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Kelley and Smith Families History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2465
Overview
A history of the descendants of William Kelley and Elwood Smith of Brown's Chapel, Monongalia County, West Virginia, entitled "William Kelley - Elwood Smith Genealogy," written by Charles W. Duncil. This typescript includes six photographs of family members and old family homes. Material covers the years 1730-1989.
Dates:
ca. 1930-1989
Kelley Family Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4465
Content Description
Photographs and genealogy information regarding the Kelley family and related families.
There are over 25 photographs, most of which are card mounted, dating from ca. 1890-1915.
Subjects of photographs include Isaac M. Kelley and Mary Kelley, Anthony Bowen, and other Kelley family members.
There are individual portrait and group portrait shots, and a few candid photos.
There are interior shots of a home in Clarksburg, including the living room, dining room, and library.
Photos of special...
Dates:
ca. 1890-1915
Kemble White (1873-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2209
Overview
Correspondence and other papers of Kemble White, one-time law partner of A.B. Fleming, specialist in oil and gas law, counsel for the West Virginia subsidiaries of Standard Oil (Hope Natural Gas, South Penn Oil, and Eureka Pipeline), charter member of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, veteran of the Spanish-American War, one-time president of the West Virginia Bar Association; and the West Virginia University Alumni Association. Additional items include: White's notebooks...
Dates:
1898-1965
Ken Hechler Interview Transcript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1164
Overview
Transcription of an oral history interview by Niel M. Johnson of the Harry S. Truman Library with Ken Hechler. Hechler, born 1914 in Roslyn, NY, received A.B., Swarthmore 1935; M.A., Columbia 1936; Ph.D., Columbia 1940 in Political Science which he later taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Marshall Universities. He served as a U. S. Army combat historian in Europe during World War II. Hechler was a research assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was special assistant to President...
Dates:
1985
Kendall Family Journal
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2363
Overview
Information on the Kendall family, published as a tabloid newspaper entitled, The Kendall Journal, at Grafton, WV. Includes issues 1, 2, and 3.
Dates:
1935
Kendall Family of Marion County Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3709
Overview
Papers of the Kendall Family of Mannington District, Marion County, West Virginia. Family names Hibbs and Cunningham also appear frequently in the collection. Contains the following series: correspondence; financial records; land records; legal records; legal correspondence; election records; funeral records; oil, gas, and coal records; subjects; photograph; and scrapbook. Election records includes a list of voters (1908) and a poll record for a U.S. Presidential election (1928). Oil, gas...
Dates:
1849-1959; Majority of material found within 1900-1945
Kenna Harwood McKeever, Compiler, Wardensville Genealogy and History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1403
Overview
This collection of family genealogy, and reminiscences of the country in and about Wardensville includes the following: History of Wardenville, West Virginia, 1957. pp229; A record of Paul McIvor and his descendants,[sic],1954,61pp; and Dad's Younger Days, 1889-1955, A True Story of Life of the Past in the Appalachian Mountains as Remembered and Told to His Family [n.d.].
Dates:
1954-1957
Kenneth Fischer Craft, Musician, Popular Sheet Music and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3499
Overview
Popular sheet music collection of Kenneth Fischer Craft, a pianist and performing musician in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. Kenneth Craft was born in Triadelphia, West Virginia in 1905, attended high school in Wheeling, West Virginia, and went to college at Carnegie Institute of Technology; during his college years he was a member of the "Collegiate Six Orchestra." He was also a member of the Pittsburgh Musical Society. Includes: approximately 1000 pieces of popular sheet music (ca....
Dates:
1889-1975
Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Historian, Research Papers Regarding Confederacy Supporters in Wheeling
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5179
Overview
Research papers compiled by history professor Kenneth Fones-Wolf regarding his study of people who supported the Confederacy in Wheeling, (West) Virginia in 1861. Includes manuscript research notes and facsimiles of documents regarding prisoners of war; traitors; legislative petitions (topics include transportation, education, banking, temperance, and property); military service (including the Shriver Grays, a Confederate unit organized in Wheeling in 1861); religion; black newspapers and...
Dates:
1819-2004, undated; Majority of material found within 1850s-1860s; Majority of material found within 2000-2004
Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Historian, Research Papers Regarding Glass Industry Towns in West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5170
Overview
Research papers compiled by history professor Kenneth Fones-Wolf for his book "Glass Towns", a work that focuses on the West Virginia towns of Moundsville, Clarksburg, and Fairmont as case studies to illuminate the history of the glass industry in a local as well as transnational context. The collection includes typescript and manuscript research notes, articles and research papers, union newsletters, newspaper clippings, hearing transcripts, photographs, and other material. Most of the...
Dates:
1874-2005