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Ernest Glenwood Otey (1895-1966) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1909
Overview Correspondence, financial records, speeches, reports, blueprints, and pamphlets of a Bluefield banker and businessman who was a treasurer of the Democratic Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Governors of West Virginia University. Subjects include numerous businesses in the Bluefield area, Bluefield State College, Concord College, Bank of Bramwell, Island Creek Coal Company, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Smokeless Operators Association, Virginia Railway,...
Dates: 1935-1965

George McCandless Porter (1835-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1821
Overview Letters written by a lawyer and businessman near Shanghai in Berkeley County to his sister Mary, who was residing in their father's home at New Cumberland, Virginia. There are also letters written from: Wellsburg Academy, 1849-1850; Washington College, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1851-1855; Cuba, 1857; New Orleans, 1857; and from Richmond, Virginia, 1858-1860. A diary includes entries from 1 January to 20 March 1864. Porter had business relations with firms in Pittsburgh concerning brick...
Dates: 1849-1864

Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1942
Overview Pamphlets include Henry Ruffner's antislavery pamphlet, 1847, and his Union speech, 1856. Subjects of the manuscripts and correspondence include family history; travel; Kanawha Salt Works; schools in Virginia and Kanawha County; Lane Seminary Library; Presbyterian Church; slavery, coal, gas, iron, and timber; Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee, Harvard, Hobart, Cornell, and Hampden-Sydney colleges; Greenbrier County; Alabama; election of 1904; University of Virginia; Kanawha Valley floods;...
Dates: 1829-1913

Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2503
Overview A collection of 400 letters, cards, petitions, telegrams, printed, and other similar items received and sent by U.S. Senator and Representatives Howard Sutherland (1865-1950) of West Virginia. The papers are part of Sutherland's constituent mail and are all concerned with the question of women's suffrage. The period covered is 1914-1919, and correspondence regarding both the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919,...
Dates: 1914-1919

Lloyd B. Ganoe, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1229
Overview The collection consists of correspondence, business and legal papers, family photographs, clippings, and account books of Zebulon and Eli Musgrave and Daniel and William L. Turney of Fairmont, West Virginia. Aside from family and business affairs and estate settlements, subjects include Missouri frontier life and society in 1836; strife at Lecompton, Kansas School Territory, in 1857; local history of the Fairmont area; and Fairmont Normal School. About 2 ins. of material concerns coal...
Dates: ca. 1836-1925

Maxwell Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0010
Overview Papers of Hu Maxwell (1860-1927), historian, editor, and author of several county histories of West Virginia, along with papers and records of other family members. There are manuscripts of fiction, verse, and local history written by Maxwell, as well as a number of his manuscripts and publications dealing with forestry which were prepared while he was a member of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Maxwell kept a diary during the years 1901-1919 while residing...
Dates: ca. 1845-1950, 2017; Majority of material found within ca. 1845-1950

Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0576
Scope and Contents Manuscript and printed material, and pictures collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. There are also a small number of Mr. West’s personal papers, consisting of letters concerning West Virginia University College of Engineering, Oak Grove Cemetery Association, and the Wesley Methodist Church, all of Morgantown, and business records of the Town Hill Service Station, owned by Mr. West. The...
Dates: 1774; 1780; 1830-1952

West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates: 1909-1949

William A. Moreland, Political Papers, World War II Records, and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2032
Overview Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Addendum of 2010/10/29 includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs. Addenda of 2011/03/21 and 2011/06/20 include papers of William Moreland, and...
Dates: 1824-2008

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1455
Overview Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...
Dates: 1743-1882

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West Virginia University 3
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 2
American Colonization Society 2
Bluefield State College 2
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Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Meadows, Clarence W. 2
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 2
United States. Congress. Senate 2
Agricultural College of West Virginia 1
American Constitutional League 1
American Victory Union 1
Armstrong, R.A. 1
Arnold, Thurman Wesley, 1891-1969 1
Bailey, Cleveland Monroe, 1886-1965 1
Baker, Charles. 1
Barnes, J.W. 1
Barron, W. W. 1
Berkeley Springs Sanitarium 1
Bongiorni, Joseph P. 1
Brody, John. 1
Brown family 1
Burdett, Joe F. 1
Byrd, Robert C. 1
Cass, Lewis. 1
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
Chambers, J.A. 1
Colored Insane Asylum 1
Colored Old Folks Home 1
Colored Orphans Home 1
Colson, Clyde L. (Clyde Lemuel) 1
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (U.S.) 1
Conley, Philip Mallory, 1887- 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Cornell University 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Cottle, Brooks. 1
Darst, J.S. 1
Daughters of the American Revolution. West Virginia Chapters 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
Democratic Executive Committee 1
Democratic Party (W. Va.) 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Denmar Sanitarium 1
Devore, Leland Swarts 1
Dille, Thomas Ray 1
Eaton, John. 1
Fairmont Emergency Hospital 1
Fairmont Normal School 1
Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1
Fairmont State College and Fairmont Normal School. 1
Fred Killingworth. 1
Gainer, Denzil L. 1
Ganoe, Lloyd B. 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Glenville State College 1
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 1
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 1
Gore Hospital 1
Gore, Howard M. 1
Greene, Daniel. 1
Greene, John. 1
Greene, Richard. 1
Greer, H.C. 1
Hagans and Frum 1
Hagans and Spahr 1
Hagans, George M. 1
Hagans, Lynch and Protzman 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Hardesty, C. Howard. 1
Harvard University 1
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 1
Hechler, Ken 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Highland, Cecil B. 1
Hobart College 1
Hoblitzell, John D. 1
Hodges, Thomas E. 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Hopemont Sanitarium 1
Huntington State Hospital 1
Huston, C.R. 1
Industrial Home for Colored Girls. 1
Industrial Home for Girls. 1
Industrial School for Boys. 1
Industrial School for Colored Boys. 1
Island Creek Coal Company 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Kee, Maude Elizabeth, 1895-1975 1
Kingwood and West Union Turnpike Company 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 1
Laidley, B.M. 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lakin State Hospital 1
Lakin, John S. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Lazier, Henry B. 1
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