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Virgil Lewis

The following is a list of books and articles by and about Virgil Lewis which can be found at the West Virginia State Archives Library.


BOOKS

Lewis, Virgil Anson. Anne Bailey, Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries, v.11 no. 3 March 1910, pp.126-128. Washington DC, Library of Congress, 1954.
Mi 49-5.

________________. Biennial Report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia, 1905-1910.
Arc 1. 1:

________________. Early Education in West Virginia, History of Education in West Virginia, State Superintendent of Free Schools, Charleston, WV, Tribune Printing Company, 1904. pp.17- 54.
Edu 2. 2: H5.

________________. Early Methodism in West Virginia from 1770-1810, n.p. 1910.
287.6754 L676.

________________. History and Government of West Virginia, New York, American Book Co., 1896, 1902, 1912.
975.4 L676h.

________________. History of the Battle of Point Pleasant Fought Between White Men and Indians at the Mouth of the Great Kanawha River, Now Point Pleasant, Monday, October 10, 1774, Charleston WV, Tribune Publishing Co., 1909.
973.27 L676.

________________. History of West Virginia in Two Parts, Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers, 1889.
975.4 L676.

________________. "How West Virginia Became a Member of the Federal Union," West Virginia History, v.30, 1968-1969, pp. 598-606.. Reprinted from Southern Historical Magazine, v.2 no.1, July 1892.
Arc 1. 4:

________________. How West Virginia Was Made, Proceedings of the First Convention of the People of Northwestern Virginia at Wheeling, May 13-15, 1861 and the Journal of the Second Convention of the People of Northwestern Virginia, Charleston, West Virginia, News-Mail Company Public Printers, 1909.
975.403 L676.

_________________. Life and Times of Anne Bailey: the Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley, Charleston, WV, Butler Printing Company, 1891.
B B1541.

_________________. Mad Ann, the Huntress, United States Magazine, v.3 (ns) no.3 , pp. 235-237. Washington DC, Library of Congress, 1954.
Mi 49-5.

_________________. A Manual and Graded Course of Primary Instruction for the Country and Village Schools of West Virginia, Charleston, Moses W. Donnally, Public Printers, 1893.
Edu 2. Ele 1. 6/3:

_________________. Methodism in West Virginia From the Year 1800 to the Organization of the Pittsburgh Conference in 1825, West Virginia History, Charleston, WV, v. 3 1941- 1942, pp. 18-58.
Arc 1. 4:

_________________. Notes on Dr. Willis DeHass, Manuscript, 1910.
Ms 80-203.

_________________ The Original Indiana Territory: the Eleventh Amendment to the Federal Constitution, Fifth Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society, Charleston, WV, Butler Printing Company, 1895.
975.4 L6760 Pam.

_________________. Sketches of the Evans Family of Monongalia County, Charleston, WV, 1911.
929.2 E921.

_________________. Soldiery of West Virginia, in the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War, the Revolution, the Later Indian Wars, the Whiskey Insurrection, the Second War with England, the War with Mexico, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing, 1978.
975.4 L676s.

_________________. Southern Historical Magazine, v.1-2, Edited and Published Virgil A. Lewis, Charleston, WV, January-August, 1892.
Per.

_________________. The Story of the Louisiana Purchase, St. Louis, Woodward and Tiernan Printing Co., 1903.
973.46 L676.

________________. Virginia and the Virginians, Joint Authorship, H.H. Hardesty, Richmond and Toledo, 1888.
920.0755 B864.

_________________. West Virginia: Its History, Natural Resources, Industrial Enterprises and Institutions, West Virginia Commission of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Charleston, Tribune Printing Co., 1904.
975.4 L58.

_________________. West Virginia School Journal, Editor, 1893-1897.
Per.

Atkinson, George Wesley. Prominent Men of West Virginia, Wheeling, WV, 1890, pp.633-634.
920.0754 A875.

Brand. Irene B. Mason County Remembers Virgil A. Lewis, Wonderful West Virginia, v. 41:11, January, 1978.
Nat 1. 4:

Marquis, A.N. Who Was Who in America, v.1 1897-1942, Chicago, A.N. Marquis Co., 1943. pp. 727-728.
R 920.073 W62w.

Wood, Warren. Representative Authors of West Virginia, Ravenswood, WV, Worth- while Book Company, 1926, pp. 58-59.
R 920.0754 A875


VERTICAL NEWSPAPER CLIPPING FILE

"Dedication State Marker Honoring Virgil A. Lewis, 1848-1912," WV Historic Commission, 6- 4-1963.
"Life of Former State Historian Included in Biographical Volume," Huntington Advertiser, 3- 30-1924.
"Mason County Remembers Virgil A. Lewis," Wonderful West Virginia, 41:11, January 1978.
"Mrs. Virgil Lewis Funeral is Here on Wednesday," Point Pleasant Register, 7-21- 1941.
"Museum Honors First WV Historian," Herald-Dispatch, 10-21-1984.
"Praises State Historian Virgil A. Lewis," Beckley Post-Herald, 4-6-1962.
"Virgil Anson Lewis, WV First All-State Historian and State Superintendent of Schools," 1971.
"Virgil Anson Lewis, Men of West Virginia," Vol 1, Biographical Publishing Co., 1903.
"We Remember Papa, by Lucie and Virginia Lewis," WV Hillbilly, 7-16-1977.


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