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Schools, Harrison County, Records, 1835/1915 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (3 items in 1 folder, 0.1 in.); (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Schools. Harrison County
Minutes of the Board of Education, Clarksburg (West Virginia) District, 1879-1915; a typescript copy of a teaching contract, Buffalo Creek, 1835; and a note concerning the school fund for Harrison County, 1863-1865.
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Smith Family Papers, 1800/1942 0.5 Linear Feet Summary: 5 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (3 scrapbooks, 3 in.)

Smith family
Papers of the Mortimer Wilson Smith family, Clarksburg, West Virginia. There are letters of the Chapin family of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Clarksburg, 1800-1904. Subjects include descriptions of Clarksburg, schools, churches, and family affairs. Included are three scrapbooks of the Mortimer W. Smith family, covering family history, and typescripts of speeches made by Smith, 1936-1939, as chief engineer of the West Virginia State Road Commission and as director of the Motor Carrier Department, Public Service Commission of West Virginia.
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St. Charles Hotel of Clarksburg (W. Va.) Ledger, 1879/1904 0.2 Linear Feet Summary: 2 in.

St. Charles Hotel Clarksburg
The ledger of a Clarksburg hotel kept by its proprietor W. W. Boggess. It includes names of those registered and their town or city of home residence. Also there are accounts of travel expenses, groceries and construction costs. Part of this ledger was used as a scrapbook of election statistics from news clippings of the 1890's for Harrison County.
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Stealey Family Papers, 1865/1907 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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United Glass and Ceramic Workers of America Local Union No. 2 (Clarksburg, WV) Papers, 1934/1974 10.6 Linear Feet 10 ft. 6 1/2 in. (24 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (6 unboxed ledgers, 4 in.)

United Glass and Ceramic Workers of America. Local 2 (Clarksburg, West Virginia)

Financial records, newsletters, minutes, correspondence and inter-factory memos of Clarksburg Union Local No.2. There are also records of grievances, arbitration, and union attendance.

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Wade Family Scrapbook, 1900/1950 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in. (1 wrapped package)

Wade family
A scrapbook, kept by Fanny Isabella Wade Wallace, containing correspondence, post cards, and genealogical records of the Britton, Davis, Hursey, and Wade families of Clarksburg. There are obituaries of prominent West Virginians as well as news clippings and invitations to weddings and social events. There are also news clippings of local and American history.
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West Virginia Statehood Papers, 1861 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Library of Congress
Selected correspondence from the Salmon P. Chase and Orlando M. Poe papers include two letters from John S. Carlile of Clarksburg requesting the removal of General William S. Rosecrans and the western Virginia theater; a letter from Governor Francis H. Pierpont concerning a loan of $200,000 for the Reorganized Government of Virginia; a letter from K.V. Whaley concerning the effectiveness of Northern arms shipped to the Ceredo area; and letters from Poe, an aide to McClellan, to his wife pertaining to the fighting in the Tygarts Valley and at Rich Mountain.
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William Haymond (1771-1848), History of the Haymond Family, Typed Document, 1893 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 item, 22 pages

Haymond, William (1771-1848)
History of the Haymond family, pioneer residents of the Palatine tract in Marion County, West Virginia. Eight letters written by William Haymond to his nephew Luther Haymond recall frontier life in the Monongahela, Tygart, Ohio, and Kanawha valleys, 1780-1793. Subjects include the settlement of Morgantown, Clarksburg, Williamstown, the Palatine tract, and Coburn's Fort; land surveys in Harrison County; trapping and hunting; road surveying; and Indian warfare.
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William Rice Research Papers regarding West Virginia Genealogy and Other Topics, 1975/2015 20 Linear Feet 20 ft. (16 record cartons, 15 in. each)

Rice, William (Bill)
Historical research material collected by William Rice from ca. 1975-2015, mostly relating to the history of western Virginia and southeastern West Virginia, the Upper Potomac River basin, and particularly Elkins and Randolph County. There are three record series including subject files (boxes 1-4), miscellaneous research files (boxes 4-5), and family histories (boxes 5-16). Subject files are arranged alphabetically and cover many topics ranging from early settlement, the formation of cities and counties, wars, etc. Miscellaneous research files regard the War of 1812 and the Civil War in connection with western Virginia, among other material. Family history files are arranged alphabetically by last name; they document mostly eighteenth-century settlers of what was once Augusta County, Virginia.
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