West Virginia Historical Society
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Shetler, Curator and Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2835
Overview
Material written and collected by a former curator of the West Virginia and Regional History Collection that includes bibliographies, transcripts, photostats, papers and historical sketches on various aspects of West Virginia history. Items deal with prominent West Virginia University historians, the Civil War, early settlement, industrial growth, and West Virginia University. A number of letters and circulars discuss the West Virginia Historical Society in 1869.
Dates:
ca. 1700-1965
Delf Norona, Historian, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3076
Overview
Correspondence to and from Delf Norona, a local historian, archeologist, and philatelist of Moundsville. Most of the correspondence concerns the "Horn Papers", their publication and eventual discrediting as a historical hoax perpetrated by W. F. Horn. Supposedly based upon authentic eighteenth-century diaries, court records and maps, the Horn Papers was a collection of transcripts about the early settlement of the Ohio Valley. Norona, as an authority on the frontier era, was initially...
Dates:
1945-1957
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
Harvey W. Harmer (1865-1961) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1686
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, essays, clippings, and account books of a Clarksburg lawyer, Republican state senator, and Harrison County local historian. Subjects include the history of Clarksburg and Shinnston; the Progressive Movement, women's suffrage, and prohibition in West Virginia; West Virginia Wesleyan College; West Virginia Historical Society; Methodism in Harrison County and the state; Methodist missions in Korea, China, India, the Philippines, and the United States; gristmills and...
Dates:
1842-1961
Monongalia Historical Society Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0722
Scope and Contents
Records regarding the history of Monongalia County, West Virginia.Boxes 1-14 contain: clippings and miscellaneous printed materials relating to Monongalia county history; genealogical compilations and correspondence relating to the genealogy of Monongalia county families, prepared by Thomas Ray Dille; business correspondence of the society, 1924-1927; correspondence and records of the West Virginia Historical Society, ca. 1925-1931; miscellaneous court records, family letters and...
Dates:
1827-1935; Majority of material found within 1925-1935
Osborne Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0930
Overview
A genealogy of the Osborne family of Greenbrier County. Originally from New Jersey, the family settled in Greenbrier and Hampshire counties.
Dates:
1987
Thomas Ray Dille Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0171
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Morgantown attorney, genealogist, and antiquarian. There are several series of office files relating to Dille's law practice, and extensive correspondence regarding his historical and genealogical studies. Families for which there are genealogical compilations include Dille, Ray, Stewart, McFarland, Tennant, David Evans, and John Evans. Monongalia County birth and death records; cemetery readings; copies of wills and indexes of will books; names in real estate and appraisement...
Dates:
1781-1948
West Virginia Historical Society, Library Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1239
Overview
List of books belonging to the Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia deposited in the WVU Library and book accessions of the West Virginia Historical Society.
Dates:
1931-1941
West Virginia Historical Society Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0447
Overview
Correspondence and other materials, including notices of, and resolutions adopted at, the founders meeting at Morgantown, 30 September 1869.
Dates:
1869-1881
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Account books 3
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 3
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 3
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 3
- Universities and colleges 3
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- America First Day 2
- China 2
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Harrison County 2
- Churches -- Methodist 2
- Churches -- Methodist missions 2
- Churches -- Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 2
- Covered bridges 2
- Genealogy 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Harrison County Fair. 2
- India 2
- Korea 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Mason-Dixon Line 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
- Philippines 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Progressive Union Movement. 2
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 2
- Railroads 2
- Shinnston (W. Va.) 2
- Transportation 2
- Women -- Suffrage 2
- Women -- United States -- History 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Civil War - OH 32nd. Inf. , Co. A. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Education 1
- History -- Societies, etc. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
- Monongalia County - court records. 1
- Monongalia County - families. 1
- Monongalia County - schools. 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Salt industry - Kanawha County. 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
- West Virginia -- History 1
- West Virginia - Civil War. 1
- West Virginia University - Presidential Selection Committee. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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