A&M 1899Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgiss Papers A&M 1899Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgiss Papers, A&M 1899, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Related A&M Collections

1671, 1899

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and other material of Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgis(s) and her son, George C. Sturgiss, a Morgantown businessman and politician. There are 130 letters, 6 WVU literary society and commencement announcements (1870-77), and an engagement book used by George C. and Charlotte Kent Sturgiss for 1907-1909.

Subjects include the activities of Alfred Gallentin Sturgiss, a Methodist Episcopal minister in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1845 (towns served included Painesville, Ravenna, Warren, and Poland, Ohio and Meadville, Pa.) ; Millerism; Henry Ward Beecher; P. T. Barnum; Duff's College (Pittsburgh) ; oil wells in Ohio, 1859; Civil War comment; and evangelism.

Correspondents include Francis II. Beck, Caroline Miner Giddings, Ellen Jones, Harriet P. Miner Kendall, Adiella Miner, J. S. Ritenour, Alfred G., George C. , Joseph W., and Sara Sturgis(s), and Sabra Jane Vance.

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Morgantown (W. Va.) Ohio Pennsylvania Churches -- Methodist Episcopal Church buildings United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Universities and colleges Judges - letters and papers. Ministers - letters and papers. Petroleum industry and trade Railroads Religion -- Millerism Duff's College United States. Congress Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891 Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 Sturgiss, Alfred Galletin. Sturgiss, Charlotte Kent. Sturgiss, George C. Sturgiss, Lucinda (Miner) West Virginia University Literary Society Giddings, Caroline Miner Jones, Ellen Kendall, Harriet P. Miner Beck, Francis II Miner, Adiella Ritenour, J.S.