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Monongalia County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 176 Collections and/or Records:

Minter L. Wilson (d.1968) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2064
Overview

Eight volumes of copies and original speeches and legal opinions of Minter L. Wilson, lawyer and judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Monongalia County, West Virginia, 1937-1945.

Dates: 1920-1944
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia Academy Minute Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2971
Overview Minutes of the meetings of the Trustees dealing with raising and disbursing of funds, the establishment of rules and regulations and the hiring of personnel to supervise and to instruct at the Academy. Special mention is made of site location and awarding and payment of contracts for the erection of a new building. The new building was completed in 1831, located at the northeast corner of Spruce and Walnut Streets. Also mentioned are the trustee boards' decisions on acquiring property and...
Dates: 1827-58
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia and Harrison Counties Surveys

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0699
Overview Two manuscript volumes containing surveyors' field notes for Harrison County, and copies of Monongalia County surveys, compiled by members of the Haymond family. These notes also contain: information concerning acreage cleared, location and type of construction of the homes of some early residents of Harrison County; dates of patents and names of those persons to whom patents were issued; street courses and survey of the corporation of Clarksburg, 1835; and names of members of a survey...
Dates: 1795-1796, 1816, 1834-1836, 1843, 1903
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0026
Scope and Contents The collection contains record books and papers covering a period from the formation of the county of Monongalia in 1776 to 1933. The collection is broken prior to 1796. There are approximately six hundred thousand pieces including papers on civil and criminal cases, bonds, deeds, wills, licenses, settlements of public offices, school reports, and other papers commonly filled or recorded at county courthouses in the Virginias.There are two hundred and seventy-five volumes...
Dates: 1774-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0487
Scope and Contents

Papers, mainly orders, of the Board of Overseers of the Poor, and Board of Supervisors; also miscellaneous orders, Sheriff's receipts; and Officers of Election accounts for 1863.

Dates: 1863-1869
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Bible Society Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0830
Overview

A minute book of the Monongalia County Bible Society. Names of contributors and members of the society are recorded by the secretary, Waitman T. Willey.

Dates: 1840-1850
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Board of Education Minute Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1665
Overview

Minute books contain: lists of students, teachers, trustees, school books; policy discussions and decisions; expenditures and correspondence.

Dates: 1864-1961
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County, Cemetery Readings

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0924
Scope and Contents

Microfilm of records copied by Mr. McIntire from tombstones in cemeteries in Monongalia County, relating to all soldiers from the county. Includes names of servicemen in all U.S. wars and all known Civil War Confederate soldiers at the time. Dates covered include ca. 1770-1950.

Dates: ca. 1956
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County, Cemetery Readings, Grant District

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1121
Scope and Contents

Typescript of inscriptions in the burial plot on Stewart's Run (Michael's Cemetery), formerly the land of the Stewart family, in Grant District, Monongalia County, 1810-1852, copied by Mrs. H. L. Martin, Sr. See also Cemetery Readings, Michael's Cemetery, Grant District, Monongalia County in the Dille Papers.

Dates: 1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County GreenSpace Coalition Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3965
Overview

Records of the Monongalia County GreenSpace Coalition, an environmental advocacy group. Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, projects files, photographs, audiovisual material, and poster boards, among other material. This collection is currently unprocessed.

Dates: ca. 1990-2005
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center