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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Richard Orr Curry (1931-1997), Collector, Papers, A&M 1203, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

West Virginia mountain tales by Richard Orr Curry; papers of Jacob W. Mathews, a merchant from Alvon; papers of Charles R. Mathews, judicial officer at New Helena, Nebraska; correspondence of Catherine White Hoke of Alvon pertaining to family affairs; papers of Jacob W. Mathews including correspondence pertaining to the Confederate "Immortal Six Hundred"; Confederate veteran affairs; business papers of the firm of Hoylman and Matthews; Charles Matthews papers consisting of essays, business receipts, and letters pertaining to farming in Missouri, 1867, emigration from West Virginia, the Farmer's Alliance, and the New Helena Literary Society; and a brochure of the Pence Spring Oil and Gas Company (Hinton, 1903).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Civil War - veterans - Confederate.
• Civil War -- Immortal Six Hundred
• Confederate States of America.
• Curry, Richard Orr
• Farms and farming - Farmer's Alliance.
• Farms and farming.
• Gas industry
• Hoke, Catherine White.
• Literature -- Societies, etc
• Mathews, Charles R.
• Mathews, Jacob W.
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• Pence Spring Oil and Gas Company
• Petroleum industry and trade