Brooke, St. George T. (St. George Tucker), 1844-1914
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Brooke Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1079
Overview
Correspondence, clippings, biographical sketches, photographs, artifacts, and other items relating to the family of St. George Tucker Brooke (1844-1914), a professor at West Virginia University College of Law, 1878-1909. Correspondence includes business and personal letters to and from St. George Tucker Brooke and Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, a Rhodes Scholar and Shakespearean authority at Yale; letters between Francis (Frank) Brooke to Mrs. Mary Brooke while he served in the U.S. and...
Dates:
1814-1990; Majority of material found within 1880-1960
Robert E. Lee Keadle, Monroe County, Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3187
Overview
The diary, presented to Annie Brewer of Monroe County by James O. B. Kelly in 1887, includes entries by her from December 1886 to August 1888. It notes her social and family life. Brewer gave the diary to her boyfriend, Robert E. Lee Keadle in August 1888, and he wrote in it until 1891. Keadle's writings describe his active social and romantic life in Monroe Co. and as a law student at West Virginia University in 1889 and 1890. He also provided details of his academic, leisure, and religious...
Dates:
1886-1891
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- Ireland 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Steamboats 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
- Union (W. Va.) 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- West Virginia University - athletics. 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
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