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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Hubbard Family Papers, A&M 0805, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Papers, mainly correspondence, of the Hubbard family of New Haven and Litchfield, Connecticut and Wheeling, West Virginia. There are several hundred letters which document the growth of the family and its business enterprises in Wheeling. Correspondents include Gad Smith, Dana Hubbard, Chester D. Hubbard, General John Hubbard, Roger Dorman, H Moran, William P. Hubbard, Dana L. Hubbard, Stephen B. Elkins, John W. Mason, and Waitman T. Willey.

There are a number of letters written in Wheeling which comment on the statehood movement and the Civil War activities in the city; and a typescript, "Reminiscences of His Schoolboy Days," by Joseph Bell (1819-1900), describes the early nineteenth century Wheeling.

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Bell, Joseph.
• Connecticut
• Dorman, Roger
• Education
• Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911
• Hubbard family
• Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891
• Hubbard, Dana L.
• Hubbard, Gen. John.
• Hubbard, William P.
• Land.
• Mason, John W.
• Moran, H
• Schools. SEE ALSO Academies
• Smith, Gad
• Statehood politics -- West Virginia
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• Wheeling (W. Va.)
• Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900