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Dr. Joseph Cahill Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 2495
Overview

Two letters sent to Dr. Joseph T. Cahill of Baltimore, Maryland, in December 1928. One typescript letter signed by Senator M.M. Neely of West Virginia concerns Neely's possible assistance to the surgeon general about an undisclosed matter. The second typescript letter is signed from J. Ben Robinson, dean of the dental school at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. This letter concerns a possible position for Dr. Cahill in the Department of Public Health in Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1929
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Dr. Lillian Waugh, Professor, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4518
Overview Lillian Jane Waugh was born in Lewistown, Maine, on 1941 June 1, and passed away in Morgantown, West Virginia, on October 8th, 2018. She was an instrumental cofounder for the Morgantown chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), serving as an officer, and contributing decades of advocacy for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). This collection contains personal family photographs, correspondence, and research about Waugh keeping her surname after marriage. Protest and activism...
Dates: 1884-2018 and undated; Majority of material found within 1960-2017
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Dr. Mahlon Loomis (1826-1886), Inventor, Chronology

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Collection Number: A&M 2037
Overview

Dr. Mahlon Loomis (1826-1886) experimented with wireless telegraph transmission in the late nineteenth century and received a patent for a wireless telegraph in 1872. This two-page typescript provides a concise chronological listing of the major events in Loomis's life, particularly those related to his experiments and achievements with wireless transmission. Also includes brief genealogical information.

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Dr. Mary Wimmer Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4595
Overview

Dr. Mary Wimmer is a retired biochemist and an environmental and feminist activist. This collection contains materials collected by Dr. Mary Wimmer during her time as a member of the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Dates: 1980-1984 and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Dr. Robert E. McCabe, Jr., Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4720
Scope and Contents

Papers documenting the career of Dr. Robert E. McCabe, Jr. (1925-2013), a surgeon and pioneer of kidney transplantation and preservation originally for Charleston, WV, including a bound scrapbook and scans of publications written by McCabe, assorted correspondence, his undergraduate thesis, photographs, McCabe's obituary, and more. Also includes a video interview of McCabe done by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.

Dates: circa 1960s-2010s and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Dr. William A. Neal Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4481
Scope and Contents Papers of West Virginia University, School of Medicine faculty member Dr. William A. Neal and the Neal family of West Virginia. Includes correspondence, photographs, awards, clippings, military service record, etc. documenting his career. Also includes papers regarding Neal's father and paternal uncles, and mother. There are papers of his grandfather William Elmer Neal (1875-1969) who was a physician, mayor of Huntington, WV (1925-1928), and who served in the WV House of Delegates...
Dates: ca. 1880-2016
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Dr. William H. Waddell, Veterinarian and Author, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0300
Overview Correspondence, book reviews, certificates and pictures of Waddell, a pioneering black veterinarian and author. His books (People Are The Funniest Animals, The Black Man in Veterinary Medicine, Universal Veterinarianism, and Historical Facts of the Black Veterinarian) document the little known contributions of African-Americans from antebellum times to the...
Dates: 1938-1987
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Draft of Telegram by Major General George B. McClellan from Clarksburg to General Morris

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Collection Number: A&M 1841
Overview

Draft of a telegram sent by Major General George B. McClelland from Clarksburg to General Morris on 30 June 1861, via the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Telegraph. Part of the message appears to be in code.

Dates: 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Drafting Tool Set and Planimeter

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Collection Number: A&M 4236
Scope and Contents

Set of Schoenner drafting tools in case (4 in. x 9 in.), and planimeter by the Frederick Post Company in case (3 1/2 in. x 10 in.).

Dates: ca. 1880-1890, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Drain, Maderia, McGee, Ramsey, and Smallridge Families Genealogies

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Collection Number: A&M 4336
Scope and Contents Five genealogies in two volumes; includes:1) Descendants of Azariah Drain of Harrison County, WV, 69 pages, ca. 1795 - 2014, through 7 generations. 2) Descendants of John Jacob Maderia of Jefferson County, OH, 37 pages, ca. 1839 - 2014, through six generations. 3) Descendants of Beverly McGee of Jefferson County, OH, 30 pages, ca 1780 - 1969 through seven generations. 4) Descendants of Silas Milton Ramsay of Pickens, Randolph County, WV, 12 pages, ca 1807 - 1925,...
Dates: 2014
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 251
Politics and government. 224
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
Morgantown (W. Va.) 186
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Genealogy 161
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West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 42
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Barbour County (W. Va.) 28
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United Mine Workers of America 52
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 43
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 38
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United States. Congress. Senate 38
West Virginia University. President 35
West Virginia University. Library 32
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 31
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 31
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 29
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 28
United States. Congress 28
West Virginia. Legislature 28
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 27
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 26
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 25
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 23
Byrd, Robert C. 23
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 23
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 23
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
Monongalia County (W.Va.) 22
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 21
West Virginia University. Department of History 21
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 21
Smith family 20
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 18
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 18
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 18
Dayton, Alston Gordon 18
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 18
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 18
West Virginia University. College of Agriculture 18
Davis family 17
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 17
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 17
Brown, John. 16
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 16
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 16
United States. Army 16
West Virginia (Ship) 16
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 15
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 15
Monongalia Academy (Morgantown, W. Va.) 15
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 15
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 14
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 14
Morgan family 14
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 14
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 14
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 13
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 13
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 13
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 13
Hayman family 13
Meadows, Clarence W. 13
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 13
Patteson, Okey L. 13
Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971 13
Weston State Hospital 13
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 13
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 12
Core, Earl Lemley, 1902-1984 12
Dawson, William M.O. 12
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 12
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 12
Moore family 12
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 12
Barron, W. W. 11
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 11
Consolidation Coal Company 11
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 11
Gore, Howard M. 11
Jackson family 11
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 11
Washington, George, 1732-1799 11
West Virginia University. College of Pharmacy 11
West Virginia University. Department of Biology 11
West Virginia University. Extension Service 11
American Federation of Labor 10
Brown family 10
Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 10
Dayton, Spencer 10
Evans family 10
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 10
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 10
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 10
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 10
Robinson family 10
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 10
United States. Works Progress Administration 10
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 10
Cuthbert, John A. 9
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 9
Green, William. 9
Hall family 9
Hardesty, David C., Jr. 9
Johnson, Louis. 9
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