West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Kemble White (1873-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2209
Overview
Correspondence and other papers of Kemble White, one-time law partner of A.B. Fleming, specialist in oil and gas law, counsel for the West Virginia subsidiaries of Standard Oil (Hope Natural Gas, South Penn Oil, and Eureka Pipeline), charter member of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, veteran of the Spanish-American War, one-time president of the West Virginia Bar Association; and the West Virginia University Alumni Association. Additional items include: White's notebooks...
Dates:
1898-1965
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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- Agriculture 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
- Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Deckers Creek 1
- Elections 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greene County (Pa.) 1
- Hacker Valley. 1
- Halleck Community 1
- Immigration. 1
- Jefferson College, Pa. 1
- Kern's Fort. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Militia - West Virginia 2nd Volunteers, Company M. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preston County Courthouse. 1
- Railroads - Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad. 1
- Raven Rocks 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Robinson's Run. 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Uffington. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - politics. 1
- West Virginia University - Drill Field 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Main Library. 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Martin Hall. 1
- White Rocks -- Marion County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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