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0460: Jeanette Pemberton Collection, 1793-1990, Marshall University Special Collections
0460: Jeanette Pemberton Collection, 1793-1990, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection contains materials compiled by Jeannette Pemberton in her life of collecting sheet music, ephemera, and books. The collection contains manuscript and printed sheet music ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1940s as well as fourteen books on a range of topics, mostly English grammar, from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Also included are cassette and VHS tapes of interviews between Susan Pavlovic and Jeanette Pemberton as well as ephemera such as event invitations, concert programs, souvenir movie programs. Some books and sheet music have names of individuals from the Adams family as well as other names.
0453: 1860 Census Of Lewis Co., W.Va., Marshall University Special Collections
0453: 1860 Census Of Lewis Co., W.Va., Marshall University Special Collections
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Original of records presented to the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Library by Martha Metz and Linda Camp of the Blennerhasset Chapter NSDAR, Parkersburg, West Virginia
0461: Fruth Family Papers, 1616-1980, Marshall University Special Collections
0461: Fruth Family Papers, 1616-1980, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection primarily consists of genealogical information about the Fruth family in the form of compiled family records from Germany and American and brief sketch of the history of the family. Other notable materials include copies of the Charleston, West Virginia, “Saucer News”, the “official publication of the saucer and unexplained celestial events research society”, between 1965 and 1968. Also included in the “Campaign material” folder are newspaper clippings and ephemera related to UFOs, Jay Rockefeller’s 1980 WV gubernatorial campaign, other regional campaigns and elections circa 1980, and bumper stickers and clippings related to Bob Fruth’s bid for Sherriff of …
0464: Barbour Co., W.Va. Will Abstracts, 1843-1882, Marshall University Special Collections
0464: Barbour Co., W.Va. Will Abstracts, 1843-1882, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection includes abstracts taken from volume 1.5 of a Barbour County, Virginia (later West Virginia) will book for the dates 1843 to 1882. Fields abstracted include name, residence, death and probate dates, and spouse, sons, and daughters, as well as other names mentioned. Also included is an index of wills found in the book.
0465: Nsdar James Wood Chapter Typescript, 1964, Marshall University Special Collections
0465: Nsdar James Wood Chapter Typescript, 1964, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection includes transcriptions of the markers found in the Williamstown Cemetery in Williamstown, West Virginia for the dates 1858 to 1924. An index of names is included. This project was undertaken by the James Wood Chapter of the National Society for the Daughters of the American Revolution, located in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
0467: Berlin Basil Chapman Papers, 1942-1980, Marshall University Special Collections
0467: Berlin Basil Chapman Papers, 1942-1980, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection primarily consists of publications by or contributed to by Berlin Basil Chapman. These publications relate to his interests in West Virginia and Oklahoma history, as well as Chapman genealogy. Also included are photographs of Webster Springs High School Alumni and newsclippings about various speeches given by Chapman. Notable in the collection is a microfilm copy of a manuscript titled “Teaching Soldiers American History Under Direction of the War Department, 1943-1944” Secret Papers Revealed, 1978.
0459: Campbell Family Genealogy, 1818-1971, Marshall University Special Collections
0459: Campbell Family Genealogy, 1818-1971, Marshall University Special Collections
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Genealogy of Huntington and Monroe County, West Virginia family; includes Ratliff family of Wayne County, West Virginia and Johnson family of Monroe County, West Virginia.