West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Jackson Dadisman (1881-1965), Agricultural Economics Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1873
Overview
Papers of an agricultural economics professor at West Virginia University, including correspondence, reprints and manuscripts of articles, lecture and research notes, diaries of trips, personal ledgers, pictures, and broadsides. Subjects include Monongalia County Historical Society; wildlife; collecting trips to Canada, Alaska, Labrador, and South Africa; agriculture; genealogy of the Dadisman family; and camel transportation in the U.S. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, Nelle...
Dates:
1914-1963
Andrew Nelson Campbell, Civil War Veteran and Monroe County Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0513
Scope and Contents
Personal and family correspondence; legal and personal buisness papers; roll of Chapman's Battery and list of names of Monroe Guards who served in Civil war; one copy of booklet, PRISON LIFE OF ONE OF THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED (1910) by Lamar Fontainne, relating his experiencies as a prisoner during the Civil War; Confederate roster; genealogical notes on twenty families; marriage and death records from Jno. Lynch's daybook; blueprint showing coal seams in lower half of Raleigh county....
Dates:
1856-1932
Clement Ross Jones (1871-1939) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0084
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newspapers, and newspaper clippings concerning the service records of West Virginia University students, former students, and alumni collected by Dean C. R. Jones for the compilation of the University Honor Roll. Also several bulletins, pamphlets, and circulars on the war activities of various university and veteran’s hospitals, including: West Virginia Wesleyan, Shepherd College, University of Arizona, University of Cincinnati, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic...
Dates:
1917-1934
Clement Ross Jones (1871-1939) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1173
Scope and Contents
Personal and genealogical papers of the Dean of the WVU College of Engineering from 1911 to 1932. The papers deal with academic pursuits including the controversy over the reorganization of the Engineering College in 1931-32, and his social and professional activities. Four boxes contain genealogical notes and history on some of the first Ohio Valley families including the Wickliffe, Harden, Monroe, Gambrill, and Jones families. For detailed listing of the collection see the inventory...
Dates:
1890-1932
James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0839
Scope and Contents
This is the second accesion of Dr. Callahan's papers and includes the correspondence of Dr. Callahan and various members of the Callahan and Fuloher families, 1869-1956; mauscripts, notes, documents and printed materials used in research, galley proofs, reprints and bibliographical lists of published writings of Dr. Callahan; class room materials, and various WVU. department reports; family diaries and genealogical information.The correspondence includes a letter from Theodore Roosevelt,...
Dates:
1864-1956
Joseph C. Jefferds, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1983
Overview
Correspondence, sketches, records, charts, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and one West Virginia University cadet uniform of 1898. There are typescript carbon copies of county court records from Bath County, Virginia, and Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, West Virginia; list of scholars attending Lewisburg Academy 1883-1885; and genealogical material on Arbuckle, Beard, Bell, Boone, Bright, Burger, Burr, Cooley, Cunningham-Gudgell, Dickinson, Feamster, Gillilan, Gilmore,...
Dates:
1896-1965
Margaret B. Ballard, Compiler, Monroe County Historical Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2537
Overview
Papers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1991), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides,...
Dates:
1783-1991, 2021, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1910-1970
Marmaduke Herbert Dent (1849-1909) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1958
Scope and Contents
The correspondence contains one letter from Judge M.H. Dent to his son, Herbert W., on his twenty-first birthday, and one letter from Mary Dent Grinnan commenting on M.H. Dent. The newspaper clippings are a tribute to Judge Dent by Judge Henry Brannon, 1909, and an article on the death of Carrie Dent Armstrong, daughter of Judge Dent. The pictures are of Judge Dent, his wife and children; Robert A. Armstrong; Marmaduke Dent, and Will R.D. Dent.
Dates:
1885-1917, 1967, undated
Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1808
Scope and Contents
Materials Collected by Mrs. Louise Morris, genealogist and authority on local history. The collection includes a notebook kept by J. H. Wherry, a student at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1859; a genealogy of the DeVaul, Haun, [F]ast families of Marion and Monongalia counties, 1817-1957; an essay on "Immigration" by George Whitham, 1896, favoring immigration restriction because of the increased number coming from " the Latin races of southeastern Europe;" land surveys from dead books, 1827-1933,...
Dates:
1859-1964
Nell Lanham Leonian (1892-1975) Papers, Typed Document
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2000
Overview
A Morgantown resident's account of her student years at West Virginia University and of experiences as a teacher at her alma mater and in southern West Virginia. Included is a history of the Bailey, Lanham, and Pepper families.
Dates:
1967
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- Broadsides. 3
- Universities and colleges 3
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
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- Alaska 1
- Arnott (W.Va.) 1
- Ballard (W.Va.) -- Monroe County 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Bath County (Va.) 1
- Canada 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Fairview Church 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 14th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. Company A 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Light Artillery. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 3rd Cavalry 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 6th Cavalry, Company A. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Civil War - veterans - Confederate. 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
- Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Court records 1
- Deckers Creek 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Estates and estate settlements. 1
- Family histories. 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Genealogists' letters and papers. 1
- General stores 1
- Greenbrier County - Court records. 1
- Greene County (Pa.) 1
- Greenville, Monroe County, WV. 1
- Hacker Valley. 1
- Halleck Community 1
- Immigration. 1
- Indiana 1
- Jefferson College, Pa. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kern's Fort. 1
- Labrador 1
- Land. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Markleton, PA 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio Valley - families. 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Pocahontas County - court records. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preston County Courthouse. 1
- Railroads 1
- Raven Rocks 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Robinson's Run. 1
- South Africa. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Teachers 1
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- Travel accounts. 1
- Uffington. 1
- Union (W. Va.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Veterans -- West Virginia -- Monongalia 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia University - Drill Field 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Main Library. 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Martin Hall. 1
- West Virginia University. Presidency 1
- White Rocks -- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Women's letters and papers. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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