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Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1439
Scope and Contents The bulk of these papers deal with Miss Jarvis' work as the founder of Mother's Day, her attempts to persuade state governors to issue proclamations to establish the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, and her later protests against the commercialization of the holiday, as well as the efforts of other organizations to promote Mother's Day.There are a few papers of her father, Grandville E. Jarvis; some correspondence and legal papers concerned with the Jarvis coal and farm...
Dates: 1858-1943
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Benjamin F. Miller Letter

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Collection Number: A&M 3037
Overview

Letter to Susanna from Morgantown describing hot weather and working arduously in a farm's wheat and oat field. He mentions the courthouse at Pruntytown being struck by lightening. He also gives his opinion about hypocrisy among church members saying that they can no more "square their lives by the Great Moral Code than a jackass can square himself on a sharp edged rail for a fiddler at a camp meeting of bull frogs."

Dates: 1855 Aug 13
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts

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Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Hearst, Millicent Willson, 1882-1974 1
Holland, Spessard L. (Spessard Lindsey), 1892-1971 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Jarvis, Anna, 1864-1948 1
Jarvis, Grandville E. 1
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Mason, John W. 1
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Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Quaker City Cab Company 1
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 1
Robinson family 1
Robinson, Eleanor. 1
Robinson, Hannah P. 1
Robinson, Helen M. 1
Robinson, James M. 1
Robinson, John A. 1
Robinson, William Johnson. 1
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