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Includes miscellaneous genealogy related material and World War II ration papers (\"War Ration Book One\").","Series 3. Genealogy Records; ca. 1918-1938; box 2, folders 1-2.  Includes information regarding William Norris of Cheat Neck (settled 1781); also includes information on George Baker, George Norris, Addison S. Vance, and the Sturgiss-Lincoln families. There are also estate records for Charles E. Costolo, Eleanor Titus, and Albert Norman Weaver; and Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) records in connection with Minnie Lee Dickinson.","Series 4. Pamphlet and Ledgers; ca. 1910-1937; box 2, folders 3-4.  Includes \"Stories of West Virginia for Boys and Girls\" authored by Sylvia Soupart (1937); and general store personal account ledgers, one of which is labeled \"Cheat Haven\" (ca. 1910-1930).","Series 5. Artifacts; ca. 1910-1920, 1950-1960; box 3.","Includes silver hand mirror owned by Louise Euwer Gordon in art nouveau style with inscribed initials \"LEG\" (ca. 1910-1920). LEG was the mother of James Raney Gordon; his wife was Mary C. Dickinson.","There are also includes Order of Rainbow artifacts, including ribbons and plastic gavel (ca. 1950-1960).","Series 6. Oversize; ca. 1910-1965; box 4, and oversize folder.","Box 4 includes a copy of the yearbook, \"Trail\", for Coronado High School of Scottsdale, Arizona, dating from 1965.","Box 4 also includes large scrapbook created by Deborah Gordon documenting West Virginia University athletic events (she was a cheerleader), travel, and special events and activities; it contains photographs, clippings, and ephemera (ca. 1950-1960). See also series 1.","Box 4 also includes three leaves of a scrapbook kept by Mary Dickinson Gordon that include: photos of oil being shipped between Pittsburgh and Morgantown (1938) (James Raney Gordon worked for Gulf Oil); school grade cards for Mary Dickinson Gordon from Oak Grove School in Union District, Monongalia County (1916-1918), and from Morgantown High School (1920-1921, 1923-1924); and a few World War I era postcards.","The oversize folder contains original copies of newspapers, including:","The Gazette Times, Pittsburgh, November 1, 1915 (includes World War I coverage).","The Stars and Stripes, France, Friday, June 21, 1918 (regarding World War I).","Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph, \"Special Flood Supplement\", March 29, 1936.","The oversize folder also contains a photocopy of a newspaper:","Daily New Dominion, Morgantown, Vol. 1, No. 1, Tuesday, September 7, 1897","Includes front page article regarding the sixth President of West Virginia University, Jerome Hall Raymond, who served from 1897-1901.","Three copies of the Monticola, West Virginia University yearbook, separated to A\u0026M 5025 (1955, 1956, and 1957).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Includes miscellaneous genealogy related material and World War II ration papers (\"War Ration Book One\").","Series 3. Genealogy Records; ca. 1918-1938; box 2, folders 1-2.  Includes information regarding William Norris of Cheat Neck (settled 1781); also includes information on George Baker, George Norris, Addison S. Vance, and the Sturgiss-Lincoln families. There are also estate records for Charles E. Costolo, Eleanor Titus, and Albert Norman Weaver; and Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) records in connection with Minnie Lee Dickinson.","Series 4. Pamphlet and Ledgers; ca. 1910-1937; box 2, folders 3-4.  Includes \"Stories of West Virginia for Boys and Girls\" authored by Sylvia Soupart (1937); and general store personal account ledgers, one of which is labeled \"Cheat Haven\" (ca. 1910-1930).","Series 5. Artifacts; ca. 1910-1920, 1950-1960; box 3.","Includes silver hand mirror owned by Louise Euwer Gordon in art nouveau style with inscribed initials \"LEG\" (ca. 1910-1920). LEG was the mother of James Raney Gordon; his wife was Mary C. Dickinson.","There are also includes Order of Rainbow artifacts, including ribbons and plastic gavel (ca. 1950-1960).","Series 6. Oversize; ca. 1910-1965; box 4, and oversize folder.","Box 4 includes a copy of the yearbook, \"Trail\", for Coronado High School of Scottsdale, Arizona, dating from 1965.","Box 4 also includes large