West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0821
Scope and Contents
This collection includes manuscripts, printed and newspaper materials collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. This collection includes papers concerning many phases of West Virginia History, although centered on Preston, Taylor, and Monongalia counties. Includes marriage licenses from Preston County, 1881-1947; newspaper clippings from Morgantown newspapers; a meeting invitation from the Monongalia...
Dates:
1880-1947
Samuel R. Jenkins (b. 1870) Diaries and Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1761
Overview
Eighteen diaries, 1890-1934, of Samuel R. Jenkins, a civil engineer from Grafton. There are lengthy entries for the period, 1890-1892, when Jenkins was a student at West Virginia University. He did surveys and supervised construction work in various parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, read widely, and commented on works of Henry George, John W. Draper, and John Fiske. There are photographs of Jenkins and of an engineering job done by him for the American Bridge Company at...
Dates:
1890-1934
Filtered By
- Subject: Grafton. X
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- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Engineering 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Land. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Marriage records 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mound-builders 1
- New Jersey 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Slavery 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Webster Springs (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia -- History 1
- West Virginia - songs 1
- West Virginia -- Economic conditions 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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