2.3 Linear Feet, Summary: 2 ft. 4 in. (3 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (3 flat storage boxes,
3 1/2 in. each)
Creator
Scott-Palmer family.
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/
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Scott-Palmer Family Papers, A&M 1458, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Family papers of school master Theodore Scott (1805-1877); his daughter Saida Scott Palmer, a music teacher; her husband,
Jewett Palmer, Civil War officer, local Republican official, and mayor of Marietta; and his daughters, Winifred and Muriel,
a concert contralto. Includes correspondence, letter books, diaries, school registers and reports, scrapbooks, genealogical
records, and theatre and opera programs.
Topics include Scott's teaching career at Portsmouth, Ohio (1836); Marietta, Ohio, and the Western Liberal Institute (1838-1872);
and Williamstown, West Virginia (1872-1875). Additional topics include the Marietta Universalist Society; temperance; the
effect of the secession crisis on New York financial interests; General Dumont's fight with John Hunt Morgan in 1862; Republican
politics in Ohio, 1874-1890; civil service reform; veterans' affairs of the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and the musical
career of Muriel Palmer and social life in Now York, 1888-1890, as reflected in her letters to her family.
Correspondents include Leonard Scott, G. T. Flanders, and Achille Errani. Jewett Palmer's copy book, kept while he was Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue at Marietta, contains letters to Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, Nathan Goff, Rufus R.
Dawes, and Nelson Holmes Van Voorhes.
Series 2. Jewett Palmer Papers (and Saida Scott Palmer)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 ca. 1861-1915
Mixed Materials Box: 3
Parchment copying book (outgoing letters of Palmer while Deputy Collector for United States Internal Revenue, collector's
office 15, district Ohio)
1878–1887
Mixed Materials Box: 3
Scrapbook containing clippings and other items related to the Civil War, Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), and Civil War
veterans and reunions. Clippings include information about the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and other Marietta, Ohio soldiers,
historical accounts of the regiment's involvement at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge, excerpts from the diary
of Sergeant John T. Booth chronicling early war actions in northern West Virginia, and clippings about the death and funeral
of General George Crook. Also contains a recruitment poster for the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Clippings are within a Mark
Twain Patent Scrapbook, published by Daniel Slote and Co.
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