World War, 1914-1918 -- Monongalia County (W Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Greenland Thompson Federer, Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3651
Overview
Papers of Greenland Thompson Federer and family. Box 1 includes 1) General (3 letters to G.T. Federer, including letter from sister with words to "Battalion Hymn" dating from 1917 during World War I [WWI]; and pamphlet regarding history of Consolidation Coal Company in northern West Virginia, undated); 2) Artifact (cap with "Federer's Market" label, undated); and 3) Photographs (6 items, including WWI material). There are also two scrapbooks, including clippings regarding infant care from...
Dates:
1915-1930
Mabel Marie Griffith, Compiler, Scrapbooks of a Morgantown Resident
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3530
Overview
Two scrapbooks (10 in. x 13 in.) compiled by Mabel Marie Griffith (born 02-28-1896) documenting her life in Morgantown, West Virginia in the period 1914-1926, including her personal and family life, education (Morgantown High School and West Virginia University), and her attendance of athletic, musical, and theatrical events. There is documentation of the effects of World War I (WWI) on Morgantown, Redpath Chautauqua, the impact of the influenza epidemic on the family of Charles Holt (the...
Dates:
1903-1929; Majority of material found in 1911-1920
Monongalia County Veterans Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2979
Overview
Mostly consists of cemetery readings, newspaper clippings, muster rolls, pension records of servicemen from Monongalia county.
Dates:
undated
Morgantown Draft Board, World War I Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0196
Overview
World War I records consist of three typed lists of registrants in alphabetical order with serial and order numbers and addresses. Also includes a typed list of casualty figures for Monongalia County, West Virginia, and the United States.
Dates:
undated
West Virginia University in World War I Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0389
Scope and Contents
Contemporary manuscripts containing list of alumni and students who served in U.S. forces, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, with rank, branch etc. Also comment written ten years after war; a memorial address by President Frank B. Trotter; tribute to alumni in war by John Harrington Cox, C. R. Jones, Robert A. Armstrong, O. P. Chitwood, C. W. Waggoner, C. Edmund Neil, et al.
Dates:
1917-1927