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Related A&M Collections
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers, A&M 1086, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
The papers include 36 volumes of business and other records, such as the ledgers of the George W. Brinkman merchandising firm, the Mutual Building Company, minutesof the Grafton Rotary Club; journal and statistical report of the Grafton Baptist Church, 1897-1906; and a mas. history of Taylor County in various American wars, and extracts from the Civil War diary of Fabricius A. Cather. Also included are 2 boxes of financial records, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, a partial index to scrapbooks, and a family genealogy. There are also 49 volumes of clipping scrapbooks dealing with Grafton and Taylor County subjects covering the period 1868-1938.
Related Material
111, 1086
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Account books
- Baptists
- Birth, marriage, and death records.
- Brinkman, Charles.
- Brinkman, George W.
- Broadsides.
- Builders and contractors.
- Cather, Fabricius A.
- Cemeteries -- National Cemetery
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Grafton
- Diaries and journals.
- General stores
- Grafton Rotary Club
- Grafton.
- Lewisburg (W. Va.)
- Matlick, Jacob G.
- Memorial Day
- Mutual Building Company
- Pruntytown (W. Va.)
- Railroads
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
- Taylor County (W. Va.)
- Transportation
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
- Wheeling (W. Va.)
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Brinkman, Charles.
- Brinkman, George W.
- Cather, Fabricius A.
- Matlick, Jacob G.
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Grafton.
- Lewisburg (W. Va.)
- Pruntytown (W. Va.)
- Taylor County (W. Va.)
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
- Wheeling (W. Va.)