Item Nos. 200-219, 1855

Containers:
Box 1, Folder 11
Scope and content:

Topics include:

Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics)

Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy)

Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)

Access and use

Location of collection:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Lori Hostuttler
Phone: (304) 293-3536
Parent restrictions:

No special access restriction applies.

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