scrapbook created by Deborah Gordon documenting West Virginia University athletic events (she was a cheerleader), travel, and special events and activities; it contains photographs, clippings, and ephemera (ca. 1950-1960). See also series 1.","Box 4 also includes three leaves of a scrapbook kept by Mary Dickinson Gordon that include: photos of oil being shipped between Pittsburgh and Morgantown (1938) (James Raney Gordon worked for Gulf Oil); school grade cards for Mary Dickinson Gordon from Oak Grove School in Union District, Monongalia County (1916-1918), and from Morgantown High School (1920-1921, 1923-1924); and a few World War I era postcards.","The oversize folder contains original copies of newspapers, including:","The Gazette Times, Pittsburgh, November 1, 1915 (includes World War I coverage).","The Stars and Stripes, France, Friday, June 21, 1918 (regarding World War I).","Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph, \"Special Flood Supplement\", March 29, 1936.","The oversize folder also contains a photocopy of a newspaper:","Daily New Dominion, Morgantown, Vol. 1, No. 1, Tuesday, September 7, 1897","Includes front page article regarding the sixth President of West Virginia University, Jerome Hall Raymond, who served from 1897-1901.","Three copies of the Monticola, West Virginia University yearbook, separated to A\u0026M 5025 (1955, 1956, and 1957).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Papers of Deborah Gordon includes \"Order of Rainbow\" material (ca. 1950s), and a scrapbook documenting West Virginia University athletic events (she was a cheerleader), travel, and special events. Genealogy Records includes information regarding William Norris of Cheat Neck (settled 1781); also includes information on George Baker, George Norris, Addison S. Vance, and the Sturgiss-Lincoln families. See scope and content note for details.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of the Dickinson, Gordon, and related families of the Cheat Lake area of Monongalia County, West Virginia. Includes series of Papers of Deborah Gordon, Miscellaneous, Genealogy Records, Pamphlet and Ledgers, Artifacts, and Oversize. Papers of Deborah Gordon includes \"Order of Rainbow\" material (ca. 1950s), and a scrapbook documenting West Virginia University athletic events (she was a cheerleader), travel, and special events. 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The history of Elizabeth Calvert Page Dabney's family includes the histories of the Dabneys, the Pages, the Gordons, the Whittles, and the Loyalls.","The Pages are an old and well-known Virginia family historically distinguished for their devotion to the Episcopal Church. They are related by marriage to the famous Revolutionary War General \"Light Horse Harry\" Lee and General Robert E. Lee. A known member of the Page family, Richard Lucien Page, served the United States Navy in the War of 1812 and in the Mexican War. When Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, he resigned his commission to the Union and was commissioned in the Navy of the Confederacy. He was later captured as a prisoner of war, and released after the Civil War.","The Gordon family came to Virginia from Scotland in the 1700s. Samuel and Basil Gordon, and Samuel's nephew, were the first of their family in Virginia. The three men married three sisters who were the daughters of William Knox of Culpepper County, Virginia. They settled near Fredericksburg. In 1812, after the death of their father, the Gordons returned home to Scotland. Samuel and Agnes Knox Gordon remained in Scotland and England for the next twenty years before returning to Virginia.","The Loyalls lived in Norfolk during the Civil War. Camilla Frances Loyall kept a diary of her experiences during this time. Her accounts include the capture of Norfolk by the Union in 1862.","Note written by Special Collections Staff","Prior to September 2020, the collection was known as the Elizabeth Calvert Page Dabney Papers.","Warren Spencer Collection (MG 121) also contains information about the Whittle family.","The collection includes diaries, speeches and essays about the Confederacy during the Civil War, old newspapers, and other material related to the Whittle family. 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