Clergy

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Records of Goshen (John Corbly Memorial) Baptist Church of Garard's Fort, PA. Includes a brief history of the church, a short sketch on the life and services of pioneer minister John Corbly, membership lists, and meeting minutes.

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Correspondence, financial records, and insurance papers of Lewisburg attorney and politician, John A. Preston. Much of the collection deals with the 1901 fire at the Lewisburg Female Institute, for which Preston was a trustee and secretary-treasurer. Related A&M collections include those of Preston relatives, John J. Davis, John J. D. Preston, and Samuel Price as well as the Roy Bird Cook Collection.

Overview The microfilm collection contains 10 diaries and inserted supplementary letters, clippings, and photographs kept by Presbyterian missionary Mary Behner during her years as the first director of The Shack, a settlement house in the Scotts Run Area of Monongalia County. In addition to the microfilm, there is an addendum to this collection dating from 2006. It includes a photograph album kept by Anna Santore DeLancy, who was a Sunday School teacher at the Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood...

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These photocopies of alphabetized client records of the Owen-Neely Funeral Home of Blacksville, Monongalia County, list the names and addresses of the deceased, their marital status, survivors, details of funeral and burial services, and birth, death, and burial dates.

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Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Overview Photocopy of the journal of S.W. Davis, a minister who lived in Weston, Lewis County. Includes manuscript notes, poems, scriptures, finances, and personal thoughts, and brief daily entries for 1864. There are also lists of baptisms, weddings, funerals, sermons, and names of members of several WV churches. Numerous towns, churches, families, and clergymen are mentioned, mostly in the vicinity of Weston, Lewis County. These writings are recorded into a publication entitled "Clergyman's Pocket...