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Start Over Collection Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960 Date range 1877

Prescriptions (3 items), 1868/1887 Box 41, Folder 6, Page 14

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  2. Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960
  3. Series 10. History of Pharmacy and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association, 1832/1961
  4. Loose Leaf Notebook on the James H. Rogers Drug Store in Charleston and Dr. Henry Rogers, First Druggist in Charleston, folder 2 of 2 (includes printed and manuscript material; for a drug store broadside, see also Series 15, Oversize Material, box 47, folder 5; 11 pages, 6 photographs), 1835/1933

Quarrier and Laidley Family Papers (regarding Monroe Quarrier, Dorcas Simms, Richard Q. Laidley, Mrs. Harriet Laidley, W.A. Quarrier, Cushman Quarrier, Elizabeth Quarrier, J.W. Clarkson, etc., many of whom lived in Kanawha County; includes estate papers, correspondence, printed items, clippings, and manuscripts; topics include estate sales, obituaries, land, genealogy, newspapers, etc.; correspondents include Mason Campbell and J.F. Hansford; 16 items), 1857/1934 Box 8, Folder 22

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  2. Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960
  3. Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers, 1793/1974

Romance of the Kanawha (scrapbook contains maps, newspaper clippings, letters, pictures, etc.; topics include the Kanawha Valley, Teays Valley, New River, Ohio River, Kanawha and Ohio River Valleys, and extinct Teays River and Lake; includes materials on the history of the Ohio River flood of 1773, and printed verse about Gauley Mountain published in 1837), 1837/1959 Box 33, Volume Notebook 49

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  2. Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960
  3. Series 8. Bound Notebooks, 1679/1984

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960 20.6 Linear Feet 20 ft. 7 in. (33 document cases, 5 in. each); (12 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (2 small flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (1 medium flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.); (3 large flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (3 large flat storage boxes, 1 1/2 in. each); (10 oversize folders, 1 in.); (2 record cartons, 15 in. each)

Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961
Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]). There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.
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Ruffner Family Papers (includes: typescript copies of eleven letters from Henry Ruffner of Charleston and Lewisburg, WV, to Samuel Williams of Chillicothe, OH, from 1807-1816 and 1857 [originals owned by Boyd B. Stutler; typescripts undated]; a manuscript letter from E.W. Newton to Colonel C. Ruffner regarding C and O Railroad, politics, proposed formation of Putnam County [1855]; and clippings and typescripts with genealogical information; 19 items), 1807/1961 Box 8, Folder 23

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  2. Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960
  3. Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers, 1793/1974

Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book (includes materials on Lewis Ruffner; salt production in the Kanawha Valley, mercantile activities in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisville, and Charleston, WV 1823-1825; and social and religious life in the Kanawha Valley before the Civil War; among other topics), 1831/1952 Box 33, Volume Notebook 48

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960
  3. Series 8. Bound Notebooks, 1679/1984

Series 10. History of Pharmacy and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association, 1832/1961 Box 41, Folder 5-11, unfoldered, Box 42, Folder 1-3, unfoldered

This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, prescriptions, account statements, advertisements, correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, and other material. Topics include the James H. Rogers Drug Store and other drug stores in Charleston, WV; Dr. Henry Rogers and other Charleston pharmacists; medicines of the mid to late 1800s; the 1960 meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association; West Virginia pharmacists' World War II service; and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association (now known as the West Virginia Pharmacists Association).

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  2. Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960

Series 11. West Virginia Medical History and Biography, 1870/1958 Box 42, Folder 4-7

This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, magazine and journal articles, clippings, and correspondence regarding the history of the medical profession in West Virginia, including James Edward Hanger (first amputee soldier of the Civil War and founder of a prosthetics company), Dr. J.L. Miller (collector of medical material); and Dr. W.P. King.

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  2. Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1679/1984, bulk 1840/1960

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