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Education -- West Virginia

 Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4208
Scope and Contents This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles. Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles,...
Dates: 1775-2018 (Includes facsimiles); Majority of material found within 1970-2011
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Blacksville High School, Yearbook "The Tattler"

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4403
Content Description

Blacksville High School yearbook "The Tattler" (1919). Includes "large" photographs of faculty, students, and student groups; class history; humor; and other material. The town of Blacksville is located in Monongalia County, West Virginia.

Dates: 1919
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1003
Scope and Contents Collection includes typescripts drafts of unpublished works, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printer's picture plates. Unpublished typescript drafts are titled George Rodgers Clark Floyd of Logan County, West Virginia, and Huckleberry Ranger Lieutenant John Blue, Confederate. Also includes correspondence from Robert L. Floyd to Dr. Ambler regarding the Floyd family (1953-1957), and a manuscript titled...
Dates: 1913, 1940-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

David Goff Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0975
Scope and Contents Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). Includes letters, surveys, land grant, bonds, and receipts. The correspondence includes...
Dates: 1826-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Fairmont Junior High School, Publisher, Student Newsletter "Spotlight"

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4384
Content Description

Seven issues of "Spotlight", a monthly newsletter published for the students of Fairmont Junior High School. Contents include school news and announcements, lists of honor roll students, performance of school sports team, student poetry and artworks, and jokes.

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harrison Hagans (1796-1867) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0012
Overview Papers of the Hagans family of Preston County, West Virginia, including Harrison, Elisha, George M., Henry C., John Marshall, Zer Hagans, and others. There are letters, invoices, account books, advertisements, and other business records pertaining to family business enterprises including several general merchandise stores and outlets in western Pennsylvania and Maryland, and at Brandonville, Kingwood, Greenville, and Palatine, West Virginia. There are several postal records from Harrison...
Dates: 1810-1895
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John Lewis Cole Poem

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3000
Overview

John Lewis Cole was a librarian in West Virginia in the late nineteenth century. Collection consists of a sixteen-page narrative poem, "The Old Fayette School-House," written by J. L. Cole in December 1891. The text of the poem is typed, but it is accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations.

Dates: 1891
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph F. McNeely (b.1868) Papers

 Collection
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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lewis Johnson Family Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2259
Overview Biographical and genealogical information relating to Lewis Johnson of West Liberty, Ohio County, WV, (1776 July 19-1820 ca) and his descendants. The information was supplied and compiled by Thomas A. McCammon, a descendant of Johnson, and Audra Wayne of Wheeling, WV. Wayne provided McCammon with a photocopy of a contract between M.D. Lewis and the English Day School in West Liberty State College, West Liberty, WV. Included among these works, "The Demise of Lewis Johnson" by James Armstrong...
Dates: 1985
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Commission on Colleges and Universities, Reports for West Virginia University and Potomac State College

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2171
Overview The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary encourages cooperative relationships among colleges and universities, examines the quality of higher education, and accredits higher-learning organizations. Collection consists of 1964 reports from the association's Commission on Colleges and Universities (now the Higher Learning Commission) for West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown, West Virginia, and Potomac State College, a two-year residential division of WVU, in Keyser, West...
Dates: 1964
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center