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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Hugh Sayre, Collector, Papers, A&M 2436, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, miscellaneous family papers, nineteenth century school records, ledgers, bank books, and memorabilia of Hugh F. Sayre and family of Parkersburg, Reedy, St. Marys and West Creek, West Virginia. Some material relates to oil and gas leases on the Sayre family farm and Sayre's invention of a scientific alphabet called EBDECORD.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Bank books
• Banks and banking
• Carter, G. W.
• Carter, Sarah A.
• Deeds and leases.
• Ebdecord.
• Education
• Estates and estate settlements.
• Gas industry
• Inventors and inventions.
• Ledgers.
• Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company
• Oil and Gas Industry and Fields.
• Parkersburg (W. Va.)
• Petroleum industry and trade
• Reedy (W. Va.)
• Roane County (W. Va.)
• Saint Marys (W. Va.)
• Sayre family
• Sayre, Agnes.
• Sayre, Daniel C. (Daniel Clemens), 1903-1956
• Sayre, Edward A.
• Sayre, Hugh F.
• Sayre, James H.
• Sayre, Mrs. Agnes (died 1901)
• Sayre, Mrs. Agnes (died 1953)
• Sayre, Mrs. Agnes.
• Sayre, Robert H.
• Schools. SEE ALSO Academies
• West Creek (W. Va.)
• Wood County (W. Va.)
• Woodyard, Ben A.
• Zero Oil Company