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Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown"],"unitdate_ssm":["1784-circa 2010s","circa 1880s-2010"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["circa 1880s-2010"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1784-circa 2010s"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["A\u0026M 3950","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/5377"],"text":["A\u0026M 3950","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/5377","Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown","Cheat Lake (W. Va.)","Monongalia County (W. Va.)","Morgantown (W. Va.)","Real property","Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc. ","Vaughn L. Kiger  is a realtor from Morgantown, West Virginia. He and his wife, Meredith, both attended West Virginia University. He graduated from the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences in 1966, where he also joined the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He later attended the University of Virginia and completed the Graduate REALTORS Institute program. He joined the firm Dorsey \u0026 Kiger Realtors (then J. Dorsey Real Estate) in 1967, and became its president in 1979. He is also past president of the Morgantown Branch of Old Colony REALTORS. He has served in various leadership positions in the field of real estate, including president of the Morgantown Board of REALTORS, chairman of the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, and president of the West Virginia Association of REALTORS. He also has ties in the banking industry.","Kiger has also served his alma mater in various capacities. He served six years on the WVU Alumni Council (now WVU Alumni Board of Directors), serving one year as president; six years on the WVU Board of Advisors, serving one year as chairman; five years on the WVU Board of Governors, serving one year as chairman; and has served as a committee member of the WVU Alumni Association's Loyalty Permanent Endowment Fund Trust.","Kiger has received numerous awards, including REALTOR of the Year (1987), Phi Sigma Kappa Outstanding Alumnus (1991), Distinguished West Virginian (1984 and 1994), WVU Alumni Association's Outstanding Alumnus (2002), and Order of Vandalia (2006)--WVU's highest award for outstanding service.","Vaughn L. Kiger is first cousins once removed with Samuel N. Lemley. Icie Lemley (nee Kiger) was Vaughn's great aunt and a sister of Vaughn's grandfather, Arvel Kiger Sr. Arvel and Icie's parents were Isaac N. Kiger and Elizabeth J. John.","Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others.","Series include: \nSeries 1. Correspondence; 1784, 1850-1890s, ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated; boxes 1-3B. \nSeries 2. Lemley Family Material; 1861, ca. 1928-1970s, undated; boxes 4-9. \nSeries 3. Photographs; 1870s-1960s, 1998-2002, undated; boxes 10-14. \nSeries 4. Ley Family Material; 1856-1956, undated; box 15. \nSeries 5. Subjects; 2003-2004, undated; box 16. \nSeries 6. Printed Material; 1867, 1902-2005, undated; boxes 17-20. \nSeries 7. Ephemera; 1854-1959, undated; boxes 21-22. \nSeries 8. Artifacts; ca. 1914-1920, ca. 2006, undated; boxes 23-24. \nSeries 9. Scrapbooks; ca. 1880s-1988; boxes 25-27. \nSeries 10. Oversize; 1785-1829, 1871-2010s, undated (bulk 1880-1940); boxes 28-64, items 1-26, and map cabinet folders. \nSeries 11. Addendum of 2014/07/28; 1798-1853, 1896, undated; box 64 folders 1-2. \nSeries 12. Addendum of 2016/08/16; ca. 1838-2012; boxes 65-77, and two unboxed items. \nSeries 13. Addendum of 2017/07/19; 1859-1992, undated; boxes 77-87. \nSeries 14. Addendum of 2017/11/09; 1878-1990, undated; boxes 88-100. \nSeries 15. Addendum of 2017/12/12; 1903-1992, undated; boxes 101-102, and one unboxed item (fraternity cane). \nSeries 16. Addendum of 2018/07/02; 1903-2002; boxes 103-104. \nSeries 17. Addendum of 2018/07/09; 1879-1927; box 105. \nSeries 18. Addendum of 2018/09/13, 1886, 1971-1983, undated; box 105-106.","This series includes material pertaining to the history of Morgantown (box 1, folders 1-5 and 10 and box 2, folders 1-2; 1784, 1850-1890s, undated) as well as material pertaining to the life and work of Vaughn L. Kiger (box 1, folders 6-9 and box 2, folder 3 - box 3B; ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated)."," Subjects of the Morgantown history material include the lives of individuals and West Virginia University (WVU) history. The Morgantown history material includes a 1784 Monongalia County survey with plat; there are also a manuscript journal and diary, manuscript court document, ledger, letter, stationery, survey, and financial document."," The Kiger material includes letters, printed material, clippings, photographs, and other materials. Subjects of the Kiger material include Kiger's real estate career, the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, historic preservation, and political campaigns.","This series contains material pertaining to the Lemley family of Monongalia County, West Virginia, including correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, a bible, and various artifacts."," Correspondence includes letters, greeting cards, postcards, and other material, much of it addressed to Samuel Newton Lemley (1917-1981) and his mother, Ica (also called Icie or Icy) Myrtle Lemley (nee Kiger; 1885-1970). Icie Lemley's correspondence includes 19 letters from her nephew Michael Dimmick, a U.S. Army soldier serving in the Vietnam War. Dimmick's letters are dated April 1968 through January 1970, with topics including descriptions of some of the fighting, Dimmick's non-combat work (e.g., road building), politics, and home life. He was stationed near Qui Nhon, Vietnam in the 84th Engineer Battalion (Construction) for at least part of his service."," Photographs include photos taken after the end of World War II in occupied Japan, family photos, portraits, negatives, and framed photos."," Printed material includes programs and other items from Samuel Lemley's youth and his activities in the Hi-Y Club (the high school YMCA club, of which Samuel was president), Morgantown High School and University High School, and WVU. Also included are the family's World War II ration books."," The bible was given by Icie to her husband, mechanic William Lawrence Lemley (1882-1962). It includes genealogical information."," See also Series 10. Oversize--Miscellaneous for a framed lithograph marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger, as well as elementary and high school diplomas of Samuel Newton Lemley.","This series includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, prints, framed prints, cyanotypes, negatives, photo postcards, stereo cards, scrapbook pages, printed material, and other material documenting the history of the Morgantown area. Photos are generally sorted by type, then by subject."," Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1890, undated) include mostly unidentified portraits from Morgantown photography studios, as well as identified photos of WVU football players."," Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1900-1930, undated) include group portraits, Morgantown shops and buildings, Monongahela River views, James Pietro's construction company, Cheat Lake views, WVU football players, and other subjects. Group portraits include World War I draftees from Morgantown."," Subjects of the prints (ca. 1910s-1950s, 1999, undated) include scenery of the Cheat Lake area and Monongahela River; buildings and streets, especially in Morgantown; group portraits; WVU locations and life, such as Mountaineer Field and students on campus; WVU football players (1920s-1940s, undated); and other subjects. Group portraits include the Morgantown baseball league (1930s), Junior Order United American Mechanics Band, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Band (both undated)."," Subjects of the framed prints (ca. 1887-1930, 2001 or 2002, undated) include WVU buildings, such as the Agricultural Experiment Station; various houses in Morgantown; group portraits of Morgantown Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Members (1918) and WVU football players (1891); WVU Board of Governors (2001 or 2002); and other subjects."," Subjects of photo postcards (ca. 1900s-1920s, undated) include individual portraits, group portraits, special events, Morgantown bridges and buildings, WVU buildings, WVU-affiliated groups, and other subjects."," Additional photographs can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Photographs.","This series includes correspondence, financial material, photographs, printed material, ephemera, and other materials pertaining to the Ley family and descendants. Christian S. Ley (ca. 1825-1899) and his son William C. Ley (ca. 1865-1941) owned a boarding house or campground on the Cheat River at Laurel Iron Works/Uneva in the 1880s-1890s. In 1891, Christian Ley's daughter, Lillie C. Ley (ca. 1861-1942), married George W. Robison/Robinson (ca. 1855-1923). In 1895, the couple built Mont Chateau Hotel on the Cheat River at Uneva, and also resided at or near Cheat Haven, PA. They had a daughter, Mrs. Hugh M. Blosser (nee Eleanor Mary Robison, born ca. 1896). More on the history of Lillie and the hotel can be found in box 15, folder 1. Additional material can be found in A\u0026M 3328, the Ley, Robison, and Blosser Family Papers."," The Ley correspondence includes mostly requests for accommodations. The Robison/Robinson correspondence includes requests for accommodation (the location is called Robinson House, Robinson Hotel, and Mont Chateau) and financial matters. Blosser papers include photographs, printed material, and correspondence regarding Blosser Boat Docks and Mont Chateau."," The album material in box 15, folder 19 includes material related to the Cheat River and George Robison/Robinson, as well as local history.","This series includes a drawing, photo, and photocopies of book pages pertaining to Woodburn Seminary, as well as printed