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Robinson Family Manuscripts 0.75 Linear Feet Summary: 9 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.)

Robinson family
Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.
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Rose Brady Correspondence 0 Linear Feet Summary: 3 letters

Brady, Rose, 1956-
One letter (15 March 1885) is from Joe Wertz of Mullenville, Kansas to Carrie Brady of Toledo, Illinois, which discusses life in Kansas, particularly his efforts to start a farm, and reflects loneliness for his old home. Two letters (28 October 1883 and 9 June 1884) are from Carrie Brady of Gale, Indiana to Rose concerning family affairs and schooling.
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Salt Sulphur Springs Records 5.8 Linear Feet Summary: 5 ft. 10 in. (85 ledgers)

Salt Sulphur Springs Company

Daybooks, ledgers, journals, letter books and reports. Primarily concern the various business enterprises of the Salt Sulphur Springs Company including general store, hotel, stage line, telegraph company and farm. Also a letter book of the Oriental Powder Mills, Charleston, W.Va, of which John W.M. Appleton was agent; general store daybooks of E.D. Ballard; hotel and general store cash and daybooks of Erskine and Caruthers from Lexington and Salt Sulphur Springs. Records of the M.C.C.C. and O. Company of Waldingfield and Mill Creek, W.Va., and Mill Creek School records and Sweet Springs Gristmill and hotel records.

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Samuel Davis Stokes Papers 4.6 Linear Feet Summary: 4 ft. 7 in. (11 document cases, 5 in. each)

Stokes, Samuel Davis, 1872-1969

Business and financial papers, correspondence and legal files of S.D. Stokes, a Williamson, West Virginia, attorney. The material consists of bills, accounts and receipts; business papers (ca. 1921-1925), reflecting Stokes' interest in farming and his law office files (1915-1925), arranged alphabetically by client's name. Subjects include Mingo County and coal-related court cases.

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Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Farm and Physician Account Books 0.56 Linear Feet Summary: 6 3/4 in. (1 flat storage box, 5 in.); (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Four account books of financial, medical and farm records of the Springdale Farm of Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia, kept by Martha Banks and doctors I.S. Tanner and George Washington Banks. Account book, 1855-1867, records payments made on accounts. It is organized according to date and lists the name of the customer and receipt of payment. Account book 1858-1866 also documents payments made on accounts, but it is organized in alphabetical order. The farm account book of Martha Banks dates from 1897 to 1905. Several pages document wheat sold or taken to a mill in the late 1890s. It also contains notes from 1899 related to the estate of George Washington Banks, including a detailed list of his personal property. A physician's account book from 1841 to 1845 chiefly list patients treated and cost, but also includes several pages of notes regarding treatments and observations of the physician. Original ledgers are in fragile condition; they are also available on microfilm.
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Sloan Brothers, Farmers, Papers 1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 ft. (photocopies)

Sloan Brothers
Deeds and farm account books of John, James, Thomas, Richard, and George Sloan, farmers and stockbreeders from Burlington, Mineral County. One volume is an inventory of the debts due to the estate of Edward Taylor, deceased partner of Alfred Taylor in the operation of a tannery, 1835-1839. Photocopies. Material covers the years 1757-1839.
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Stealey Family Papers 0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Staley family

Account books and ledger journals of a farm, coal mine, and grist mill owned by James Irvin Samson Stealey in Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1865-1907. The mill, known as the Point Mill, was located at Point Comfort, where the Elk Creek and West Fork River join.

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T.B. Cauthorn Papers 0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)

Cauthorn, T. B.

Business correspondence, accounts, ledger book, and legal papers of Townley B. Cauthorn, farmer and lumber merchant of Millboro (Bath County), Virginia. The collection contains pay records for sawmill hands and farm laborers, employee purchase accounts, and legal documents. Also included are a record of road work done in Bath County when Cauthorn was Commissioner of Roads and an agreement between Cauthorn and Edgar S. Davis for the adoption by Cauthorn of Mattie Davis.

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Thomas Clark Atkeson (1852-1935) Papers 0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Atkeson, Thomas Clark, 1852-1935
Family history, autobiographical sketch, account books of farming operations in Putnam County, West Virginia, 1894-1934, and articles and pamphlets written by a state agricultural leader, founder of the state Grange, and national Grange representative in Washington. Atkeson also played a leading role in the development of the West Virginia University Agricultural College at Morgantown where he was a professor for many years.
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