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Gail Falk, Lawyer, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4567
Overview
Gail Falk is a lawyer most known for her work as a lawyer with the United Mine Workers of America and for her contributions to the Equal Rights Amendment.This collection contains materials collected and created by Gail Falk during her time working as a lawyer in West Virginia. It includes materials from her work with abortion litigation, the founding of the Women’s Health Center in Charleston, cases related to married women keeping their maiden name after marriage, the Equal Rights Amendment...
Dates:
1926-1982 and undated; Majority of material found within 1970-1982
Gainer Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2951
Overview
Correspondence of Loyd Gainer and Katharyn Gaston Gainer of Parkersburg, parents of folklorist and WVU faculty member, Patrick Gainer, concerning their courtship and family matters. Family photographs and clippings relating to Patrick Gainer's career. Commercial and handmade valentines and greeting cards.
Dates:
1892-1944
Galbraith Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3253
Overview
Newsletters, booklet, photographs, obituaries, newspaper clippings, letters, memorial cards, and other papers which provide genealogical information regarding the Conway, Fetty, Galbraith, Jones, Martin, Pierpont, Smell, Underwood, Wells, Woodburn families. Photographs include portraits of Ethel Woodburn Galbraith and Carl C. Galbraith. The collection also includes materials regarding membership in The National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution and The National Society of Magna...
Dates:
1921-1992
Gamble Papers, Letters and Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2474
Overview
Correspondence, photographs and miscellaneous papers of the Gamble family, who settled in Hardy County during the eighteenth century. The collection contains letters written during the Civil War and reflect the experiences of Mortimer Gamble, Henry R. Gamble, Carr Gamble, Hamilton Gamble and Mary L. (Pratt) Gamble. Henry Gamble served in the 12th Virginia Regiment; Carr in the 62nd Virginia Regiment; and Hamilton in the 23rd Virginia Cavalry. Included in the collection is a reprint of a...
Dates:
ca. 1774-1886
Gapen Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2433
Overview
A genealogy of the Gapen family, entitled "The Zachariah Gapen and Ruth Tindall Family Chronicle & Working Manuscript with Addendum." Material covers the years 1761-1944.
Dates:
1976
Gard Family Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4424
Content Description
Letters between Lucy Todd Gard, her husband Isaac Newton Gard, and their family and friends. Lucy, originally from Newport, Kentucky, married Isaac Gard of Greenville, Ohio in the 1830s. Isaac was a physician and served in the Ohio state legislature in the 1840s. The letters discuss family events, personal matters, Isaac's medical practice, antebellum politics, the Whig party, the Baptist Association in Trenton, Ohio, and social events in Jacksonburg and Greenville, Ohio. Also included in...
Dates:
1828-1874; Majority of material found within 1841 - 1849
Gardner Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3594
Overview
Family bible genealogy records of the Gardner family, including James Gardner (born in Ireland, and died in Cumberland, Maryland on December 1898), William Gardner (born in Lockport, Pennsylvania on 21 July 1868), and William Gardner (born in Cumberland, Maryland on 10 August 1905).
Dates:
undated
Garlow Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0240
Overview
Papers of the family of Edgar W. Garlow and his wife Maryland Steele Garlow, a Monongalia County farm family. They consist of wills, death notices, and genealogical data. The records indicate in detail the wealth of their holdings.
Dates:
1891-1967
Garnie Walker Testa Papers and Walker-Testa Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4670
Scope and Contents
Includes the papers of Garnie Wilma Walker Testa (1914-1999) and genealogical research about the Walker-Testa family. The papers include material retained from her high school, college, and graduate school years, like graduation photographs and academic texts – all in Series 1 Subseries 1. The collection also includes documentation of her military service in the Army during World War II, featuring items like field guides for military procedures, photographs of herself and peers in uniform,...
Dates:
1878-2025
Gary Tucker, Author, West Virginia Family Histories
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4659
Scope and Contents
Histories of the Shell/Schell family of the Northern Neck region of Virginia and West Virginia, the John and Betsy (Walker) Tucker family of the Northern Neck region of present-day West Virginia, the Martin and Ann (Giboney) McNemar family of the present-day Hardy/Grant County area of West Virginia, the Joseph (1777-1860) and Ruth McNemar family of Knobley Mountain in present-day Grant County, West Virginia, the Joseph Walker (1753-1834) family of present-day Grant County, WV, and the John...
Dates:
2023 April 15-2024 January 1