Houston family

Overview

The Houston History, a genealogy of the Robert R. Houstoun or Houston family as compiled by Carrie B. Hackney of Morgantown, West Virginia. History traces the lineage of this Scottish family beginning with the first generation in America in the seventeenth century and ending in the early twentieth century. Contains brief biographical about some family members and lists birth and death dates, marriages, and children.

Overview Papers, photos, pamphlets and postcards of a prominent Morgantown attorney, financier and businessman, James Rogers Moreland. Included are drafts of books and articles by James R. Moreland about local and family history, in particular "Early Iron Industry in Cheat Mountains" and "My Father Another Country Lawyer." There are family histories and records about the Finnicum, Hawthorne, Huston, Lewis, Lyle, Moreland and Rogers families. There are also many items of World War I that especially...