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Morgantown (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:

John M. Null, Collector, Photograph Albums of Student Life at West Virginia University

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5164
Scope and Contents Two albums of images of the West Virginia University campus, students, and the surrounding area in the late 1890s. One album contains cyanotypes, the other contains photographs. These albums belonged to WVU student Leonard S. Hall. His name can be found recorded in one of them. Album 1, from the late 1890s, contains 65 cyanotypes of various locations in and around West Virginia University's campus. Subjects include Martin Hall, Woodburn Hall, Agricultural Experiment Station...
Dates: ca. 1895-1900

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0005
Scope and Contents

This collection embraces business letters, bills, receipts, notes, orders, checks, and personal correspondence of John Rogers, who was a pioneer merchant and iron manufacturer in Monongalia County, Virginia, during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1777-1857

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1397
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Capt. R. L. Baker of the U.S. Arsenal in Pittsburg for the purchase of musket stocks.

Dates: 1828-1851

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0504
Scope and Contents

Letters to and from John Rogers of Morgantown concerning his business affairs; subjects of the letters include the Morgantown Bridge Company, building an academy in Morgantown, the North West Turnpike, stage routes between Morgantown and Uniontown, salt, wool, carding, the purchase of machinery for the manufacture of woolen goods, plow points, and negroes. Correspondents include John Hoye, J. M. Mason, George Calmes, John R. Cooke, George White, J. A. Stein, and G. Faber and Sons.

Dates: 1823 - 1852

John Rogers Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3156
Overview

The collection consists largely of correspondence to Morgantown businessman John Rogers from relatives in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also includes two letters from Sgt. William A. Widney, who was assigned to the U.S. War Department during the Civil War, to a Morgantown friend (possibly William Hennen). One letter was written by an unidentified woman to her grandson, a West Virginia University student.

Dates: 1788-1870

John Rogers, Morgantown Resident, Letter and Financial Record

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Collection Number: A&M 3688
Overview Letter from Luke Turnan of Baltimore, Maryland to John Rogers of Morgantown, Virginia (present day West Virginia) regarding business affairs, including a possible land transaction in Uniontown, the price of flour, and poor agricultural conditions (4 June 1822). A transcription is available. Also includes a financial record apparently documenting production or sales of shoes, including a list of transactions identifying customer names, dates, and costs for the period July 1832 to October...
Dates: 1822, 1832-1833

John W. Mason (1842-1917) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1888
Overview Correspondence, legal papers, photographs, and printed materials of John W. Mason (1842-1917). Mason was a circuit court and state Supreme Court judge, member of the Virginia State Debt Commission, and commissioner of Internal Revenue. The general correspondence contains personal and business letters, as well as manuscript speeches, notebooks, and reports. The period while Mason was circuit judge is particularly sparse. Also includes Internal Revenue correspondence consisting of about 8,500...
Dates: 1831-1928

Jolliff Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3241
Scope and Contents Collection consists of photographs, publications, letters, and newspaper clippings regarding the Jolliff and Watson families. Jolliff family history is highlighted in photocopies of the publication, Family Record and Genealogy of the Jolliff Family, From the Year 1760 to 1878 Inclusive by Oliver P. Jolliff and James S. Watson (1878). A photocopy of the Journal of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Encampment, Department of West Virginia, Grand Army of the...
Dates: 1878-1954

Jonathan M. Heck, Documents Regarding the Heck-Andrews House

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2206
Overview This collection contains material regarding the Heck-Andrews House in Raleigh, North Carolina, including an application for its placement on the National Register of Historic Places. The collection includes two partial copies of the nomination form, a photocopied image of the house, and a typescript biographical sketch of Jonathan M. Heck, the original owner of the house. Heck was a native of Morgantown, West Virginia and fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. For further...
Dates: ca. 1971

Jones Run Baptist Church Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1849
Overview

Six record books of a Harrison County church, containing church covenant, lists of members, and minutes. There is correspondence, receipts, reports, letters of dismissal, miscellaneous papers, and a copy of "History of the Jones Run Baptist Church, Lumberport," written for the Judson Baptist Association, 1938.

Dates: ca. 1831-1959