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Courtney Family Papers
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Abstract
- 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 1629 Courtney Family Papers, 1804-1920. Papers of a Monongalia County, West Virginia, farm family residing near Maidsville include: the farm account books of John and John J. Courtney, 1831-1877; family Bible records and photographs; college essays of Alpheus Courtney, a West Virginia University student; manuscript ciphering book, 1817; diary of Ulysses J. Courtney, 1878-1883 (7 vols.) pertaining to lumbering, farming, and livestock operations, and community religious and social life; correspondence; steamboat bills of lading, invoices of mercantile stores; Civil War bounty receipts; a record of lumbering operations, 1878; and records of the Bethel (Methodist) Church. Subjects include the construction of the Monongahela Valley Railroad; frontier conditions in Iowa; Morgantown Bridge Company; and Methodism within the Baltimore and West Virginia conferences. Correspondents include Alston G. Dayton.
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- Account books.
Civil War -- Bounty receipts
Diaries and journals.
Farms and farming.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Livestock.
Lumber trade.
Methodist church buildings.
Bois Commerce.
Églises méthodistes.
Account books.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Livestock.
Lumber trade.
Methodist church buildings.
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- Notes :
- 1804
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1194953000