Moreland, James R., 1879-1955
Person
Found in 3 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 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
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
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- Account books 2
- Banks and banking 2
- Builders and contractors. 2
- Gas industry 2
- Maps. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Academies 1
- Agriculture 1
- Banks - Bank of Masontown. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Deckers Creek Sand Company. 1
- Hotels 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Photography 1
- Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
- Rotary. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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