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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Felix G. Hansford Papers, A&M 1464, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, business and legal papers, and Justice of the Peace documents of Felix G. Hansford, Kanawha County J.P., entrepreneur, and President of the Giles, Fayette, and Kanawha Turnpike.

Subjects include the George Boxley slave plot, 1816; cholera in Louisville, 1833; Missouri and westward expansion, 1841; the Kansas struggle, 1858; Albert Gallatin's western lands; and the impact of John Brown's 1859 raids on the South. Correspondents include Albert Gallatin, J. M. Maury, Edward H. Smith, Edward Herndon, William R. Finn, and Thomas E. Jackson.

Related Material

1089, 1192, 1464

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Church buildings
• Clifton.
• Epidemics
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849
• George Boxley
• Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike Company
• Hansford, Felix G.
• Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859
• Herndon, Edward
• Jackson, Thomas E.
• James River and Kanawha Turnpike Company
• Justices of the peace
• Kanawha County (W. Va.)
• Kanawha River (W. Va.)
• Kanawha Valley.
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Land.
• Louisville (Ky.)
• Maury, J.M.
• Mills and mill-work
• Missouri
• Point Pleasant (Mason County, W. Va.)
• Politics and government.
• Rivers and river valleys.
• Slaves and slavery.
• Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868
• Transportation
• Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads.
• Western expansion