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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

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0005
Scope and Contents

This collection embraces business letters, bills, receipts, notes, orders, checks, and personal correspondence of John Rogers, who was a pioneer merchant and iron manufacturer in Monongalia County, Virginia, during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1777-1857

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0504
Scope and Contents

Letters to and from John Rogers of Morgantown concerning his business affairs; subjects of the letters include the Morgantown Bridge Company, building an academy in Morgantown, the North West Turnpike, stage routes between Morgantown and Uniontown, salt, wool, carding, the purchase of machinery for the manufacture of woolen goods, plow points, and negroes. Correspondents include John Hoye, J. M. Mason, George Calmes, John R. Cooke, George White, J. A. Stein, and G. Faber and Sons.

Dates: 1823 - 1852

Jolliff Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3241
Scope and Contents Collection consists of photographs, publications, letters, and newspaper clippings regarding the Jolliff and Watson families. Jolliff family history is highlighted in photocopies of the publication, Family Record and Genealogy of the Jolliff Family, From the Year 1760 to 1878 Inclusive by Oliver P. Jolliff and James S. Watson (1878). A photocopy of the Journal of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Encampment, Department of West Virginia, Grand Army of the...
Dates: 1878-1954

Joseph and Henry Bennett Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1731
Overview Letters of Henry and Joseph Bennett concerning travel by sea from New York to Chagres, Panama, overland across Panama and by ship to San Francisco in 1851. Letters from California, 1852-1853, discuss arrival of immigrants; employment conditions and wages; gambling and social life in San Francisco; investment opportunities; conditions in the gold mines; travel by steamboat to Hangtown (Placerville); churches; crime; Indians; mining profits; cost of land; ranching; blacksmith and plough shop...
Dates: 1849-1923

Maxwell Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0010
Overview Papers of Hu Maxwell (1860-1927), historian, editor, and author of several county histories of West Virginia, along with papers and records of other family members. There are manuscripts of fiction, verse, and local history written by Maxwell, as well as a number of his manuscripts and publications dealing with forestry which were prepared while he was a member of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Maxwell kept a diary during the years 1901-1919 while residing...
Dates: ca. 1845-1950, 2017; Majority of material found within ca. 1845-1950

Monongalia Academy Minute Book

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Collection Number: A&M 2971
Overview Minutes of the meetings of the Trustees dealing with raising and disbursing of funds, the establishment of rules and regulations and the hiring of personnel to supervise and to instruct at the Academy. Special mention is made of site location and awarding and payment of contracts for the erection of a new building. The new building was completed in 1831, located at the northeast corner of Spruce and Walnut Streets. Also mentioned are the trustee boards' decisions on acquiring property and...
Dates: 1827-58

Monongalia Historical Society, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1310
Scope and Contents

Minute book includes a record of the organization of the society and the constitution and the by-laws. Included with the volume is a typescript entitled: “Spots in Monongalia County School History (1837-1847).”

Dates: 1924-1949

Monongalia Historical Society Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0722
Scope and Contents Records regarding the history of Monongalia County, West Virginia.Boxes 1-14 contain: clippings and miscellaneous printed materials relating to Monongalia county history; genealogical compilations and correspondence relating to the genealogy of Monongalia county families, prepared by Thomas Ray Dille; business correspondence of the society, 1924-1927; correspondence and records of the West Virginia Historical Society, ca. 1925-1931; miscellaneous court records, family letters and...
Dates: 1827-1935; Majority of material found within 1925-1935

Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0831
Overview Papers of the managing editor of the Parkersburg DAILY STATE JOURNAL, 1889-1895, editor of the WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL JOURNAL, and member of the English faculty of West Virginia University, 1895-1925. The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to Barbe's book, GOING TO COLLEGE,...
Dates: 1884-1930

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Monongalia Historical Society (Morgantown, W. Va.) 2
Rogers, John, 1786-1864 2
Barbe, Clara Gould. 1
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 1
Bennett, Henry. 1
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Bennett, Joseph and Henry 1
Bennett, Joseph. 1
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
Bongiorni, Joseph P. 1
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 1
Calmes, George 1
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 1
Churchill, Winston. 1
Cooke, John R. 1
Dandridge, Danske, 1858-1914 1
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 1
Dille, Thomas Ray 1
Faber, George B. 1
Fairmont Normal School 1
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Gilder, R.W. 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Hardman, George Dencil, 1906-1972 1
Hayne, William H. 1
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 1
Holmes, Oliver W. 1
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Hoye, John 1
Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1
Jacobs family 1
Jolliff Family 1
Jolliffe family - Genealogy 1
Lanier, Clifford Anderson, 1844-1908 1
Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881 1
Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
Mason, J. M. 1
Mathers, E. L. and Max Mathers, Compilers 1
Mathers, E.L. 1
Mathers, Max 1
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 1
Maxwell family 1
Maxwell, G. Ralph. 1
Maxwell, H. 1
Maxwell, Mrs. S.J. 1
Maxwell, Rufus. 1
Monongalia Academy (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1
Montague, Margaret Prescott, 1878-1955 1
Morgantown Bridge Company 1
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 1
Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954 1
Porterfield, George A. 1
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 1
Preston, Margaret Junkin, 1820-1897 1
Rector College 1
Reed family 1
Reppert family 1
Rettig, John. 1
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916 1
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935 1
Saint George Academy 1
Staritt family 1
Stein, J. A. 1
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 1
United States. Federal Civil Works Administration 1
United States. Forest Service 1
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 1
Watson family 1
Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921 1
West Virginia Historical Society 1
West Virginia University 1
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 1
West Virginia University. Department of English 1
Weston State Hospital 1
White, Capt. James L. 1
White, George 1
White, William Allen, 1868-1944 1
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 1
Wilson, Robert Burns, 1850-1916 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
Wister, Owen, 1860-1938 1
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