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0255: Catherine Bliss Enslow Papers, 1890-1972, Marshall University Special Collections

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Personal and family papers comprise a large portion of this collection. Miss Enslow collected numerous newspaper and magazine clippings on a variety of subjects, especially those dealing with socially prominent individuals on the local, national, and international levels. Too, she saved many items of correspondence between members of her family. Magazines, booklets, scrapbooks, and books are also included in this part of the collection. Most notable among the books is the Kelly Family Bible, which belonged to her maternal ancestors.

Copies of many of her columns and articles are included, along with other items relating to her career as a …

0279: Francis L. Mcculloch Typescript, University Special Collections

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This collection consists of a copy of “The Family of Thomas Kincade of Mason County, West Virginia” manuscript by Francis L. McCulloch in 1979. It is an annotated lineage of Thomas Kincade’s descendants.

0265: David O. Ryan Collection, 1872-1900, Marshall University Special Collections

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The collection consists of two volumes of Logan County, West Virginia vital records. The first volume contains Logan County births, 1872-1900 while the second volume contains primarily Logan County Marriages for 1872-1900. The Marriages volume also contains Logan County Wills and Inventories, Etc., 1873-1900, Logan County Deaths, 1872-1873-1885, as well as limited family bible records for the Dingess family.

0274: Thornburg Family Papers, 1889-1960, Marshall University Special Collections

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Pioneer Cabell County, West Virginia, family. Primarily papers of Charles William Thornburg (1866-1960); personal account book (1889-1891), death certificate and newspaper clippings.