Ethel Fike Friend, Teacher, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3413
Papers of Ethel Fike Friend, a public school teacher who spent much of her life in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. Includes books, pamphlets, correspondence, church records, photographs, and writings by Ethel and others mostly documenting the genealogy and churches of Preston County, West Virginia and Garrett County, Maryland, with specific attention to Sand Spring Church of God in Friendsville, Maryland.
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8.75 Linear Feet (8 ft. 9 in. (7 record cartons, 15 in. each))
English
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Publications regarding mostly Garrett and Preston County history have been separated from this collection, including 36 books, 176 bound journals, and 34 telephone directories.
Christopher Cale’s Family of Preston County, West Virginia, 1741-1973 by Janice Cale Sisler. (1973) [ca. 800], 145 pages, illus.
Generations: a History of the Biddinger, Bidinger, Bittinger, & Bittner Families of Garrett County, Maryland by Wayne Bittinger. (1974) 231 pages, illus.
Early Days in Clifton Mills by Ralph M. Barnes. (1985) 133 pages, illus.
The White’s Family Tree by Ralph M. Barnes. (1979) 303 pages.
History of Preston County (West Virginia) by S.T. Wiley. (1882, 1968) 529 pages.
Allegheny Passage: Churches and Families, West Marva District, Church of the Brethren, 1752-1990 by Emmert F. Bittinger. (1990) 856 pages, illus.
A History of the Church of the Brethren in the First District of West Virginia by Foster Melvin Bittinger. (1945) 176 pages, illus.
The Miller Story, and Joel B. Miller, 1811-85, Catherine Brenneman, 1813-70, Genealogy by Alta Elizabeth Schrock and Olen L. Miller. (1960) 160 pages, illus.
Descendants of Susanna Beeghly and Christian Fike by W.G. Beeghly. (1966) 148 pages.
Descendants of Michael Beeghly and Barro Inken; Book I: Jacob Beeghly and Mary Hendricks; Part B: Joseph Buechley and Susanna Miller by W.G. Beeghly. (1983) 174 pages.
Descendants of Michael Beeghly and Barro Inken; Book III: Joseph Beeghly and Mary Keagy by W.B. Beeghly. (1978) 192 pages. [2 copies]
Hoye’s Pioneer Families of Garrett County by the Garrett County Historical Society. (1988) 641 pages.
Two Centuries of the Church of the Brethren in Western Pennsylvania, 1751-1950 by the Church of the Brethren, District of Western Pennsylvania, Historical Committee. (1953) 656 pages, illus.
Garrett County: A History of Maryland’s Tableland by Stephen Schlosnagle. (1978) 389 pages, illus.
Myers, Plum, Burns and Allied Families by Jeanette L. Shahan. (1980) 249 pages, illus.
Index to History of Preston County (West Virginia) by S.T. Wiley; indexed by Harold F. Powell. (1971) 66 pages.
Maryland’s Garrett County Graves by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Youghiogheny Glades Chapter. (1987) 476 pages.
From This Green Glade: A History of Terra Alta, West Virginia by Jo Ann Sereno Teets. (1978) 192 pages, illus.
Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County, West Virginia, Also the Thorpe Family of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the Cunningham Family of Somerset County, Pennsylvania by Edward Thorp King. (1933) 233 pages.
Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter; Being Reminiscences of Meshach Browning, a Maryland Hunter (13th Edition) by Meshach Browning. (1942) 400 pages, illus.
The Mound, 1928. the Yearbook of Fairmont State Teachers College, Fairmont. W.Va. (1928) 163, [22] pages.
The Mound, 1930. the Official Publication of the Student Body of Fairmont State College, Fairmont, W.Va. (1930) 141, [36] pages, illus.
The Flood of November 4-5, 1985 in Tucker, Preston, Grant, and Hardy Counties, West Virginia by Wayne Bittinger (Ed.). (1985) 96 pages, illus.
Preston County, West Virginia, History, 1979 by the Preston County Historical Society. (1979) 514 pages, illus.
Oakland, Garrett County, Maryland, Centennial History, 1849-1949 by Thekla Fundenberg Weeks. (1949) 103 pages, illus.
Masontown Sesqui-Centennial Celebration, 1798-1948 by the Masontown, PA, Chamber of Commerce. (1948) 100 pages, illus.
Picture Book of West Virginia by Bernadine Bailey and Kurt Wiese (photos). (1956) [28] pages, illus.
