Austin family
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Minnie Kendall Lowther Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0740
Overview
M.K. Lowther (1869-1947) was a journalist and one of the first women newspaper editors in West Virginia. She was the author of the HISTORY OF RITCHIE COUNTY; BLENNERHASSETT ISLAND IN ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY; FRIENDSHIP HILL, HOME OF ALBERT GALLATIN; MARSHALL HALL AND OTHER POTOMAC POINTS IN STORY AND PICTURE; and MT. VERNON: ITS CHILDREN, ITS ROMANCES, ITS ALLIED FAMILIES AND MANSIONS. There are complete and incomplete typescripts, rough drafts, revisions, photographs and plates of her books....
Dates:
1907-1945
Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1808
Scope and Contents
Materials Collected by Mrs. Louise Morris, genealogist and authority on local history. The collection includes a notebook kept by J. H. Wherry, a student at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1859; a genealogy of the DeVaul, Haun, [F]ast families of Marion and Monongalia counties, 1817-1957; an essay on "Immigration" by George Whitham, 1896, favoring immigration restriction because of the increased number coming from " the Latin races of southeastern Europe;" land surveys from dead books, 1827-1933,...
Dates:
1859-1964
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- Blennerhassett Island (W. Va.) 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
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- Churches -- Fairview Church 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 14th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. Company A 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Light Artillery. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 3rd Cavalry 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 6th Cavalry, Company A. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
- Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Deckers Creek 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Friendship Hill National Historic Site (Pa.) 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greene County (Pa.) 1
- Hacker Valley. 1
- Halleck Community 1
- Immigration. 1
- Jefferson College, Pa. 1
- Kern's Fort. 1
- Land. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Maryland 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Mount Vernon (Va.) 1
- Mt. Vernon. 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Potomac River Valley 1
- Preston County Courthouse. 1
- Raven Rocks 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Robinson's Run. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Uffington. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia University - Drill Field 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Main Library. 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Martin Hall. 1
- White Rocks -- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
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