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Company E was also known as the Greenbrier or Lewisburg Rifles.
Identified: James Ewing, Lousie Underwell, Governor Fleming (back row, far right), Gypsy Fleming, Fay Hartley, Brad Clarkson.
John Brown's Fort was used to store fertilizer in 1909.
Image from 'Industrial and Picturesque Clarksburg, W. Va.' published by the Press of the Clarksburg Telegram Company, Printers and Publishers, Clarksburg, W. Va., 1911.
Image from 'Industrial and Picturesque Clarksburg, W. Va.' published by the Press of the Clarksburg Telegram Company, Printers and Publishers, Clarksburg, W. Va., 1911.
Portrait of Confederate Veterans in Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia. All persons are identified only as Confederate Veterans. The photograph was donated to Stephen Trail by the Hinton Daily News, 6/17/1996. The photograph was donated to the newspaper by Blanche Callaham, American History teacher at Hinton High School.
The Holt family gathered in front of their Christmas tree.
Cars are parked on Adams and Madison Streets in Fairmont, West Virginia during the big snow storm of 1950.
Group portrait of West Virginia University College of Pharmacy students visiting  Calco Chemical Plant in Willow Island, W. Va. See A&M 977 for correspondence regarding this trip. Kneeling:  Robert Lewis, Donald Douglas, Samuel Argentine, Benton Smith, William Hammett; Standing: William Shumate, Rudy Harman, Robert Robinson, Jack Riggs, Herbert Rothlisberger, Calco Rep.
Members of the family pictures on the porch and steps of the house.
A man on a horse sits on top of a hill, where below there are stonemasons cutting into the rock.
President Harlow with a man at a top of steps located between Mountainlair and Stewart Hall.
Photo taken by Gravely & Moore.
Not to be used for commercial purposes before 1985/04/01.
Ancella Bickley alongside another speaker at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Harpers Ferry National Historical Park convention.
Ancella Bickley speaking at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Harpers Ferry National Historical Park convention.
Ancella Bickley speaking at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Harpers Ferry National Historical Park convention.
'Sam Church, president of the United Mine Workers, right, sits across the bargaining table from B.R. 'Bobby' Brown, president, Consol. Coal Co. and chief negotiator for the soft coal industry as contract talks resume Monday in Washington. The negotiators are battling a midnight deadline in the search for a tentative contract settlement in hopes of averting a nationwide strike. (AP Laserphoto_ (see AP AAA wire story0 9tim21205stf/daugherty) 1981 slug : Coal Talks.'
President Taft appears to be a painting that Mr. Kelley is standing in front of. Back of postcard reads: "Mr N. Stealey. Dear Sir, I come through All O.K. I want to have a big time with Bill for a day or two. You can keep that quiet. Yours truly, I. M. Kelley."
Positions of Batteries on Cemetery Ridge. Gettysburg Military Park, PA.Dedicated on September 28, 1898.Front of monument reads: "Sons of the Mountains7th W Va VeteranRomney to Appomattox1st Brigade Carroll 3rd Division 2nd Corps.At dusk July 2nd Carroll’s Brigade was ordered by General Hancock to this point. On arriving there we found the Battery about to be taken charge of by the enemy who were in large force. Whereupon we immediately charged on the enemy and succeeded in completely routing their entire force and driving them beyond our lines."Image from 1965 thesis, "The Seventh West Virginia Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865"
Young people stand on the edge of the Little Kanawha River.
"Miss Pearl Buck dances with Theodore F. Harris, executive director of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation."
Back of photo reads: Nathan Stealey was an undertaker in Clarksburg, W. Va. Had one daughter, Mary Elizabeth.
Left to right, men in hats: Hubert Carlin Simms, C.F. Miliar, C.I. Sharpenburg, C.D. Billingsley (All of Standard Oil Co.), Guy Lombardo, Mayor Gordon P. Fought, City Manager R. T. Kemper. Taken shortly after the Mayor welcomed Guy Lombardo to Wheeling. Lombardo's Royal Canadians played a one day engagement at the Capital Theater. The tour of the Esso Marketers was sponsored by the Standard Oil Co.
Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, her husband Richard Walsh and Buck's Danish publisher Halfdan Jespersen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
'This reproduction of Stanley Arthur's painting depicts the stirring scene of Woodstock on January 28, 1776, when Rev. Peter Muhlenburg, at the close of a patriotic sermon, threw aside his clerical robe and revealed the uniform of a Continental colonel. His text was from Eccl. 3: 1-8, "There is a time to every purpose under heaven..time of war, and a time of peace." While holding forth his commission in the army he declared the time to fight had come. He then raised the English Virginia Regiment, famous as the German Regiment, and served conspicuously throughout the Revolutionary War.'
An engraving of Fort Henry in Wheeling, West Virginia.
James Rumsey was the inventor of the first steamboat.
Caroline Margaret Watson (d. 6/19/1931) is a daughter of James Otis and Matilda Lamb Watson.
Interior view of a room dedicated to raising and housing poultry.
Print of a painting by Gilbert Stuart of John Randolph, a Virginia Congressman and Senator, 1799-1833. A strong states rights advocate, he renounced "creeping nationalism". Randolph also served as Minister to Russia under President Andrew Jackson.
Gideon Draper Camden born in Montgomery County, Md., August 31, 1805 was son of Rev. Henry Camden who moved to Harrison County W. Va. early in the 19th century.  Camden was an uncle of U. S. Senator Johnson N. Camden. He was Pros. Attorney of Randolph County in 1837 and Judge of Circuit Court of Randolph County in 1851.
Sketch of Lorenzo Dow at age 39 in 1816. Dow was an eccentric itinerant American Preacher, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He was also a fierce abolitionist whose sermons were often unpopular in the southern United States, and he was frequently threatened with violence. He was also an important figure in the Second Great Awakening, as well as a successful writer.
Portrait of Eliza Peters Byrnside (1816-1868) created circa 1850 by Sidney A. Sherrard of Peterstown, W. Va.
Map showing businesses and industries in Lewisburg.
Chapter 20, page 224.