West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Festus P. Summers (1895-1971), Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2208
Overview
Correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, research notes, and other papers of a historian who served on the faculty of West Virginia University from 1932 to 1965 and as chairman of the history department from 1946 to 1962. Included are: his official as well as personal correspondence; notes for speeches; research notes, rough drafts and proofs for his published works on William L. Wilson and Johnson Newlon Camden; exams, outlines, and notes for classes he taught; material relating to the...
Dates:
1843-1971
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1221
Overview
Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). Includes business correspondence, financial records, legal papers, and court records. Materials include the early land papers of Camden's law partner, John J. Allen, and the legal papers of the firm Allen and Camden, which deal primarily with land suits and surveys...
Dates:
1816-1892, undated
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Land. 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Slavery 2
- West Virginia -- History 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Immigration. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Marriage records 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mound-builders 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Webster Springs (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia - Civil War. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia - songs 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- West Virginia -- Economic conditions 1
- West Virginia University - Presidential Selection Committee. 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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