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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Siler Family Papers, A&M 2200, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase from (in process), (in process)

Scope and Contents

This is a collection of letters and documents tracing the personal and business life of an eastern panhandle West Virginia family. The papers concern a broad range of political, social, financial, and legal topics, particularly focusing on J. Hammond Siler, Jr., his parents, J. Hammond Siler, Sr. and Jessie Castleman Siler (residents of the Town of Bath better known as Berkeley Springs). Also includes correspondence and other papers from related families. Subjects include banking, the Civil War, the Episcopal church, secession of Virginia, Virginia Loyalty Oath, women's diaries, and women's letters and papers. A notable item in the collection is the diary of Anne Doyne Wolff Strother, wife of artist and writer David Hunter Strother, documenting a trip with husband and daughter Emily to New Orleans in 1857 (S2/Box 67, folder 1a).

Series include:

Series 1. J. Hammond Siler, Jr. (ca. 1848-1968), boxes S1/Box 1-S1/Box 50
Series 2. J. Hammond Siler, Sr. (ca. 1848-1968), boxes S2/Box 1-S2/Box 89
Series 3. Jessie Castleman Siler (ca. 1848-1968), boxes S3/Box 1-S3/Box 2
Series 4. A.C. Hammond (ca. 1848-1968), boxes S4/Box 1-S4/Box 4
Series 5. Ann R. Castleman (ca. 1848-1968), boxes S5/Box 1-S5/Box 2
Series 6. Photographs (ca. 1848-1968), box S6/Box 1
Series 7. Wrapped Packages (ca. 1848-1968), Wrapped Packages 1-26
Series 8. Oversize Material (ca. 1848-1968), box S8/Box 1

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• American Institute of Banking
• American Red Cross
• Armstrong, James D.
• Baltimore Trust Company
• Bank of Berkeley Springs - Banks and Banking.
• Banks and Banking - American Institute of Banking.
• Banks and Banking - Bank of Berkeley Springs.
• Banks and Banking - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
• Banks and Banking - Financial Public Relations Association.
• Banks and Banking - First Virginia Corporation.
• Banks and banking
• Berkeley Glass Sand Company -- Glass Sand Industry
• Berkeley Springs (W. Va.)
• Berkeley Springs Water Works and Improvement Co. -- Power Industry
• Bibles
• Blueprints
• Bonds -- Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia
• Bowling
• Bull and Bear Club
• Business correspondence
• Campbell family
• Castleman family - Genealogy
• Castleman, Ann Rebecca Isler.
• Castleman, Estelle.
• Castleman, Frank A.
• Castleman, Sarah Jane.
• Church schools -- Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.)
• Church schools -- Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.)
• Churches -- Episcopal
• Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia - Bonds.
• Civil War - political factions.
• Civil War -- Confederate letters
• Civil War -- Confederate newspapers
• Civil War -- Description
• Confederate States of America - secession crisis.
• Diaries and journals.
• Emerald Shillelagh Chowder and Marching Society, Inc.
• Episcopal Church - Churches.
• Estates and estate settlements.
• Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884
• Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - Banks and Banking.
• Financial Public Relations Association - Banks and Banking.
• First Virginia Corporation - Banks and Banking.
• Freemasons
• General stores - Hammond and Siler.
• Glass Sand Industry - Berkeley Glass Sand Company.
• Glass Sand Industry - Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation.
• Great Cacapon Silica Sand Company
• Hammond and Siler General Store.
• Hammond family - Genealogy
• Hammond, Allen C.
• Hammond, Cadet N.
• Hancock Steel Company - Steel.
• Hardin, Moses
• Hotee, John.
• Humphries family - Genealogy
• Insurance - V. E. Johnson Insurance Agency.
• Isler family - Genealogy
• Land - deeds and grants.
• Land Plat.
• Lawyers - letters and papers.
• Ledgers.
• Libraries - Morgan County Library.
• Magazines.
• Montgomery Ward
• Morgan County - Circuit Court.
• Morgan County Library - Libraries.
• Music - Sheet music.
• Northern Virginia Power Company - Power Industry.
• Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation - Glass Sand Industry.
• Poetry -- Nannie S. Castleman
• Poetry -- Nannie S. Castleman
• Political factions - Civil War.
• Politics - Secession of Virginia.
• Politics and government.
• Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
• Railroads - Western Maryland Railroad Company.
• Randolph, Emily Strother.
• Rhodes scholarships
• Rinehart, E. A.
• Rock Gap Coal and Mining Company - Stocks.
• Scrapbooks
• Sears, Roebuck and Company
• Secession of Virginia - Politics.
• Seiler family
• Seller family - Genealogy
• Shepard family - Genealogy
• Siler, J. Hammond Jr.
• Siler, J. Hammond Sr.
• Siler, Jessie Castleman.
• Siler, John T.
• Steel - Hancock Steel Company.
• Strother, Anne Doyne.
• Town of Bath, West Virginia - Berkeley Springs.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• Van Gosen, James D.
• Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates
• Whisner, Samuel.
• Widmyer, P. S.

Legacy Administrative Notes

missing; 2011/04/15; mrr

series 2, box 47, folder 13

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Legacy Formats

archives and manuscripts; photographs / postcards / prints / etc.