Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.)
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Campbell (1788-1866) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0341
Scope and Contents
The last will and testament of Alexander Campbell, leaving his estate to his children and grandchildren with the stipulation that each contribute a specific amount to Bethany College.
Dates:
1864
Alfred T. Pope, Bethany College Student, Autograph Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1004
Overview
The autograph book of Alfred T. Pope, a student at Bethany College, containing the autographs of sixty-three Bethany College students from Virginia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, N. Carolina, Tennessee, Rhode Island, Georgia, and Mexico, also autograph of A Campbell.
Dates:
1860; 1861; 1864
Cloyd Goodnight, Biography of Robert Richardson (1806-1876), Manuscript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1247
Overview
Biography by Cloyd Goodnight of Robert Richardson, a Disciples of Christ minister, educator, writer, physician, agriculturalist, and member of the Bethany College faculty. The manuscript contains long extracts from Richardson's correspondence and daybook. Correspondence and daybook.
Dates:
ca. 1930
General Education Board Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3193
Overview
Correspondence, reports, statistics, maps, photographs and pamphlets related to the efforts in West Virginia of the early southern program of the General Education Board (GEB). The GEB, founded by John D. Rockefeller, is one of the most significant philanthropic efforts in the history of U.S. education particularly noted for its aid to African-American schools, teachers and students. In West Virginia it aided the African-American colleges of West Virginia State, a public institution and...
Dates:
1901-1967
Jessie Campbell Nave Diaries
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3500
Overview
Two diaries (1891-1892) authored by Jessie Campbell Nave (born 1867, died 1932 as Jessie Hill), the great niece of Alexander Campbell, a leader in the Protestant religious movement known as the "Disciples of Christ" and founder and first President of Bethany College. Jessie's father, Archibald W. Campbell, whose activities are documented in the diaries, was the editor of the "Wheeling Intelligencer." These diaries document her experiences as a married upper-class late 19th century West...
Dates:
1891-1892
William B. Curtis (1821-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1591
Overview
Papers of a brigadier general of the Twelfth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and his family from West Liberty include correspondence, business and legal papers, military and veterans' records, photographs, clippings, and account books. Includes papers of West Liberty Post 78, Department of West Virginia G.A.R.; records and photographs of the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry Regiment; photographs, clippings and published and unpublished material pertaining to the town of West Liberty and the...
Dates:
1830-1954
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- Churches -- Disciples of Christ 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Account books 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Bethany (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 12th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Civil War - veterans - Grand Army of the Republic. 1
- Civil War -- War diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Schools 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- West Liberty (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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