West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
L. Henry Smith Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0019
Overview
L. Henry Smith (b. circa 1805) was an attorney in Bruceton Mills, Preston County, West Virginia, in the mid-nineteenth century. He and his wife, Martha, had nine children, including Lucian H. Smith (b. circa 1830) and William W. Smith (b. circa 1848). Papers of the L. Henry Smith family chiefly include receipts, bills, notes, and letters from 1823 to 1878 and primarily concern Henry Smith, Lucian Smith, and William Smith, though materials from other family members are included. Box 1...
Dates:
1823-1878; Majority of material found within 1850-1874
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
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
William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1694
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, writings, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Wilson, a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), President of West Virginia University, 1882-1883, member of Congress, 1883-1895, Postmaster General, 1895-1897, author of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894, and President of Washington and Lee University, 1897-1900. The collection includes portions of the diaries covering the years 1862-1863, 1865, 1868-1870, 1877-1891, 1896-1899. Most of the...
Dates:
1862-1900
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- Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 X
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- Land. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Agriculture 1
- Baltimore Sun 1
- Baptists 1
- Bruceton Mills (W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Oak Grove Cemetery 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Fairview Church 1
- Churches -- Hazel Run Baptist 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Preston County 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 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
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
- Coal mining - coal industry. 1
- Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Deckers Creek 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elections 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Genealogy 1
- General stores 1
- Greene County (Pa.) 1
- Hacker Valley. 1
- Halleck Community 1
- Harper's Weekly 1
- Immigration. 1
- Jefferson College, Pa. 1
- Kern's Fort. 1
- Kingwood and West Union Turnpike. 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- New York Tribune 1
- Palatine. 1
- Philippi. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Postal service 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Courthouse. 1
- Raven Rocks 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Robinson's Run. 1
- Saint Louis Republican 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Taxation 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Uffington. 1
- Universities and colleges 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
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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