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201st National Guard, Regiment Histories
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1297
Overview
Histories of the 201st National Guard Regiment. This regiment dates back to colonial times, beginning as Captain Morgan Morgan's company of militia, and has served with merit in nearly every war in which the United States has engaged. Specific details of this unit's deployment are included in an index.
Dates:
1949-1991
Andrew Edmiston Jr. (1892-1966) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1994
Overview
Correspondence, deeds, financial and military records, newspaper clippings, and photographs of a Democratic politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1933-1942, newspaper editor, and businessman from Weston, Lewis County. Subjects covered include the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the coal and glass industries. Correspondents include David Goff, Charles E. Hodges, Charles Lively, Alfred E. Smith, Harold L. Ickes, Joe L. Smith, Jennings Randolph, Clarence W. Meadows, James...
Dates:
1916-1948
Daughters of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Ludington Hagans Chapter, Morgantown, West Virginia Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0483
Overview
Correspondence, 1903-1947; lists of names of Revolutionary War soldiers and officers, burials, location of graves, and pensions. There is a list of frontier forts in Monongalia County; data on servicemen in World Wars I and II; and genealogical information on about one hundred families.
Dates:
1903-1947
Dayton and Woods Families Genealogies and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3022
Overview
Family genealogies and correspondence for Ruth Woods and Arthur S. Dayton. Includes estate records and Photographs for the Jarvis, Stickler, Dayton, Bosworth, and Woods families. Personal correspondence with and/or pertaining to the Rare Book Room at West Virginia University, World Wars I and II, John W. Draper, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and Dayton Park in Philippi, West Virginia. Also included are research and writings by both Ruth and Arthur Dayton. Newspaper headlines are stored...
Dates:
1849-1960
Dr. J.C. Easton, History Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2324
Overview
Lecture notes, clippings, notes, and drafts for A History of European Civilization, Volume 1, and other miscellaneous papers of Jason C. Easton, former professor of history at West Virginia University (WVU). The collection also contains Dr. Easton's correspondence with several former students serving in the military during World War II dating from ca. 1942-1946. Other WWII items include ration books for food, gasoline, and liquor; and two unpublished sound recordings on disc of a radio...
Dates:
1860-1890, 1935-1960; Majority of material found within 1935-1960
Erbie Claire Albright (d. 1964) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1991
Overview
Correspondence, business papers, educational records of a home economics teacher and supervisor who graduated from West Virginia University, attended Chicago and Columbia universities, taught home economics at Morgantown High School, and was supervisor of home economics for the Monongalia County School System. The papers cover: family affairs; schools in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York; West Virginia Home Economics Association; National Education Association department of...
Dates:
1915-1943
General Education Board Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3193
Overview
Correspondence, reports, statistics, maps, photographs and pamphlets related to the efforts in West Virginia of the early southern program of the General Education Board (GEB). The GEB, founded by John D. Rockefeller, is one of the most significant philanthropic efforts in the history of U.S. education particularly noted for its aid to African-American schools, teachers and students. In West Virginia it aided the African-American colleges of West Virginia State, a public institution and...
Dates:
1901-1967
Joseph Ozanic, Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2482
Overview
Joe Ozanic went to work in the coal mines of Mt. Olive, joining in 1909, UMW Local 728. After serving briefly in the army during World War I, Ozanic returned to work in the mines at Mt. Olive. In 1932, Ozanic joined the Progressive Mine Workers of America, a rival organization to the United Mine Workers, serving both as president of PMWA District 1 and as national president. During the 1940s, Ozanic was an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. These papers reflect Ozanic's...
Dates:
1932-1974
Monongalia County Veterans Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2979
Overview
Mostly consists of cemetery readings, newspaper clippings, muster rolls, pension records of servicemen from Monongalia county.
Dates:
undated
Nuzum Family Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4288
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs from the Nuzum family of Fairmont and related families, including the Reed, Ferguson, Ostrowske, Winslow, and Diven families. The photographs include portraits and candid shots of mostly children, but also other family members. There are also portraits and candid shots of men in military uniform from World War I and World War II. Also contains greeting cards and the funeral book of Iva Nuzum. Most of the photographs include identifications and dates, though not all...
Dates:
1890-1975