West Virginia and Regional History Center
Greenland Thompson Federer Papers
Federer, Greenland Thompson, 1888-1961
A&M 3624
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.9 Linear Feet
11 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.); (1 flat storage box, 3 in.)
1911-1950
1917-1925
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: West Virginia & Regional History Center
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Greenland Thompson Federer Papers, A&M 3624, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Related A&M Collections
3624, 3651
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Scope and Contents
Records of Greenland Thompson Federer, a WWI veteran, Morgantown businessman, and politician. Includes records documenting his WWI service in Company E, 317 Infantry, 80th Division in France, and papers from his campaign and political career as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. Federer's business, a meat market, is shown in photographs, including interior and exterior views. The collection also includes postcards and some artifacts.
The collection is grouped into eight series: 1) World War I Material; 2) Political Material; 3) Printed Ephemera; 4) Postcards; 5) Photographs; 6) Publications; 7) Artifacts; 8) Oversize.
Biographical / Historical
Greenland Thompson (G.T.) Federer (1888-1961) was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, the son of the Reverend and Mrs. G. A. Federer. In 1897 they moved to Preston County, West Virginia and then to Morgantown in 1908. He received his early education in the public schools and graduated from Fairmont State Normal School in 1915. He attended West Virginia University seeking an A.B. degree, 1915 to 1917, but his education was interrupted by his service during World War I in Company E, 317 Infantry, 80th Division of the United States Army. After the war he returned from France to Morgantown where he started a mercantile business, a meat market, in 1919. He married Thora Leoti Robinson, a teacher at the William R. White School in Fairmont, in 1920.
In 1924, Federer, a Republican, was elected to represent Monongalia County in the West Virginia House of Delegates where he served on the Taxation and Finance Committee, the Prohibition and Temperance Committee, and the State Boundaries and Re-Districting Committee.
For a brief time after WWII Federer sold real estate. He continued to live in Morgantown until his death in 1961.
Excerpted from a marriage notice in
The West Virginian (Fairmont, WV) 1920, and the West Virginia Blue Book, 1926.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Monongalia County (W. Va) -- Soldiers
Harvey & DeQuaise Grocery
Federer, Greenland Thompson, 1888-1961
Series 1. World War I MaterialsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416651917-1919Two Postcards (President Woodrow Wilson; photograph of nurses)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141673ca. 1917-191811Two Manuals (includes "English-French Conversation Book" and "Army and Navy Service Book"; a ticket to a vaudeville show in Bourges, France on the day of the Armistice, November 11, 1918)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141674ca. 1917-191812Enlistment and Discharge Papers (also includes letter from 10-10-1918 with thumbnail sketch of G.T. Federer's military service, and work pass from 12-1918 issued by "Headquarters U.S. Troops Bourges")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416751917-191913Series 2. Political MaterialsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416661924-1925Campaign and Election Material (includes broadsides, calling cards, and handbills)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141676192414Legislative Correspondence (includes letters regarding funding of West Virginia University)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416771924-192515West Virginia Senate Bills (includes proposed bills and blank roll call form for the State House of Delegates)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141678192516Series 3. Printed EphemeraArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141667ca. 1920s, 1943/10/11Program for Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Charleston, West Virginia (attended by G.T. Federer); "The Palmer Method of Business Writing" by A.N. Palmer, 1928 (used by Eloise Yvonne Federer in 1934-1935 in Wiles Hill School in Morgantown)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416791925, 192817Business Card and Billing Form from Federer's Market House on 229 Chestnut Street, MorgantownArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141680ca. 1920s18Certificate Licensing G.T. Federer as Class Slaughterer by the U.S. War Food AdministrationArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416811943/10/1119Series 4. PostcardsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141668ca. 1920sBaltimore, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C. (including mostly buildings and streets)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141682ca. 1920s110Series 5. PhotographsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141669ca. 1900-ca. 1920sGroup Portrait of Students and Faculty of the Normal School at Terra Alta, Preston County, West Virginia (G.T. Federer's sister Beatrice taught here)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416831913111Group Portrait of Loyal Temperance Union of Rock Cave, West VirginiaArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141684ca. 1900-1915111Wrecked Steamboat in River IceArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141685ca. 1900-1915111Group Portrait of Employees of Snider Brothers (Bros.) Meat Market (includes G.T. Federer in white coat; he was the butcher at this meat market)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141686ca. 1915-1920112 Exterior of G.T. Federer Meat Market (through window is G.T. Federer on right in white coat; there are fruits stacked in the window); ca. 1920s Box 1; Folder 12; Interior of G.T. Federer Meat Market (G.T. Federer on right in white coat)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416871921112Series 6. PublicationsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416701914, 1921Book -- Monticola, West Virginia University Yearbook (includes advertisement on page 296 for Federer's market, on the corner of High and Pleasant Streets)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/14168819211Book -- "Preparing for Citizenship" by William Backus GuitteauArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/14168919141Series 7. ArtifactsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141671ca. 1918 and undatedWorld War I Medal (in small box; worn in France by G.T. Federer)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141690ca. 19182Masonic Belt Buckle and Chain (in small box)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141691undated2Series 8. OversizeArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416721911-1922, ca. 1945-1950Map of Western Front, World War IArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/14169419182Map of Europe (in French language)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/170292undated2Photograph -- Interior of Jamison and Jollife City Meat Market, Morgantown, West Virginia, 230 High StreetArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/14169519112Photograph -- Parade of John F. Casey Company Employees of Marion County (this was apparently an event to welcome home soldiers returning from WWI)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141696ca. 1917-19182Photograph -- Interior of Meat Market of G. T. Federer, Morgantown, West Virginia, High and Pleasant StreetsArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/14169719222Real Estate Broadside (G.T. Federer was involved with real estate after WWII; his real estate office was located at 295 High Street, Morgantown, West Virginia)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/141698ca. 1945-19502Souvenir Newspapers from France (includes photocopies of five mastheads from newspapers that were purchased as souvenirs by G.T. Federer in France at the time World War I ended; originals of these five papers were disposed of because of their condition)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416921918/11-1231Souvenir Newspapers from France (includes photocopies of mastheads and original front pages of five newspapers that were purchased as souvenirs by G.T. Federer in France at the time World War I ended; originals are in folders 3-7)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1416931918/1132"Le Journal" (souvenir, original front page of newspaper)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1702931918 November 1133"L'Oeuvre" (souvenir, original front page of newspaper)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1702941918 November 2034"Le Matin" (souvenir, original front page of newspaper)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1702951918 November 2035"Le Victoire" (souvenir, original front page of newspaper)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1702961918 November 2036"L'Echo De Paris" (souvenir, original front page of newspaper)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1702971918 November 2037