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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Adolphus P. Howard Papers, A&M 0517, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Includes business and personal correspondence, accounts, legal papers, bank statements, maps, etc. Business correspondence, 1850-1938, include letters concerning A. P. Howard's various business enterprises; farm, livestock, fruit and produce, Wellsville, Ohio; printing firm, Columbus, Ohio; tannery, Corry, Penna.; bank and metal works, Pittsburgh, PA; farm, Congo, WV; subscription agent in Wellsville, Ohio for National Era, Washington, D.C. Earlier letters are to A. G. DeSellem, an uncle, including several concerning missionary work and anti-slavery activities; mention is made of several colleges, Western Reserve, Oberlin, and a school in Albany.

Personal correspondence, 1853-1912, includes family letters from J.F. Howard, father, J.W. Howard, cousin; and Frank, Carl, Perle, and Homer, sons. Also, some letters from A.P. Howard to his sons and his wife. Several regarding his service in Civil War; choice of site and inscription for a monument to the 15th Pennsylvania, Cavalry.

Legal papers include inventory and appraisement of William Taggart's estate. Map of Chicago during Columbia Exposition.

Related Material

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Abolition of slavery
• American Missionary Association
• Banks and banking
• Chicago (Ill.)
• Columbus (Ohio)
• Congo (W. Va.)
• DeSellem, A.G.
• Farms and farming.
• Howard family
• Howard, Adolphus P.
• Howard, John F.
• J.W. and A. P. Howard Company
• Livestock
• Missionaries
• Ohio
• Pittsburgh (Pa.)
• Printers and printing.
• Taggart, William
• Wellsville (Ohio)
• Women's history -- 1850-1899