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Bessie Jane Reed Papers 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1/2 in. (1 folder)

Reed, Bessie Jane
Correspondence, poems, and clippings of a secondary and normal school librarian in Fairmont and West Liberty, West Virginia. Subjects include the West Virginia Library Association. There is one letter each from Mary Meek Atkeson and Waitman Barbe.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers 5 Linear Feet Summary: 5 ft. (12 document cases, 5 in. each)

Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957

Collection includes original copies of correspondence relating to Virginia and West Virginia, as well as newspaper clippings, photographs, and research notes. Events pertaining to the Civil War and the formation of West Virginia are covered. Among the most important items are the private correspondence of Waitman T. Willey (1835-1861 and 1866-1868); data pertaining to education in Mason County, West Virginia (1861-1875); typescript copies of letters of Samuel Woods (see also A&M 1445); typescript copies of diary of Lieutenant Fabricius Augustus Cather (for originals, see A&M 3633); private correspondence (1939-1941); Mercer County records; Marion County records; McDowell County records; and Jackson, Mineral, Raleigh, Taylor, Pendleton, Pleasants, Greenbrier, and Wood County items. Also includes information relating to Harpers Ferry, Shepherdstown, and Parkersburg. Other matters of interest are contained in letters written by John Brown, Wills DeHass, and Alexander Boetler, and references to Stonewall Jackson, James Rumsey, genealogy of the Robertson family, and battles of the Civil War.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers 13.25 Linear Feet Summary: 13 ft. 3 in. (27 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (7 small flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (1 oversize folder, 1/2 in.)

Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957

Personal and professional correspondence (1914-1956), typescripts, research notes, clippings, photographs, maps, drafts and manuscripts of published and unpublished historical studies. The correspondence includes a number of letters from historians in the 1920s and 1930s. Other subjects covered in the papers include the McNeill Rangers, the Civil War, Moravian Missionaries, floods in the South Branch Valley, and secondary education in West Virginia.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Cloyd Goodnight Biography of Robert Richardson (1806-1876) Manuscript 0.15 Linear Feet 1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.

Goodnight, Cloyd
Biography by Cloyd Goodnight of Robert Richardson, a Disciples of Christ minister, educator, writer, physician, agriculturalist, and member of the Bethany College faculty. The manuscript contains long extracts from Richardson's correspondence and daybook. Correspondence and daybook.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Education in West Virginia, Scrapbooks 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm (6 vols.), 1.75 in.)

Chapman, Berlin B., 1900-1995
These scrapbooks which were collected or compiled by B.B. Chapman concern Webster Springs High School, Fairmont State College, Glenville State College, and West Virginia University. Included are correspondence, faculty contracts, diplomas, teaching certificates, report cards, class lists, and other similar materials.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Erbie Claire Albright (d. 1964) Papers 0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Albright, Erbie Claire, 1897-1964
Correspondence, business papers, educational records of a home economics teacher and supervisor who graduated from West Virginia University, attended Chicago and Columbia universities, taught home economics at Morgantown High School, and was supervisor of home economics for the Monongalia County School System. The papers cover: family affairs; schools in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York; West Virginia Home Economics Association; National Education Association department of home economics; World War I letters commenting on conditions at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, Camp Lee, Richmond, Virginia; and World War II material on civilian support activities.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Fayette County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers 9.60 Linear Feet Summary: 9 ft. 7 1/4 in. (19 document cases, 5 in. each); (8 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each); (3 reels of microfilm, .75 in. each) (4 record books, 4 in.)

Fayette County Court
County court and public records primarily concerning deeds, estates, guardianships, executors, poor and paupers, roads, and "scalp certificates" for various animals. There are also record books, predominantly personal property and land books, and a few private accounts. There is also a breadth of material concerning records of personal property; county courthouse and jail; marriages; liquor, attorney, minister, and professional licenses; apprenticing; surveys and plats; lunacy; court proceedings; elections and voting; and public utilities and taxation.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Marion Reynolds (1843-1931) Papers 7.9 Linear Feet Summary: 7 ft. 11 in. (19 document cases, 5 in. each)

Reynolds, Francis Marion, 1843-1931
Business papers of a Keyser attorney who was judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, 1904-1920; member of the West Virginia Legislature, 1895-1896 and 1901-1904; and a member of many educational, commercial, and financial boards in Mineral County. Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, H.G. Davis, A.G. Dayton, S.B. Elkins, and Cecil B. Highland.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Franklin Parker, Professor of Education, Papers 5.94 Linear Feet 5 ft. 11 1/4 in. (12 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.), (5 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Parker, Franklin, 1921-
Correspondence, notes, government reports, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, news releases and other materials on education in Zambia and northern Zimbabwe as gathered by a Benedum Professor of Education at West Virginia University. Addenda include: 1) vitae with list of writings, reprints, career scrapbook, and special journal issue authored by Parker on George Peabody. 2) Twenty-eight articles regarding mostly prominent educators, historians, politicians, scientists, etc. of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Includes articles on: Arthurdale, West Virginia (1933); Philip Vickers Fithian (1747-1776), a "Princeton Tutor on a Virginia Plantation"; and "General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) and Philanthropist George Peabody (1795-1869) at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, July 23 - August 30, 1869". Also includes biographical sketch regarding Franklin Parker and research partner and wife Betty J. Parker.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers 1.60 Linear Feet Summary: 1 ft. 7 1/4 in. (11 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Lambert, Fred B., 1873-1967

Historical and genealogical typescripts, clipping scrapbooks, copies of family and court records, and personal recollections of the Guyandotte Valley area of Cabell, Wayne, and Lincoln counties compiled by F.B. Lambert. Several typescripts deal with the religious institutions of the area, the development of road, river, and rail transportation, and the spread of education in the valley. Other materials deal with the frontier and Indian history of the Guyandotte country and the collection includes a school commissioner's book for 1819. Barbourville school record book, 1863, and a minute book of the Barboursville Common Council, 1950-1911.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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