West Virginia University. College of Law
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Brooke Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1079
Overview
Correspondence, clippings, biographical sketches, photographs, artifacts, and other items relating to the family of St. George Tucker Brooke (1844-1914), a professor at West Virginia University College of Law, 1878-1909. Correspondence includes business and personal letters to and from St. George Tucker Brooke and Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, a Rhodes Scholar and Shakespearean authority at Yale; letters between Francis (Frank) Brooke to Mrs. Mary Brooke while he served in the U.S. and...
Dates:
1814-1990; Majority of material found within 1880-1960
Brown Family Papers, Photographs and Maps
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2604
Overview
Papers, photographs and maps of a wealthy Morgantown family with interests in real estate and coal mining. Most of the business papers are those of J. M. G. Brown, a West Virginia University law school alumnus, who was president of Scotts Run Fuel Corporation. Brown was also a housing developer whose company, Suburban Real Estate of Morgantown, was a competitive concern not only locally but throughout north central West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania. There are papers indicating his...
Dates:
1765-1959
Kathryn Cramer Morgan, Charles William Cramer Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3855
Overview
Papers of the Charles William Cramer family of Morgantown. He was born in 1876 in Piedmont, West Virginia; graduated from Law School at West Virginia University in 1897; served in the 6th Cavalry Regiment in the Spanish-American War; and moved to Morgantown in 1901. Includes 176 page narrative by Cramer regarding his life from 1876 to ca. 1905, covering his student days at West Virginia University and his service during the Spanish-American War. There is a photo of Charles Cramer; and photos...
Dates:
1876-ca.1970
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
West Virginia University, Justitia Law Students Wives' Club Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5281
Overview
Papers and other materials of Justitia, the Law Students Wives’ Club (1952 – 1983) of West Virginia University College of Law. Founded by June Santee and Pat Simonton in 1957, Justitia was a women’s organization designed to offer a community of support to law student wives, to create an opportunity to socialize, and support their husbands and the WVU College of Law through meetings, publications, fundraisers and activities.
Dates:
1957-1983, undated
West Virginia University Women in Law History Project Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5283
Scope and Contents
The collection outlines 100 years of women in law at West Virginia University. Starting with the first women law graduate to the graduates in the early 1990s, the project explores the lives and achievements of the individuals who obtained their law degree from West Virginia Univeristy College of Law. Records in this collections includes research materials on the women who graducated from West Virginia University through the College of Law from 1895 through 1996, celebrating 101 years of...
Dates:
circa 1895-1995
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- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- West Virginia University College of Law Archives 2
- Women law students 2
- Aeronautics 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Churches -- Church of the Brethren 1
- Churches -- Episcopal 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- College students - West Virginia - Morgantown. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Ireland 1
- Minority women lawyers 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Property tax - West Virginia - Monongalia County. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Steamboats 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
- Union (W. Va.) 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- West Virginia University - athletics. 1
- Women 1
- Women in community organization 1
- Women lawyers 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1 + ∧ less
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