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Brooks F. McCabe, Collector, Papers 1.83 Linear Feet 2 document cases, 5 in. each; 1 index card box, 12 in.

Two personal diaries of R.E. McCabe of Charleston, West Virginia, containing notes on trips to Europe (1924) and California (1937). On the California trip he briefly describes Kansas City, Boulder, Denver, Santa Fe, Taos, and Los Angeles, muses on real estate values, and notes oil rigs and pipelines. There is a short genealogy of the Hayward family. The diaries also include references to the Ward, Fleming, Brooks, and Watson families. Also includes photographs of members of the Ward, Fleming, Brooks, and Watson families.

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Hall and Gandy Families (Preston County, W.Va.) Genealogy 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in. (1 folder)

Genealogical descent charts of the Hall, Gandy, and allied families of Preston, County, West Virginia, from 1724 to 1961 as compiled by Clarence M. Smith in 1989. Typescript chiefly lists descendants of George Brown Hall (1824-1882) of Preston County, West Virginia, and his wife, Nancy Gooseman Gandy (1828-1917), also of Preston County. along with birth, marriage, and death dates.
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Minnie McWhorter, Compiler, Genealogies 6.48 Linear Feet Summary: 6 ft. 5 3/4 in. (11 document cases, 5 in. each); (13 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

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.
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Ward Engineering Company Archives and Manuscripts 82.2 Linear Feet 82 ft. 2 in. (178 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 document cases, 2.5 in. each); (2 flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (1 folder, 0.25 in.); (1 ledger, 1 in.); (1 oversize folder, 1 in.); (map cabinets, 80 in.)

Ward Engineering Company

Records of a Charleston, West Virginia, business which introduced to the western waters of the United States a new design of towboat whose essential features were water-tube boilers, multiple-expansion engines, and screw propulsion; thus replacing the traditional paddle wheel towboats that navigated the Ohio and Mississippi river systems. Charles Ward (1841-1915), a British engineer, who emigrated to Charleston in 1871, founded the industry and designed these new boats. This collection consists of business correspondence, U.S. Government business papers, company financial papers, compensation files, deeds, contracts, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, charts, catalogs, information on ships, blueprints, maps, patents, biographical information, and more.

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Ward Family History 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 item, 11 pages

Ward family
Typescript history of the Ward family of Ohio with a concentration on its association with Harman Blennerhassett, whose secretary was Sylvester Ward. Included is some information on the Blennerhassetts, Aaron Burr, Dudley Woodbridge, Elijah Backus and Aaron Waldo Putnam. Much mention is made of neighboring allied families to the Wards, particularly Hendersons and Putnams in the adjoining counties of Wood Co., VA and Washington Co., OH. There is a detailed transcription of an October 8, 1805 letter by William Howe Cuyler to John G. Henderson describing a disagreement and a duel between his brother, Alexander Henderson and Stephen R. Wilson. Also mentioned in this account about the duel are: Samuel Hempstead, James Henderson, Daniel Kinchelow, Robert Kinchelow, John Melrose, Hugh Phelps, Dr. Joseph Spencer, John Stephenson, Thomas Tavenner, Sylvester Ward, and James Wilson. Research on the lives and backgrounds of the participants and those connected with the duel is also included separately from the transcribed letter.
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