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Teachers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1015
Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings, mainly from Doddridge and Harrison county, concerning marriages, deaths, family histories, letters from World War I service men, nurses, and from former residents who had moved, or gone to other states to teach, including a series of letters from L.P. Willis from the Phillippine Islands and Japan. Mr.Willis was employed as a teacher and Head Of the Bureau of Education in Japan, and the Phillipines for twenty years. Also, included in the collection are tax and school...
Dates: 1778-1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1018
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings, principally from Harrison and Doddridge county papers, concerning W. Va. Servicemen in World War I, weather and flood reports, and miscellaneous West Virginia Subjects. There are also some clippings from Parkersburg and various Ohio papers.

Dates: 1917-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harry T. Leeper, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0348
Scope and Contents Collection includes family correspondence of the Bowman, Veach, and Leeper families. Manuscripts include a recounting of the Civil War event known as "Jones' Raid." In another document Nathaniel Cochrane, an ancestor of Thomas Leeper, recounts his capture and imprisonment by indigenous people, along with a biography of Cochrane. Daily life for that time is captured in "Home Life of the Leeper Family." Other typescript histories include "Monongah," Thomas Leeper's diary regarding heavy rains...
Dates: 1779-1915
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

James Howard Patterson Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2866
Overview

Eleven years of diaries of James Howard Patterson, a Glen Roy, Ohio, teacher. Describes weather, daily school routines and lessons, and general affairs of his personal and social life. Diaries are for years 1904, 1911, 1913, 1921, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1938, and 1944.

Dates: 1904-1944
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

James Kincaid Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2280
Overview

Bills, receipts, and letters of Kincaid of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, mainly concerning his attempts to obtain a position at the Richmond, Virginia insane asylum as a medical student and his various contacts with Greenbrier County as a school teacher. Also there is a Renick family history.

Dates: 1872-1896
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jesse Stuart, Author, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3347
Scope and Contents Letters, books, clippings, biographical and literary articles, and other papers regarding Appalachian poet and author, Jesse Stuart, gathered by family friend, Maryan Dahmer. There are over 90 letters from Stuart to Dahmer, dating from 1966 to 1976, which discuss travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. The collection also includes a large number of Stuart's books, many of which are first editions inscribed to Dahmer, as...
Dates: 1934-1982
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ladwig Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3325
Scope and Contents Papers of the Ladwig family. They document the professional and personal lives of medical and teaching professionals in West Virginia in the early twentieth century, includng Dr. Otto Ladwig (1875-1968), his wife Calora Hardway Ladwig (1882-1974), and Margaret and Gertrude Hardway, Calora's sisters. The Ladwigs lived in Harrison and Randolph counties and were active in itinerant logging communities such as Evenwood. There are correspondence, publications, deeds, certificates, and photos...
Dates: 1870-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lawrence Sherwood, Collector, Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0826
Overview

Pocket diaries (1853-1854) of William M. Randolph, a farmer in Moorefield, West Virginia, and diaries (1861-1870) for Lettie Smith, a teacher in Grant and Tucker counties.

Dates: 1853-1854, 1861-1870
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lucy Clark Wise Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2607
Overview

Correspondence, bills, and miscellaneous papers of Lucy Clark Wise, a student of Concord Normal School and teacher in Summers County, West Virginia. Subjects covered include: boyfriends, family news, and regulations at Concord Normal School with respect to female students.

Dates: 1884-1922
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lynn Hastings Monongalia County Schools and Local History (Typescript)

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1375
Overview

"Monongalia County Schools and Local History, 1864-1960," compiled by Lynn Hastings, includes lists of various county and school officials, rosters of teachers and students, and organizational data of the school system.

Dates: 1864-1960
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center