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Language
English
Abstract
Correspondence, financial records, and insurance papers of Lewisburg attorney and politician, John A. Preston. Much of the
collection deals with the 1901 fire at the Lewisburg Female Institute, for which Preston was a trustee and secretary-treasurer.
Related A&M collections include those of Preston relatives, John J. Davis, John J. D. Preston, and Samuel Price as well as
the Roy Bird Cook Collection.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], John A. Preston, Attorney and Politician, Papers, A&M 3114, West Virginia
and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.