Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Cirkut Photograph of Annual Pilgrimage, Odd Fellows Home, Elkins, West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3791
Overview
One large cirkut photograph of "Annual Pilgrimage, Odd Fellows Home, Elkins, West Virginia, September 4, 1932. This photo includes a large crowd of people posing in front of a large multi-story building with a wrap-around porch. In the front of the crowd are members of a band holding their instruments, including a bass drum with an inscription on the head reading "Odd Fellows Home Band, Elkins, W.Va." There are trees and automobiles in the background.
Dates:
1932
Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1842
Overview
Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers' certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner...
Dates:
1872-1905
Shephard Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3147
Overview
Isaiah Shephard of Ritchie and Wood counties was the progenitor of this family which frequently corresponded with one another. Many of the letters were received by Roxie Shephard, as a young woman, from her friends and suitors. Much of the collection deals with Hiram W. Shepherd including correspondence while he was in World War I. Pvt. Shephard served in France attached to the A.E.F. General Headquarters 1st Army Motor section as a chauffeur. While a soldier he comments much about his...
Dates:
1874-1926
William E. Arnett and Family Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3371
Overview
Photocopy facsimile of scrapbook documenting the William E. Arnett, Sr. and family (11' x16'). Includes family history manuscripts, photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, church documents, ephemera of the Second National Bank of Morgantown, a land deed citing John and Louisa Huffman as grantors of Lot 83 to grantee Arnett, Sr. (1891), and obituaries for Arnett, Sr. and his wife, Iva. There is a manuscript narrative history of the Arnett family, and a family tree. Photographs are of...
Dates:
ca. 1890-1950
William I. Protzman Diaries
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2483
Overview
Three diaries (1906, 1910, 1911) kept by William I. Protzman of Morgantown, West Virginia. He was a businessman who sold pianos, organs, and sewing machines.
Dates:
1906-1911
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- Diaries and journals. 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Banks - Second National Bank. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Monongalia County 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- Wesley Methodist 1
- Education 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Freemasons 1
- Genealogy 1
- Missouri 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Teachers 1
- Tyler County (W. Va.) 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Letters 1 + ∧ less
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