materials, correspondence, and a photo related to the Mountain Honorary.","This series includes books, pamphlets, ephemera, and correspondence. Highlights include material from Morgantown schools, including Morgantown High School yearbooks and event programs; pamphlets and booklets about Morgantown and programs of local events; and WVU material, including the West Virginia Agricultural College Inaugural Address of Reverend Dr. Alexander Martin (1867), three issues of  The Athenaeum  (1902), and a WVU football program (1922).","This series includes ephemera related to Monongalia County businesses and organizations. Creators include insurance companies, Morgantown Country Club, and stores on Morgantown's High Street. Types of ephemera include booklets, business cards, calendars, event tickets, membership cards, advertisements, and other materials. Also included are ephemera from WVU, such as a dance card, football schedules, and student activity books. For more ephemera, see also Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This series includes holiday ornaments, a product display box, pay roll cards, advertisements, and campaign items. The ornaments depict various WVU and Morgantown buildings and the WV state flag. The advertisements include pocket mirrors from O.B. Fawley Music Company and a paper puzzle from O.J. Morrison Company.","This series contains four scrapbooks, which include photographs, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, and other material. The scrapbooks were created by Virginia Esther Cole (Morgantown High School student), Eleanor Bolyard, Eva Coffman, and Colonel Thomas M. Davies (WVU student). Subjects include Morgantown High School (MHS) in the early 1920s, MHS graduates' military service and marriages in the 1940s (class of 1942), WVU, Cheat Lake, Cooper's Rock, and more.","This series includes oversize material in various formats regarding the history of the Morgantown area. The series contains 6 subseries:"," Oversize--Photographs; ca. 1880s - 2010s, undated (bulk 1900-1930, undated); box 28 - box 50 folder 4, box 51, two items in map cabinet, and items 1-23.  \n Oversize--Artwork \u0026 Picture Prints; 1871, 1900 - ca. 1929, 1965-1998, undated; box 50 folders 5-11, box 52-56, and items 24-25.  \n Oversize--Architectural Drawings \u0026 Maps; 1915-1924, 1972 - ca. 2007, undated; box 57 and items in map cabinet.  \n Oversize--Historical Manuscripts; 1785-1829; box 58 unfoldered item and box 59 folder 1.  \n Oversize--Printed Material; 1892-1921, 1976-2005, undated; box 59 folder 2 - box 60 folder 2.  \n Oversize--Miscellaneous; 1891-1948, 1975-1996, undated; box 58 folder 1, box 60 folder 3 - box 64, and item 26.","This subseries is sorted into categories: cabinet cards, framed photographs, mounted photographs, print photographs, and framed and unframed panoramic photographs."," Framed photographs are in boxes 29 through 47. (Note that framed panoramic photos are in a separate subseries). These include:  \n group portraits of Morgantown High School sports teams and graduating classes (1907-1911);  \n the Wesley United Methodist Church Board of Trustees (1904);  \n the Morgantown, WV Lions Club (1934, undated);  \n WVU groups, including the ROTC Band (undated), football team (1939, 1975), and basketball team (ca. 1946-1947);  \n composite photographs of WV judges, real estate commissioners, and lawyers who served in the military during World War I;  \n portraits of George C. Baker and Charles George Baker (Monongalia County Judge from 1928-1936 and 1944-1952; son of George C. Baker);  \n Deering Day parade (undated); and  \n buildings of Morgantown (ca. 1909-1910, undated)."," Mounted photographs are in boxes 47 through 49, with two additional items in map cabinets. Most of the mounted photos are group or individual portraits. Subjects include:  \n the Brewer family (1927, undated);  \n WVU athletic teams, with a focus on football (1891-1928, undated);  \n portraits of Frank M. and Gaylord Hess Dent, proprietors of McVicker's Drug Store (undated);  \n exhibit photos of outdoor scenes filed with the deposition of A.L. Woodfill in Monongalia County (undated);  \n outdoor photos of the Cheat Lake area (1922?, undated); and  \n additional group portraits related to WVU (1904-1919, undated), among other subjects."," Print photographs are in box 50. These include photos of Lake Lynn and dam (undated), aerial views of Morgantown (ca. 1950s?), a color photo of WVU's Old Mountaineer Field football stadium (pre-1979), and composite photos of West Virginia Real Estate Commissioners (ca. 1982)."," Panoramic (or Cirkut) photographs are in box 51, with an additional 23 framed photos that are unboxed. Subjects include WVU groups and buildings, groups of enlisted men or soldiers in the World War I era, church groups, scenic photos of Morgantown, and other subjects.","This subseries includes original artworks and prints of artwork. Types of artwork include watercolors, other types of painting, sketches, lithographs, and more. Subjects include WVU campus buildings, buildings in Morgantown, Waitman T. Willey and his wife Elizabeth Evans Willey (nee Ray), Thomas J. \"Stonewall\" Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. Photocopies of John Leech illustrations from an unknown book can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Printed Material. Additional lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This subseries includes architectural drawings, plats, and maps. Subjects include various buildings and developments in Morgantown, as well as a plat of the Mont Chateau area, and a district map of Monongalia County.","This subseries includes a framed land grant signed by Patrick Henry (1785), a survey (1785), and three indentures (1795-1829). Locations referenced in the materials include Monongalia, Yohogania, Ohio, and Harrison Counties in (West) Virginia, and Allegany County, Maryland. Named individuals include Lewis Criss, Richard Philan, John Shisler, Lamar Moore, and others.","This subseries includes photocopies of illustrations by John Leech, a 19th century English caricaturist, as well as original printed material. Original material includes various supplements to and special editions of the  New Dominion , the  Post-Chronicle , and the  Dominion Post ;  Dominion Post  articles pertaining to WVU; and a damaged issue of the Cincinnati spiritualist periodical  The Better Way . Picture prints and lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Artwork \u0026 Picture Prints and Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This subseries includes ephemera, certificates, broadsides, framed lithographs, and diplomas. Ephemera includes advertisements from Morgantown businesses and sample ballots. Broadsides include signs related to WVU sports, a theatrical production, political campaign signs for Jay Rockefeller and Gaston Caperton, and other subjects. The framed lithographs include two memorial lithographs for deceased members of the Kiger and John families, as well as a marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material). Diplomas include a Cornell University diploma for William Earle Rumsey, as well as elementary and high school diplomas for Samuel Newton Lemley (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material).","This addendum includes manuscript letters, invoices, and two mounted photographs. One invoice (1798-1800) concerns material purchased by postmaster and tavern operator Hugh McNeely from Michael Kern, who built Kern's Fort and was perhaps the first permanent settler of Morgantown. Five letters and one invoice (1823-1853, undated) concern John Rogers, a prominent Morgantown landowner and business leader in the early to mid-1800s. Both photos depict students of WVU.","This addendum includes manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts regarding primarily the history of West Virginia University and Morgantown, West Virginia. For example, there is a manuscript of a Morgantown tailor, Samuel Pickenpaugh (1838); there are also group portraits of WVU students (ca. 1890-1960), a Mountaineer Field button (ca. 1920s), and a wide array of WVU pennants (undated), among much other material. This series is minimally processed.","This addendum is minimally processed.","Box 77 includes a \"WVU 1966\" flag on a short stick, various other WVU artifacts such as pins, and a purple pennant that says \"West Virginia\" on it.","Boxes 78-81 include WVU publications (various issues of the Monticola from 1896 to 1965); other WVU printed material such as commencement programs, football programs, and a pamphlet titled \"Laws of West Virginia Agricultural College\" (1867); WVU ephemera; a WVU-related scrapbook (ca. 1929-1933); and an undated candy box with WVU on the label.","The last four folders of box 81 include photographs related to Vaughn Kiger, his work, and political campaigns (1970-1976).","Boxes 82-85 include books and pamphlets related to Morgantown, West Virginia in general, other cities, and local special interest groups. Also includes ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, audio recordings, and more. Additional topics include local schools, politics (including Jay Rockefeller), genealogy, local history, and more. One of the scrapbooks is from the Rogers family of Morgantown (ca. 1920s). The audio recordings are two identical records of Phi Sigma Kappa songs from 1910.  Additional highlights include Morgantown High School yearbooks, issues of the  Allerli , and items from the Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute.","Box 86 includes scrapbooks and an artifact.  The artifact is a decorative glass plate commemorating the Morgantown Bicentennial in 1985. The two scrapbooks are from Samuel Newton Lemley of Morgantown (ca. 1940-1946); Lemley served in WWII in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and was a cousin of Vaughn Kiger. They include mostly photographs with a few clippings and ephemera.","Box 87 includes books, clippings, a framed photograph of Vaughn Kiger and Judge Robert E. Maxwell, and artifacts, including a few from Morgantown High School (ca. 1903-1992).  