Brown family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Brown Family Papers, Photographs and Maps
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2604
Overview
Papers, photographs and maps of a wealthy Morgantown family with interests in real estate and coal mining. Most of the business papers are those of J. M. G. Brown, a West Virginia University law school alumnus, who was president of Scotts Run Fuel Corporation. Brown was also a housing developer whose company, Suburban Real Estate of Morgantown, was a competitive concern not only locally but throughout north central West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania. There are papers indicating his...
Dates:
1765-1959
William A. Moreland, Political Papers, World War II Records, and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2032
Overview
Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Addendum of 2010/10/29 includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs. Addenda of 2011/03/21 and 2011/06/20 include papers of William Moreland, and...
Dates:
1824-2008
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- Subject: Morgantown (W. Va.) X
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- Aeronautics 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Churches -- Morgantown First Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Democratic National Convention of 1924. 1
- Elections 1
- Family histories. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Labor 1
- Literature -- Societies, etc 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown - Newspapers. 1
- Morgantown - schools. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Politics - Western Virginia. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Property tax - West Virginia - Monongalia County. 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World war, 1939-1945 -- Letters 1 + ∧ less
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