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Morgantown Womens' Home Defense Club, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2065
Overview

Minutes, financial records, and president's records of a Parent and Teachers Association which changed its name to Home Defense Club upon commencement of World War I.

Dates: 1915-1960

Mrs. Glenn V. Longacre, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0736
Overview Photostats of deeds, surveys, plats, and grants, the latter signed by Thomas M. Randolph, David Campbell, and William Smith, governors of Virginia, in 1820, 1838, and 1847, for land in Harrison and Doddridge counties; a school attendance sheet for 1865; and a report to the board of education of the number of school-age children in District 4 of Doddridge County in 1869. Also included are a number of photographs taken around Webster Springs showing the hotel, a subscription school, and public...
Dates: 1814-1915

Mrs. Mary Woodson, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2211
Overview

Receipts for land, school, personal property, and road taxes in Kanawha and Putnam counties, 1863-1886 and 1898-1899; grade reports from the Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, Virginia, 1882, and from the Putnam County schools, 1904-1906; a printed souvenir list of the students and teacher at the intermediate school, Poca; two manuscript poems concerning the medical profession, 1879-1880; and other items. Index and table of contents are available in the 17th volume.

Dates: 1863-1906

Mrs. Raymond Cook, Collector, Hampshire County Historical Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2338
Overview

School lists for Springfield and Duck Lick, Hampshire County, 1906 and 1907; hand-written Act of the West Virginia Legislature creating a School for the Deaf and Blind at Romney, 1871; and an agreement between George Deaver and John Eaton relating to the sale of a tract of land in Hampshire County, 1887.

Dates: 1871, 1887, 1906, 1907

Mrs. S.T. Campbell Letter

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Collection Number: A&M 1287
Overview

A letter from I.C. White to his niece on West Virginia University letterhead stationary recommending a school of higher education for her to attend. Also includes letters from the donor and J. William Hess commenting on I.C. White and Luella White (Mrs. S.T. Campbell).

Dates: 1887-1987

Nathaniel V. Wilson Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 0509
Overview

Letters to Wilson at Farmville, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia, from members of his family at: the University of Virginia; Lewisburg, West Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Clarksville, Virginia. Includes references to family business affairs, the Ruffner-Donnally salt works at Charleston, purchase of slaves, and medical education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1836 and 1844.

Dates: 1834-1850

Nicholas Marmion, Physician, Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1071
Overview Personal, medical, and business papers, account books, and daily journals of a Harpers Ferry physician (d. 1883). Subjects include the practice of a small town doctor, his related business interests, and the education and careers of his children, three of whom became medical doctors. Included are the papers of William V. Marmion (1840-1922), who studied eye surgery in Vienna and established a practice in Washington, D.C. There are letters from George Marmion, acting surgeon and secretary of...
Dates: 1798-1951

North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Commission on Colleges and Universities, Reports for West Virginia University and Potomac State College

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Collection Number: A&M 2171
Overview The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary encourages cooperative relationships among colleges and universities, examines the quality of higher education, and accredits higher-learning organizations. Collection consists of 1964 reports from the association's Commission on Colleges and Universities (now the Higher Learning Commission) for West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown, West Virginia, and Potomac State College, a two-year residential division of WVU, in Keyser, West...
Dates: 1964

One Issue of The News American Newspaper of Baltimore Edited by Jack Hodge

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Collection Number: A&M 4238
Scope and Contents

One Issue of The News American Newspaper of Baltimore, Maryland dated 27 May 1986 the last issue. Jack Hodge, the first African American student at West Virginia University to earn an undergraduate degree, was one of the editors of this newspaper.

Dates: 1986

Papers regarding Early Settlers of Aurora in Preston County

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Collection Number: A&M 0728
Scope and Contents

Account books, and legal, business, and personal papers of some early settlers at Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia. There are records of a tannery, blacksmith shop, a general merchandise store, and a sawmill, as well as deeds and subscription lists for the Lutheran and German Reformed churches. Also included in the papers are land surveys, wills, deeds, plats, school notebooks, tax receipts, and other items.

