Moreland, James R., 1879-1955
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
James R. Moreland (1879-1955) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1146
Scope and Contents
Family papers of Alexander Smith, Charles Edgar Brown, and Joseph Moreland; correspondence; materials relating to local history and Moreland's civic, social, religious, and professional activities. Typescript on the Union in West Virginia Coal Fields; a bound typescript on the History of the Various Courts of Monongalia County; and abstracts and legal papers of the Connellsville Basin Coke Company. Material also includes plats and maps relating to the residential and...
Dates:
1809-1948
James R. Moreland, Author, Typescript regarding History of the Presbyterian Church in West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0520
Overview
A sketch of the introduction and spread of the Presbyterian Church in West Virginia, with emphasis on the Fairmont Presbyterian Church. Material covers the years 1775-ca. 1900.
Dates:
1952
James R. Moreland Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0301
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...
Dates:
1904-1940
James R. Moreland Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0870
Scope and Contents
Business and personal papers of a Morgantown attorney and antiquarian. The boxed materials consist of legal papers, abstracts of titles and other items relating to Moreland's law practice; business and personal correspondence, records of Morgantown and Monongalia County corporations, including the Morgantown Hotel Company, Union Investment Company, Bank of Masontown, and the LaMar Coal Company. The bound volumes include a receipt book for shares in the Monongalia County Farmer's...
Dates:
1815-1957
Monongalia County History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0467
Overview
Bound typescripts of reminiscences and local history prepared by James R. Moreland, Morgantown, including "History of the Various Courts of the County of Monongalia...," and "Morgantown, West Virginia, Its Practical Jokes and Jokers...With Some Sketches Pertaining to Its History and Development." Indexed.
Dates:
1775-1950
Moreland Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2983
Overview
Papers of the Moreland Family of Monongalia County. Materials include assorted land patents and grants for land in Monongahela County, Virginia and other locations, typescripts regarding West Virginia history, and assorted correspondence of members of the Moreland family. Also includes correspondence and other material regarding the opening of Richwood Avenue in Morgantown, which was constructed by the Works Progress Administration.
Dates:
1788-1944
Robert G. Kelly Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1959
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, telegrams, newspaper clippings, reports, and speeches of a Democratic Party official; correspondence and minutes of Democratic State Executive Committee meetings. Subjects include West Virginia gubernatorial campaign of 1932, political patronage, federal relief programs in West Virginia, Rush Holt's senatorial campaign of 1934, the Holt-Kelly feud, and the miners' strike of 1939 Correspondents include Robert G. Kelly, Herman Guy Kump, M.M. Neely, Joe L. Smith, Homer A. Holt,...
Dates:
1932-1941
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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- Morgantown (W. Va.) 5
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 3
- Account books 2
- Banks and banking 2
- Builders and contractors. 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Elections 2
- Gas industry 2
- Maps. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Academies 1
- Agriculture 1
- Banks - Bank of Masontown. 1
- Churches -- Morgantown First Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Deckers Creek Sand Company. 1
- Democratic National Convention of 1924. 1
- Family histories. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) -- History 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Hotels 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Labor 1
- Land companies -- History 1
- Land grants - Monongalia County, (West Virginia). 1
- Land patents - Monongalia County. 1
- Land. 1
- Literature -- Societies, etc 1
- Mason-Dixon Line 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Morgantown - Newspapers. 1
- Morgantown - schools. 1
- Mother's Day 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Photography 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Politics - Western Virginia. 1
- Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
- Rotary. 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia -- Monongalia County 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- West Virginia -- History 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World war, 1939-1945 -- Letters 1 + ∧ less
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