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Mary Behner Christopher, Missionary, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3131
Overview
The microfilm collection contains 10 diaries and inserted supplementary letters, clippings, and photographs kept by Presbyterian missionary Mary Behner during her years as the first director of The Shack, a settlement house in the Scotts Run Area of Monongalia County. In addition to the microfilm, there is an addendum to this collection dating from 2006. It includes a photograph album kept by Anna Santore DeLancy, who was a Sunday School teacher at the Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood...
Dates:
1928-1937
Scotts Run Settlement House Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3084
Overview
Records of the Scott's Run Settlement House located in Osage, WV and founded by the Women's Society for Christian Service of the Wesley Methodist Church of Morgantown. The settlement house provided a wide range of social services for the inhabitants of the coal mining communities along Scott's Run in Monongalia County. Included in the records are board minutes, staff and statistical reports, director's correspondence, subject files, financial records, scrapbooks and clippings which document...
Dates:
1926-1989
United Methodist Women, Fairmont District, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3085
Scope and Contents
Records of the Fairmont District of the United Methodist Women and its predecessor, the Women's Society for Christian Service, a social service arm of the Methodist Church. In its early years, much of the group's activities focused on the Scott's Run Settlement House in Osage, WV. Included are minutes and the subject files of officers, the latter dating mostly from the 1970's.
Dates:
1939-1980