Papers of the Davenport family [manuscript], 1838-1912.

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Clay, Martha S. Papers of the Davenport family [manuscript], 1838-1912.

Papers of the Davenport family [manuscript], 1838-1912.

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The collection consists chiefly of notebooks kept by Henry B. Davenport, Jr., a student at R. P. I. and a lawyer in Clay Court House, W. Va. Topics include the study of topographical drawing, railway engineering and hydraulics; coal mining in Clay County, West Virginia, 1903-1912; cash collections, 1898-1912; and personal bank book, 1894-1897. With these is a blue line map of Clay County, W. Va., compiled by Davenport, 1907, from a number of smaller maps and showing the major tracts of land and their owners, including Davenport, Elk River Coal & Lumber, Byrne, Waggy & Smith, and Brown, Swann & Goshorn. Locations of gas wells, oil wells and dry holes are also given. Various tracts and features are outlined in red and green including Davenport's land. The collection also contains a memorandum book of Elizabeth Bedinger Davenport, Charlestown, [W.] Va. containing genealogy notes, family notes, expenses, and notes on the spinning, dying and fulling of cloth, 1838-1851. Many of the entries concern clothing for slaves. Also commonplace books of household and garden recipes kept by Martha S. Clay, 1851-1873, and Amelia C. Davenport, 1898; a photograph of Stella Carden; and some moot court notes for the University of Virginia School of Law, 1895.

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