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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Campbell Family Papers, A&M 1321, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Account book, 1856-1901, of James Wilson Campbell. Includes estate settlement of his father, James L. Campbell, Cattle pedigrees, and various accounts, including some kept in James L.'s hand. Correspondence, 1866-1899 concerns family affairs, business, and there is one letter from a cousin at Marietta College, 1866, telling of geological field trip through the Wood, Ritchie, Pleasants, oil district of W. Va. School notes on mathematics and surveying of James Wilson Campbell, ca. 1854-1859; Misc. papers, notes, accounts, etc.

Related Material

1265, 1321

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Arden (W. Va.)
• Berkeley County (W. Va.)
• Campbell family
• Campbell, James L.
• Campbell, James Wilson.
• Country stores.
• Farms and farming.
• Geology
• Lawyers - letters and papers.
• Marietta College
• Petroleum industry and trade
• Plantations
• Surveyors and surveying.
• Wood-Ritchie-Pleasants oil district.