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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers, A&M 1015, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings, mainly from Doddridge and Harrison county, concerning marriages, deaths, family histories, letters from World War I service men, nurses, and from former residents who had moved, or gone to other states to teach, including a series of letters from L.P. Willis from the Phillippine Islands and Japan. Mr.Willis was employed as a teacher and Head Of the Bureau of Education in Japan, and the Phillipines for twenty years. Also, included in the collection are tax and school tuition receipts, orders,unsigned copy of Thomas Hickman's will, deed and other papers of several members of the Hickman family of Harrison county. A photostat copy of a form letter from the State Medical Society Committee on Examination of the Medical Botany of the State addressed to Dr.P. Davis from Wheeling, 1868.

Related Material

1015, 1018

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Birth, marriage, and death records.
• Botany
• Doddridge County (W. Va.)
• Floods
• Genealogy
• Harrison County (W. Va.)
• Hickman family
• Japan
• Medical Society of the State of West Virginia
• Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine.
• Philippines
• Teachers
• Weather
• Willis, L.P.
• Women's history -- 1800-1849
• Women's history -- 1850-1899
• Women's history -- 1900-1929
• Women's history -- 1929-1950
• Women's history -- 1951-present
• Women's history -- Pre-1800
• World War, 1914-1918