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Language
English
Abstract
Letters of Phineas Chapin (1792-1857), and other family members in Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Clarksburg, West Virginia.
There are: intimate sketches of the social life of Clarksburg in the first half of the nineteenth century; descriptions of
a plantation house in Mississippi in 1860; and a few papers bearing on family business affairs, including cattle raising in
Harrison County.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Chapin Family Papers, A&M 0828, West Virginia and Regional History Center,
West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.