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Education

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 115 Collections and/or Records:

R.S. Rudd (b.1846) Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1162
Overview Diaries, accounts, and statistical records of a schoolteacher from Montgomery and Campbell counties, Virginia, and Monroe County, West Virginia. These records list the schools in which Rudd taught, the homes where he boarded, and his friends and acquaintances. The records also cover his employment with the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad at Central Depot, Virginia, and with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Allegheny Station. The third volume is a guest register of the White Sulphur...
Dates: 1839-1912
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates: 1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Salt Sulphur Springs Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0512
Scope and Contents Daybooks, ledgers, journals, letter books and reports. Primarily concern the various business enterprises of the Salt Sulphur Springs Company including general store, hotel, stage line, telegraph company and farm. Also a letter book of the Oriental Powder Mills, Charleston, W.Va, of which John W.M. Appleton was agent; general store daybooks of E.D. Ballard; hotel and general store cash and daybooks of Erskine and Caruthers from Lexington and Salt Sulphur Springs. Records of the M.C.C.C. and...
Dates: 1819-1932
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1842
Overview Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers' certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner...
Dates: 1872-1905
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Schools, Berkeley County Board of Education, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1404
Overview

Records of the Arden District, 1916-1930; Gerrardstown District, 1877-1925; the Hedgesville District, 1866-1927; Martinsburg District, 1908-1918; Mill Creek District, 1921-1935; and the county superintendent, 1893-1911. Subjects covered include: tax assessments, attendance applications, teacher appointments, apportionment of funds, and school levies.

Dates: 1866-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Schools, Hardy County Board of Education, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1405
Overview

Record books of the Capon District, 1911-1921; Lost River District, 1880-1907; Moorefield District, 1866-1925; the South Fork District, 1873-1926; and the County Financial Secretary's Record Book, 1919-1933. Subjects covered include: salaries and outlays paid, subscription and tax levy rates and the estimates of the teachers and building funds.

Dates: 1866-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Schools, Harrison County, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1390
Overview

Minutes of the Board of Education, Clarksburg (West Virginia) District, 1879-1915; a typescript copy of a teaching contract, Buffalo Creek, 1835; and a note concerning the school fund for Harrison County, 1863-1865.

Dates: 1835, 1879-1915
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Schools, Morgantown, Miscellany

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Collection Number: A&M 1984
Overview

School records of Daisie Fleming, including grade reports, commencement programs, photographs, and Parent-Teachers Association materials. Most pertains to Morgantown High School.

Dates: 1889-1931
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Schools, Pendleton County Board of Education, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1560
Overview

Records of the Circle, Franklin, Will Run, Sugar Grove, and Union school districts. Included are minutes to the Board of Education meetings, files of teacher contracts, and financial ledgers such as those for building funds.

Dates: 1894-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Scott-Palmer Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1458
Scope and Contents Family papers of school master Theodore Scott (1805-1877); his daughter Saida Scott Palmer, a music teacher; her husband, Jewett Palmer, Civil War officer, local Republican official, and mayor of Marietta; and his daughters, Winifred and Muriel, a concert contralto. Includes correspondence, letter books, diaries, school registers and reports, scrapbooks, genealogical records, and theatre and opera programs.Topics include Scott's teaching career at Portsmouth, Ohio (1836);...
Dates: 1829-1916
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center