Pamphlets include a U.S. Navy Flight Training Manual (1943) and a \"Historical Sketch of the University of Virginia\" by Thomas Abernethy (1948).","Includes: Spring Quarter Convocation, March 29, 1904; WVU Fourth Piano Recital by pupils of Miss Emily Jenks Bray, March 19, 1904; WVU Historical Pageant Official Program, June 8, 1925 (two copies); Postcard from the McCrew House; 125th Anniversary of Woodburn Hall Celebration Reception, February 23, 2001.","Two bulletins: \"Greater West Virginia Weekend,\" May 1953 and \"An Issue Containing Dedication Proceedings of the Mineral Industries Building,\" September 1944.","Two programs: \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Football Banquet, 1962\" and \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Basketball Banquet, 1963\"","Two programs: \"West Virginia University Ninety-Seventh Commencement, 1966\" and \"Rededication of Woodburn Cirle and Order of Vandalia Ceremony, 1979\"","Titles include: \"The System of Awards of Phi Sigma Kappa,\" \"By These Things We Stand,\" and \"Pledge Manual of Phi Sigma Kappa\" inscribed by Vaugh Kiger.","Includes Student Directories for 1946-1947 and 1947-1948. Also Freshman Handbook from 1938-1939, with \"Guide 1938\" ribbon and newspaper clipping announcing wedding of Catherine Fortney to Sergt. James Sigwart.","Includes two copies of \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: Short Biographical Sketches\" (1938) by James R. Moreland an one copy of \"Morgantown Rotary: The First Fifty Years 1918-1968\" (1968) by Frederick Carspecken.","Program and menu for dinner featuring The Honorable Herbert Hoover (secretary of commerce), Senator Guy D. Goff, The Honorable Franck L. Bowman, The Honorable Howard M. Gore (governor of West Virginia), Mr. Kent Cooper, Mr. Edward McKernon, Mr. R.H. Pritchard, Mr. Thurman Miller, Professor Frank Butler Trotter (president West Virginia University), Senator D.M. Willis, Judge I.G. Lazelle, and Dr. William E. Brooks as guests of honor. Program included entertainment by Al Mabey's Old Gold and Blue Orchestra.","\"Wheeling Rediscovered: A Bicentennial Project of Ohio County's Public, Private and Parochial Schools\"","Includes program from Order of Elks Memorial Service for Absent Brothers at Morgantown Lodge No. 411, on December 7, 1941. Also includes \"Bonds of Friendship, Love \u0026 Truth: Letters form Sallie Little Holmes to Anna Kennedy Davis, 1857-879\" published in 1987 with Christmas card that explains the family significance of the book to the recipient (unidentified). The letters were originally written by Sallie Little Holmes, a missionary to China in the mid-nineteenth century.","Includes correspondence, reciepts from Blosser's Boat Dock, hotel license for George Robison, and documents relating to a West Virginia Power and Transmission Company dam on the Cheat River and a contract for the moving of the Robison house. Also includes publication on Camp Rhododendron at Cooper's Rock State Forest by the Monongalia Historical Society, among other items.","Two identical cardboard signs that read \"Exchange Club Minstrel Tickets on sale here\"","Most includes postcards bearing early WVU buildings, but also contains one postcard of a crowd at a football game, one of the 1906 Mandolin Club and the 1906 Glee Club, and one with a group photo of the Delta Tau Delta brothers, undated. Many are black but some contain writing.","Subjects of the postcards include WVU buildings, aerial views of the campus, and images of the football stadium, among others. Some contain writing, others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings and includes a \"Souvenir Folder of Morgantown, W. Va.\" containing colored images of Morgantown scenes published by Stenger's News Stand. Some of the postcards contain writing and others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Several depict the Women's Hall and Woodburn Circle. Some contain writing while others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Also includes three photograph postcards, one with a group picture of \"The Mountain, Spring of 1919 Initiates,\" one with a group picture of a literature class of 1909, and one that appears to be a photo of an early marching band on the footbll field.","Images on the postcards include downtown Morgantown buildins and street scenes, aerial views of the city, scenes along the Cheat River, and a group picture of Star City glass workers. Some contain writing while others are blank.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Hotel Madera, the R.R. Passenger and Freight Station, the Sinclair Service Station, and the Morgantown Country Club House, among others.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Mississippi Glass Factory, Richard's Restaurant, Weil's storefront, and the Hotel Morgan among others. One postcard from 1925, featuring an image labeled \"Business section and bridge across Monongahela River,\" remarks on the steepness of Morgantown hills.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including Mont Chateau, Morgantown High School, an Oak Park Roller Coaster, and the Morgantown Suspension Bridge, among others.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Cooper's Rock overlook, the Vincent Pallotti Hospital, and the Morgantown Post Office, among others.","Five postcards include images of The People's Temple, Fairmont, W. Va.; the Clarksburg Courthouse; the two versions of the old State Capitol in Charleston; and one depicting the new Charleston State Capitol.","Prints of old photographs include many city scenes from Morgantown and WVU buildings. Also includes several images of parades and aerial views of the city.","Prints of old postcards include images of WVU buildings, M\u0026K trains and station, Oak Grove Cemetery, and a scene titled \"Bathing in Cheat River,\" among other subjects.","Includes photograph of the staff of the Morgantown Printing and Binding Company (ca. 1900), portrait of Forest P. Coombs in cadet uniform (ca. 1900), print of Soldiers and Sailors Monument (undated), photo of West Penn Beach (1958), portrait of unidentified man (ca. 1920), photo of four men on the front of a postcard labeled \"Pleasant St. Morgantown.\"","Published by the Monongalia Historical Society, edited by Earl L. Core and Mildred S. Clark.  Three copies, two with inscriptions.  One contains inscriptions on the inside front cover, including the signatures of Mrs. Rudolph S. Stoyer, Lloyd Felden, Vaughn L. Kiger, Ernest J. Nesius, Earl L. Core, Ray Swick, Bradford Laidley, and Virginia M. Gaston.","Includes two issues of the Monticola yearbook of WVU (1913 and 1927); a 1915-1916 issue of WVU Student Handbook; autograph book of Morgantown resident Gertie Hayes (ca. 1879-1883); and the 1892 diary of F.E. Delbridge, likely a telegraph operator in Shinnston.","Includes a WVU annual catalog from 1885-1886,  West Virginia University and its Picturesque Surroundings ,  WVU - an early portrait , and a WVU Foundation report for the fiscal year ending in 1981.","Includes a Congressional pictorial directory (1983) and a  Democrats in Convention 1972  book.","Two volumes of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, one from 1927 and one from 1927 with corrections to the 1950s, have been separated to A\u0026M 1307.","Phi Sigma Kappa materials separated to A\u0026M 3917 as addendum of 2014/06/17.","A book on Revolutionary Pensions of Monongalia County was separated to the book collection at the History Center. ","The following were separated to the printed ephemera collection:","\"Women's Edition of the New Dominion, Morgantown, W. Va.\", 1896","West Virginia University Football Schedule, 1934","Foot Ball Program, Morgantown High vs. Masontown High, 1934","Announcement for Town Meeting with Senator Jay Rockefeller, Morgantown, W. Va., undated","\"Tales From the Tower: If Woodburn Hall Could Speak\" by Barbara Howe, 1997.","\"When Tidewater Invaded the Valley\" by Lucy Johnston Ambler, 1934 (regarding John Brown)","\"The Story of Kenmore\" by Vivian Fleming, 1924 (regarding George Washington and a Fredericksburg plantation)","\"Wakefield, Birthplace of George Washington\" by Charles Moore, 1932","\"The Washington Manor House\" by Ethel Armes, 1922 (home of George Washington's ancestors)","The following were separated to the main book collection:","Byrd, Robert C.  The Senate, 1789-1989: Vol. 3, Classic Speeches, 1830-1993 . Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1994.","Byrd, Robert C. and Wendy Wolff.  The Senate, 1789-1989: Vol. 4, Historical Statistics, 1789-1992 . Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1993.","Butcher, Bernard L., and James M. Callahan.  Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Under the Editorial Supervision of Bernard L. Butcher: With an Account of the Resources and Industries of the Upper Monongahela Valley and the Tributary Region . New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912.","One copy of the WVU student handbook, 1915.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others. See Historical Note for more information on Vaughn L. Kiger.","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: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","Morgantown High School  (Morgantown, W. Va.)","West Virginia Mountaineers (Football team)","West Virginia University","Geiger family","Lemley family","Lee family","Robinson family","Kiger, Vaughn L.","Lemley, Samuel Newton","English \n.    