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W. B. Haught, Compiler, Papers Regarding Blacksville, West Virginia History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2909
Overview
Photocopied histories of Blacksville, West Virginia, as compiled or written by W. B. Haught. Contains three copies of "Blacksville and Vicinity: Early History," a four-page history compiled by W. B. Haught in 1920. This document describes the settlement of Blacksville in the late 1700s and prominent settlers as well as buildings and homes in the town through 1902. Collection also contains three copies of a topical history of the town, apparently compiled by W. B. Haught in 1948. This...
Dates:
1920, 1948 and undated
Anita Buchanan Speers, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1338
Overview
Correspondence, typescripts, notes, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a local historian and promoter of patriotic societies from Berkeley Springs. Many of the papers pertain to the local history of the eastern panhandle. Subjects include the town of Bath (Berkeley Springs); James Rumsey; George Washington; Porte Crayon (David Hunter Strother); Washington Bicentennial; National Flag Day; D.A.R.; and American Indian Day. One of the clippings scrapbooks includes a photo of West...
Dates:
ca. 1916-1957
Peace Tree Exhibit Photographs and Brochures
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3208
Overview
An exhibit created by Anna M. Schein to commemorate the planting of a peace tree and its annual honoring ceremonies conducted by leaders of various Native American peoples including the Iroquois. Representative leaders were Peterson Zah, Navajo Nation President; Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper and Leon Shenandoah Tadodaho, Presiding Moderator of the Grand Council of the Iroquois Confederacy. The tree planting ceremony dates back to the founding of the Iroquois Confederacy (ca. 1450)...
Dates:
1992-1995
Edward Evans Parrish (1791-1874), Oregon Trail Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0093
Overview
Typescript copy of the diary of Reverend Edward Evans Parrish, a native of Monongalia County, West Virginia, written during a journey to the Oregon territory from 1843 to 1845. The diary begins in October 1843 when Parrish and his group left Hoskinsville, Morgan County, Ohio, and ends in July 1845. Diary is twenty-seven pages and chiefly consists of brief entries. Parrish primarily describes their route west along the Oregon Trail, including the rivers they crossed and other geographical...
Dates:
undated
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Miscellaneous Publications
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3395
Overview
Published Excerpts from the Fifth Codicil of the Last Will & Testament of Michael L. Benedum in calligraphy (1976). Facsimile of Fortune article from December, 1940 regarding the Benedum family and their business interests (11 pages; includes cover of magazine). The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation is an independent foundation established in 1944 by Michael and Sarah Benedum, natives respectively of Bridgeport and Blacksville, West Virginia. During his lifetime in the oil and gas...
Dates:
1976-1999
Morgantown Family Photograph Album
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3506
Overview
Photograph album (7 in. X 11 1/2 in., 122 pp., 92 pp. with content) from unidentified source including photographs documenting Morgantown subjects in the period ca. 1918-1924, as well as other subjects. Pages have been numbered to preserve original order of pages as found; it is possible that pages 94-122 originally preceded pages 1-64. Pages 1-64 contain photographs evidently of friends and family, including homes and cars; landscapes appear to be mostly of locations in the western United...
Dates:
1918-1924
Manuscript regarding Volga Community of Barbour County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0704
Overview
Sketches of pioneer life on the Virginia frontier (what is now central West Virginia) in the late eighteenth century including the exploits of pioneers and Indian fighters such as Jacob Reger, Sam Hughs and Joseph and Joel Martin. White comments on the activities of the company, Confederate sympathies and activities of various citizens, the Ringgold Raiders, and the Confederate scout, John Righter.
Dates:
1955
John Pomroy, Army Captain, Letter regarding Frontier War in the Upper Ohio Valley
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0575
Overview
ALS from Capt. John Pomroy of Clarks Station, Crooked Creek, PA to Gen. Anthony Wayne, commander of the U.S. Army's Western Dept., penned during the height of the last frontier war in the Upper Ohio Valley. Capt. Pomroy reports upon the recent activities of his command and requests further instructions asking specifically whether or not a militia should be drafted for a future campaign. Pomroy estimates that he could raise "between two and three hundred men for a volunteer expedition...if...
Dates:
1792 July 16
Jacob S. Hayden Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2302
Overview
Chronicle written by Hayden, Mayor of Fairmont, of his trip to the west coast. He describes the perils of a steamboat trip from Pittsburgh to Independence, Missouri, and the joys and hardships of travel by wagon across the Great Plains to California. Indian encounters, river crossings, inclement weather, scarcity of water, thieves, and firing squads are some of the topics noted.
Dates:
1852
Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0821
Scope and Contents
This collection includes manuscripts, printed and newspaper materials collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. This collection includes papers concerning many phases of West Virginia History, although centered on Preston, Taylor, and Monongalia counties. Includes marriage licenses from Preston County, 1881-1947; newspaper clippings from Morgantown newspapers; a meeting invitation from the Monongalia...
Dates:
1880-1947