1. Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers
- Subjects
- Birth, marriage, and death records., Botany., Floods., Genealogy., Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine., Teachers., Weather., Women's history -- 1800-1849, Faculty, Weather, Enseignants., Inondations., Temps (Météorologie), floods (natural events), teachers., weather., Botany, Floods, Genealogy, Teachers, Weather
- Abstract
The "View now" link directs to the finding aid only. Please email wvrhcref@westvirginia.libanswers.com or call 304-293-3536 for more information about accessing collection A&M 1015 Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers, 1778-1955. Newspaper clippings, mainly from Doddridge and Harrison county, concerning marriages, deaths, family histories, letters from World War I service men, nurses, and from former residents who had moved, or gone to other states to teach, including a series of letters from L.P. Willis from the Phillippine Islands and Japan. Mr.Willis was employed as a teacher and Head Of the Bureau of Education in Japan, and the Phillipines for twenty years. Also, included in the collection are tax and school tuition receipts, orders,unsigned copy of Thomas Hickman's will, deed and other papers of several members of the Hickman family of Harrison county. A photostat copy of a form letter from the State Medical Society Committee on Examination of the Medical Botany of the State addressed to Dr.P. Davis from Wheeling, 1868.