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"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVaughn L. Kiger\u003c/emph\u003e is a realtor from Morgantown, West Virginia. He and his wife, Meredith, both attended West Virginia University. He graduated from the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences in 1966, where he also joined the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He later attended the University of Virginia and completed the Graduate REALTORS Institute program. He joined the firm Dorsey \u0026amp; Kiger Realtors (then J. Dorsey Real Estate) in 1967, and became its president in 1979. He is also past president of the Morgantown Branch of Old Colony REALTORS. He has served in various leadership positions in the field of real estate, including president of the Morgantown Board of REALTORS, chairman of the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, and president of the West Virginia Association of REALTORS. He also has ties in the banking industry.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eKiger has also served his alma mater in various capacities. He served six years on the WVU Alumni Council (now WVU Alumni Board of Directors), serving one year as president; six years on the WVU Board of Advisors, serving one year as chairman; five years on the WVU Board of Governors, serving one year as chairman; and has served as a committee member of the WVU Alumni Association's Loyalty Permanent Endowment Fund Trust.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eKiger has received numerous awards, including REALTOR of the Year (1987), Phi Sigma Kappa Outstanding Alumnus (1991), Distinguished West Virginian (1984 and 1994), WVU Alumni Association's Outstanding Alumnus (2002), and Order of Vandalia (2006)--WVU's highest award for outstanding service.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVaughn L. Kiger is first cousins once removed with Samuel N. Lemley. Icie Lemley (nee Kiger) was Vaughn's great aunt and a sister of Vaughn's grandfather, Arvel Kiger Sr. Arvel and Icie's parents were Isaac N. Kiger and Elizabeth J. John.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Vaughn L. Kiger  is a realtor from Morgantown, West Virginia. He and his wife, Meredith, both attended West Virginia University. He graduated from the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences in 1966, where he also joined the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He later attended the University of Virginia and completed the Graduate REALTORS Institute program. He joined the firm Dorsey \u0026 Kiger Realtors (then J. Dorsey Real Estate) in 1967, and became its president in 1979. He is also past president of the Morgantown Branch of Old Colony REALTORS. He has served in various leadership positions in the field of real estate, including president of the Morgantown Board of REALTORS, chairman of the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, and president of the West Virginia Association of REALTORS. He also has ties in the banking industry.","Kiger has also served his alma mater in various capacities. He served six years on the WVU Alumni Council (now WVU Alumni Board of Directors), serving one year as president; six years on the WVU Board of Advisors, serving one year as chairman; five years on the WVU Board of Governors, serving one year as chairman; and has served as a committee member of the WVU Alumni Association's Loyalty Permanent Endowment Fund Trust.","Kiger has received numerous awards, including REALTOR of the Year (1987), Phi Sigma Kappa Outstanding Alumnus (1991), Distinguished West Virginian (1984 and 1994), WVU Alumni Association's Outstanding Alumnus (2002), and Order of Vandalia (2006)--WVU's highest award for outstanding service.","Vaughn L. Kiger is first cousins once removed with Samuel N. Lemley. Icie Lemley (nee Kiger) was Vaughn's great aunt and a sister of Vaughn's grandfather, Arvel Kiger Sr. Arvel and Icie's parents were Isaac N. Kiger and Elizabeth J. John."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown, A\u0026amp;M 3950, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown, A\u0026M 3950, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHistorical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1. Correspondence; 1784, 1850-1890s, ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated; boxes 1-3B.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Lemley Family Material; 1861, ca. 1928-1970s, undated; boxes 4-9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Photographs; 1870s-1960s, 1998-2002, undated; boxes 10-14.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Ley Family Material; 1856-1956, undated; box 15.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Subjects; 2003-2004, undated; box 16.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Printed Material; 1867, 1902-2005, undated; boxes 17-20.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Ephemera; 1854-1959, undated; boxes 21-22.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Artifacts; ca. 1914-1920, ca. 2006, undated; boxes 23-24.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Scrapbooks; ca. 1880s-1988; boxes 25-27.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Oversize; 1785-1829, 1871-2010s, undated (bulk 1880-1940); boxes 28-64, items 1-26, and map cabinet folders.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Addendum of 2014/07/28; 1798-1853, 1896, undated; box 64 folders 1-2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Addendum of 2016/08/16; ca. 1838-2012; boxes 65-77, and two unboxed items.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 13. Addendum of 2017/07/19; 1859-1992, undated; boxes 77-87.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 14. Addendum of 2017/11/09; 1878-1990, undated; boxes 88-100.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 15. Addendum of 2017/12/12; 1903-1992, undated; boxes 101-102, and one unboxed item (fraternity cane).\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 16. Addendum of 2018/07/02; 1903-2002; boxes 103-104.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 17. Addendum of 2018/07/09; 1879-1927; box 105.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 18. Addendum of 2018/09/13, 1886, 1971-1983, undated; box 105-106.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material pertaining to the history of Morgantown (box 1, folders 1-5 and 10 and box 2, folders 1-2; 1784, 1850-1890s, undated) as well as material pertaining to the life and work of Vaughn L. Kiger (box 1, folders 6-9 and box 2, folder 3 - box 3B; ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Subjects of the Morgantown history material include the lives of individuals and West Virginia University (WVU) history. The Morgantown history material includes a 1784 Monongalia County survey with plat; there are also a manuscript journal and diary, manuscript court document, ledger, letter, stationery, survey, and financial document.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The Kiger material includes letters, printed material, clippings, photographs, and other materials. Subjects of the Kiger material include Kiger's real estate career, the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, historic preservation, and political campaigns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains material pertaining to the Lemley family of Monongalia County, West Virginia, including correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, a bible, and various artifacts.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Correspondence includes letters, greeting cards, postcards, and other material, much of it addressed to Samuel Newton Lemley (1917-1981) and his mother, Ica (also called Icie or Icy) Myrtle Lemley (nee Kiger; 1885-1970). Icie Lemley's correspondence includes 19 letters from her nephew Michael Dimmick, a U.S. Army soldier serving in the Vietnam War. Dimmick's letters are dated April 1968 through January 1970, with topics including descriptions of some of the fighting, Dimmick's non-combat work (e.g., road building), politics, and home life. He was stationed near Qui Nhon, Vietnam in the 84th Engineer Battalion (Construction) for at least part of his service.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Photographs include photos taken after the end of World War II in occupied Japan, family photos, portraits, negatives, and framed photos.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Printed material includes programs and other items from Samuel Lemley's youth and his activities in the Hi-Y Club (the high school YMCA club, of which Samuel was president), Morgantown High School and University High School, and WVU. Also included are the family's World War II ration books.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The bible was given by Icie to her husband, mechanic William Lawrence Lemley (1882-1962). It includes genealogical information.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e See also Series 10. Oversize--Miscellaneous for a framed lithograph marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger, as well as elementary and high school diplomas of Samuel Newton Lemley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, prints, framed prints, cyanotypes, negatives, photo postcards, stereo cards, scrapbook pages, printed material, and other material documenting the history of the Morgantown area. Photos are generally sorted by type, then by subject.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1890, undated) include mostly unidentified portraits from Morgantown photography studios, as well as identified photos of WVU football players.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1900-1930, undated) include group portraits, Morgantown shops and buildings, Monongahela River views, James Pietro's construction company, Cheat Lake views, WVU football players, and other subjects. Group portraits include World War I draftees from Morgantown.