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Language
English
Abstract
Papers of a Monongalia County, West Virginia, farm family residing near Maidsville include: the farm account books of John
and John J. Courtney, 1831-1877; family Bible records and photographs; college essays of Alpheus Courtney, a West Virginia
University student; manuscript ciphering book, 1817; diary of Ulysses J. Courtney, 1878-1883 (7 vols.) pertaining to lumbering,
farming, and livestock operations, and community religious and social life; correspondence; steamboat bills of lading, invoices
of mercantile stores; Civil War bounty receipts; a record of lumbering operations, 1878; and records of the Bethel (Methodist)
Church. Subjects include the construction of the Monongahela Valley Railroad; frontier conditions in Iowa; Morgantown Bridge
Company; and Methodism within the Baltimore and West Virginia conferences. Correspondents include Alston G. Dayton.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Courtney Family Papers, A&M 1629, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.