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Mabel Hoggard, Educator, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3719
Overview
Papers of Mabel Welch Wims Hoggard documenting the career of a dedicated educator and a pioneer in breaking many racial barriers, including the first African-American staff writer for the Williamson News (Mingo County, West Virginia, ca. 1942), administrative staff member for The Williamson Housing Authority (ca. 1942), and the first permanent African-American teacher in Nevada (1945). The collection includes her personal and professional correspondence (ca....
Dates:
1924-1989; Majority of material found within 1932-1953, 1989
Mabel Horn Letters and Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3476
Overview
Letters from "Aunt Mabel" in Coal Center, Pennsylvania to Mabel Horn in Clarksville, Pennsylvania. Topics include: arthritis, cooking, death, family, gardening, health, holidays, meals, "presents for pop," produce, reunions, weather, and working, among others. There are also a few letters from other people. Places mentioned include: Clarksville, Coal Center, Jefferson, Rices Landing, and Washington, Pennsylvania. There are three photographs: 1) group portrait of students and teacher at...
Dates:
1953-1956
Mabel Marie Griffith, Compiler, Scrapbooks of a Morgantown Resident
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3530
Overview
Two scrapbooks (10 in. x 13 in.) compiled by Mabel Marie Griffith (born 02-28-1896) documenting her life in Morgantown, West Virginia in the period 1914-1926, including her personal and family life, education (Morgantown High School and West Virginia University), and her attendance of athletic, musical, and theatrical events. There is documentation of the effects of World War I (WWI) on Morgantown, Redpath Chautauqua, the impact of the influenza epidemic on the family of Charles Holt (the...
Dates:
1903-1929; Majority of material found in 1911-1920
Macajah Anderson Thorn Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2210
Overview
Copy of a manuscript letter written by Macajah Anderson Thorn to his father, Gordon Cloyd Torn, from Prison No. 2,Camp Chase, Ohio, dated November 18, 1864. Macajah was the grandfather of Gordon Thorn, the lender. At the time, the Thorn home was in Bland County Virginia. Macajah was a confederate captured near Moorefield. There is also included a copy of a typescript communication, 4/30/1926, from the U.S. War Department to Mrs. H. H. Ball, Princeton, W.Va. concerning Sgt. Thorn's War...
Dates:
1864
Macil Ingram, Compiler, AFL-CIO Dept. of Education Materials
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2424
Overview
Assorted AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) pamphlets and other materials distributed by the AFL Dept. of Education in Charleston, West Virginia, between 1949 and 1956. Most of the pamphlets are dated prior to the 1955 merger of the AFL and CIO and pertain chiefly to the work of the American Federation of Labor. Pamphlets provide information about the history of the AFL, labor organizations, the benefits of unions, and the AFL's Committee on...
Dates:
1949-1956
Maddex Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4642
Scope and Contents
3 booklets and a freshman beanie regarding West Virginia University belonging to Eugene Maddex and assorted West Virginia University-related ephemera regarding environmental activism, student life, and more belonging to Lee Maddex (Eugene's son). Also included are several flyers, posters, and other ephemera promoting performances of local Morgantown bands (specifically Nexus and Granny's 12 Gauge).Addendum of 2025 May 20 includes materials documenting Eugene Byington Maddex's...
Dates:
1937-1946, 1982-2000
Mae Robinson Stiles, Compiler, History of Wana
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2422
Overview
A short history of Wana, West Virginia compiled by Mrs. Mae Robinson Stiles for the West Virginia Centennial in 1963.
Dates:
1800-1930
Maggie Anderson, Poet, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3956
Overview
Papers of Maggie Anderson (born September 23, 1948, in New York City), an Appalachian poet and professor. She has been affiliated with organizations such as Kent State University (KSU) and its Wick Poetry Program, the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (NEOMFA), and others. Collection includes mainly professional papers pertaining to her writing and teaching careers. Formats include manuscripts, correspondence, printed material, photographs, and others. Subjects...
Dates:
1958-2017, undated; Majority of material found within 1980-2012
Maggie Metheny, Author, Typescript regarding Travel by Wagon from West Virginia to Kansas
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4446
Overview
Typescript authored by Maggie (Rhodes) Metheny regarding her family travelling from West Virginia to Kansas by covered wagon in 1892, with copies of related correspondence and family photographs.
Dates:
1953-1957
Mahala Chapman Mace Gregory Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1948
Overview
A bound copybook of songs written from memory by Mahala Gregory, age 80. Contains poems, hymns, hand-drawn illustrations, and a short biography of Mrs. Gregory. The volume was bound by Berlin B. Chapman in 1967 and titled "Echo of Literature from the West Virginia Hills."
Dates:
1940-1967