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Monongalia County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 176 Collections and/or Records:

Nuce Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3021
Overview

Land papers of the Nuce family of Rock Forge, Monongalia County, WV. Also a marriage bond of Susannah Nuce and William Friend of Friendsville, MD. There are identified photographs of family reunions with one exclusively of Union Civil War veterans. Also included are the Civil War discharge papers of George Nuce with the payment of his enlistment bounty noted.

Dates: ca. 1800-1925

Ogden Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1844
Scope and Contents

Documents [1791-1887] concerning lands and business in Harrison and Monongalia counties; history of the Ogden, Talkington, Hawker, and other families [1911-1946]; correspondence [1904-1907] concerning Marshall W. Ogden's law practice and business; and a list of candidates endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan in West Virginia in 1924.

Dates: 1791-1946

Oliver Popenoe, Compiler, Genealogical Material Regarding Popenoe Family

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3928
Overview Genealogical material regarding the Popenoe (Papineau, Popino, and other spellings) family and related families (including the Burris, Davis, Dent, Evans, Judy, Martin, Morgan, Prickett, Scott, and Snider families), compiled through the research of Oliver Popenoe. The Poponoe family in North America is traced back to Jean Papineau, a French Huguenot who immigrated to Massachusetts ca. 1700. His son Peter settled in what would later become Monongalia county in the 1770s. This collection...
Dates: 1911-2010, undated

Osage Civic Improvement Association Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3087
Scope and Contents

Records of a civic improvement association started to help attain township status for Osage, a community on Scott's Run in Monongalia County. In the 1960's, the association became actively involved in directing local efforts to bolster the economy and improve the physical appearance of Osage. Included are meeting minutes, project materials, some correspondence and scrapbooks indicative of the association's activities.

Dates: 1957-1973

Oscar Wood, Glassworker, Typescripts of Poetry

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1350
Scope and Contents

Two small volumes of verse composed by Oscar Wood.

Dates: 1960

Oscar Wood, Glassworker, Typescripts of Poetry

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1481
Scope and Contents

A typed volume of verse, "Lichen & [Moss]," by Oscar Wood, a retired Morgantown glass worker. Much of the verse deals with the Monongalia County area, its scenery, life, labor, and culture.

Dates: 1961

Owen-Neely Funeral Home Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3139
Overview

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.

Dates: 1966-1992

Peter T. Laishley Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0670
Overview

Correspondence, business papers, and an account book of Peter T. Laishley, a Methodist minister, physician, and merchant in Monongalia County. There are papers on the settlement of the estate of Richard Laishley in England, marriages performed by Laishley; Laishley family birth and marriage notes; accounts for services as a minister and physician, 1833-1839; and other items on church and local history.

Dates: 1809-1915

Price Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0492
Overview

Business and personal papers of Edward Price (1818-1907), William Edward Price (1856-1938), and other members of the Price family in Monongalia County, West Virginia. Included are birth and death records and newspaper clippings on the Price, McCue, and Lazzelle families, 1830-1945; and other papers centering on Morgantown and Monongalia County.

Dates: 1830-1945

Price-McBee Families Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0027
Overview Letters to Thomas McBee and members of the McBee family in Monongalia County, West Virginia, from relatives in the Baird, Corns, England, and Noel families of Sharpsburg, Virginia*, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1859-1896. There are also several letters to Thomas and Elizabeth Price of Clinton Furnace, Monongalia County, 1873-1896; as well as subscription lists for the building of the "Union" meeting and schoolhouse, 1830, and for a school to be taught by William Price on the J. Barnes...
Dates: 1825-1896