; 1900 - 1908","Box 58; Coal and Coke; 1881/11/11 - 1906/07/13","Box 59; Coal and Coke; 1890/04/28 - 1908/02/20","Box 59; Oil; 1861/07/17 - 1905/07/27","Box 59; Electronic Railways; 1905/06/28 - 1906/12/15","Box 59; WV Improvements; 1888/03/03 - 190/07/11","Box 60; WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1891","Box 60; WV Improvement Company: A-B; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company: C-Z; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company; 1893","Box 61; Parkersburg Improvement Company; 1889/05/10 - 1890/04/02","Box 62; Land; 1882 - 1890","Box 63; Land A-M; 1891, 1892","Box 64; Land N-Z, A-H; 1892, 1893 - 1894, 1895 - 1898","Box 65; Land I-Z; 1895 - 1898, 1899","Box 66; Land; 1900 - 1905","Box 67; Real Estate; 1853/09/30 - 1904/01/08","Box 68; Real Estate; 1893/11/27 - 1908/02/29","Box 69; Real Estate--Ore ; 1886 - 1896","Box 70; Standard Oil Company Correspondence ; 1888/05/11 - 1891/07/27","Box 70; Law; 1860/06/17 - 1907/10/30","Box 71; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 72; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 73; Business Papers; 1876/02/12 - 1885/12/19","Box 74; Business Papers; 1868/10/28 - 1890/11/06","Box 75; Business Papers; 1891/01/01 - 1895/12/22","Box 76; Business Papers; 1896/02/22 - 1899/02/22","Box 77; Business Papers; 1891 - 1902","Box 78; Business Papers; 1900 - 1904","Box 79; Business Papers; 1789 - 1899","Box 80; Business Papers; 1859/09/28 - 1904/03/09","Box 81; Business Papers; 1873 - 1880","Box 82; Bills and Receipts; 1888 - 1899","Box 83; Bills and Receipts; 1899 - 1902","Box 84; Bills and Receipts; 1899/11/01 - 1906/11/17","Box 85; Bills and Receipts; 1906/01/01 - 1909/05/23","Box 86; Checks; 1863 - 1900","Box 87; 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General Correspondence; 1894/08 - 1895/09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13; General Correspondence; 1895/10 - 1897\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 14; General Correspondence; 1898 - 1899/06\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 15; General Correspondence; 1899/07 - 1900/02\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 16; General Correspondence; 1900/03 - 1900/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 17; General Correspondence; 1900/12 - 1901/06\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 18; General Correspondence; 1901/07 - 1901/12\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 19; General Correspondence; 1902/01 - 1902/09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 20; General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; 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Alderson, Jonathan M. Bennett, Gideon D. Camden, John S. Carlile, William E. Chilton, John J. Cornwell, Grover Cleveland, Henry G. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., A.B. Fleming, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, Arthur I. Boreman, C.W. Harkness, E.S. Harkness, N.W. Harkness, Abram S. Hewitt, C.P. Huntington, John E. Kenna, James M. Mason II, John T. McGraw, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, H.H. Rogers, William P. Thompson, Clarence W. Watson, William C. Whitney, William L. Wilson, and Henry A. Wise.","Contents List:","Box 1; General Correspondence; 1840 - 1884/04","Box 2; General Correspondence; 1884/05 - 1885/10","Box 3; General Correspondence; 1885/11 - 1886","Box 4; General Correspondence; 1887/ - 1888/05","Box 5; General Correspondence; 1888/06 - 1889/07","Box 6; General Correspondence; 1889/08 - 1890/12","Box 7; General Correspondence; 1890/07 - 1890/12","Box 8; General Correspondence; 1891/01 - 1891/10/15","Box 9; General Correspondence; 1891/10/17 - 1892/10/20","Box 10; General Correspondence; 1892/10/21 - 1893/04","Box 11; General Correspondence; 1893/05 - 1894/07","Box 12; General Correspondence; 1894/08 - 1895/09","Box 13; General Correspondence; 1895/10 - 1897","Box 14; General Correspondence; 1898 - 1899/06","Box 15; General Correspondence; 1899/07 - 1900/02","Box 16; General Correspondence; 1900/03 - 1900/11","Box 17; General Correspondence; 1900/12 - 1901/06","Box 18; General Correspondence; 1901/07 - 1901/12","Box 19; General Correspondence; 1902/01 - 1902/09","Box 20; General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04","Box 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09","Box 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05","Box 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02","Box 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09","Box 