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Churches -- Methodist

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Richard L. Woodyard Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1189
Overview

Sermons, essays, lectures, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers of a Methodist preacher who served in Clarksburg and Sutton, West Virginia; Louisa, Kentucky; and along the Ohio River from Ashland, Kentucky, to Parkersburg.

Dates: 1808-1872
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert Ayres (b.1761) Journal

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0824
Overview

The journal of a Methodist circuit rider in eastern Pennsylvania and the Bath and Berkeley Circuits in western Virginia.

Dates: 1787-1789
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas Scott (1772-1856), Facsimiles and Transcriptions of Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2052
Overview Facsimiles of manuscripts and typescript transcriptions of the papers of a traveling minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church who became a lawyer and a judge. Topics include Captain Michael Cresap, Chief Logan, western massacres during the Revolutionary War, customs and privations of the western settlers, the Kentucky frontier, Methodism in the west, old preachers, and historical recollections. Scott was assigned circuits in Berkeley, Frederick, Gloucester, Ohio, and Stafford counties of...
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Methodist Women, Fairmont District, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3085
Scope and Contents

Records of the Fairmont District of the United Methodist Women and its predecessor, the Women's Society for Christian Service, a social service arm of the Methodist Church. In its early years, much of the group's activities focused on the Scott's Run Settlement House in Osage, WV. Included are minutes and the subject files of officers, the latter dating mostly from the 1970's.

Dates: 1939-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William E. Arnett and Family Scrapbook

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3371
Overview Photocopy facsimile of scrapbook documenting the William E. Arnett, Sr. and family (11' x16'). Includes family history manuscripts, photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, church documents, ephemera of the Second National Bank of Morgantown, a land deed citing John and Louisa Huffman as grantors of Lot 83 to grantee Arnett, Sr. (1891), and obituaries for Arnett, Sr. and his wife, Iva. There is a manuscript narrative history of the Arnett family, and a family tree. Photographs are of...
Dates: ca. 1890-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Hereford McGinnis Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0855
Overview The personal business papers of William Hereford McGinnis (1855-1930), a Beckley lawyer who was prosecuting attorney of Raleigh County, 1892-1896, a senator in 1902, judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, 1922-1924, chairman for a number of years of the executive committee of the Democratic Party in Raleigh County, and delegate to the national convention in 1920. There are case papers, correspondence and other records of the Hatcher-McGinnis Law Firm, 1834-1930; family photographs; and...
Dates: 1834-1954
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Smith O'Brien (1862-1948) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1105
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, notebooks, speeches, historical essays, genealogical records, clippings, and printed material of a Buckhannon lawyer, state jurist, member of Congress (1927-1929), and West Virginia Secretary of State (1933-1948). The collection also includes papers of O'Brien's father, Emmett J., a member of the state's first Constitutional Convention; letters from O'Brien's brother, Lieutenant A.L. O'Brien, 1874-1887, a West Point graduate serving at forts...
Dates: ca. 1830-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

W.O. Ison, Collector, Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0073
Overview

Letters written to Professor W.O. Ison, Morgantown, mainly from members of his immediate family concerning Ison's teaching career in Everett, Pennsylvania and at West Virginia University, Methodism, and family matters.

Dates: 1873-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center