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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Charles L. Robinson, Collector, Papers of a Marion County Family, A&M
3924, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Clarence D. Robinson was the President of Monongahela Bank, which began business in 1903 (West Virginia Blue Book, 1918),
General Manager of Lambert Coal Company (Report of the State Board of Regents, 1916), and backed a venture to build a $300,000
theatre in Fairmont (Variety, 1922).
Papers collected by Charles L. Robinson, including business and family papers of Marion County businessman Clarence D. Robinson.
There are books, photographs, ephemera, scrapbook, ledgers, and artifact. Addendum of 2015/03/16 includes a stock certificate,
photographs of family members, a map of Fairmont, and scattered issues of Fairmont and Baltimore newspapers.
Book -- Fairmont City Directory (includes Fowler map of Fairmont attached to book)
1902
Mixed Materials Box: 1 unfoldered
Book -- "The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church"
1876
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Photographs -- Two pictures of Clarence D. Robinson; One Funerary Photo of Elizabeth Morris Robinson (who passed away in 1917)
ca. 1910-1917
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Photographs -- Four pictures of Charles Francis Robinson (son of Clarence and Elizabeth)
ca. 1905-1920
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Photographs -- Three Mounted Prints of Fairmont (including one of bridge); One Print of Bridge over River Ice; One Published
Photo of Bridge (1921)
ca. 1890-1900, 1921
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Photographs -- Two Photos of "Sicilian Thimble Club" (1908); One Photo of Eighth Grade Class (1915); One Photo of Cemetery,
Winchester, Virginia (undated)
1908, 1915, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Ephemera -- Receipt from Wheeling Store (1883); Certificate from Methodist Episcopal Church (undated); Humorous Broadside
Regarding Wedding (undated)
1883, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Ephemera -- Assessment from Palatine Lodge (1892); Program for Methodist Episcopal Dedication Week for New Church (1911);
Receipt for Building Supplies (undated)
1892, 1911, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Photograph of Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad Depot
1899/07/27
Mixed Materials Box: 2 unfoldered
Portrait Photograph of Clarence D. Robinson, Jr.
1927
Mixed Materials Box: 2 unfoldered
Scrapbook of Lizzie Barnes
ca. 1881
Mixed Materials Box: 2 unfoldered
Receipt Book (includes list of names)
1887
Mixed Materials Box: 2 unfoldered
Ledger (with label of "Coal Bank Book") (includes financial transactions, diary entries from "Palatine" dating from 1888-1889,
and brief comments regarding weather from 1910-1918)
1888-1918
Mixed Materials Box: 2 unfoldered
Ledger of Purchases (includes list of household goods)
1887-1890
Mixed Materials Box: 2 unfoldered
Ledger of Employee Accounts
1898
Mixed Materials Box: 2 unfoldered
Ledger of Purchases and/or Sales
ca. 1882-1883
Mixed Materials Box: 2 unfoldered
Ledger of Sales
1884-1886
Mixed Materials Box: 2 unfoldered
Artifact -- Purse from First National Bank of Fairmont
Stock Certificate for Harry P. Robinson's shares of Delmar Coal Company, Fairmont, WV
1 April 1920
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
Photograph of Blanche Boxwell Robinson, Charles F. Robinson, and Frank Barnes Robinson (Frank Robinson was State Senator for
Jefferson County, WV [1920] and was the oldest child of Charles Lee Robinson of Fairmont, WV)
1920
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
Photograph of Frank Barnes Robinson as a Young Man
ca. 1905
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
Photograph of Woman (writing on back reads: "grandfather [John?] Hoult's second wife. Mother of Thomas J. Hoult and William
W. Hoult. Grandmother of Lohman Hoult." Rebecca Jane Hoult was married to Francis H. Robinson, parents of Charles L. Robinson)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
Photograph of Ollie Cooper Barnes (wife of J. Walter Barnes, sister-in-law of Marie Elizabeth Barnes [who was wife of Charles
L. Robinson])
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
Photograph of Ella Robinson Sterling (wife of Dr. Albert W. Sterling, sister of Charles Lee Robinson)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3
Map Showing Extension of Fairmont, Marion County, WV (stamped first lot sale May 18th and 19th, 1892)
ca. 1892
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4
The West Virginian (name written in top margin: H. A. Bankhead
22 August 1872
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5
Fairmont West Virginian (name written at top: C. L. Robinson)
25 December 1885
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5
The Fairmont Index (F. H. Robinson as addressee)
13 July 1888
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5
The Fairmont Index (promoting the town of Fairmont, WV)
15 April 1892
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6
The Fairmont Index (discusses the Fairmont Development Company)
3 January 1894
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6
The Fairmont Index (Harry Pressley Robinson, History of Fairmont, WV; Harry P. Robinson was brother of Charles Lee Robinson)
26 June 1896
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7
Baltimore American (Baltimore, MD newspaper; article concerning William Howard Taft swearing in as president, autographed by Taft and Harry
Delmer Robinson, Sr. [donor's grandfather])
5 March 1909
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8
The Fairmont Times (article regarding Carnegie Heroes awards and first African-American recipient)
19 October 1907
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8
The Fairmont West Virginian (Barnes Family Reunion article)
1 September 1910
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9
The Fairmont West Virginian (Titanic information)
20 April 1912
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10
Baltimore American (3 issues concerning the sinking of the Titanic)
20-22 April 1912
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11
The Fairmont Times (special gravure section, bridge souvenir edition regarding New Concrete Bridge Dedication)
29 May 1921
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11
The West Virginian (articles regarding Another Black Hand Murder & Bridge Dedication [2 separate wrapped sections])
31 May 1921
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12
The Fairmont Times (2 copies of incomplete issue; tribute to Charles Lee Robinson from A. H. Jackson)
16 April 1922
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12
The West Virginian (article, Indictment of Coal Operators Threatened)
10 June 1922
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13
The West Virginian , National Publicity Edition (sections 2-4, featuring Clarence D. Robinson, brother of Charles L. Robinson)
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