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Subjects of the prints (ca. 1910s-1950s, 1999, undated) include scenery of the Cheat Lake area and Monongahela River; buildings and streets, especially in Morgantown; group portraits; WVU locations and life, such as Mountaineer Field and students on campus; WVU football players (1920s-1940s, undated); and other subjects. Group portraits include the Morgantown baseball league (1930s), Junior Order United American Mechanics Band, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Band (both undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Subjects of the framed prints (ca. 1887-1930, 2001 or 2002, undated) include WVU buildings, such as the Agricultural Experiment Station; various houses in Morgantown; group portraits of Morgantown Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Members (1918) and WVU football players (1891); WVU Board of Governors (2001 or 2002); and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Subjects of photo postcards (ca. 1900s-1920s, undated) include individual portraits, group portraits, special events, Morgantown bridges and buildings, WVU buildings, WVU-affiliated groups, and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Additional photographs can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, financial material, photographs, printed material, ephemera, and other materials pertaining to the Ley family and descendants. Christian S. Ley (ca. 1825-1899) and his son William C. Ley (ca. 1865-1941) owned a boarding house or campground on the Cheat River at Laurel Iron Works/Uneva in the 1880s-1890s. In 1891, Christian Ley's daughter, Lillie C. Ley (ca. 1861-1942), married George W. Robison/Robinson (ca. 1855-1923). In 1895, the couple built Mont Chateau Hotel on the Cheat River at Uneva, and also resided at or near Cheat Haven, PA. They had a daughter, Mrs. Hugh M. Blosser (nee Eleanor Mary Robison, born ca. 1896). More on the history of Lillie and the hotel can be found in box 15, folder 1. Additional material can be found in A\u0026amp;M 3328, the Ley, Robison, and Blosser Family Papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The Ley correspondence includes mostly requests for accommodations. The Robison/Robinson correspondence includes requests for accommodation (the location is called Robinson House, Robinson Hotel, and Mont Chateau) and financial matters. Blosser papers include photographs, printed material, and correspondence regarding Blosser Boat Docks and Mont Chateau.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The album material in box 15, folder 19 includes material related to the Cheat River and George Robison/Robinson, as well as local history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a drawing, photo, and photocopies of book pages pertaining to Woodburn Seminary, as well as printed materials, correspondence, and a photo related to the Mountain Honorary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes books, pamphlets, ephemera, and correspondence. Highlights include material from Morgantown schools, including Morgantown High School yearbooks and event programs; pamphlets and booklets about Morgantown and programs of local events; and WVU material, including the West Virginia Agricultural College Inaugural Address of Reverend Dr. Alexander Martin (1867), three issues of \u003cemph\u003eThe Athenaeum\u003c/emph\u003e (1902), and a WVU football program (1922).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes ephemera related to Monongalia County businesses and organizations. Creators include insurance companies, Morgantown Country Club, and stores on Morgantown's High Street. Types of ephemera include booklets, business cards, calendars, event tickets, membership cards, advertisements, and other materials. Also included are ephemera from WVU, such as a dance card, football schedules, and student activity books. For more ephemera, see also Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes holiday ornaments, a product display box, pay roll cards, advertisements, and campaign items. The ornaments depict various WVU and Morgantown buildings and the WV state flag. The advertisements include pocket mirrors from O.B. Fawley Music Company and a paper puzzle from O.J. Morrison Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains four scrapbooks, which include photographs, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, and other material. The scrapbooks were created by Virginia Esther Cole (Morgantown High School student), Eleanor Bolyard, Eva Coffman, and Colonel Thomas M. Davies (WVU student). Subjects include Morgantown High School (MHS) in the early 1920s, MHS graduates' military service and marriages in the 1940s (class of 1942), WVU, Cheat Lake, Cooper's Rock, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes oversize material in various formats regarding the history of the Morgantown area. The series contains 6 subseries:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Oversize--Photographs; ca. 1880s - 2010s, undated (bulk 1900-1930, undated); box 28 - box 50 folder 4, box 51, two items in map cabinet, and items 1-23. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Oversize--Artwork \u0026amp; Picture Prints; 1871, 1900 - ca. 1929, 1965-1998, undated; box 50 folders 5-11, box 52-56, and items 24-25. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Oversize--Architectural Drawings \u0026amp; Maps; 1915-1924, 1972 - ca. 2007, undated; box 57 and items in map cabinet. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Oversize--Historical Manuscripts; 1785-1829; box 58 unfoldered item and box 59 folder 1. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Oversize--Printed Material; 1892-1921, 1976-2005, undated; box 59 folder 2 - box 60 folder 2. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Oversize--Miscellaneous; 1891-1948, 1975-1996, undated; box 58 folder 1, box 60 folder 3 - box 64, and item 26.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries is sorted into categories: cabinet cards, framed photographs, mounted photographs, print photographs, and framed and unframed panoramic photographs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Framed photographs are in boxes 29 through 47. (Note that framed panoramic photos are in a separate subseries). These include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n group portraits of Morgantown High School sports teams and graduating classes (1907-1911); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n the Wesley United Methodist Church Board of Trustees (1904); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n the Morgantown, WV Lions Club (1934, undated); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n WVU groups, including the ROTC Band (undated), football team (1939, 1975), and basketball team (ca. 1946-1947); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n composite photographs of WV judges, real estate commissioners, and lawyers who served in the military during World War I; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n portraits of George C. Baker and Charles George Baker (Monongalia County Judge from 1928-1936 and 1944-1952; son of George C. Baker); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Deering Day parade (undated); and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n buildings of Morgantown (ca. 1909-1910, undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Mounted photographs are in boxes 47 through 49, with two additional items in map cabinets. Most of the mounted photos are group or individual portraits. Subjects include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n the Brewer family (1927, undated); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n WVU athletic teams, with a focus on football (1891-1928, undated); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n portraits of Frank M. and Gaylord Hess Dent, proprietors of McVicker's Drug Store (undated); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n exhibit photos of outdoor scenes filed with the deposition of A.L. Woodfill in Monongalia County (undated); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n outdoor photos of the Cheat Lake area (1922?, undated); and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n additional group portraits related to WVU (1904-1919, undated), among other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Print photographs are in box 50. These include photos of Lake Lynn and dam (undated), aerial views of Morgantown (ca. 1950s?), a color photo of WVU's Old Mountaineer Field football stadium (pre-1979), and composite photos of West Virginia Real Estate Commissioners (ca. 1982).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Panoramic (or Cirkut) photographs are in box 51, with an additional 23 framed photos that are unboxed. Subjects include WVU groups and buildings, groups of enlisted men or soldiers in the World War I era, church groups, scenic photos of Morgantown, and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes original artworks and prints of artwork. Types of artwork include watercolors, other types of painting, sketches, lithographs, and more. Subjects include WVU campus buildings, buildings in Morgantown, Waitman T. Willey and his wife Elizabeth Evans Willey (nee Ray), Thomas J. \"Stonewall\" Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. Photocopies of John Leech illustrations from an unknown book can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Printed Material. Additional lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes architectural drawings, plats, and maps. Subjects include various buildings and developments in Morgantown, as well as a plat of the Mont Chateau area, and a district map of Monongalia County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes a framed land grant signed by Patrick Henry (1785), a survey (1785), and three indentures (1795-1829). Locations referenced in the materials include Monongalia, Yohogania, Ohio, and Harrison Counties in (West) Virginia, and Allegany County, Maryland. Named individuals include Lewis Criss, Richard Philan, John Shisler, Lamar Moore, and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes photocopies of illustrations by John Leech, a 19th century English caricaturist, as well as original printed material. Original material includes various supplements to and special editions of the \u003cemph\u003eNew Dominion\u003c/emph\u003e, the \u003cemph\u003ePost-Chronicle\u003c/emph\u003e, and the \u003cemph\u003eDominion Post\u003c/emph\u003e; \u003cemph\u003eDominion Post\u003c/emph\u003e articles pertaining to WVU; and a damaged issue of the Cincinnati spiritualist periodical \u003cemph\u003eThe Better Way\u003c/emph\u003e. Picture prints and lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Artwork \u0026amp; Picture Prints and Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes ephemera, certificates, broadsides, framed lithographs, and diplomas. Ephemera includes advertisements from Morgantown businesses and sample ballots. Broadsides include signs related to WVU sports, a theatrical production, political campaign signs for Jay Rockefeller and Gaston Caperton, and other subjects. The framed lithographs include two memorial lithographs for deceased members of the Kiger and John families, as well as a marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material). Diplomas include a Cornell University diploma for William Earle Rumsey, as well as elementary and high school diplomas for Samuel Newton Lemley (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes manuscript letters, invoices, and two mounted photographs. One invoice (1798-1800) concerns material purchased by postmaster and tavern operator Hugh McNeely from Michael Kern, who built Kern's Fort and was perhaps the first permanent settler of Morgantown. Five letters and one invoice (1823-1853, undated) concern John Rogers, a prominent Morgantown landowner and business leader in the early to mid-1800s. Both photos depict students of WVU.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts regarding primarily the history of West Virginia University and Morgantown, West Virginia. For example, there is a manuscript of a Morgantown tailor, Samuel Pickenpaugh (1838); there are also group portraits of WVU students (ca. 1890-1960), a Mountaineer Field button (ca. 1920s), and a wide array of WVU pennants (undated), among much other material. This series is minimally processed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum is minimally processed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 77 includes a \"WVU 1966\" flag on a short stick, various other WVU artifacts such as pins, and a purple pennant that says \"West Virginia\" on it.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 78-81 include WVU publications (various issues of the Monticola from 1896 to 1965); other WVU printed material such as commencement programs, football programs, and a pamphlet titled \"Laws of West Virginia Agricultural College\" (1867); WVU ephemera; a WVU-related scrapbook (ca. 1929-1933); and an undated candy box with WVU on the label.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe last four folders of box 81 include photographs related to Vaughn Kiger, his work, and political campaigns (1970-1976).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 82-85 include books and pamphlets related to Morgantown, West Virginia in general, other cities, and local special interest groups. Also includes ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, audio recordings, and more. Additional topics include local schools, politics (including Jay Rockefeller), genealogy, local history, and more. One of the scrapbooks is from the Rogers family of Morgantown (ca. 1920s). The audio recordings are two identical records of Phi Sigma Kappa songs from 1910.  Additional highlights include Morgantown High School yearbooks, issues of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAllerli\u003c/emph\u003e, and items from the Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 86 includes scrapbooks and an artifact.  The artifact is a decorative glass plate commemorating the Morgantown Bicentennial in 1985. The two scrapbooks are from Samuel Newton Lemley of Morgantown (ca. 1940-1946); Lemley served in WWII in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and was a cousin of Vaughn Kiger. They include mostly photographs with a few clippings and ephemera.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 87 includes books, clippings, a framed photograph of Vaughn Kiger and Judge Robert E. Maxwell, and artifacts, including a few from Morgantown High School (ca. 1903-1992).  Pamphlets include a U.S. Navy Flight Training Manual (1943) and a \"Historical Sketch of the University of Virginia\" by Thomas Abernethy (1948).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: Spring Quarter Convocation, March 29, 1904; WVU Fourth Piano Recital by pupils of Miss Emily Jenks Bray, March 19, 1904; WVU Historical Pageant Official Program, June 8, 1925 (two copies); Postcard from the McCrew House; 125th Anniversary of Woodburn Hall Celebration Reception, February 23, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo bulletins: \"Greater West Virginia Weekend,\" May 1953 and \"An Issue Containing Dedication Proceedings of the Mineral Industries Building,\" September 1944.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo programs: \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Football Banquet, 1962\" and \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Basketball Banquet, 1963\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo programs: \"West Virginia University Ninety-Seventh Commencement, 1966\" and \"Rededication of Woodburn Cirle and Order of Vandalia Ceremony, 1979\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitles include: \"The System of Awards of Phi Sigma Kappa,\" \"By These Things We Stand,\" and \"Pledge Manual of Phi Sigma Kappa\" inscribed by Vaugh Kiger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Student Directories for 1946-1947 and 1947-1948. Also Freshman Handbook from 1938-1939, with \"Guide 1938\" ribbon and newspaper clipping announcing wedding of Catherine Fortney to Sergt. James Sigwart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes two copies of \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: Short Biographical Sketches\" (1938) by James R. Moreland an one copy of \"Morgantown Rotary: The First Fifty Years 1918-1968\" (1968) by Frederick Carspecken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram and menu for dinner featuring The Honorable Herbert Hoover (secretary of commerce), Senator Guy D. Goff, The Honorable Franck L. Bowman, The Honorable Howard M. Gore (governor of West Virginia), Mr. Kent Cooper, Mr. Edward McKernon, Mr. R.H. Pritchard, Mr. Thurman Miller, Professor Frank Butler Trotter (president West Virginia University), Senator D.M. Willis, Judge I.G. Lazelle, and Dr. William E. Brooks as guests of honor. Program included entertainment by Al Mabey's Old Gold and Blue Orchestra.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Wheeling Rediscovered: A Bicentennial Project of Ohio County's Public, Private and Parochial Schools\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes program from Order of Elks Memorial Service for Absent Brothers at Morgantown Lodge No. 411, on December 7, 1941. Also includes \"Bonds of Friendship, Love \u0026amp; Truth: Letters form Sallie Little Holmes to Anna Kennedy Davis, 1857-879\" published in 1987 with Christmas card that explains the family significance of the book to the recipient (unidentified). The letters were originally written by Sallie Little Holmes, a missionary to China in the mid-nineteenth century.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence, reciepts from Blosser's Boat Dock, hotel license for George Robison, and documents relating to a West Virginia Power and Transmission Company dam on the Cheat River and a contract for the moving of the Robison house. Also includes publication on Camp Rhododendron at Cooper's Rock State Forest by the Monongalia Historical Society, among other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo identical cardboard signs that read \"Exchange Club Minstrel Tickets on sale here\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost includes postcards bearing early WVU buildings, but also contains one postcard of a crowd at a football game, one of the 1906 Mandolin Club and the 1906 Glee Club, and one with a group photo of the Delta Tau Delta brothers, undated. Many are black but some contain writing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects of the postcards include WVU buildings, aerial views of the campus, and images of the football stadium, among others. Some contain writing, others are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings and includes a \"Souvenir Folder of Morgantown, W. Va.\" containing colored images of Morgantown scenes published by Stenger's News Stand. Some of the postcards contain writing and others are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Several depict the Women's Hall and Woodburn Circle. Some contain writing while others are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Also includes three photograph postcards, one with a group picture of \"The Mountain, Spring of 1919 Initiates,\" one with a group picture of a literature class of 1909, and one that appears to be a photo of an early marching band on the footbll field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages on the postcards include downtown Morgantown buildins and street scenes, aerial views of the city, scenes along the Cheat River, and a group picture of Star City glass workers. Some contain writing while others are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Hotel Madera, the R.R. Passenger and Freight Station, the Sinclair Service Station, and the Morgantown Country Club House, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Mississippi Glass Factory, Richard's Restaurant, Weil's storefront, and the Hotel Morgan among others. One postcard from 1925, featuring an image labeled \"Business section and bridge across Monongahela River,\" remarks on the steepness of Morgantown hills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including Mont Chateau, Morgantown High School, an Oak Park Roller Coaster, and the Morgantown Suspension Bridge, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Cooper's Rock overlook, the Vincent Pallotti Hospital, and the Morgantown Post Office, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive postcards include images of The People's Temple, Fairmont, W. Va.; the Clarksburg Courthouse; the two versions of the old State Capitol in Charleston; and one depicting the new Charleston State Capitol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrints of old photographs include many city scenes from Morgantown and WVU buildings. Also includes several images of parades and aerial views of the city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrints of old postcards include images of WVU buildings, M\u0026amp;K trains and station, Oak Grove Cemetery, and a scene titled \"Bathing in Cheat River,\" among other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photograph of the staff of the Morgantown Printing and Binding Company (ca. 1900), portrait of Forest P. Coombs in cadet uniform (ca. 1900), print of Soldiers and Sailors Monument (undated), photo of West Penn Beach (1958), portrait of unidentified man (ca. 1920), photo of four men on the front of a postcard labeled \"Pleasant St. Morgantown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by the Monongalia Historical Society, edited by Earl L. Core and Mildred S. Clark.  