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Monongalia County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 176 Collections and/or Records:

Earl L. Core (1902-1984) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1730
Scope and Contents Original Accession; 1756-1985; boxes 1-21 and two oversize folders Records of Earl L. Core, botanist, writer, editor, historian, and West Virginia University professor and Biology Department Head. Includes the correspondence, collected research materials, and writings of Dr. Core. The earliest correspondence, 1951-1960, deals mostly with his role as a botanist and West Virginia University Botany Department chair, and includes letters both to and from Dr. Core. Later...
Dates: 1756-1985
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl L. Core (1902-1984) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1556
Scope and Contents Office files and correspondence of Dr. Core, head of the Biology Department, editor of Castanea, and well-known biologist. Collection includes multiple addenda, all of which have been interfiled except for the addendum of 1978/01/17.Includes personal and business correspondence from the time Dr. Core served as Chairman of the WVU Department of Biology (ca. 1951-1969). Some correspondence (1967-1969) pertains to the Morgantown Public...
Dates: 1928, 1948-1978
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl L. Core (1902-1985) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1197
Scope and Contents The office files of Dr. Core, Head, Department of Biology, contain personal and professional correspondence. The papers deal with his work in the field of botany: as Curator of the Herbarium; as organizer of the Appalachian Botanical Club and editor of its journal, Castanea; and in various phases of botanical research. Some of the correspondence deals with academic duties and activities, and also reflects his interests in religious,...
Dates: 1920-1951 and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl L. Core, Collector, Correspondence with Georgia C. Price

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1190
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Georgia C. Price, Blackstone, Virginia with Dr. Core on the lore and family history of old time residents of Clay and other western districts of Monongalia County.

Dates: 1942
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl L. Core, Collector, Letter

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Collection Number: A&M 1251
Scope and Contents

Autographed letter signed by Margaret Cannon, Christopher Yoders, and Joseph S. Cannon to Jacob Mirs [Myers] Cassville, Monongalia County, Virginia. Dated, Martinsburg, Ohio, July 24. Letter from Myers' relatives in Knox County, Ohio briefly describing the country around Martinsburg.

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

Earl L. Core, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1275
Scope and Contents

Letters from Campbell Jobes to Core, dated Elm Grove, W. Va., July 28, 1927, and a receipt for distilling corn, from the papers of Captain Alphaeus Garrison.

Dates: 1840, 1927
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl Ray Zinn Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3040
Overview Correspondence, photos, postcards and memorabilia of a school teacher of White Days Creek and of his wife, Mary Corrothers Zinn. Most of the collection consists of correspondence and photos of Zinn's career in the U. S. Army during World War I. Zinn worked as a math school teacher and as a census taker in the Fetterman District of Taylor County. He spent the war in training at Camp Knox, West Point, KY in Battery E., 70th. Field Artillery Brigade, and he discusses in the letters the daily...
Dates: 1910-1975
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Edward C. Bunker (1830-1867) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1615
Overview

Legal papers of a Morgantown lawyer, partner of United States Senator Waitman T. Willey, prosecuting attorney of Monongalia County, state senator, and judge of the Eleventh Circuit Court. Included are papers which relate to Bunker's Civil War service and Willey's legal practice. There are a few items of correspondence on land speculation and immigration in post-Civil War West Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1850-1865, 1901
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Edward D. Bayles, Collector, Land Grants

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Collection Number: A&M 2269
Overview

Two hand-written land grants: one for Monongalia County dated 1791, and one for Preston County dated 1837. The Monongalia grant names "Amos Robants, assignee of Ezekiel Jones" and the Preston grant names Richard Forman.

Dates: 1791, 1837
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Edward Evans Parrish (1791-1874), Oregon Trail Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 0093
Overview Typescript copy of the diary of Reverend Edward Evans Parrish, a native of Monongalia County, West Virginia, written during a journey to the Oregon territory from 1843 to 1845. The diary begins in October 1843 when Parrish and his group left Hoskinsville, Morgan County, Ohio, and ends in July 1845. Diary is twenty-seven pages and chiefly consists of brief entries. Parrish primarily describes their route west along the Oregon Trail, including the rivers they crossed and other geographical...
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center