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04","Box 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11","Box 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11","Box 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated","Box 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885","Box 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892","Box 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893","Box 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894","Box 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894","Box 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902","Box 33; Political Applications; undated","Box 33; Miscellaneous; undated","Box 33; Politics; 1888/03/04 - 1908/03/04","Box 34; Politics: A-R; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: S-Z; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: A-Z (contains Kenna letter, 1888); 1887 - 1890","Box 35; Politics: A-E; 1891 - 1893","Box 36; Politics: F-Z; 1891 - 1892","Box 36; Politics; 1893","Box 36; Politics: A-B; 1894","Box 37; Politics: C-N; 1894","Box 38; Politics: O-Z; 1894","Box 38; Politics; 1895 - 1902","Box 39; Railroads; 1883 - 1888","Box 40; Railroads; 1886 - 1901","Box 41; Railroads; 1879/08/19 - 1906/11/12","Box 42; Railroads; 1889","Box 42; Railroads: A-K; 1890","Box 43; Railroads: L-Z; 1890","Box 43; Railroads; 1891","Box 44; Railroads: A-L; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: M-Z; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: A-L; 1893","Box 46; Railroads: M-Z; 1893","Box 46; Railroads; 1894","Box 46; Railroads: A-J; 1895","Box 47; Railroads: K-Z; 1895","Box 47; Railroads; 1896 - 1897","Box 48; Railroads; 1898","Box 48; Railroads: A-M; 1899","Box 49; Railroads: N-Z; 1899","Box 49; Railroads; 1900 - 1902","Box 50; Street Railway; 1899 - 1903","Box 51; Electronic Railways; 1890/09/01 - 1890/10/04","Box 52; Coal and Coke; 1883 - 1889","Box 52; Coal and Coke: A-L; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke: M-Z; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke; 1891","Box 54; Coal and Coke; 1892 - 1894","Box 55; Coal and Coke; 1895 - 1896","Box 56; Coal and Coke; 1898","Box 56; Coal and Coke: A-D; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke: E-Z; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke; 1900 - 1908","Box 58; Coal and Coke; 1881/11/11 - 1906/07/13","Box 59; Coal and Coke; 1890/04/28 - 1908/02/20","Box 59; Oil; 1861/07/17 - 1905/07/27","Box 59; Electronic Railways; 1905/06/28 - 1906/12/15","Box 59; WV Improvements; 1888/03/03 - 190/07/11","Box 60; WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1891","Box 60; WV Improvement Company: A-B; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company: C-Z; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company; 1893","Box 61; Parkersburg Improvement Company; 1889/05/10 - 1890/04/02","Box 62; Land; 1882 - 1890","Box 63; Land A-M; 1891, 1892","Box 64; Land N-Z, A-H; 1892, 1893 - 1894, 1895 - 1898","Box 65; Land I-Z; 1895 - 1898, 1899","Box 66; Land; 1900 - 1905","Box 67; Real Estate; 1853/09/30 - 1904/01/08","Box 68; Real Estate; 1893/11/27 - 1908/02/29","Box 69; Real Estate--Ore ; 1886 - 1896","Box 70; Standard Oil Company Correspondence ; 1888/05/11 - 1891/07/27","Box 70; Law; 1860/06/17 - 1907/10/30","Box 71; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 72; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 73; Business Papers; 1876/02/12 - 1885/12/19","Box 74; Business Papers; 1868/10/28 - 1890/11/06","Box 75; Business Papers; 1891/01/01 - 1895/12/22","Box 76; Business Papers; 1896/02/22 - 1899/02/22","Box 77; Business Papers; 1891 - 1902","Box 78; Business Papers; 1900 - 1904","Box 79; Business Papers; 1789 - 1899","Box 80; Business Papers; 1859/09/28 - 1904/03/09","Box 81; Business Papers; 1873 - 1880","Box 82; Bills and Receipts; 1888 - 1899","Box 83; Bills and Receipts; 1899 - 1902","Box 84; Bills and Receipts; 1899/11/01 - 1906/11/17","Box 85; Bills and Receipts; 1906/01/01 - 1909/05/23","Box 86; Checks; 1863 - 1900","Box 87; Checks; 1877 - 1900","Box 88; Checks; 1886 - 1904","Box 89; Printed Reports and Bank Books; ca. 1860 - 1900","Box 90; Charters, Printed Forms, Advertisements, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1890 - 1900","Box 91; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900","Box 92; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900","Box 93; Maps, Printed Material, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1870 - 1900","Box 94; F.P. 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