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Education. SEE ALSO Schools.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Bessie Jane Reed Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1845
Overview

Correspondence, poems, and clippings of a secondary and normal school librarian in Fairmont and West Liberty, West Virginia. Subjects include the West Virginia Library Association. There is one letter each from Mary Meek Atkeson and Waitman Barbe.

Dates: 1918-1924
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0122
Scope and Contents Collection includes original copies of correspondence relating to Virginia and West Virginia, as well as newspaper clippings, photographs, and research notes. Events pertaining to the Civil War and the formation of West Virginia are covered. Among the most important items are the private correspondence of Waitman T. Willey (1835-1861 and 1866-1868); data pertaining to education in Mason County, West Virginia (1861-1875); typescript copies of letters of Samuel Woods (see also A&M 1445);...
Dates: 1834-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1010
Scope and Contents

Personal and professional correspondence (1914-1956), typescripts, research notes, clippings, photographs, maps, drafts and manuscripts of published and unpublished historical studies. The correspondence includes a number of letters from historians in the 1920s and 1930s. Other subjects covered in the papers include the McNeill Rangers, the Civil War, Moravian Missionaries, floods in the South Branch Valley, and secondary education in West Virginia.

Dates: 1914-1956
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Cloyd Goodnight, Biography of Robert Richardson (1806-1876), Manuscript

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Collection Number: A&M 1247
Overview

Biography by Cloyd Goodnight of Robert Richardson, a Disciples of Christ minister, educator, writer, physician, agriculturalist, and member of the Bethany College faculty. The manuscript contains long extracts from Richardson's correspondence and daybook. Correspondence and daybook.

Dates: ca. 1930
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Education in West Virginia, Scrapbooks

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Collection Number: A&M 1668
Overview

These scrapbooks which were collected or compiled by B.B. Chapman concern Webster Springs High School, Fairmont State College, Glenville State College, and West Virginia University. Included are correspondence, faculty contracts, diplomas, teaching certificates, report cards, class lists, and other similar materials.

Dates: 1910-1960
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Erbie Claire Albright (d. 1964) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1991
Overview Correspondence, business papers, educational records of a home economics teacher and supervisor who graduated from West Virginia University, attended Chicago and Columbia universities, taught home economics at Morgantown High School, and was supervisor of home economics for the Monongalia County School System. The papers cover: family affairs; schools in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York; West Virginia Home Economics Association; National Education Association department of...
Dates: 1915-1943
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Fayette County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0362
Scope and Contents Originals and copies of county and circuit court suit papers, mainly for the period after 1870. The volumes include a minute book of the Fayetteville town council, 1873-1877; county board of education minute book, 1866-1876; a land entry book, 1831-1837; land tax books, 1849, 1855-1860; personal property books, 1855-1858, 1860-1861, 1866; registers of voters, 1866, 1867; poll books, 1872, 1890; and private account books, including a G.P. Huddleston daybook for a general store, 1850-1858; and...
Dates: 1787-1869; 1870-1923
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Marion Reynolds (1843-1931) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0050
Overview

Business papers of a Keyser attorney who was judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, 1904-1920; member of the West Virginia Legislature, 1895-1896 and 1901-1904; and a member of many educational, commercial, and financial boards in Mineral County. Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, H.G. Davis, A.G. Dayton, S.B. Elkins, and Cecil B. Highland.

Dates: 1845-1931
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Franklin Parker, Professor of Education, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2676
Overview Correspondence, notes, government reports, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, news releases and other materials on education in Zambia and northern Zimbabwe as gathered by a Benedum Professor of Education at West Virginia University. Addenda include: 1) vitae with list of writings, reprints, career scrapbook, and special journal issue authored by Parker on George Peabody. 2) Twenty-eight articles regarding mostly prominent educators, historians, politicians, scientists, etc. of the 18th,...
Dates: 1957-2008
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1244
Scope and Contents Historical and genealogical typescripts, clipping scrapbooks, copies of family and court records, and personal recollections of the Guyandotte Valley area of Cabell, Wayne, and Lincoln counties compiled by F.B. Lambert. Several typescripts deal with the religious institutions of the area, the development of road, river, and rail transportation, and the spread of education in the valley. Other materials deal with the frontier and Indian history of the Guyandotte country and the collection...
Dates: ca. 1819-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center