0.8 Linear Feet, Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)
Creator
Ganoe, Lloyd B.
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
The collection consists of correspondence, business and legal papers, family photographs, clippings, and account books of
Zebulon and Eli Musgrave and Daniel and William L. Turney of Fairmont, West Virginia. Aside from family and business affairs
and estate settlements, subjects include Missouri frontier life and society in 1836; strife at Lecompton, Kansas School Territory,
in 1857; local history of the Fairmont area; and Fairmont Normal School. About 2 ins. of material concerns coal mining, including
account books showing coal prices for the Monongahela Gas and Coal Co. of West Virginia and papers concerning production of
gas from coal.
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Conditions Governing Access
No special access restriction applies.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Lloyd B. Ganoe, Collector, Papers, A&M 1229, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.