Monongalia County (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
Scotts Run Settlement House Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3084
Overview
Records of the Scott's Run Settlement House located in Osage, WV and founded by the Women's Society for Christian Service of the Wesley Methodist Church of Morgantown. The settlement house provided a wide range of social services for the inhabitants of the coal mining communities along Scott's Run in Monongalia County. Included in the records are board minutes, staff and statistical reports, director's correspondence, subject files, financial records, scrapbooks and clippings which document...
Dates:
1926-1989
Stateler/Statler Family Genealogy and History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3184
Overview
A history of the Stateler/Statler family of West Virginia, Ohio, and Illinois from Stephen Statler (ca. 1710-ca. 1784) to Rebecca Margaret Stateler Dougan (1838-1911). The family's settlement patterns start with Stephen Statler disembarking in Philadelphia from Germany in 1749. The family alternately settled along the frontier in Hardy Co. and Monongalia Co., WV; Fayette Co. and Greene Co., PA; Licking Co., OH; and Marshall Co., IL. Their settlement in southwestern Pennsylvania and north...
Dates:
1992
The New Dominion, Newspaper Published in Morgantown, West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4153
Overview
20 July 1878 issue of "The New Dominion" newspaper of Morgantown, West Virginia and Monongalia County. This newspaper was published by J.E. Fleming and W.I. Morgan and contained articles of local and national interest.
Dates:
1878
Thomas L. Dunn Ledger
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0742
Overview
A ledger of Thomas L. Dunn of Monongalia County containing accounts and records of births and deaths for the Dunn family.
Dates:
1826-1879
Thomas Ray Dille Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0171
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Morgantown attorney, genealogist, and antiquarian. There are several series of office files relating to Dille's law practice, and extensive correspondence regarding his historical and genealogical studies. Families for which there are genealogical compilations include Dille, Ray, Stewart, McFarland, Tennant, David Evans, and John Evans. Monongalia County birth and death records; cemetery readings; copies of wills and indexes of will books; names in real estate and appraisement...
Dates:
1781-1948
Thomas Ray Dille Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0191
Scope and Contents
Four notebooks of Col. John Evans family history prepared by Thomas Ray Dille; (maps of voting districts in Monongalia County) papers of the Monongalia County Historical Society; and copies of the constitution and charter of the York County (Pa.) Historical Society
Dates:
ca. 1774-1939
Thomas Ray Dille Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0357
Scope and Contents
Gift of the brothers and sisters of Thomas Ray Dille, lawyer, historian, and genealogist of Morgantown W.Va. This collection contains the family histories of the Dille, David Evans, and John Evans families, as well as the Ray, Stewart, McFarland, and Tennant families. Materials include five loose leaf volumes of cemetery records of Monongalia County; family records of Monongalia County, and family Bible records. Additional materials about the Forks of Cheat Baptist Church,...
Dates:
ca. 1774-1939
Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3192
Overview
This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical...
Dates:
1732-1965
Tucker Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1410
Overview
Letters, receipts, and photographs of the Tucker family of Monongalia County. Two ledgers of a storekeeper, W.A. Tucker, contain entries of individual customers and business firms with corresponding types of payment, (cash, exchange, etc.). There is also a brief history of the early Tucker family in America and of George Tucker, A Revolutionary War veteran, who was the first to settle the family in West Virginia.
Dates:
1890-1985
Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3950
Overview
Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley,...
Dates:
1784-circa 2010s; Majority of material found within circa 1880s-2010