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Education. SEE ALSO Schools.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1281
Scope and Contents

Historical and genealogical notebooks, notes on census reports, cemetery readings, newspaper history, copies of church and school records, notes on slavery, newspaper clipping scrapbooks, and correspondence.

Dates: 1905-1959

Guy B. Young Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0661
Overview

Personal papers of a Glenville attorney, dealing with his law practice, service in the Spanish-American War, and his education at Glenville State Normal School and West Virginia University College of Law.

Dates: 1880-1940

Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1942
Overview Pamphlets include Henry Ruffner's antislavery pamphlet, 1847, and his Union speech, 1856. Subjects of the manuscripts and correspondence include family history; travel; Kanawha Salt Works; schools in Virginia and Kanawha County; Lane Seminary Library; Presbyterian Church; slavery, coal, gas, iron, and timber; Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee, Harvard, Hobart, Cornell, and Hampden-Sydney colleges; Greenbrier County; Alabama; election of 1904; University of Virginia; Kanawha Valley floods;...
Dates: 1829-1913

Impact of a Half Century of Professional Education, A Symposium Commemorating Fifty Years of Teacher Training in West Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1683
Overview

Typescript entitled: "The Impact of a Half Century of Professional Education. A Symposium Commemorating Fifty Years of Teacher Training in West Virginia and the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the College of Education of West Virginia University, Morgantown, 25-26 April 1952." Participants include Dean F.W. Stemple, chairman, H.G. Wheat, Robert Clark, Kermit A. Cook, George Colebank, Howard B. Allen, Earl Hudelson, Eston K. Feaster, and Robert D. Baldwin.

Dates: 1952

James William Kuykendall Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1180
Overview

Papers of a land surveyor from Hardy County include family and business correspondence, 1888-1926; letters from George Benson Kuykendall on family genealogy, 1911-1914; Kuykendall's correspondence as a member of the county board of education, 1908-1915; account books, diaries, surveying notes, Sunday school class book, 1876-1923; and plats, surveys, and deeds of land in the Hardy-Grant County area.

Dates: 1765-1926

Jenkins Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0790
Overview Miscellaneous family papers of John E. Jenkins, Albright, relating to Preston County, West Virginia. Included are correspondence and genealogies of Preston County families and papers dealing with education and churches in the county. Bound volumes include a minute book, "Regimental Courts of Enquiry," for the One Hundred Fourth Regiment, Virginia Militia, later the Twenty-fourth Regiment, West Virginia Militia, 1836-1866; and a minute book of the Brandonville and Terra Alta Telephone...
Dates: 1832-1951

Kanawha County Book Protest, Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2624
Overview

Articles, broadsides, and other materials concerning selection of textbooks for the public schools of Kanawha County, West Virginia. The controversy involved confrontation between Christian fundamentalists and liberals over educational policy.

Dates: 1975

Lewis H. Chrisman Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2114
Overview

Correspondence between Dr. Chrisman, professor of English at West Virginia Wesleyan College, and Dr. Edgar Wesley, professor of education at the University of Minnesota. Subjects include education, religion, politics, Dr. C.H. Ambler, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and West Virginia University.

Dates: 1949-1964

Martha Bratton Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2930
Overview

Bratton was born, ca.1838, and lived in the town of Millboro Springs, Bath County, Virginia, where she married Townley Cauthorn, ca.1860. Correspondence is to Martha from other women friends, dealing with courtship, marriage, education, and domestic life Some are letters from Virginians pioneering in Illinois and Missouri, detailing the hardships of their new lives; and others are love letters from suitors.

Dates: 1854-1894

Monongalia County Council of Churches, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2770
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, newsletters, financial reports and records of meetings. Subjects covered include missions, Christian education, mental health, world peace, and radio and television ministries.

Dates: 1946-1967