West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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- 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
- Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
- Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Deckers Creek 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Greene County (Pa.) 1
- Hacker Valley. 1
- Halleck Community 1
- Immigration. 1
- Jefferson College, Pa. 1
- Kern's Fort. 1
- Land. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Ohio Valley - families. 1
- Preston County Courthouse. 1
- Raven Rocks 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Robinson's Run. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Uffington. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia University - Drill Field 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Main Library. 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Martin Hall. 1
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