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Other items of interest, including receipts, invoices, and correspondence, consist of life in Morgantown West Virginia, including local businesses such as Morgantown Flour and Feed Company, Traction Electric Company, McClain Sand, Arkwright Coal, Stentz Service Station, and HC Baker Hardware Company, among others, as well as local clubs and social activities such as the Elks Club. Collection also includes many contracts and blueprints for Morgantown construction projects and the surrounding areas. Highlights include blueprints for sewers in the Etna borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1904), blueprint for \"plots situate in Morgan District, Monongalia County,\" and the Thoney Pietro Company certificate of incorporation (1919). Other inclusions, belonging to the family, include a scrapbook of the children of James Pietro from young adulthood, highlighting significant life events (box 3, folder 5), and a history paper (1949) by Lawrence Pietro Jr., about the history of Morgantown in which he recounts his father's telling of arriving in Morgantown for the first time. ","Addendum of 2015-04-02: \n1901-2000; 7 1/2 in. (1 document case, 5 in.; 1 document case, 2 1/2 in.) Box 5, containing the belongings of Brian Waugh Pietro, 1956-2003, great-grandson of James Pietro, was collected by his uncle, Douglas B. Broglie, grandson of James Pietro. It includes papers involving journalism and publishing businesses. Papers include correspondence and rejection letters from various publishing companies, and an unpublished manuscript called, \"Criminal Conspiracy.\"  Also included is a scrapbook of published newspaper articles written by Brian, as well as copies of his resume. Also collected by Broglie, Box 6 (1901-1911) contains several baptism certificates of Pietro's children from the Italian Catholic Church of Pittsburgh as well as Monongalia County Circuit Court documents petitioning for an official name change from Pitassi to Pietro. This document details how the Pietros were given their name and significant details pertaining to the Pietro family timeline. 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According to business cards within his collection, Brian held jobs as a district manager for several different publishing companies, a sales representative for Housing Network Magazines, and an account executive for Sports Trend. He died in Winter Springs, Florida in 2003, unmarried, with no next of kin. His father was an only child.  ","This collection holds personal and business papers of James Pietro (1873-1956), a Morgantown, West Virginia contractor, and photographs and correspondence of the Pietro family. Common items of interest include financial documents, business correspondence, personal mementos, and personal correspondence, including letters to his native country of Italy throughout the 20th century, and his son during World War II. Other items of interest, including receipts, invoices, and correspondence, consist of life in Morgantown West Virginia, including local businesses such as Morgantown Flour and Feed Company, Traction Electric Company, McClain Sand, Arkwright Coal, Stentz Service Station, and HC Baker Hardware Company, among others, as well as local clubs and social activities such as the Elks Club. Collection also includes many contracts and blueprints for Morgantown construction projects and the surrounding areas. Highlights include blueprints for sewers in the Etna borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1904), blueprint for \"plots situate in Morgan District, Monongalia County,\" and the Thoney Pietro Company certificate of incorporation (1919). Other inclusions, belonging to the family, include a scrapbook of the children of James Pietro from young adulthood, highlighting significant life events (box 3, folder 5), and a history paper (1949) by Lawrence Pietro Jr., about the history of Morgantown in which he recounts his father's telling of arriving in Morgantown for the first time. ","Addendum of 2015-04-02: \n1901-2000; 7 1/2 in. (1 document case, 5 in.; 1 document case, 2 1/2 in.) Box 5, containing the belongings of Brian Waugh Pietro, 1956-2003, great-grandson of James Pietro, was collected by his uncle, Douglas B. Broglie, grandson of James Pietro. It includes papers involving journalism and publishing businesses. Papers include correspondence and rejection letters from various publishing companies, and an unpublished manuscript called, \"Criminal Conspiracy.\"  Also included is a scrapbook of published newspaper articles written by Brian, as well as copies of his resume. Also collected by Broglie, Box 6 (1901-1911) contains several baptism certificates of Pietro's children from the Italian Catholic Church of Pittsburgh as well as Monongalia County Circuit Court documents petitioning for an official name change from Pitassi to Pietro. This document details how the Pietros were given their name and significant details pertaining to the Pietro family timeline. 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According to business cards within his collection, Brian held jobs as a district manager for several different publishing companies, a sales representative for Housing Network Magazines, and an account executive for Sports Trend. He died in Winter Springs, Florida in 2003, unmarried, with no next of kin. His father was an only child.  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Other items of interest, including receipts, invoices, and correspondence, consist of life in Morgantown West Virginia, including local businesses such as Morgantown Flour and Feed Company, Traction Electric Company, McClain Sand, Arkwright Coal, Stentz Service Station, and HC Baker Hardware Company, among others, as well as local clubs and social activities such as the Elks Club. Collection also includes many contracts and blueprints for Morgantown construction projects and the surrounding areas. Highlights include blueprints for sewers in the Etna borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1904), blueprint for \"plots situate in Morgan District, Monongalia County,\" and the Thoney Pietro Company certificate of incorporation (1919). 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