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    <abstract id="aspace_484ffb31617f0c5a5e91ad2f00a60a7b">Engineer and pioneer of the Griffithsville oil fields in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Freeman and William H. Yawkey were active in the development of oil and coal lands along the Guyandotte River and in Mason County, West Virginia. Correspondence concerns the Big Creek Development Co., Yawkey and Freeman Co., Ltd., Yawkey and Freeman Drilling Co., and Pond Creek Coal Co.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Charles H. Freeman, (1854-1919), Engineer, Letter Book, A&amp;M 1278, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <geogname source="local_LC">Griffithsville (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber=" http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058025" source="lcsh">Guyandotte River (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname source="ingest">Lincoln County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname source="ingest">Mason County.</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining.</subject>
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    <subject source="ingest">Rivers and river valleys.</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Big Creek Development Company</corpname>
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