Papers of Alfred P. James, 1946-1956.

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Papers of Alfred P. James, 1946-1956.

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This collection is comprised of the research notes and correspondence of Alfred P. James relating to his book The Ohio Company, its Inner History. The correspondence series documents James' communication with archivists and manuscript curators from institutions in the United States while in search of Ohio Company records. The transcriptions and research notes are typed copies of Ohio Company records dating between the 1741 and 1821. These transcriptions have annotations and other notes created by James for his research.

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University of Pittsburgh. United Faculty

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Throughout its history the University of Pittsburgh has received occasional support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the early 1960s it suffered an unprecedented fiscal crisis and sought a solution that linked it to the Commonwealth. On August 23, 1966, House Bill No. 2 of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania was signed and the University officially became state-related. From the description of State-related status of the University of Pittsburgh files, 1936-1983. (Universit...

James, Alfred Procter, 1886-

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Dr. Alfred P. James was a history professor at the University of Pittsburgh between 1918 and 1956. He taught briefly at the University of Arkansas and Ohio Wesleyan University previous to his appointment in Pittsburgh. James, a Rhodes Scholar, earned bachelor's degrees from Randolph-Macon College and Oxford University; master's degrees from Oxford and the University of Chicago; and a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. His primary interest was eighteenth and nineteenth century Virginia and Pe...

Ohio Company (1747-1779)

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The Ohio Company, founded in 1747, represented the trading and land prospecting interests of a handful of Virginia planters. Thomas Lee was appointed president, Nathaniel Chapman served as treasurer, and John Mercer was both secretary and general council. In that year, John Mercer's son, George Mercer, was appointed the company's representative in England. In 1748 the British Crown approved a land grant to the company to be administered by the Colony of Virginia. The grant covered the Ohio terri...