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E. L. Mathers and Max Mathers, Compilers, Monongalia County Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 1007
Overview

A scrapbook compiled by E.L. Mathers and Max Mathers, dealing with Morgantown and Monongalia County. There are photographs and newspaper clippings concerning civic, military, and social organizations; taverns and hotels; churches and schools; marriages and deaths; historic houses, early buildings, business places, and river navigation; and biographical sketches.

Dates: 1838-1951

Emma Boehler, Student, Letters

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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

Fleming Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0638
Scope and Contents Business and personal papers, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs of Benjamin Fleming (1806-1891), and his son Thurston Worth (b.1846), relating to various business enterprises carried on by the family in Fairmont. These included a large trade in manufacturing, importing and selling hats and furs, general merchandising, fertilizer and hardwood sales.There are many letters and advertisements from eastern mercantile houses; bills of lading showing names of steamboats on the Ohio...
Dates: 1810-1943

Fleming Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0644
Scope and Contents Additional papers of Benjamin Fleming and several members of the Fleming family. Manuscript items include land grants, & deed Monongalia County, letters, account ∧ tax statements. Printed items include Sabbath School program, Fairmont, 1861; concert and commencement programs of Fairmont State Normal, 1892, 1897, 1906; Alfred Fleming Cemetery Association, proposed organization pamphlet. A clipping scrapbook contains some poetry by Thurston Worth Fleming, biographical sketch of Col....
Dates: 1827-1915

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0005
Scope and Contents

This collection embraces business letters, bills, receipts, notes, orders, checks, and personal correspondence of John Rogers, who was a pioneer merchant and iron manufacturer in Monongalia County, Virginia, during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1777-1857

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0504
Scope and Contents

Letters to and from John Rogers of Morgantown concerning his business affairs; subjects of the letters include the Morgantown Bridge Company, building an academy in Morgantown, the North West Turnpike, stage routes between Morgantown and Uniontown, salt, wool, carding, the purchase of machinery for the manufacture of woolen goods, plow points, and negroes. Correspondents include John Hoye, J. M. Mason, George Calmes, John R. Cooke, George White, J. A. Stein, and G. Faber and Sons.

Dates: 1823 - 1852

Jolliff Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3241
Scope and Contents Collection consists of photographs, publications, letters, and newspaper clippings regarding the Jolliff and Watson families. Jolliff family history is highlighted in photocopies of the publication, Family Record and Genealogy of the Jolliff Family, From the Year 1760 to 1878 Inclusive by Oliver P. Jolliff and James S. Watson (1878). A photocopy of the Journal of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Encampment, Department of West Virginia, Grand Army of the...
Dates: 1878-1954

Joseph and Henry Bennett Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1731
Overview Letters of Henry and Joseph Bennett concerning travel by sea from New York to Chagres, Panama, overland across Panama and by ship to San Francisco in 1851. Letters from California, 1852-1853, discuss arrival of immigrants; employment conditions and wages; gambling and social life in San Francisco; investment opportunities; conditions in the gold mines; travel by steamboat to Hangtown (Placerville); churches; crime; Indians; mining profits; cost of land; ranching; blacksmith and plough shop...
Dates: 1849-1923

Joseph F. McNeely (b.1868) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0784
Scope and Contents

Two typescripts entitled "A Fascinating Journey Over U.S. Highway 250 From Moundsville to Fairmont, West Virginia." The material contains historical sketches of the cities and towns along the way, and the social, religious, economic, and educational life of the early settlers of this section.

