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Women's schools.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Monongalia Academy, Invitation to Examination

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0401
Overview

One printed invitation to a student examination (1834) issued by the Monongalia Academy, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Dates: 1834

Monongalia Academy Minute Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2971
Overview Minutes of the meetings of the Trustees dealing with raising and disbursing of funds, the establishment of rules and regulations and the hiring of personnel to supervise and to instruct at the Academy. Special mention is made of site location and awarding and payment of contracts for the erection of a new building. The new building was completed in 1831, located at the northeast corner of Spruce and Walnut Streets. Also mentioned are the trustee boards' decisions on acquiring property and...
Dates: 1827-58

Monongalia Academy, Samuel Haldeman, Grade Report and Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0529
Overview

Copy of grade report for Samuel Haldeman issued by Monongalia Academy, Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1853. There is also a letter (3 pages on 2 leaves) from Ada Haldeman Ford providing biographical information on Samuel Haldeman.

Dates: 1853, 1953

Monongalia Academy to West Virginia Agricultural College, Deed

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0403
Overview

A 7-page deed transferring the Monongalia Academy and Woodburn Seminary property, Morgantown, West Virginia, to the West Virginia Agricultural College in April 1867.

Dates: 1867

Monongalia Academy, Tuition Receipts and Grade Reports

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0068
Overview

Three tuition receipts and four grade reports issued by Monongalia Academy, Morgantown, West Virginia, for student H. Lowe.

Dates: 1853-1855, 1860

Monongalia Academy, Typescript Narrative History

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0402
Overview

Three page typescript narrative history of Monongalia Academy, Morgantown, West Virginia, from 1814 to 1867, authored by Susan Maxwell Moore.

Dates: 1939

Mrs. Mary Woodson, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2211
Overview

Receipts for land, school, personal property, and road taxes in Kanawha and Putnam counties, 1863-1886 and 1898-1899; grade reports from the Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, Virginia, 1882, and from the Putnam County schools, 1904-1906; a printed souvenir list of the students and teacher at the intermediate school, Poca; two manuscript poems concerning the medical profession, 1879-1880; and other items. Index and table of contents are available in the 17th volume.

Dates: 1863-1906

Putney-Reed Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2876
Overview Correspondence, legal papers, photographs and genealogical records of the Putney-Reed family. The letters, which were exchanged between family members in California, Iowa and Kanawha Salines, West Virginia, primarily concern family affairs. There are also thirty-seven letters, 1858 - 1862, written by Emily Reed a student at the Woodburn Female Seminary in Morgantown, Virginia (later West Virginia), to her family describing student life, particularly the curriculum and her efforts to promote...
Dates: 1820-1899

Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers

 Collection
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

Thomas Ray Dille Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0171
Scope and Contents Papers of a Morgantown attorney, genealogist, and antiquarian. There are several series of office files relating to Dille's law practice, and extensive correspondence regarding his historical and genealogical studies. Families for which there are genealogical compilations include Dille, Ray, Stewart, McFarland, Tennant, David Evans, and John Evans. Monongalia County birth and death records; cemetery readings; copies of wills and indexes of will books; names in real estate and appraisement...
Dates: 1781-1948