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313. PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA. JAMES WOOD CHAPTER, NSDAR. Typescript (carbon copy), 1964. 26 leaves. Gift of Cora P. Teel, 1987. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 107 (Accession 465).
`Williamstown [West Virginia] Cemetery, 1858-1924,' a listing of a Wood County, West Virginia, cemetery.

314. PARSONS-ENSIGN FAMILY. Papers (in part, photoreproductions), 1854-1988. 3 cubic feet. Gift of Mrs. Janet Ensign Bromley, 1978, 1989. ACCESSION 212.
Huntington, West Virginia family. Papers include items relating to Mrs. Bromley's music career, the Huntington Symphony Orchestra, early childhood mementoes, as well as minutes of the Huntington, West Virginia, First Congregational Church Missionary Society, 1905-1916. A later addition includes the personal papers of Janet Parsons Ensign (Mrs. Darwin A.).

315. PEACO FAMILY. Scrapbook, 1889-1946. 1 volume. Gift of Dr. Sam Clagg, 1981. ACCESSION 343.
Contains newspaper clippings of fires and activities of the Huntington, West Virginia Fire Department.

316. PECK, Marcellus. Papers, 1883-1889. 7 items. Acquired, 1974. ACCESSION 156.
Philippi, West Virginia, resident. Papers include checks written to Elijah Allen, a tax receipt from Doddridge County, West Virginia, and a letter from brother, Henderson Peck, attorney at Ritchie County Courthouse, West Virginia.

317. PEOPLES, Claren Martin. Papers, 1940-1943. .5 feet. Transferred, 1979. ACCESSION 264.
Huntington, West Virginia, music educator. Papers consist of copies of a masters' thesis on music education written at the Ohio State University, and transcripts of radio programs directed to children in rural schools.

318. PETERS FAMILY. Papers, 1800-1981 (photoreproductions). Ca. 80 leaves. Compiled and loaned for copying by Merry J. Brown, 1983. ACCESSION 385.
Genealogical materials relating to a family from Wyoming and Fayette counties, West Virginia.

319. PEYTON, David. Papers, 1955-1985. 2.5 cubic feet. Gift of Mr. Peyton, 1985. ACCESSION 422.
Huntington, West Virginia, journalist, author. Papers include columns for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, research materials relating to his Alicia Patterson Foundation grant for studying Cajun culture; manuscript of computer user's book written with Charles Bowen.

320. PHI ALPHA THETA. Gamma Chi Chapter (Marshall University). Collection, 1815-1967. 3 volumes. Placed on permanent loan, 1984. ACCESSION 393.
Miscellaneous business records: attendance record of Order of Railroad Engineers, 1908-1967; Petit Brothers Electric Company ledger, 1920-1931; and a journal from the Scofield establishment, 1815-1820.

321. PHIPPS, Dr. James C. Papers, 1977-1988. 7 cubic feet. Gift of Margaret Phipps Brown, 1988. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 114 (Accession 481).
Huntington, West Virginia, orthodontist. Papers pertain to his genealogical research into the Phipps, McComas, Holton, and related families of Lincoln, Raleigh, Boone, and other West Virginia counties.

322. PILOT CLUB, Huntington, West Virginia. Records, 1966-1985. 5 cubic feet. Gift of the Club, 1988. ACCESSION 487.
Service organization for professional women. Papers consist of officers' notebooks, minutes, conference materials, and other records of the Club's work.

323. PITTARD, Thelma and Anna Williams. Scrapbook, 1937(?). 1 volume. Transferred, 1980. ACCESSION 294.
`Elementary school publicity,' compiled by Marshall College students for Dr. Roy Woods.

324. PLATANIA, Joseph. Typescript, 1980. 29 leaves. Gift of Mr. Platania, 1982. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 83 (Accession 365).
`The selling of the candidate, 1960: The use of the media in the 1960 West Virginia Democratic presidential primary.'

325. POFFENBARGER, Lydia Nye Simpson. Typescripts (some photoreproductions of carbon copies), undated; 1913. Transferred, 1978; loaned for copying by Mrs. Anna Proffitt, 1980. ACCESSION 222, 303.
`Epitome of the life of `Ossawatomie' John Brown, including the story of his attack on Harper's Ferry and his capture...,' and `Mansion house, Point Pleasant, West Virginia,' (an inventory of furniture and artifacts with a history of the grounds and building).

326. POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA, COL. CHARLES LEWIS CHAPTER, NSDAR. Papers, 1925-1975. .5 linear feet. Gift of Mrs. Anna C. Proffitt, 1976, 1979. ACCESSION 160.
Membership lists, registrar's reports, photographs; report on prize-winning Bicentennial activities.

327. POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Records (photoreproductions), 1873-1974. .5 linear feet. Loaned for copying by Mrs. Eleanor Filson McComb, 1975. ACCESSION 92.
Register, minutes, annual reports; records of the Flats Presbyterian Church before it merged with the Point Pleasant church during the second world war, when the Flats area was taken over by the War Department.

328. POLLARD, S. J. Papers, 1862-1938. .5 linear feet, Acquired, 1975. ACCESSION 98.
Huntington, West Virginia, railway dispatcher. Papers include railroad passes, dispatch book, and Civil War papers of John C. Pollard.

329. POTTS, James N. Papers (photoreproductions), 1861-1906. 2 items. Loaned for copying by Mr. Campbell Neel, 1979. ACCESSION 248.
Huntington, West Virginia, businessman, whose Civil War diary of his service with the 31st Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, comprises most of the collection.

330. PRICE, Mary Thomas. Scrapbook, 1936-1971. 1 volume. Gift of Laura Lee Hills, 1980. ACCESSION 298.
Huntington, West Virginia, nurse. Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of marriages, births, deaths, second world war servicemen and women, and church events.

331. PRINCE, Dennis, et al. Depositions, 1973-74. Typescript. 552 volumes. Received 1981. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 81 (Accession 346).
Depositions of the plaintiffs in the law suit against the Pittston Company after the Buffalo Creek disaster in Logan County, West Virginia, in 1972.

332. PROCTOR, Alfred T. Glass negatives, 1893-1943. ca. 36 cubic feet. Gift of the Cabell-Wayne Historical Society, 1973. ACCESSION 104.
Huntington, West Virginia, photographer. Negatives, most unidentified, of studio portraits of Huntington residents.

333. PYLE, Lillian Morrison, deceased 1977. Papers, 1917-1924. .5 linear ft. Gift of Mrs. Sue Cook, 1977. ACCESSION 181.
Huntington, West Virginia, businesswoman. Collection consists of yearbooks and memoribilia from Huntington High School and letters from Mrs. Pyle's brother during the first world war.

 

   
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