Monongalia Historical Society (Morgantown, W. Va.)
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Jackson Dadisman (1881-1965), Agricultural Economics Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1873
Overview
Papers of an agricultural economics professor at West Virginia University, including correspondence, reprints and manuscripts of articles, lecture and research notes, diaries of trips, personal ledgers, pictures, and broadsides. Subjects include Monongalia County Historical Society; wildlife; collecting trips to Canada, Alaska, Labrador, and South Africa; agriculture; genealogy of the Dadisman family; and camel transportation in the U.S. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, Nelle...
Dates:
1914-1963
Max Mathers Collection Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2386
Overview
Correspondence, financial papers, diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the Max Mathers family and Monongalia County, West Virginia. The activities of Anna DeGant Mathers, wife of Max Mathers, and Margaret Mathers Barrick, his daughter, as well as of Margaret's two sons, William Mathers Barrick and George Milton Barrick, Jr. are well represented in the family papers. Max Mather's own papers document his personal life, Republican party activities, genealogical...
Dates:
1821-1957
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
Monongalia Historical Society Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1060
Scope and Contents
These papers include a few letters to Dr. Eldon B. Tucker, Jr., President, on historic preservation, some brief genealogical material and a few news clippings.
Dates:
1953-1956
Monongalia Historical Society, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1310
Scope and Contents
Minute book includes a record of the organization of the society and the constitution and the by-laws. Included with the volume is a typescript entitled: “Spots in Monongalia County School History (1837-1847).”
Dates:
1924-1949
Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0821
Scope and Contents
This collection includes manuscripts, printed and newspaper materials collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. This collection includes papers concerning many phases of West Virginia History, although centered on Preston, Taylor, and Monongalia counties. Includes marriage licenses from Preston County, 1881-1947; newspaper clippings from Morgantown newspapers; a meeting invitation from the Monongalia...
Dates:
1880-1947
Zackquill Morgan Homestead, Correspondence and Petition
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2590
Overview
This collection contains correspondence and a petition regarding the Zackquill Morgan Homestead. Correspondence from J.M.G. Brown, Chairman Committee for Civic and Industrial Betterment, 3-7-29, to Mrs. Max Mathers. Brown informs Mathers that a committee has been appointed to investigate the proposal to purchase the Homestead. Letter from the Col. John Evans Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to the mayor and members of the Common Council of the City of Morgantown, endorsing...
Dates:
1929
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 6
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 5
- Genealogy 3
- Account books 2
- Broadsides. 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Education 2
- Monongalia County - schools. 2
- Agriculture 1
- Alaska 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Canada 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters. 1
- Civil defense -- West Virginia 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Greeting cards 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Historic preservation 1
- Historic preservation -- West Virginia 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Korean Conflict. 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 1
- Labrador 1
- Land. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Marriage records 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Monongalia County - 175th anniversary celebration. 1
- Monongalia County - court records. 1
- Monongalia County - families. 1
- Morgan, Zackquill - Homestead. 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- Photographs 1
- Mound-builders 1
- Newspapers -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Photographs. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Slavery 1
- South Africa. 1
- Taxation 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United States Army - 2nd Infantry Division - WW II and Korea. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Webster Springs (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia -- History 1
- West Virginia - songs 1
- West Virginia -- Economic conditions 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia University - Armory. 1
- West Virginia University - Student organizations. 1
- West Virginia University - buildings. 1
- West Virginia University -- History -- World War, 1939-1945 1
- West Virginia University -- Students 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Mount de Chantal Academy 1
- Women authors -- Diaries 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's letters and papers. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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