Holland family

Scope and Contents This collection contains genealogical research regarding the Holland family of Monongalia County, WV, tracking the family from 1719-1976. Other families listed include the Dorseys, Garrisons, Davidsons, Browns, Elliotts, and Harts, all of West Virginia. Types of documents in this collection include correspondence, hand-copied excerpts of genealogical, biographical, and historical texts, and hand-written notes on said texts. Most of this research was performed to verify membership into the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, maps, newspapers, and other printed materials of the family of Joseph W. Summers, Morgantown. Included are deeds for Summer land in Preston County, 1831-1903; genealogy notes complied by Mr. Summers on the Barker, Buzzard, Harris, Hoffman (Huffman), Holland, Knapp, Swisher, and Tarleton lines of the Summers family in West Virginia; obituary notices and local history clippings from the Morgantown Post, ca.1930-1956; and several scrapbooks of...