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West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Primary Collecting Areas:
West Virginia and Appalachia History and Culture
Description:
The West Virginia & Regional History Center preserves and provides access to the records that document the history and culture of the state and the central Appalachian region. The Center is part of West Virginia University Libraries.
POC: Lori Hostuttler
Phone: (304) 293-3536
Start Over Repository West Virginia and Regional History Center Date range 1792

The Thirty Fifth State, Manuscript and Galley, 1609/1960 0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Manuscript and Galley proof of The Thirty Fifth State, a history of the state of West Virginia by Drs. Festus P. Summers and Elizabeth Cometti of WVU department of History. Includes a discussion of the state during its settlement, during the Civil War, after the Civil War, and in recent years. Seven items pertaining to the preparation of the book added to 1 box 9/212/1972.
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Thomas Browse Family Papers, 1785/1942, bulk 1830/1910 7 Linear Feet 7 ft. (16 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.)

Browse family
Papers of the Thomas Browse family documenting immigration from England to the Ohio River region in the vicinity of Ohio, western Virginia, and Kentucky (1830); farming in Pleasants County, West Virginia in the vicinity of St. Marys on the Ohio River (ca. 1830s-1900); and the acquisition of and royalties from oil lands in Pleasants County from the region of "Fish Pot" (ca. 1880s-1910). Includes diaries of Thomas Browse (1830-1878) and diaries of his daughter Mary E. Browse (1855-1910, incomplete). Also includes family papers of descendants Robert H. Browse (son) and Henry Nicholas Browse (grandson) documenting services purchased and businesses transactions conducted along the Ohio River in the region of the towns of St. Marys, New Martinsville, and Wheeling (ca. 1880-1930). There are also several maps of West Virginia lands in Pleasants and Tyler Counties (ca. 1830-1910), including oil fields in Pleasants County (ca. 1900-1920), pertaining to the business of the Browse family.
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Thomas Jefferson Letters (photostat), 1785/1882 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 folder

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Photostat negative copies of an unsigned autograph letter dated at Paris, 19 Oct 1785, addressed to Peter [Carr], an enclosure in an ALS dated at Monticello, 27 Feb. 1822, written to George W. Summers, grandfather of the donor, while he was a student at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia.
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Thomas Paine and Iron Arch Bridge, 1788/2000 Box 122

Kemp presented the lecture, "Thomas Paine and His Pontifical Matters," to the Newcomen Society in 1977. Includes clippings and magazine clippings, lecture drafts, correspondence, reference lists, student papers, lecture announcement, handwritten notes, photographs and illustrations. Subjects include Thomas Paine, his role in bridge construction, the Sunderland Bridge, cast iron bridges and the Newcomen Society. Highlights include drafts of Kemp's lecture, as well as a draft manuscript, "Thomas Paine and His Bridge of Common Sense," by Eric DeLony. The following oversized materials were moved to Box 342: two sheets of clippings (1982), twelve sheets of journal articles (1812), one sheet of magazine clippings (1965), one engineering drawing (undated), one book excerpt (1955-1967).

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  2. Emory L. Kemp Papers regarding Industrial History, 1735/2021
  3. Series 1. Research Files, 1735/2017
  4. Series 1. Research Files -- Bridges, 1735/2016

Thomas Ray Dille Papers, 1774/1939 0.7 Linear Feet Summary: 7 1/2 in. (2 ledgers)

Dille, Thomas Ray

Four notebooks of Col. John Evans family history prepared by Thomas Ray Dille; (maps of voting districts in Monongalia County) papers of the Monongalia County Historical Society; and copies of the constitution and charter of the York County (Pa.) Historical Society

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Thomas Ray Dille Papers, 1774/1939 7.33 Linear Feet Summary: 7 ft. 4 in. (10 document cases, 5 in. each); (10 ledgers, 17 in.); (12 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Dille, Thomas Ray

Gift of the brothers and sisters of Thomas Ray Dille, lawyer, historian, and genealogist of Morgantown W.Va. This collection contains the family histories of the Dille, David Evans, and John Evans families, as well as the Ray, Stewart, McFarland, and Tennant families.

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Thomas Ray Dille Papers, 1781/1948 54.9 Linear Feet Summary: 54 ft. 11 in. (121 document cases, 5 in. each); (3 records cartons, 15 in. each); (1 large flat storage box, 3 1/2 in.); (2 ledgers, 5 1/2 in.); (1 oversize folder, 1/4 in.)

Dille, Thomas Ray

Papers of a Morgantown attorney, genealogist, and antiquarian. There are several series of office files relating to Dille's law practice, and extensive correspondence regarding his historical and genealogical studies. Families for which there are genealogical compilations include Dille, Ray, Stewart, McFarland, Tennant, David Evans, and John Evans. Monongalia County birth and death records; cemetery readings; copies of wills and indexes of will books; names in real estate and appraisement books; Monongalia Academy and Woodburn Female Seminary ledgers, 1858; correspondence; legal papers; newspaper clippings; family papers; and an account book of J.R. Moore, 1837. Collection also contains papers on the West Virginia Historical Society, Morgantown and Wheeling Railroad, Sons of the Revolution and the Evansdale Corporation. Also includes some personal correspondence received by Dille, like mailed promotional/advertising booklets and copies of "The Mohawk Magazine."

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