Dates: 1936

Lucy Bayard Keys Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2864
Overview Correspondence, school themes and programs. The correspondence addressed to Lucy Bayard (later Keys) is from friends and relatives and covers scattered dates from 1871 to 1932. The letters are written primarily from and to Rice's Landing and Beaver (Pennsylvania), and Morgantown (West Virginia), discussing personal and family affairs. The school themes are unsigned, on the subjects "Old Maids," "Decision," "Thought Culture," "Institutes," and "An Aim in Life." The school programs are from...
Dates: 1871-1932

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Education 17
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Monongalia County (W. Va.) 10
Account books 6
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Marion County (W. Va.) 4
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 4
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Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 3
Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) 3
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Barrackville Covered Bridge. 2
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Coal mining. 2
Covered bridges 2
Diaries and journals. 2
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Europe 2
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Iron furnaces and iron industry. 2
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
Lumber trade 2
Maryland 2
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Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
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Australia 1
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Beaver (Pa.) 1
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Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
Civil War battles - Philippi. 1
Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
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Land - deeds and grants. 1
Laurel Hill. 1
Literature -- Societies, etc 1
Louisiana 1
Maps. 1
Marion County (W. Va.) - History, Local. 1
Marshall County (W. Va.) 1
Marshall County (W. Va.) -- History 1
Missouri 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) -- History 1
Monongalia County - court records. 1
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Monongalia County, Clinton District. 1
Morgantown - schools. 1
Morgantown, WV - Seneca Hill Oil Company. 1
Moundsville (W. Va.) 1
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Watson family 3
Fleming family 2
Fleming, Benjamin. 2
Fleming, Thurston Worth. 2
Monongalia Academy (Morgantown, W. Va.) 2
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Monongalia Historical Society (Morgantown, W. Va.) 2
Rogers, John, 1786-1864 2
Alfred Fleming Cemetery Association 1
Barbe, Clara Gould. 1
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 1
Bayard, Lucy. 1
Bennett, Henry. 1
Bennett, Joseph and Henry 1
Bennett, Joseph. 1
Boehler, Emma 1
Boehler, Louise. 1
Boehler, Mr. and Mrs. C.F. 1
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
Bongiorni, Joseph P. 1
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 1
California State Teachers College (Pa.) 1
Calmes, George 1
Carroll, James Hawley, 1820-1890 1
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 1
Churchill, Winston. 1
Cooke, John R. 1
Dandridge, Danske, 1858-1914 1
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 1
Detch, Rosalie Stewart. 1
Dille, Thomas Ray 1
Faber, George B. 1
Fairmont Normal School 1
Fairmont Sabbath School 1
Fairmont State Normal School 1
Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company 1
Fleming, Daisie. 1
Fleming, Florence. 1
Fleming, William 1
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Gilder, R.W. 1
Halbritter, R. Doyne 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Hardman, George Dencil, 1906-1972 1
Hayman family 1
Haymond, Creed, 1836-1893 1
Haymond, W.C. 1
Hayne, William H. 1
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 1
Holmes, Oliver W. 1
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Hoye, John 1
Hughes, John, 1797-1864 1
Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1
Jacobs family 1
Jolliff Family 1
Jolliffe family - Genealogy 1
Keys, Lucy Bayard 1
Lanier, Clifford Anderson, 1844-1908 1
Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881 1
Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
Mason, J. M. 1
Mathers, E. L. and Max Mathers, Compilers 1
Mathers, E.L. 1
Mathers, Max 1
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 1
Maxwell family 1
Maxwell, G. Ralph. 1
Maxwell, H. 1
Maxwell, Mrs. S.J. 1
Maxwell, Rufus. 1
McNeely, Joseph F. 1
McNeely, Joseph F. (b. 1868) 1
Montague, Margaret Prescott, 1878-1955 1
Moore, J.R. 1
Morgantown Bridge Company 1
Morgantown High School (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 1
Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954 1
Porterfield, George A. 1
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 1
Powhatan College 1
Powhatan College for Young Women (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1
Preston, Margaret Junkin, 1820-1897 1
Ray, Thomas P. 1
Rector College 1
Reed family 1
Reppert family 1
Rettig, John. 1
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916 1
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935 1
Saint George Academy 1
Schools. Morgantown 1
Scott, John. 1
Seneca Hill Oil Company ( Morgantown, W. Va.) 1
Smalley, Samson W. 1
Staritt family 1
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