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Found in 195 Collections and/or Records:

James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1075
Scope and Contents

These papers include two typescript drafts and a carbon of Dr. Callahan's autobiography, "Evolution of a Midwestern Octogenarian -- Incidents of a Busy Life", and a typescript of "Foundations of American Northern Frontier Development".

Dates: 1950-1954

James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0115
Scope and Contents Another manuscript given by Dr. Callahan is his "History of the Christian Church in Western Europe." The title is self-explanatory. The work demonstrates the result of careful research.5 boxes contain notes, letters and documents gathered from the time Dr.Callahan was a student at the Johns Hopkins University until the year of his retirement from West Virginia University. This work pertains to the development of these in American History, chiefly in the field of diplomacy;...
Dates: 1900-1947

James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1179
Scope and Contents

Typescript copy of "Foundations of American Continental Security Policy and Inter-American Relations; A Study in American Diplomacy," by James Morton Callahan.

Dates: 1950

James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4407
Scope and Contents

One box of 16 mm negative microfilm containing a typescript draft with editing and proofreading notes of "History of West Virginia University: Problems and Policies" by Dr. J. M. Callahan; contains 817 exposures.

Dates: ca. 1945

Jay Everett Long, Student, Letters Regarding Life At West Virginia University

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5219
Overview

Letters of West Virginia University student Jay Everett Long, class of 1926. Includes 29 letters from Long of Morgantown to A. David Stewart of Huntington, West Virginia. Subjects include social life at WVU, local baseball, events in Morgantown and Huntington, and local politics. The letter of 23 May 1926 references a KKK rally at WVU. Also includes three photographs (in folder 1).

Dates: 1921-1926

John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. (1912-1962), Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1580
Scope and Contents Correspondence, speeches, and newspaper clippings of a West Virginia Republican chairman, U.S. senator (serving in 1958), and member of the 1960 Republican National Convention platform committee.Subjects include: West Virginia and national Republican politics, 1956-1961; the 1958 Congressional election; the 1960 presidential campaign; the State Chamber of Commerce; State Economic Development Agency; Ohio Valley Improvement Association; and West Virginia University....
Dates: 1956-1962

John Rogers Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3156
Overview

The collection consists largely of correspondence to Morgantown businessman John Rogers from relatives in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also includes two letters from Sgt. William A. Widney, who was assigned to the U.S. War Department during the Civil War, to a Morgantown friend (possibly William Hennen). One letter was written by an unidentified woman to her grandson, a West Virginia University student.

Dates: 1788-1870

Johns Hopkins University, Alumni Association, West Virginia Branch, Minutes and Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1876
Overview

Records of an association of Johns Hopkins alumni at West Virginia University, including two minute books, 1913-1924 and 1925-1958. Members include J.M. Callahan, O.P. Chitwood, Friend E. Clark, and A.M. Reese.

Dates: 1913-1958

Joseph C. Jefferds, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1983
Overview Correspondence, sketches, records, charts, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and one West Virginia University cadet uniform of 1898. There are typescript carbon copies of county court records from Bath County, Virginia, and Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, West Virginia; list of scholars attending Lewisburg Academy 1883-1885; and genealogical material on Arbuckle, Beard, Bell, Boone, Bright, Burger, Burr, Cooley, Cunningham-Gudgell, Dickinson, Feamster, Gillilan, Gilmore,...
Dates: 1896-1965

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

Additional filters:

Subject
Morgantown (W. Va.) 27
Universities and colleges 26
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 13
Politics and government. 11
West Virginia University -- Students 11
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Genealogy 10
World War, 1939-1945 9
World War, 1914-1918 8
Diaries and journals. 7
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 7
Land. 7
Marion County (W. Va.) 7
Railroads 7
Account books 6
Elections 6
Lawyers - letters and papers. 6
Coal mining. 5
Education 5
Academies (Private schools) 4
Botany 4
Lumber trade 4
Monroe County (W. Va.) 4
Transportation 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
West Virginia -- History 4
Women's schools. 4
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 3
Agriculture 3
Broadsides. 3
Churches -- Methodist 3
Fairmont. 3
Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
Immigration. 3
Indians of North America 3
Pennsylvania 3
Petroleum industry and trade 3
Preston County (W. Va.) 3
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 3
Revolutionary War. 3
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 3
Spanish-American War, 1898 3
Steamboats 3
Taxation 3
Travel accounts. 3
USS West Virginia. 3
Washington (D.C.) 3
West Virginia - Governors. 3
West Virginia University - athletics. 3
West Virginia University -- History 3
West Virginia University. Presidency 3
Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
Biology 2
Botany -- West Virginia 2
Botany and botanists. 2
Builders and contractors. 2
Canals 2
Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
Civil War - veterans - Confederate. 2
Civil War -- Confederate Army 2
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 2
Coal mines and mining 2
Coal mining - coal companies. 2
Democratic National Convention of 1928. 2
Engineering 2
Estate settlements. 2
Europe 2
Fairmont (W. Va.) 2
Farms and farming. 2
Fayette County (Pa.) 2
Frontier and pioneer life 2
General stores 2
Geology 2
Grafton. 2
Indiana 2
Judges - letters and papers. 2
Keeneys Creek, W.Va. 2
Maps. 2
Mills and mill-work 2
Politicians -- United States 2
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
Schools 2
Scrapbooks 2
Slavery 2
Slaves and slavery. 2
Surveyors and surveying. 2
Taylor County (W. Va.) 2
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 2
Union (W. Va.) 2
United States -- Politics and government 2
United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 2
United States Navy - USS WEST VIRGINIA. 2
West Virginia -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 2
West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 2
West Virginia -- Economic conditions 2
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 2
West Virginia University - Publications. 2
West Virginia University - building plans. 2
West Virginia University - buildings - Colson Hall. 2
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