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Monongalia County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:

West Virginia War History Commission, World War II Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0109
Scope and Contents Records of the West Virginia War History Commission and the state, local, and national branches of the Office of Civilian Defense. Material within this collection documents civilian activities on the homefront during World War II in the state of West Virginia. The collection contains correspondence, publications, pamphlets, maps, posters, newspapers and clippings, radio scripts, and other material. The collection also contains 19 reels of microfilm regarding the Monongalia Office of Civil...
Dates: 1928-1946; Majority of material found within 1941-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William E. Arnett and Family Scrapbook

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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 G. Brown (1800-1884) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0015
Overview William G. Brown (1800-1884) of Kingwood, West Virginia, was an attorney; member of the Virginia Assembly in the 1830s and 1840s; and a member of Congress from Virginia from 1845 to 1849 and West Virginia from 1861 to 1865. Chiefly contains deeds, plats, surveys, and other papers related to Brown's land in Preston and Monongalia counties, West Virginia, from 1860 to 1874 and items from Brown's law office concerning deeds, wills, and financial transactions from 1870 to 1883. A ledger book...
Dates: 1789, 1823-1931; Majority of material found within 1843-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William McCleery (1741-1821) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0146
Overview The papers of Colonel William McCleery of Morgantown, a Revolutionary War veteran, attorney, county clerk, prosecuting attorney, representative from Monongalia County to the Federal Constitutional Convention, founder of the Presbyterian Church in Morgantown, and landholder and purchasing agent. The papers include correspondence, typescripts, land records, and some printed materials. Much of the correspondence is between McCleery and his agent, Benjamin Oden of Upper Marlboro, Maryland,...
Dates: 1770-1857, 1945; Majority of material found within 1770-1857
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William N. Sine Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 2783
Overview

Letters to and from William N. Sine of Mooresville, Monongalia County, West Virginia, mainly with relatives, about one-third of which are during the Civil War period. Included is the company song of the West Virginia Third Company A. Tells of the stationing of his militia outfit and its movement through West Virginia to D.C. and back again.

Dates: 1858-1889
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Price (1803-1881) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1809
Overview Papers of William Price (1803-1881), a Monongalia County, West Virginia, resident, member of the Wheeling Convention, and state legislator, 1869-1873. Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, legal documents, and pictures. The correspondence, 1858-1912, concerns farming, the cattle business, and observations on the Civil War. Land papers also relate to Greene County, Pennsylvania. There is a diary and memo book of William Price, 1861-1863, containing two references to his membership in...
Dates: 1787-1917, undated; Majority of material found within 1805-1885
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. Genealogy Research Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3230
Overview Genealogy research papers compiled by W. Guy Tetrick and his son Willis G. Tetrick, Jr. The Tetricks were from Harrison County and the material in the collection mainly regards families of Harrison County and north central West Virginia. The collection contains mostly original genealogical compilations and family histories. It also contains personal and business correspondence; financial records; publications regarding local and state history; newspapers and news clippings; obituaries,...
Dates: 1708-1997
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wilson and Stribling Families Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0880
Overview

Correspondence, clippings, land papers, and other records of James Wilson, an attorney in Wood County, ca.1800-1820; Robert M. Stribling and other members of the Stribling family in Mason County, 1821-ca.1909; and James A. and Otis Young, ca.1900-1934, in Mason County. A pocket diary of James Wilson gives information on his law practice in Kanawha, Monongalia, and Wood counties in 1804.

Dates: ca. 1781-1934
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

World War II Scrapbook, Clippings Regarding West Virginians and Others

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Collection Number: A&M 4062
Overview

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings regarding mostly West Virginia men and women serving in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. Clippings include photographs, the nature and location of service, news of homecomings, weddings, births, awards, missing persons, injuries, and deaths.

Dates: ca. 1942-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

World War II Scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3317
Overview

Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings regarding West Virginia men and women serving in the armed forces during World War II. Clippings include photographs, the nature and location of service, and news of homecomings, weddings, births, awards, missing persons, injuries, and deaths.

Dates: 1941-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center