1851 Virginia & W. Va Business Directory - Genealogy

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1851 Virginia (& West Virginia) Business Directory
Summarized Contents - Sorted by County and Owner
- Bonus Book -
1917 Virginia Business Directory
1,070 pages
Illustrated with original ads
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City and business directories may be one of the most underused genealogical sources available.
D
irectories provide an unmatched source for finding the exact place a person lived, and they often
function as a
surrogate source of information
about residents for a particular time period.
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This 1851 business directory lists merchants, doctors and attorneys from
137 Virginia
cities and counties (41 of which are in present day West Virginia).
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It includes
nearly 7,500 different businesses
, in 66 different categories.
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Details for each entry include (when available
) name of business, owner of business,
location (county, city, town, street).
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For this 1851 summary, the original directories have been transcribed, input into a
database, and extracted to a
searchable and printable table
.
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Two versions of the table are included:
A) The first is
sorted by name of business owner
.
B) The second version is grouped by present day
VA and WV areas
,
then
sorted by county
, grouped by business type, then sorted by
owner name
.
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The information contained in this directory provides an educational and
very interesting picture of mid-nineteenth century Virginia a decade before
the Civil War.
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From a genealogical perspective, having business owner names enables
identifying location and occupation of nearly 7,500 individuals.
Example - Early Grayson County settlers in 1793 included Phipps, Osborne,
Wade and Hash families.
In 1851 Jackson Hash was a Grayson business owner, and Wyatt Wade was
in nearby Montgomery County
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The number of businesses are an indication of the population locations and relative importance of the individual counties.
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From a social perspective, the types of businesses provide unique insights into every-day life of the times.
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Examples:
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Six business types comprised 80% of the total businesses
(Dry Goods, Physicians, Attorneys, Hotels, Manufactures, Grocers).
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The 1,460 Physicians ranked #2 in volume behind Dry Goods, but
there were only 28 dentists in the state (1 in WV).
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There was one telegraph company in the state (Alexandria County).
The telegraph was patented in the US in 1837.
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West Virginia counties had no tobacco industry, cotton mfg, millinery
stores, bakeries, newspapers or auctioneers.
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There were 24 "Houses of Private Entertainment"; the 9 in WV were all in Brooke County.
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NOTE:
There are no picture ads on this 1851 Directory. The picture shown here is for illustration only.
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