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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Fleming Family Papers, A&M 0638, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
Business and personal papers, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs of Benjamin Fleming (1806-1891), and his son Thurston Worth (b.1846), relating to various business enterprises carried on by the family in Fairmont. These included a large trade in manufacturing, importing and selling hats and furs, general merchandising, fertilizer and hardwood sales.
There are many letters and advertisements from eastern mercantile houses; bills of lading showing names of steamboats on the Ohio and Monongahela rivers; prices of current furs and skins; lottery advertisements from Delaware (1860) and Kentucky (1866); letters from family members attending schools in Morgantown (1863-1865); and correspondence reflecting Florence Fleming's interests in the W. Va. Humane Society and the placing of homeless children.
Writers of letters or persons mentioned include: David Fleming, Matthew Fleming, J. R. Moore, John McDonald, and W. T. Willey.
Related Material
638, 644
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Education
- Fairmont.
- Fleming family
- Fleming, Benjamin.
- Fleming, Florence.
- Fleming, Thurston Worth.
- Fur trade
- General stores
- Lumber trade
- Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
- Moore, J.R.
- Morgantown (W. Va.)
- Ohio River
- Orphans and orphanages.
- Rivers and river valleys.
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies
- Steamboats
- Transportation
- West Virginia Humane Society
- Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Fairmont.
- Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
- Morgantown (W. Va.)
- Ohio River