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0418: Whittaker-Glanville Family Papers, 1856-1985, Marshall University Special Collections
0418: Whittaker-Glanville Family Papers, 1856-1985, Marshall University Special Collections
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Papers consist primarily of diaries, newspaper clippings, correspondence, genealogies and photographs of five families: the Glanville-Carter families of St. Louis, Mo.; the Whittakers of Preble County, Ohio; Dorothy Whittaker Atkins of Huntington, West Virginia.; and the Heacocks of Bucks County, Penna.
A significant part of the collection are the diaries of Annie Heacock, a teacher at the Penn School for freed slaves in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1864-1869. Other diaries include the Civil War diary of John Whittaker, a surgeon in the 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Whittaker-Glanville …
0421: Benjamin Ronk Papers, 1862-1907, Marshall University Special Collections
0421: Benjamin Ronk Papers, 1862-1907, Marshall University Special Collections
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Sergeant, 7th West Virginia Cavalry Volunteers in the Civil War. Typed transcript of diary and pension papers issued to mother at death of subject in army hospital, 1864.