Three copies, two with inscriptions.  One contains inscriptions on the inside front cover, including the signatures of Mrs. Rudolph S. Stoyer, Lloyd Felden, Vaughn L. Kiger, Ernest J. Nesius, Earl L. Core, Ray Swick, Bradford Laidley, and Virginia M. Gaston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes two issues of the Monticola yearbook of WVU (1913 and 1927); a 1915-1916 issue of WVU Student Handbook; autograph book of Morgantown resident Gertie Hayes (ca. 1879-1883); and the 1892 diary of F.E. Delbridge, likely a telegraph operator in Shinnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a WVU annual catalog from 1885-1886,\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e West Virginia University and its Picturesque Surroundings\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWVU - an early portrait\u003c/emph\u003e, and a WVU Foundation report for the fiscal year ending in 1981.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a Congressional pictorial directory (1983) and a \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDemocrats in Convention 1972\u003c/emph\u003e book.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others.","Series include: \nSeries 1. Correspondence; 1784, 1850-1890s, ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated; boxes 1-3B. \nSeries 2. Lemley Family Material; 1861, ca. 1928-1970s, undated; boxes 4-9. \nSeries 3. Photographs; 1870s-1960s, 1998-2002, undated; boxes 10-14. \nSeries 4. Ley Family Material; 1856-1956, undated; box 15. \nSeries 5. Subjects; 2003-2004, undated; box 16. \nSeries 6. Printed Material; 1867, 1902-2005, undated; boxes 17-20. \nSeries 7. Ephemera; 1854-1959, undated; boxes 21-22. \nSeries 8. Artifacts; ca. 1914-1920, ca. 2006, undated; boxes 23-24. \nSeries 9. Scrapbooks; ca. 1880s-1988; boxes 25-27. \nSeries 10. Oversize; 1785-1829, 1871-2010s, undated (bulk 1880-1940); boxes 28-64, items 1-26, and map cabinet folders. \nSeries 11. Addendum of 2014/07/28; 1798-1853, 1896, undated; box 64 folders 1-2. \nSeries 12. Addendum of 2016/08/16; ca. 1838-2012; boxes 65-77, and two unboxed items. \nSeries 13. Addendum of 2017/07/19; 1859-1992, undated; boxes 77-87. \nSeries 14. Addendum of 2017/11/09; 1878-1990, undated; boxes 88-100. \nSeries 15. Addendum of 2017/12/12; 1903-1992, undated; boxes 101-102, and one unboxed item (fraternity cane). \nSeries 16. Addendum of 2018/07/02; 1903-2002; boxes 103-104. \nSeries 17. Addendum of 2018/07/09; 1879-1927; box 105. \nSeries 18. Addendum of 2018/09/13, 1886, 1971-1983, undated; box 105-106.","This series includes material pertaining to the history of Morgantown (box 1, folders 1-5 and 10 and box 2, folders 1-2; 1784, 1850-1890s, undated) as well as material pertaining to the life and work of Vaughn L. Kiger (box 1, folders 6-9 and box 2, folder 3 - box 3B; ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated)."," Subjects of the Morgantown history material include the lives of individuals and West Virginia University (WVU) history. The Morgantown history material includes a 1784 Monongalia County survey with plat; there are also a manuscript journal and diary, manuscript court document, ledger, letter, stationery, survey, and financial document."," The Kiger material includes letters, printed material, clippings, photographs, and other materials. Subjects of the Kiger material include Kiger's real estate career, the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, historic preservation, and political campaigns.","This series contains material pertaining to the Lemley family of Monongalia County, West Virginia, including correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, a bible, and various artifacts."," Correspondence includes letters, greeting cards, postcards, and other material, much of it addressed to Samuel Newton Lemley (1917-1981) and his mother, Ica (also called Icie or Icy) Myrtle Lemley (nee Kiger; 1885-1970). Icie Lemley's correspondence includes 19 letters from her nephew Michael Dimmick, a U.S. Army soldier serving in the Vietnam War. Dimmick's letters are dated April 1968 through January 1970, with topics including descriptions of some of the fighting, Dimmick's non-combat work (e.g., road building), politics, and home life. He was stationed near Qui Nhon, Vietnam in the 84th Engineer Battalion (Construction) for at least part of his service."," Photographs include photos taken after the end of World War II in occupied Japan, family photos, portraits, negatives, and framed photos."," Printed material includes programs and other items from Samuel Lemley's youth and his activities in the Hi-Y Club (the high school YMCA club, of which Samuel was president), Morgantown High School and University High School, and WVU. Also included are the family's World War II ration books."," The bible was given by Icie to her husband, mechanic William Lawrence Lemley (1882-1962). It includes genealogical information."," See also Series 10. Oversize--Miscellaneous for a framed lithograph marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger, as well as elementary and high school diplomas of Samuel Newton Lemley.","This series includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, prints, framed prints, cyanotypes, negatives, photo postcards, stereo cards, scrapbook pages, printed material, and other material documenting the history of the Morgantown area. Photos are generally sorted by type, then by subject."," Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1890, undated) include mostly unidentified portraits from Morgantown photography studios, as well as identified photos of WVU football players."," Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1900-1930, undated) include group portraits, Morgantown shops and buildings, Monongahela River views, James Pietro's construction company, Cheat Lake views, WVU football players, and other subjects. Group portraits include World War I draftees from Morgantown."," Subjects of the prints (ca. 1910s-1950s, 1999, undated) include scenery of the Cheat Lake area and Monongahela River; buildings and streets, especially in Morgantown; group portraits; WVU locations and life, such as Mountaineer Field and students on campus; WVU football players (1920s-1940s, undated); and other subjects. Group portraits include the Morgantown baseball league (1930s), Junior Order United American Mechanics Band, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Band (both undated)."," Subjects of the framed prints (ca. 1887-1930, 2001 or 2002, undated) include WVU buildings, such as the Agricultural Experiment Station; various houses in Morgantown; group portraits of Morgantown Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Members (1918) and WVU football players (1891); WVU Board of Governors (2001 or 2002); and other subjects."," Subjects of photo postcards (ca. 1900s-1920s, undated) include individual portraits, group portraits, special events, Morgantown bridges and buildings, WVU buildings, WVU-affiliated groups, and other subjects."," Additional photographs can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Photographs.","This series includes correspondence, financial material, photographs, printed material, ephemera, and other materials pertaining to the Ley family and descendants. Christian S. Ley (ca. 1825-1899) and his son William C. Ley (ca. 1865-1941) owned a boarding house or campground on the Cheat River at Laurel Iron Works/Uneva in the 1880s-1890s. In 1891, Christian Ley's daughter, Lillie C. Ley (ca. 1861-1942), married George W. Robison/Robinson (ca. 1855-1923). In 1895, the couple built Mont Chateau Hotel on the Cheat River at Uneva, and also resided at or near Cheat Haven, PA. They had a daughter, Mrs. Hugh M. Blosser (nee Eleanor Mary Robison, born ca. 1896). More on the history of Lillie and the hotel can be found in box 15, folder 1. Additional material can be found in A\u0026M 3328, the Ley, Robison, and Blosser Family Papers."," The Ley correspondence includes mostly requests for accommodations. The Robison/Robinson correspondence includes requests for accommodation (the location is called Robinson House, Robinson Hotel, and Mont Chateau) and financial matters. Blosser papers include photographs, printed material, and correspondence regarding Blosser Boat Docks and Mont Chateau."," The album material in box 15, folder 19 includes material related to the Cheat River and George Robison/Robinson, as well as local history.","This series includes a drawing, photo, and photocopies of book pages pertaining to Woodburn Seminary, as well as printed materials, correspondence, and a photo related to the Mountain Honorary.","This series includes books, pamphlets, ephemera, and