Collections

Genealogical records of Alexander Scott, the Scott families of Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana and such allied families as Barker, Barrickman, Bouslog, Caddis, Carpenter, Carr, Chesney, Chipps, Claypoole, Clayton, Cunningham, Daugherty, Davis, Dent, Dragoo, Drummond, Ewing, Fortney, Goodnight, Hamilton, Harrison, Hess, Lindsey, Marchand, Martin, McClelland, McFarland, Menefee, Neely, Pindall, Price, Scott, Shively, Strothers, and Wilson. These records, compiled by Helen A. Wesp, also include copies of letters and other documents relating to the early history of West Virginia.

Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil, lumbering, railroads, and real estate in Kanawha, Clay, Boone, Fayette, and Nicholas counties. There are newspaper clippings, speeches, and other papers reflecting the Lewis' interests in the Democratic Party in the period 1914-1920. Settlement papers and correspondence regarding the estates of John D. Lewis, and Joel, Daniel, and Andrew Ruffner are in the collection. The personal papers include diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, and letters. Travel accounts in the United States, South America, and Europe are given in the correspondence, as well as comments on schools in West Virginia and Virginia; the building of a church in Kanawha County in 1834; missionary work in Colombia, South America, 1874-1875; Civil War and postwar conditions in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Missouri; conditions at Camp Chase, in the Civil War; and material relating to World War I.

Family genealogies in this collection include: Alderson, Alkire, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ball, Barnes, Barnet, Bartlett, Bassel, Benedum, Bennett, Blake, Bonnett, Boughman, Brake, Burr, Bush, Carber, Carpenter, Carroll, Casto, Champe, Cheuvront, Chrislip, Cookman, Coplin, Corder, Couch, Cummins, Cunningham, Curry, Custis, Cutright, Davidson, Davis, Donnally, Douglass, Dyer, Eagan, Eastwood, Fairbank, Farnsworth, Fell, Flesher, Gaston, Gates, Girty, Goff, Goodloe, Hacker, Hagerman, Hall, Hamilton, Hamrick, Hardman, Hart, Hatcher, Haymond, Hiner, Hinzeman, Holt, Hughes, Hurst, Hutton, Jackson, Jewell, Kester, Laidley, Lawson, Lee, Lightburn, Lincoln, Lorentz, Loudin, Lowther, Mahan, Makowicz, Mann, Marple, Martin, Mathews, Maxwell, McClain, McWhorter, Morgan, Moore, Neely, Nicholas, Norris, Nutter, Peterson, Phillips, Poff, Pringle, Quarrier, Queen, Raines, Reger, Riddel, Ritter, Ruffner, Shoulders, Sims, Sleeth, Smith, Stalnaker, Starcher, Stitler, Stout, Strader, Straley, Stump, Swisher, Talbot, Tenney, Teter, Thomas, Thornhill, Tucker, Van Horn, Waggoner, Ward, Washington, Weimer, Westfall, White, Whittlesey, Williams, Wilson, Winans, and Woodford.

This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant.

Correspondence, clippings, land papers, and other records of James Wilson, an attorney in Wood County, ca.1800-1820; Robert M. Stribling and other members of the Stribling family in Mason County, 1821-ca.1909; and James A. and Otis Young, ca.1900-1934, in Mason County. A pocket diary of James Wilson gives information on his law practice in Kanawha, Monongalia, and Wood counties in 1804.

Wilson family genealogy and history. Includes photocopied typescript regarding Wilson family from pages 93-150 of the "The Harveys and Wilsons" by Mrs. Ida Wilson Fortney and Rev. Wilson Ward Harvey.