Morgantown (W. Va.)
Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:
Franklin Brand, Lawyer and Politician, Papers
George Cookman Sturgiss (1842-1925) Papers
Correspondence and newspaper clippings of a Morgantown judge, railroad promoter, and U.S. Congressman. Papers deal with Sturgiss' political troubles in his bid for re-nomination in 1910 and the unveiling of the Francis H. Pierpont statue in Statuary Hall, Washington.
George Crago, Journalist, Papers
George DeAntonis, Collector, Morgantown Youth Sports Photographs
George W. Fairfax Papers
Legal papers and business receipts, notes, and accounts of a Preston County sheriff and entrepreneur who operated a tannery and a sawmill. Fairfax was also a Colonel in the Virginia Militia and served as deputy sheriff of Monongalia County about 1854.
George W. Johnson (1837-1902) Papers
Diaries, correspondence, notes, receipts, and newspaper clippings of a lumberman and stockman from Morgantown, West Virginia. Subjects include Johnson's agricultural activities, his extensive timber dealings in Monongalia County, and the rafting of logs to Pittsburgh and intermediate points on the Monongahela River.
George W. Smith, Papers of a Jackson County Resident
Harry A. Goldsmith Papers
Personal papers including greeting cards, post cards, news clippings, autographs of prominent individuals, travel brochures, letters and diaries of Harry Goldsmith, a Morgantown clothing store proprietor.
Harry Outen Cole Papers
Henry Baker Papers
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous printed items of a corporal in the Fourteenth [West] Virginia Volunteer Infantry (Union) and his two daughters, Mary Baker and Nell Baker Rightmire. Subjects include Monongalia County local history; Union troop movements in the vicinity of New Creek, June 1863; and local G.A.R. affairs. The collection also includes the Register and Order Book of Post No.5 (Morgantown), Department of West Virginia, G.A.R., 1878-1901.