Glenville State College
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Carey Woofter, Compiler, Folklore of West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0112
Overview
Folklore of West Virginia collected by Woofter, who was a student of John Harrington Cox and Louis Watson Chappell. The collection consists of a card file of approximately 10,000 folklore items, including superstitions, sayings, riddles, remedies and tales, as well as a pair of unpublished bound volumes entitled FOLKLORE OF WEST VIRGINIA containing folklore and folksongs with musical notation by Woofter's protege Patrick Gainer. While Woofter never published his discoveries, he did supply...
Dates:
ca. 1920-1940
Peterson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2028
Overview
Correspondence, speeches, essays, financial notes, certificates, an account book, a class attendance book for 1860, and a term paper prepared for a Glenville College, West Virginia, history class entitled, 'The Aaron D. Peterson Family.' The correspondence contains letters written by David T. Peterson to family and friends while serving with Federal forces in the Civil War. Subjects include schools, politics, farming, Civil War camps, units, troop movements, and battles at Droop Mountain,...
Dates:
1858-1913
Filtered By
- Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Account books 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War battles - Droop Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles - Moorefield. 1
- Civil War battles - Winchester. 1
- Education 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Folk medicine. 1
- Folk music 1
- Folklore 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Medicine - Folk remedies. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Webster County (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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