West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Courtney Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1629
Overview
Papers of a Monongalia County, West Virginia, farm family residing near Maidsville include: the farm account books of John and John J. Courtney, 1831-1877; family Bible records and photographs; college essays of Alpheus Courtney, a West Virginia University student; manuscript ciphering book, 1817; diary of Ulysses J. Courtney, 1878-1883 (7 vols.) pertaining to lumbering, farming, and livestock operations, and community religious and social life; correspondence; steamboat bills of lading,...
Dates:
1804-1920
Robert E. Lee Keadle, Monroe County, Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3187
Overview
The diary, presented to Annie Brewer of Monroe County by James O. B. Kelly in 1887, includes entries by her from December 1886 to August 1888. It notes her social and family life. Brewer gave the diary to her boyfriend, Robert E. Lee Keadle in August 1888, and he wrote in it until 1891. Keadle's writings describe his active social and romantic life in Monroe Co. and as a law student at West Virginia University in 1889 and 1890. He also provided details of his academic, leisure, and religious...
Dates:
1886-1891
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
W.O. Ison, Collector, Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0073
Overview
Letters written to Professor W.O. Ison, Morgantown, mainly from members of his immediate family concerning Ison's teaching career in Everett, Pennsylvania and at West Virginia University, Methodism, and family matters.
Dates:
1873-1880
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- Churches -- Methodist 3
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 3
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Steamboats 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Account books 1
- Cemeteries -- Oak Grove Cemetery 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Churches -- Church of the Brethren 1
- Churches -- Episcopal 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Civil War -- Bounty receipts 1
- Coal mining - coal industry. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Iowa 1
- Kingwood and West Union Turnpike. 1
- Land. 1
- Livestock 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Palatine. 1
- Philippi. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads - Monongahela Valley Railroad. 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Union (W. Va.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- West Virginia University - athletics. 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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