West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 2 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
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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- 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
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
- Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Deckers Creek 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greene County (Pa.) 1
- Hacker Valley. 1
- Halleck Community 1
- Immigration. 1
- Jefferson College, Pa. 1
- Kern's Fort. 1
- Land. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Preston County Courthouse. 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Raven Rocks 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Robinson's Run. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Uffington. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia -- History 1
- West Virginia - Civil War. 1
- West Virginia University - Drill Field 1
- West Virginia University - Presidential Selection Committee. 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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