Blosser family

Overview Papers of the Ley-Robison-Blosser families documenting people and places of northern WV and southwestern PA; subjects include businesses, Cheat River recreation (they were Cheat River residents), WWII (Blosser letters), and the Pridevale Iron Co. Christian Ley settled and lived on the Cheat River from the 1850s to 1880s. His daughter Lillie married George Robison. The Robison couple lived on a section of Christian Ley's Land on the Cheat, where they managed a hotel, among other activities,...

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Photographs and letters from the Weltner family estate owned by Fred Weltner of Stewartstown, and acquired by James Clark West, a second cousin. Includes portraits of residents of the region encompassing Stewartstown, West Virginia and Point Marion, Pennsylvania. Many of the photographs were taken in studios in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. See scope and content note for details.