Swisher Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3468
Papers of Louis Bush Swisher and Mildred Lorraine (King) Swisher, friends who attended WVU in the late 1920s and married upon graduation in 1929. Includes genealogical information (collected ca. 1940s-1990s) regarding the Swisher, Bush, Jackson, Stalnaker, and Watson families, as well as five portraits of family members (ca. 1890-1910), most having dimensions of 16" x 20" (including Jacob Jackson, Pamelia Watson Jackson, Jacob Hamilton Bush, Beverly Cecelia Jackson Bush, and Louis Bush Swisher). There is also a considerable amount of WVU memorabilia from the late 1920s (apparently from Louis Bush Swisher, on evidence of annotations) including dance cards (14 items), football badges (4 items, one of which includes a small, attached three-dimensional football), and a student activity book for second semester, 1925-1926. Also present are digital copies of three land grants from Patrick Henry to Meshack Sexton from 1785 and 1786 in Frederick County, Virginia; one indenture between Jonathan Wright and Meshack Sexton from 1794; and one land grant from James Monroe to John Baylor Armistead from 1801.
English
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0.4 Linear Feet (5 1/4 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 oversize folder, 1/4 in.))
3.03 Gigabytes (14 .tif files)
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Forwarded to Harold Forbes, Curator of Rare Books:
Newsletters:
"Farming for Better Living" Regional Roundup Books, 1940-1954, 1960-1969
"Rose Family Bulletin", 1966-1980
Books:
Bennett, Hugh Hammond. Elements of Soil Conservation. New York: Mc-Graw Hill, 1947.
Swisher, Kara. aol.com. New York: Random House, 1998.
Wayman, W. H. A History of Vocational Agriculture, 1917-82. West Virginia: West Virginia Department of Education, 1982.
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository