Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Morgantown Friends Meeting

Overview Includes two ledgers and a loose-leaf notebook. One ledger contains minutes for 1947-1969; it also includes newspaper clippings, letters, and announcements. A second ledger includes minutes for 1970-1988, as well as clippings, letters, announcements, and special minutes; it also includes membership records for 1948-1981. The notebook contains 122 leaves of historical and supplementary material dating from 1945-1988, including historical sketches of Friends groups in Morgantown and other...

Overview Dr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 to 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs....