Morgan family
Family
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Atkeson-Morgan Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3372
Scope and Contents
Papers of John and Sarah Atkeson-Morgan documenting Atkeson-Morgan family history and the history of the Morgan home and farm in Putnam County, West Virginia for period ca. 1840-1900.Materials include Civil War papers; personal and business correspondence; legal documents; school compositions and poetry; one photograph; and invoices and receipts.Subjects include: personal business (such as health, travel, and courtship), farm business, hunting, education (particularly...
Dates:
1833-1923; Majority of material found in 1850-1900
Bowman Collection Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2700
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial papers, a ledger, scrapbooks, advertising cards, brochures and photographs of the Preston County, West Virginia, area. The letters in the collection are between members of the Brown and Morgan families of Kingwood, Albright, and Reedsville and of New Interest, Randolph County. The principal correspondents are J. Slidell Brown, Ben L. Brown, Etta Brown, Daisy May Morgan, and Harriet Y.C. Morgan and a friend of the families, John...
Dates:
1885-1906
Boyers Morgan Clark, Compiler, Genealogy Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1234
Overview
Typescript genealogy record sheets, compiled by Boyers Morgan Clark of Elkins, on the William Clark, Sr. Family. Records also include the Helmick, Kelly, Kittle, and Morgan families.
Dates:
ca. 1660-1955
Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0057
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and printed materials relating to the development of railroads in West Virginia, including contracts, letters, wage agreements, monthly situation reports, construction profiles, maps, and speeches. Most of these pertain to the business of the Coal and Coke Railroad Co., Elkins W.Va. Railroad companies represented include Baltimore and Ohio; Charleston, Clendenin and Sutton; Coal and Coke; Greenbrier, Cheat and Elk; Hampshire Southern; Nicholas, Fayette, and Greenbrier; Roaring...
Dates:
1892-1938
Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2119
Scope and Contents
This collection includes court case papers and exhibits from Taylor & Harrison Counties; deeds; title abstracts; one land grant; a coal lease for mining & stripping; one letter; and a genealogy chart for the Morgan family. The names of persons and organizations in this collection include Powell, Reuben, Henry, Benjamin, Burr & Grandison; Bayley, Charlotte; Baley, William, Newton, Payton & James; Roe, James & Jane; Cather, John...
Dates:
1813-1950
Eileen Peters, Compiler, Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3281
Scope and Contents
Genealogy research papers of Eileen Peters. Includes genealogies, research notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, maps, photographs, books, and other publications documenting primarily Preston County, West Virginia families, as well as families of the tri-state region of West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia. Also includes histories of Preston County, West Virginia (18th through 20th centuries), and general information on how to conduct genealogical research.
Dates:
1887-1995
Everley Family History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2505
Overview
Genealogical information on the following families: Baldwin, Burris, Everly, Garretson, Griffith, Haldeman, Jenkins, Miller, Morgan, Morris, Prickett, Small, Springer, and Thomas. Included among the typescripts are copies of historical documents, Xeroxed photographs, and copies of articles and other printed material.
Dates:
undated
James Vance Boughner (1812-1882) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0253
Overview
Papers of a Morgantown resident who practiced medicine and operated a pension claim office in Mt. Morris, Greene County, Pennsylvania, ca.1847-1859, and who later conducted his claim business in Morgantown while serving with the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau as collector for the second district of West Virginia. The collection contains letters, accounts, and business papers of Morgantown residents, 1790-1855, including a private account book of Hugh McNeely, 1790-1800. The internal revenue...
Dates:
1790-1888
Max Mathers Collection Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2386
Overview
Correspondence, financial papers, diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the Max Mathers family and Monongalia County, West Virginia. The activities of Anna DeGant Mathers, wife of Max Mathers, and Margaret Mathers Barrick, his daughter, as well as of Margaret's two sons, William Mathers Barrick and George Milton Barrick, Jr. are well represented in the family papers. Max Mather's own papers document his personal life, Republican party activities, genealogical...
Dates:
1821-1957
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
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- Account books 3
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 3
- Genealogy 2
- Land. 2
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- Preston County (W. Va.) 2
- Railroads 2
- Taxation 2
- Advertising 1
- Agriculture 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Barboursville (W. Va.) 1
- Blennerhassett Island (W. Va.) 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters. 1
- Civil defense -- West Virginia 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining - Strip mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Friendship Hill National Historic Site (Pa.) 1
- Gallipolis (Ohio) 1
- Genealogists' letters and papers. 1
- Greeting cards 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Hunting -- West Virginia 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Korean Conflict. 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 1
- Maps. 1
- Maryland 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Monongalia County - 175th anniversary celebration. 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- Photographs 1
- Mount Vernon (Va.) 1
- Mt. Vernon. 1
- Newspapers -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Ohio River and Valley. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Photographs. 1
- Poetry. 1
- Point Pleasant (Mason County, W. Va.) 1
- Potomac River Valley 1
- Preston County - families. 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Charleston, Clendenin and Sutton Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Coal and Coke Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Greenbrier, Cheat and Elk Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Hampshire Southern Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Nicholas, Fayette, and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Roaring Creek and Belington Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Midland Railway Company. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Railroads - Western Maryland Railroad. 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Steamboats 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States Army - 2nd Infantry Division - WW II and Korea. 1
- Virginia 1
- Walnut Grove, Kanawha County. 1
- Ward-Bishop Addition to Bluefield. 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia University - Armory. 1
- West Virginia University - Student organizations. 1
- West Virginia University - buildings. 1
- West Virginia University -- History -- World War, 1939-1945 1
- West Virginia University -- Students 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Mount de Chantal Academy 1
- Women authors -- Diaries 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's letters and papers. 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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