Purinton Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1964
Correspondence, notes, lectures, books, drafts of articles, newspaper clippings, magazines, financial reports, photographs of Daniel B. Purinton, President of West Virginia University, 1901-1911, and his sons, Edward E. (a writer), John A. ( a Lawyer). One box includes letters to and essays of Robert R. Green, editor of the Morgantown Post Chronicle General subjects are subscriptions of funds for WVU President's Home; Alderson-Broaddus College; PhiBeta Kappa; WVU Class of 1873. D. B. Purinton's trip to the Holy Land, 1904; Fraternal Building Co.; Baptist Church Associations; W. Va. gubernatorial election, 1908; W.Va. Sunday School Association; Good Roads Movement in W. Va., 1915-1923; Moro Missions; Philippine Islands; Western Electric; Swift & Company; Heinz; Peabody Coal Company; Hampton Court; Health Culture; and family affairs. Correspondence include Daniel B., Edward E. and John A. Purinton; I. C. White; J. J. Stevenson; W. W. Trent; Waitman Barbe; Albert Bushnell Hart; Thomas E. Hodges; T. L. Jeffords; Dr. Benedict Lust.
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11.7 Linear Feet (11 ft. 8 in. (28 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 oversize folder, 5 items))
English
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