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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Letters, A&M 1577, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Letters from West Virginia's first Commissioner of Immigration to Governor John J. Jacobs and the Board of Public Works. Letters deal with political intrigues for the commissionership, the dissemination of the "West Virginia Handbook and Immigration Guide," and the publication of Diss Debar's "West Virginia Monitor and Real Estate Advertiser."

Related Material

1577, 1711

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss.
• Immigration.
• Jacob, John J.
• Land.
• West Virginia - politics.
• West Virginia. Board of Public Works
• West Virginia. Commissioner of Immigration