Rhodes scholarships
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
C. F. Tucker Brooke (1883-1946) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3865
Overview
Papers of C.F. Tucker Brooke, West Virginia University's first Rhodes Scholar, and later a professor of English at Yale University. Includes family photographs, newspaper clippings, genealogy, diplomas, sketches, and artifacts. Subjects of the family photographs and sketches include C.F. Tucker Brooke, his wife Grace Drakeford Brooke, children (Elizabeth Grace Tucker Blackburn, Henry St. George Brooke, and Alfred Drakeford Brooke), grandchildren (Alfred Brooke Blackburn; Elizabeth Tucker...
Dates:
ca. 1870s-1989; Majority of material found within 1895-1945
Siler Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2200
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of letters and documents tracing the personal and business life of an eastern panhandle West Virginia family. The papers concern a broad range of political, social, financial, and legal topics, particularly focusing on J. Hammond Siler, Jr., his parents, J. Hammond Siler, Sr. and Jessie Castleman Siler (residents of the Town of Bath better known as Berkeley Springs). Also includes correspondence and other papers from related families. Subjects include banking, the Civil...
Dates:
1848-1968