1.25 Linear Feet, 1 ft. 3 in. (3 document cases, 5 in. each)
Creator
Smith, L. Henry
Creator
Smith family
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
L. Henry Smith (b. circa 1805) was an attorney in Bruceton Mills, Preston County, West Virginia, in the mid-nineteenth century.
He and his wife, Martha, had nine children, including Lucian H. Smith (b. circa 1830) and William W. Smith (b. circa 1848).
Papers of the L. Henry Smith family chiefly include receipts, bills, notes, and letters from 1823 to 1878 and primarily concern
Henry Smith, Lucian Smith, and William Smith, though materials from other family members are included. Box 1 contains financial
materials for Jacob Smith from the 1830s and 1840s; receipts for purchases made by Henry Smith between the 1850s and 1870s
(mostly for sewing supplies such as fabric, trimmings, and lace); promissory notes; and other financial items. Box 2 contains
letters to various members of the Smith family from the 1850s to the 1870s. Topics chiefly include merchandising; Henry Smith's
legal and financial matters in Preston County; and news of friends and family in the Bruceton Mills and Uniontown, Pennsylvania,
areas. Several letters from the 1860s relate to buying blue cloth to make Civil War uniforms and substitutes in the Union
army. Letters from the late 1860s related to West Virginia University, where William Smith was a student. Box 3 contains miscellaneous
items primarily related to West Virginia politics in the 1870s and West Virginia Governor John Jeremiah Jacob.
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Conditions Governing Access
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], L. Henry Smith Family Papers, A&M 0019, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
L. Henry Smith (b. circa 1805) was an attorney in Bruceton Mills, Preston County, West Virginia, in the mid-nineteenth century.
He and his wife, Martha, had nine children, including Lucian H. Smith (b. circa 1830) and William W. Smith (b. circa 1848).
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