Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Robinson Family Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview
Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.
Dates:
1847-1883
Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0576
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and printed material, and pictures collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. There are also a small number of Mr. West’s personal papers, consisting of letters concerning West Virginia University College of Engineering, Oak Grove Cemetery Association, and the Wesley Methodist Church, all of Morgantown, and business records of the Town Hill Service Station, owned by Mr. West. The...
Dates:
1774; 1780; 1830-1952
Virginia M. Cross, Diploma and Commencement Address
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2766
Overview
Diploma and commencement address of Virginia M. Cross, from the Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute, June 29, 1864.
Dates:
1864
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Baltimore Infirmary -- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Batesville (Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Oak Grove Cemetery 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Civil War -- Forts 1
- Civil War - Songs and poems. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
- Civil War - Union sympathizers. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 25th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 26th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 40th Cavalry Battalion. 1
- Civil War - troop movements. 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Confederate soldiers 1
- Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
- Civil War -- Description 1
- Coal mining - coal industry. 1
- Education 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fetterman (W. Va.) 1
- Frankfort (Mineral County, W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Granville (W. Va.) 1
- Hospitals and hospital records. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Kingwood and West Union Turnpike. 1
- Land - Civil War disruptions. 1
- Land. 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- McGuires Tunnel. 1
- Medicine 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Moundsville (W. Va.) 1
- New Milton (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Palatine. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Patterson's Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Philippi. 1
- Poetry. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preachers. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Roles in society 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's letters and papers. 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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