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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1.6 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">Summary: 1 ft. 7 in. (3 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 folder, 1/2 in.); (1 large flat storage box, 3 1/2 in.); (1 ledger, 1/2 in.)</extent>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], James R. Moreland (1879-1955) Papers, A&amp;M 1146, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Family papers of Alexander Smith, Charles Edgar Brown, and Joseph Moreland; correspondence; materials relating to local history and Moreland's civic, social, religious, and professional activities. </p><p>Typescript on the Union in West Virginia Coal Fields; a bound typescript on the History of the Various Courts of Monongalia County; and abstracts and legal papers of the Connellsville Basin Coke Company. </p><p> Material also includes plats and maps relating to the residential and commercial development of Morgantown, the coal and gas fields in the Monongalia County area; and railways in the vicinity.    </p><p>Collection contains the memorandum book, 1849-1850, of John Rogers, Morgantown sawmill operator. (For detailed listing, see inventory sheet.)</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063919" source="lcsh">Morgantown (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject authfilenumber=" http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000413" source="lcsh">Account books</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002415" source="lcsh">Agriculture  </subject>
    <subject source="local">Builders and contractors.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining - coal companies.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85053304" source="lcsh">Gas industry</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Lawyers - letters and papers.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Maps.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085422" source="lcsh">Mills and mill-work</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Religion. SEE ALSO Churches.</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Connellsville Basin Coke Company</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50062445" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">United Mine Workers of America</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Moreland, Joseph.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Rogers, John, 1786-1864</persname>
    <famname source="ingest">Smith, Alexander family.</famname>
    <persname source="ingest">Brown, Charles Edgar</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Rogers, John</persname>
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