West Virginia History and Government Told by Contemporaries. No. 6. The Western Virginia Border in the Civil War (1860-1865) by I.F. Boughter and John W. Pence (Eds.). (1927) 41 pages.
The Destroyer: Man to Demon, the Devastation of a Life by Strong Drink by Henry Knott. (1908) 222 pages, illus.
Schwarzenau: A Journal of Dunker History, Vol. 1, No. 1 by the Alexander Mack Historical Society. (1939 April) 82 pages, illus.
Schwarzenau: A Journal of Dunker History, Vol. 1, No. 2 by the Alexander Mack Historical Society. (1939 October) 64 pages.
Schwarzenau: A Journal of Dunker History, Vol. 1, No. 3 by the Alexander Mack Historical Society. (1940 January) 64 pages.
Schwarzenau: A Journal of Dunker History, Vol. 1, No. 4 by the Alexander Mack Historical Society. (1940 April) 64 pages.
Schwarzenau: A Journal of Dunker History, Vol. 2, No. 1 by the Alexander Mack Historical Society. (1940 July) 72 pages.
Maryland Magazine of Genealogy, Vol. 3, No. 1 by the Maryland Historical Society. (1980 Spring) 54 pages.
Maryland Magazine of Genealogy, Vol. 2, No. 2 by the Maryland Historical Society. (1979 Fall) 94 pages.
Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 75, No. 1 by the Maryland Historical Society. (1980 March) 108 pages.
Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 74, No. 4 by the Maryland Historical Society. (1979 December) 110 pages.
Kingwood, Rowlesburg, Terra Alta, Tunnelton Telephone Directory by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia. (1959) 40 pages.
Kingwood, Rowlesburg, Terra Alta, Tunnelton Telephone Directory by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia. (1957) 40 pages.
Telephone Directory for Kingwood, Rowlesburg, Terra Alta, Tunnelton by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia. (1955/1956) 40 pages.
Gems from Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson. (circa 1900) 24 pages, illus.
Moslem Women by Amy E. Wilkes Zwemer and Samuel M. Zwemer. (1926) 272 pages, illus.
James Rumsey, Pioneer in Steam Navigation by Ella May Turner. (1930) 245 pages, illus.
The Open Sesame Question and Answer Book on West Virginia, 1949 Revision by Tyndall V. Samberson (compiler). (1955) 64 pages.
Tableland Trails, Vol. 2, No. 3, Monongalia County Issue by the Tableland Trails Foundation. (1958) 197 pages, illus.
Tableland Trails, Vol. 1, No. 3, Special Edition by the Tableland Trails Foundation. (1953) 105 pages.
Tableland Trails, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Issue by the Tableland Trails Foundation. (1955) 176 pages, illus.
Tableland Trails, Vol. 1, No. 4, Special Preston Issue by the Tableland Trails Foundation. (1954) 175 pages, illus.
History of the Sand Spring Church by Ethel Fike Friend. (1976) 357 pages, illus.
Bible Study Syllabus and Lesson Helps for High School Students in West Virginia by the West Virginia Commission on Accredited Bible Study. (1920) 61 pages.
Our Second Half Century: A Brief History of the West Pennsylvania Eldership of the Churches of God by J.L. Updegraph. (1944) 62 pages, illus.
Memorial Messages by Rev. B.E. Rediger and Mrs. B.E. Rediger (compiler). (1932) 127 pages, illus.
Ten Decades of White Ribbon Service, 1883-1983 by Edith Kirkendall Stanley. (1983) 116 pages, illus.
Journal of the West Pennsylvania Eldership of the Churches of God: Annual Session by the Churches of God, West Pennsylvania Eldership. (Editions include: 93rd, 1936; 96th, 1939; 97th, 1940; 99th, 1942; 100th, 1943; 101st, 1944; 102nd, 1945; 107th, 1950 [2 copies]; 112th, 1955; 119th, 1962; 122nd, 1965; 123rd, 1966; 124th, 1967; 127th, 1970 [2 copies]; 133rd, 1976; 134th, 1977; 136th, 1979; 140th, 1983; 141st, 1984; 142nd, 1985; 147th, 1990; 148th, 1991).
Journal of the Thirty-Second Session of the General Eldership, Held in Fort Scott, Kansas by the Churches of God in North America. (1947 June 20) 176 pages.
Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, Telephone Directories. (1960-1990, complete)
Seedlings, Vol. 1, No. 1-2 by the Garrett County Historical Society for Junior Members. (1990 October-November)
The Glades Star by the Garrett County Historical Society. (1942 March-1994 June) 134 issues.
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