Papers, 1886-1954 (bulk 1930-1948).

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Papers, 1886-1954 (bulk 1930-1948).

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Primarily correspondence of Vause W. Marshall, antiquarian book and manuscript dealer, of Williamsport, W. Va., with owners, customers, and other book dealers. Marshall apparently travelled throughout West Virginia and western Virginia buying up old books and manuscripts, in turn sending out quotes to clients as far away as California. The bulk of the correspondence dates 1930-1931 and 1946-1948 and is very routine, although letters to other dealers provide insight into the mechanics of the book trade. Significant correspondents include Henry Ford (concerning purchases for his museum at Dearborn, Mich.), Clifford R. Myers (West Virginia State Archivist, concerning purchases for the State Archives), and Boyd B. Stutler (Civil War historian). Other materials include scattered records of Marshall as District Supervisor of the West Virginia Commission on Historic and Scenic Markers, chiefly correspondence with field researchers W.E. Crooks, Hattie W. Snydor, and Mynna Thruston (concerning potential marker sites and giving some local history, particularly of Mineral County, W. Va.).

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Thruston, Mynna

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West Virginia. Commission on Historic and Scenic Markers.

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

West Virginia. Dept. of Archives and History.

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Stutler, Boyd B. (Boyd Blynn), 1889-1970

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Marshall, Vause Webb, 1880-1954.

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Myers, Clifford R., 1886-1936.

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Snydor, Hattie W., 1888-

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Crooks, W. E.

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