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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.

0452: Pauline Fairfax Plaques, 1984 And 1986, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, public school teacher; member of Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee. This collection is composed of two plaques, one from the First Baptist Church of Huntington on March 31, 1984, and the second from the Black History Month Committee at Marshall in 1986. The bulk of Mrs. Fairfax' papers went to West Virginia State College, Institute, West Virginia.

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

0451: Savage Grant Cabell Co. Clerk Recrods, 1754-1929, Marshall University Special Collections

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Descriptions of the sixty-one lots that made up the original Savage land grant.

0463: William D. Birke Papers, 1925-1973, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia newspaper publisher. Collection includes scrapbooks, photographs, certificates and an autograph letter signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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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

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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

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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.

0456: William Denman Papers, 1974-1986, Marshall University Special Collections

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Marshall University speech professor; director of Yeager Scholars program. Papers consist of newspaper clippings and other materials related to the Kanawha County textbook controversy in 1974. Includes correspondence from the American Civil Liberties Union, for which Dr. Denman served as West Virginia state coordinator; also notes for an article for Free Speech Yearbook (1976).

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.

0454: George Joachim Papers, 1832-1865, Marshall University Special Collections

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Member, 7th Ohio Battery, Light Artillery. Papers include photoreproductions of passport (German), promotion and discharge papers, a diary from the Civil War(1862-1864, includes siege of Vicksburg), and a letter to his wife in German from Camp Benton Post Hospital in St. Louis.

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.

0457: L. Beryl Cottrill Papers, 1942-1946, Marshall University Special Collections

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Salesman for Midland Grocery Company of Portsmouth, Ohio. Papers consist of change sheets--instructions and admonitions about the sale of the products. Notable for comments and insight into rationing and pricing during the Second World War.