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E. L. Mathers and Max Mathers, Compilers, Monongalia County Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1007
Overview
A scrapbook compiled by E.L. Mathers and Max Mathers, dealing with Morgantown and Monongalia County. There are photographs and newspaper clippings concerning civic, military, and social organizations; taverns and hotels; churches and schools; marriages and deaths; historic houses, early buildings, business places, and river navigation; and biographical sketches.
Dates:
1838-1951
Fleming Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0638
Scope and Contents
Business and personal papers, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs of Benjamin Fleming (1806-1891), and his son Thurston Worth (b.1846), relating to various business enterprises carried on by the family in Fairmont. These included a large trade in manufacturing, importing and selling hats and furs, general merchandising, fertilizer and hardwood sales.There are many letters and advertisements from eastern mercantile houses; bills of lading showing names of steamboats on the Ohio...
Dates:
1810-1943
Thomas P. Ray Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0798
Overview
Copy of a diary of a Morgantown resident, with references to early merchants and public officials; the building of schools, churches, and business buildings; volume of river traffic; and roads and mail routes opened.
Dates:
1829-1852