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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], United States Leather Company Records, A&M 0864, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
Legal records belonging to the United States Leather Company of Marlinton, W. Va., made up mostly of general warranty deeds for tannery sites in and around Marlinton and Pocahontas County. Also includes tax receipts, letters of transmittal, and a few property agreements.
Container List
Forms: Typescript; Persons: E.M. Arbogast, Mayor; Places: Marlinton, WV; Subjects: Resolution and other vacating streets
1902 July 29
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: E.M. Arbogast and wife, G.C. Mohn and wife, and W.A. Bratton and wife to the US Leather
Co.; Places: Marlinton, WV; Subjects: Deed for tannery site at Durbin, WV
1902 August 15
Forms: Typescript and agreement; Persons: O.W.S. Gum and wife to the US Leather Co.; Places: Marlinton, WV; Subjects: Deed
for water right
1902 August 19
Forms: Typescript and Blueprint; Persons: Pocahontas Development Co. to the US Leather Co.; Places: Grafton, WV; Subjects:
Deed and plat for land for tannery in Marlinton
1902 September 30
1903 January 3
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: E.N. Moore [Sheriff] to W.A. Bratton, and Smith and Whiting to the US Leather Co.; Places:
Marlinton, WV; Subjects: Notice that taxes have been paid and deed for 116 acres of land
1903 March 17, 1903 March 19
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: John L. Hechmer and wife to the US Leather Co.; Places: Grafton, WV; Subjects: General
warranty deed for land
1903 March 26
Forms: Typescript, deed, and typed letter signed; Persons: Pocahontas Development Co.; [John T. McGraw, 
President ] to the US Leather Co., and W.A. Bratton [Attorney] to the US Leather Co.; Places: Grafton; Subjects: Deed for seven lots
in the town of Marlinton and Letter of transmittal concerning the property
1904 June 22, undated
President ] to the US Leather Co., and W.A. Bratton [Attorney] to the US Leather Co.; Places: Grafton; Subjects: Deed for seven lots
in the town of Marlinton and Letter of transmittal concerning the property
Forms: Printing; Persons: E.N. Moore, Sheriff to Pocahontas Development Co.; Places: Edray District, Pocahontas County, WV;
Subjects: Tax receipt
1904
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: C.E. White to the US Leather Co.; Places: Buckhannon, WV; Subjects: General warranty
deed for land
1904 October 13
Forms: Typescript; Persons: John Alexander; Places: Marlinton, WV; Subjects: Resolution concerning deliquent land purchased
by the US Leather Co.
1904 December 12
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: The US Leather Co. to A.E. Smoth and James A. Whiting; Places: New York, NY; Subjects:
General warranty deed for land
1904 December 21
Forms: Printing; Persons: Pocahontas Development Co. by Samuel Sheets; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Receipt for money
for redemption of lands
1905 April 19
Forms: Printing; Persons: Pocahontas Development Co. by Samuel Sheets; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Certificate of redemption
of lands
1905 April 19
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: Rella F. Yeagar, et. al., to the US Leather Co.; Places: Marlinton, WV; Subjects: Deed
for land
1905 June 2
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: Lonie T. Dean and wife to the US Leather Co.; Places: Marlinton, WV; Subjects: General
warranty deed for land
1905 June 13
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: Lonie T. Dean and wife to the US Leather Co.; Places: Marlinton, WV; Subjects: General
warranty deed for land
1905 June 13
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: Pocahontas Development Co. to the US Leather Co.; Places: Grafton, WV; Subjects: General
warranty deed for land
1905 June 13
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: Lonie T. Dean and wife to the US Leather Co.; Places: Marlinton, WV; Subjects: General
warranty deed for land
1905 June 13
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: Allie F. Patterson and James F. Patterson to the US Leather Co.; Places: Marlinton, WV;
Subjects: Deed for land
1905 July 7
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: J.A. Sharp and wife to the US Leather Co.; Places: Marlinton, WV; Subjects: General warranty
deed for land
1906 January 19
Forms: Typescript and order; Persons: Anonymous; Places: Marlinton [?], WV; Subjects: Order from the Town Council closing
streets for the US Leather Co.
1906 May 5
Forms: Typescript and deed; Persons: Union Tanning Co. to J.W. Goodsell; Places: New York, NY; Subjects: Deed for land
1913 April 29
Forms: Typed letter signed; Persons: Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. to Union Tanning Co.; Places: Fairmont, WV;
Subjects: Letters of transmittal
1931 March 24
Forms: Typescript and agreement; Persons: Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. to Union Tanning Co.; Places: Fairmont,
WV; Subjects: License or agreement for anchor and guy wire at Marlinton, WV (Greenbrier Tannery)
1931 February 7
Forms: Typed letter signed and carbon copy; Persons: S.N. Henoh to Mr. Roland H. Zinn, Comptroller, Union Tanning Co.; Places:
Marlinton, WV; Subjects: Concerns deeds and leases on file at the company's office in Marlinton
1940 October 29