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The "View now" link directs to the finding aid only. Please email wvrhcref@mail.wvu.edu or call 304-293-3536 for more information about accessing collection A&M 0515 Adolphus P. Howard Papers, 1854-1904. Includes the wills of A. P. Howard, Corry, Pennsylvania; 1897, and Sarah H. Howard, Wellsville, N. Y., correspondence, reports, leases, tax receipts, and mortgage. Information on J. W. Howard and Hugh H. McCullough estates. Copy of Bradstreet's report on the University Company of Olympia, Washington and J. R. Chaplin, manager of the Company. Also, report on various business enterprises and financial standing of A. P. Howard. Some correspondence of Edward Spencer and tax receipts for land in Kansas. One copy of "The Practical Engineer," John Wallace, Pittsburgh, Penna., 1865, and one copy of "The Popular Educator," Vols. III and IV, London, N. C.

The "View now" link directs to the finding aid only. Please email wvrhcref@mail.wvu.edu or call 304-293-3536 for more information about accessing collection A&M 0517 Adolphus P. Howard Papers, 1850-1938. Includes business and personal correspondence, accounts, legal papers, bank statements, maps, etc. Business correspondence, 1850-1938, include letters concerning A. P. Howard's various business enterprises; farm, livestock, fruit and produce, Wellsville, Ohio; printing firm, Columbus, Ohio; tannery, Corry, Penna.; bank and metal works, Pittsburgh, Penna.; farm, Congo, W. Va.; subscription agent in Wellsville, Ohio for National Era, Washington, D. C. Earlier letters are to A. G. DeSellem, an uncle, including several concerning missionary work and anti-slavery activities, mention is made of several colleges, Western Reserve, Oberlin and a school in Albany. Personal correspondence, 1853-1912, includes family letters from J. F. Howard, father, J. W. Howard, cousin; and Frank, Carl, Perle and Homer, sons. Also, some letters from A. P. Howard to his sons and his wife. Several regarding his service in Civil War; choice of site and inscription for a monument to the 15th Penna., Cavalry. Legal papers include inventory and appraisement of Wm. Taggart's estate. Map of Chicago during Columbia Exposition.

The "View now" link directs to the finding aid only. Please email wvrhcref@mail.wvu.edu or call 304-293-3536 for more information about accessing collection A&M 0511 Adolphus P. Howard Papers, 1866. Articles of co-partnership between Adolphus Howard and J. Wilson Howard, Wellsville, N. Y., and Adolphus P. Howard, Hancock County, West Virginia, for the establishment of a tannery.