Weston State Hospital
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Richard H. Ralston, Sr., Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2205
Overview
Correspondence of William A. Harrison, a Clarksburg lawyer, assistant federal district attorney, member of the Virginia Assembly, and judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; most letters are from members of the family to Mrs. Anna Robertson Harrison. Subjects include construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; Civil War loyalty Oaths, Camp Chase land purchases, and road building. There are also grade school attendance certificates and notes concerning the Lunatic Asylum...
Dates:
1825-1934
Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0831
Overview
Papers of the managing editor of the Parkersburg DAILY STATE JOURNAL, 1889-1895, editor of the WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL JOURNAL, and member of the English faculty of West Virginia University, 1895-1925. The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to Barbe's book, GOING TO COLLEGE,...
Dates:
1884-1930
West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview
Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates:
1909-1949
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- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
- Canals 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lunatic Asylum West of the Allegheny Mountains. 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County - schools. 1
- Monongalia County, Clinton District. 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Schools 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia - General Assembly. 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1 + ∧ less
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