Dates: 1788-1943 and undated ; Majority of material found within 1820-1916

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Education 115
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Morgantown (W. Va.) 22
Land. 17
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 16
Diaries and journals. 15
Education -- West Virginia 15
Rivers and river valleys. 15
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Church buildings 14
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 14
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Frontier and pioneer life 12
Women's history -- 1850-1899 12
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Women's history -- 1900-1929 10
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World War, 1939-1945 9
African Americans -- Education (Higher) 8
Elections 8
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 8
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Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 8
Women's history -- 1929-1950 8
Coal mining. 7
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Kingwood (W. Va.) 7
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Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 5
Surveyors and surveying. 5
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Randolph County (W. Va.) 4
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Women's history -- 1800-1849 4
Women's history -- Education and arts 4
Women's schools. 4
African Americans -- Segregation -- West Virginia 3
Art and artists 3
Barboursville (W. Va.) 3
California 3
Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 3
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Civil War -- Camps and camp life 3
Education, Higher -- Administration 3
Estate settlements. 3
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West Virginia University 13
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 7
Storer College 7
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 6
West Virginia. Legislature 6
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Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 4
Glenville State College 4
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 4
Mollohan, Robert H. 4
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 4
Weston State Hospital 4
American Federation of Labor 3
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 3
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 3
Byrd, Robert C. 3
Concord College (Athens, W. Va.) 3
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) 3
Democratic Party (U.S.) 3
Edmiston, Andrew. 3
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 3
Green, William. 3
Halbritter, R. Doyne 3
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 3
Lambert, Fred B., 1873-1967 3
McDonald, Henry Temple, 1872-1951 3
Meadows, Clarence W. 3
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 3
Preston, Rev. David. 3
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 3
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 3
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 3
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 3
Seckar, Alvena, 1916-2012 3
Trent, William Woodson. 3
Watson family 3
West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO 3
West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.) 3
West Virginia University. Center for Women's Studies 3
West Virginia University. College of Education 3
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 3
AFL-CIO 2
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education 2
American Colonization Society 2
Andrews, Volney. 2
Armstrong, Glenn. 2
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 2
Baldwin, Robert D. (1891-1982) 2
Barnes family 2
Barron, W. W. 2
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 2
Biaggi, Mario 2
Bluefield State College 2
Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 2
Boyle, William M. 2
Boyle, William M. Jr. 2
Brewster, J.M. 2
Brown, Cliff. 2
Buckman, Cecil G. 2
Burnside, Maurice Gwinn, 1902-1991 2
Butler, Paul M. (Paul Mulholland), 1905-1961 2
Cairnes, Tom. 2
Carey, James B. 2
Carroll, James Hawley, 1820-1890 2
Carter, E.A. 2
Chapman, Berlin B., 1900-1995 2
Clark, Robert. 2
Cochran, Nathaniel. 2
Cox, John Harrington, 1863-1945 2
Curtis, Silas, 1804- 2
Dandridge, Danske, 1858-1914 2
Daniels, Jonathan. 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Dawson, D. Boone. 2
Dawson, William M.O. 2
Day, George T. 2
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 2
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 2
Eccles, Mariner S. 2
Ellis, Hubert S. 2
Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.) 2
Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869 2
Fleming family 2
Fleming, Benjamin. 2
Fleming, Thurston Worth. 2
Funkhouser, Raymond J. 2
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 2
Goodnight, Cloyd 2
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 2
Haywood, Allan S., 1888-1953 2
Hedrick, Erland H. 2
Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946 2
Holt, Helen Louise Froelich, 1913-2015 2
Hubbard family 2
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Hutchings, Paul R. 2
Johnson, George W. 2
Kee, John, 1874-1951 2
Kee, Maude Elizabeth, 1895-1975 2
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 2
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