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Elmer W. Prince, Papers of a Morgantown Resident and City Official
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Collection Number: A&M 3130
Overview
Items that belonged to Elmer W. Prince, Morgantown City Manager from 1933 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1966. The collection includes Prince's 1905-07 post card collection, a 1921 West Virginia University Bachelor of Science Degree in civil engineering, and two Morgantown budget statements, 1935 and 1937. There are also photographs, including images of Morgantown (1941) and several taken by Prince of post World War II France and Germany (1945-1946). Prince served as an army major during and after...
Dates:
1905-1967
Elmore Wilkinson Civil War Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3309
Overview
Photocopied transcription of the 1864-65 Civil War diary of Elmore Wilkinson of Company G, 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. The diary includes accounts of several battles and encounters with the enemy, and a list of wounded men from Company G. One notable entry briefly mentions a general review of the troops in front of Richmond, Virginia by General U.S. Grant (March 17, 1865).
Dates:
1864-1865
Elsa Happer Swisher, Compiler, Genealogical Record
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1298
Overview
The Ancestors of Charles Wesley Swisher II and their Families, compiled by Mrs. Charles H. Swisher. 27 pp.
Dates:
1960
Elvin Lycurgus Judy Papers
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Collection Number: A&M 0634
Scope and Contents
The papers of Elvin Lycurgus [E.L.] Judy (1870-1954), a Petersburg attorney and author of History of Grant and Hardy Counties, West Virginia (Charleston, 1951). These papers, mainly research files used in the writing of the county history, consist of copies and originals of correspondence, land records, census and military records, and genealogical information for the eastern Panhandle counties, Monongalia County, and the border counties of Virginia and Maryland....
Dates:
ca. 1949
Elwood C. Mansberger, Collector, Monongalia and Wood Counties, Records
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Collection Number: A&M 2023
Overview
Eight xerox copies of miscellaneous items of historical interest for the period 1850-1909, Monongalia and Wood Counties. Items include: One Morgantown Bridge Co. receipt, 1869; one Monongalia County Sheriff tax receipt, 1850; one Wood County teacher certificate, 1867; three Monongalia County teacher certificates, 1866-71; one report of grades in Monongalia Academy, 1858; and one postcard view (enlarged of the Morgantown Wharf ca. 1909. (Picture separated from collection and placed in...
Dates:
1850-1909
E.M. Merrill Engineering Company, Report Regarding Property of Wyoming Pocahontas Coal and Coke Company
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Collection Number: A&M 3656
Overview
Photocopy of a typescript entitled "Progress Report Number 1; On Property of Wyoming Pocahontas Coal & Coke Company, Raleigh & Wyoming Counties, West Virginia", dated October 1922. Prepared by E.M. Merrill Engineering Company of Beckley, West Virginia, the report regards more than 56,000 acres owned by the Company. It includes descriptions of the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the company's coal fields; leases for timber, gas, and oil; taxation; and location of coal veins....
Dates:
1922
Emily Gray Shreve Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3024
Scope and Contents
The papers of a Martinsburg native related to local prominent families. There are genealogical notes and papers concerning the following families: Anderson, Beall, Chenowith, Cowan, Cromwell, Gilbert, Gray, Hoffman, Magruder, McConnell, Newcomer, and Silver. Also included are the letters and papers of Edmond L. Hoffman, who served early in the Civil War as a lieutenant in the Stonewall Brigade. He describes in extensive detail the First Battle of Bull Run. In later letters, he presents his...
Dates:
1851-1987
Emma Boehler, Student, Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2857
Overview
Fifteen letters, from Emma Boehler to her sister, Louise and her mother and father in Morgantown, West Virginia. She writes from Powhatan College for Young Women, Charles Town, about her friends, classes and activities at school.
Dates:
1911
Emma Wickes Graham Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2468
Overview
In 1931 Graham compiled this scrapbook as a class project at East Fairmont High School. Includes ten letters from West Virginia authors which narrate experiences in their lives. Correspondents are: Robert A. Armstrong, J.M. Callahan, John Harrington Cox, J. Frank Marsh, Elizabeth Davis Richards, Frank S. Townsend, Ella May Turner, Grace Yoke White, and Bettie Bush Winter. Also includes original copy of sheet music for the song "Farewell W.V.U. Farewell" with autographed photograph of...
Dates:
1931
Emme Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3414
Overview
Genealogy of the Emme family, as descended from Johann Christoph Ludwig Taylor Emme. Includes data regarding family history from 1798-1972. Also includes a history of Haydentown, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, the 'hometown' of the Emme family.
Dates:
1972