West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.1976
Overview
Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium; Berkeley Springs Park; Concord College; Colored Orphans Home; Colored Insane Asylum; Colored Old Folks Home; Denmar Sanitarium; Demonstration Packing Plant at Inwood; Droop Mountain Battlefield; Fairmont Emergency Hospital; Industrial Home for Girls; Industrial Home for Colored Girls; Industrial Home for Boys; Industrial Home for Colored Boys; Hopemont Sanitarium; Huntington State Hospital; Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp; Indian Mound Cemetery; Lakin State Hospital; Marshall College; McKendree Hospital; Medium Security Prison; Miner's Hospitals 1, 2, and 3; Pinecrest Sanitarium; New River State School; Potomac State College; Spencer State Hospital; Storer College; Reymann Memorial Farms; Andrew S. Rowan Memorial Home; Rutherford Sanitarium; School for the Deaf and Blind; School for the Colored Deaf and Blind; Shepherd College; Weston State Hospital; West Liberty State College; Welch Emergency Hospital; West Virginia Training School; West Virginia State College; West Virginia Tech; and West Virginia University. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, R.A. Armstrong, Thurman Arnold, Cleveland M. Bailey, Charles Baker, J.J. Cornwell, Brooks Cottle, William M.O. Dawson, John W. Davis, W.E. Glasscock, Howard M. Gore, Denzil L. Gainer, C. Howard Hardesty, Henry D. Hatfield, Thomas E. Hodges, Homer A. Holt, Rush D. Holt, B.M. Laidley, E.F. Morgan, J.F. Marsh, C.W. Meadows, Robert H. Mollohan, Matthew M. Neely, Jennings Randolph, John D. Rockefeller II, A.M. Reese, D.B. Purinton, Frank B. Trotter, J.R. Turner, W.R. Thurmond, and I.C. White.
Dates
- 1909-1949
Creator
- State Board of Control of West Virginia (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
No special access restriction applies.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please contact the West Virginia and Regional History Center.
Extent
0 Linear Feet (Summary: 164 reels of microfilm)
Physical Location
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/
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans.
- Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957
- Armstrong, R.A.
- Arnold, Thurman Wesley, 1891-1969
- Bailey, Cleveland Monroe, 1886-1965
- Baker, Charles.
- Barnes, J.W.
- Berkeley Springs Park.
- Berkeley Springs Sanitarium
- Bluefield State College
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery
- Chambers, J.A.
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3.
- Colored Insane Asylum
- Colored Old Folks Home
- Colored Orphans Home
- Concord College (Athens, W. Va.)
- Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953
- Cottle, Brooks.
- Darst, J.S.
- Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955
- Dawson, William M.O.
- Denmar Sanitarium
- Droop Mountain Battlefield.
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools.
- Fairmont Emergency Hospital
- Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.)
- Fairmont State College and Fairmont Normal School.
- Gainer, Denzil L.
- Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925
- Glenville State College
- Gore Hospital
- Gore, Howard M.
- Hardesty, C. Howard.
- Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962
- Hodges, Thomas E.
- Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975
- Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955
- Hopemont Sanitarium
- Hospitals and sanitariums.
- Huntington State Hospital
- Industrial Home for Colored Girls.
- Industrial Home for Girls.
- Industrial School for Boys.
- Industrial School for Colored Boys.
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant.
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp.
- Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962
- Laidley, B.M.
- Lakin State Hospital
- Lakin, John S.
- Marsh, J. Frank.
- Marshall College (Huntington, W. Va.)
- Marshall College and University
- McCullough, F.W.
- McKendree Hospital
- Meadows, Clarence W.
- Mollohan, Robert H.
- Morgan, E.F.
- Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958
- New River State School
- Pinecrest Sanitarium.
- Politics and government.
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners.
- Purinton, D.B.
- Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998
- Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore), 1872-1965
- Reymann Memorial Farms
- Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960
- Rutherford Sanitarium
- School for the Colored Deaf and Blind.
- Shepherd College
- Spencer State Hospital
- Stewart, Edgar B.
- Storer College
- Terrell, J.Z.
- Thurmond, Walter R., 1881-1967
- Trotter, Frank B.
- Turner, J.R.
- Universities and colleges
- Welch Emergency Hospital
- West Liberty State College
- West Virginia Board of Control
- West Virginia Institute of Technology
- West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
- West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.)
- West Virginia Training School.
- West Virginia University.
- West Virginia University. Potomac State College
- Weston State Hospital
- White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927
- White, John B.
- Women's history -- 1900-1929
Creator
- State Board of Control of West Virginia (Organization)
- Title
- West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence, 1909-1949
- Author
- Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History Center
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- English
Repository Details
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository
Contact:
1549 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown WV 26506-6069 US
304-293-3536
1549 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown WV 26506-6069 US
304-293-3536