correspondence. Highlights include material from Morgantown schools, including Morgantown High School yearbooks and event programs; pamphlets and booklets about Morgantown and programs of local events; and WVU material, including the West Virginia Agricultural College Inaugural Address of Reverend Dr. Alexander Martin (1867), three issues of  The Athenaeum  (1902), and a WVU football program (1922).","This series includes ephemera related to Monongalia County businesses and organizations. Creators include insurance companies, Morgantown Country Club, and stores on Morgantown's High Street. Types of ephemera include booklets, business cards, calendars, event tickets, membership cards, advertisements, and other materials. Also included are ephemera from WVU, such as a dance card, football schedules, and student activity books. For more ephemera, see also Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This series includes holiday ornaments, a product display box, pay roll cards, advertisements, and campaign items. The ornaments depict various WVU and Morgantown buildings and the WV state flag. The advertisements include pocket mirrors from O.B. Fawley Music Company and a paper puzzle from O.J. Morrison Company.","This series contains four scrapbooks, which include photographs, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, and other material. The scrapbooks were created by Virginia Esther Cole (Morgantown High School student), Eleanor Bolyard, Eva Coffman, and Colonel Thomas M. Davies (WVU student). Subjects include Morgantown High School (MHS) in the early 1920s, MHS graduates' military service and marriages in the 1940s (class of 1942), WVU, Cheat Lake, Cooper's Rock, and more.","This series includes oversize material in various formats regarding the history of the Morgantown area. The series contains 6 subseries:"," Oversize--Photographs; ca. 1880s - 2010s, undated (bulk 1900-1930, undated); box 28 - box 50 folder 4, box 51, two items in map cabinet, and items 1-23.  \n Oversize--Artwork \u0026 Picture Prints; 1871, 1900 - ca. 1929, 1965-1998, undated; box 50 folders 5-11, box 52-56, and items 24-25.  \n Oversize--Architectural Drawings \u0026 Maps; 1915-1924, 1972 - ca. 2007, undated; box 57 and items in map cabinet.  \n Oversize--Historical Manuscripts; 1785-1829; box 58 unfoldered item and box 59 folder 1.  \n Oversize--Printed Material; 1892-1921, 1976-2005, undated; box 59 folder 2 - box 60 folder 2.  \n Oversize--Miscellaneous; 1891-1948, 1975-1996, undated; box 58 folder 1, box 60 folder 3 - box 64, and item 26.","This subseries is sorted into categories: cabinet cards, framed photographs, mounted photographs, print photographs, and framed and unframed panoramic photographs."," Framed photographs are in boxes 29 through 47. (Note that framed panoramic photos are in a separate subseries). These include:  \n group portraits of Morgantown High School sports teams and graduating classes (1907-1911);  \n the Wesley United Methodist Church Board of Trustees (1904);  \n the Morgantown, WV Lions Club (1934, undated);  \n WVU groups, including the ROTC Band (undated), football team (1939, 1975), and basketball team (ca. 1946-1947);  \n composite photographs of WV judges, real estate commissioners, and lawyers who served in the military during World War I;  \n portraits of George C. Baker and Charles George Baker (Monongalia County Judge from 1928-1936 and 1944-1952; son of George C. Baker);  \n Deering Day parade (undated); and  \n buildings of Morgantown (ca. 1909-1910, undated)."," Mounted photographs are in boxes 47 through 49, with two additional items in map cabinets. Most of the mounted photos are group or individual portraits. Subjects include:  \n the Brewer family (1927, undated);  \n WVU athletic teams, with a focus on football (1891-1928, undated);  \n portraits of Frank M. and Gaylord Hess Dent, proprietors of McVicker's Drug Store (undated);  \n exhibit photos of outdoor scenes filed with the deposition of A.L. Woodfill in Monongalia County (undated);  \n outdoor photos of the Cheat Lake area (1922?, undated); and  \n additional group portraits related to WVU (1904-1919, undated), among other subjects."," Print photographs are in box 50. These include photos of Lake Lynn and dam (undated), aerial views of Morgantown (ca. 1950s?), a color photo of WVU's Old Mountaineer Field football stadium (pre-1979), and composite photos of West Virginia Real Estate Commissioners (ca. 1982)."," Panoramic (or Cirkut) photographs are in box 51, with an additional 23 framed photos that are unboxed. Subjects include WVU groups and buildings, groups of enlisted men or soldiers in the World War I era, church groups, scenic photos of Morgantown, and other subjects.","This subseries includes original artworks and prints of artwork. Types of artwork include watercolors, other types of painting, sketches, lithographs, and more. Subjects include WVU campus buildings, buildings in Morgantown, Waitman T. Willey and his wife Elizabeth Evans Willey (nee Ray), Thomas J. \"Stonewall\" Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. Photocopies of John Leech illustrations from an unknown book can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Printed Material. Additional lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This subseries includes architectural drawings, plats, and maps. Subjects include various buildings and developments in Morgantown, as well as a plat of the Mont Chateau area, and a district map of Monongalia County.","This subseries includes a framed land grant signed by Patrick Henry (1785), a survey (1785), and three indentures (1795-1829). Locations referenced in the materials include Monongalia, Yohogania, Ohio, and Harrison Counties in (West) Virginia, and Allegany County, Maryland. Named individuals include Lewis Criss, Richard Philan, John Shisler, Lamar Moore, and others.","This subseries includes photocopies of illustrations by John Leech, a 19th century English caricaturist, as well as original printed material. Original material includes various supplements to and special editions of the  New Dominion , the  Post-Chronicle , and the  Dominion Post ;  Dominion Post  articles pertaining to WVU; and a damaged issue of the Cincinnati spiritualist periodical  The Better Way . Picture prints and lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Artwork \u0026 Picture Prints and Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This subseries includes ephemera, certificates, broadsides, framed lithographs, and diplomas. Ephemera includes advertisements from Morgantown businesses and sample ballots. Broadsides include signs related to WVU sports, a theatrical production, political campaign signs for Jay Rockefeller and Gaston Caperton, and other subjects. The framed lithographs include two memorial lithographs for deceased members of the Kiger and John families, as well as a marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material). Diplomas include a Cornell University diploma for William Earle Rumsey, as well as elementary and high school diplomas for Samuel Newton Lemley (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material).","This addendum includes manuscript letters, invoices, and two mounted photographs. One invoice (1798-1800) concerns material purchased by postmaster and tavern operator Hugh McNeely from Michael Kern, who built Kern's Fort and was perhaps the first permanent settler of Morgantown. Five letters and one invoice (1823-1853, undated) concern John Rogers, a prominent Morgantown landowner and business leader in the early to mid-1800s. Both photos depict students of WVU.","This addendum includes manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts regarding primarily the history of West Virginia University and Morgantown, West Virginia. For example, there is a manuscript of a Morgantown tailor, Samuel Pickenpaugh (1838); there are also group portraits of WVU students (ca. 1890-1960), a Mountaineer Field button (ca. 1920s), and a wide array of WVU pennants (undated), among much other material. This series is minimally processed.","This addendum is minimally processed.","Box 77 includes a \"WVU 1966\" flag on a short stick, various other WVU artifacts such as pins, and a purple pennant that says \"West Virginia\" on it.","Boxes 78-81 include WVU publications (various issues of the Monticola from 1896 to 1965); other WVU printed material such as commencement programs, football programs, and a pamphlet titled \"Laws of West Virginia Agricultural College\" (1867); WVU ephemera; a WVU-related scrapbook (ca. 1929-1933); and an undated candy box with WVU on the label.","The last four folders of box 81 include photographs related to Vaughn Kiger, his work, and political campaigns (1970-1976).","Boxes 82-85 include books and pamphlets related to Morgantown, West Virginia in general, other cities, and local special interest groups. Also includes ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, audio recordings, and more. Additional topics include local schools, politics (including Jay Rockefeller), genealogy, local history, and more. One of the scrapbooks is from the Rogers family of Morgantown (ca. 1920s). The audio recordings are two identical records of Phi Sigma Kappa songs from 1910.  Additional highlights include Morgantown High School yearbooks, issues of the  Allerli , and items from the Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute.","Box 86 includes scrapbooks and an artifact.  The artifact is a decorative glass plate commemorating the Morgantown Bicentennial in 1985. The two scrapbooks are from Samuel Newton Lemley of Morgantown (ca. 1940-1946); Lemley served in WWII in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and was a cousin of Vaughn Kiger. They include mostly photographs with a few clippings and ephemera.","Box 87 includes books, clippings, a framed photograph of Vaughn Kiger and Judge Robert E. Maxwell, and artifacts, including a few from Morgantown High School (ca. 1903-1992).  Pamphlets include a U.S. Navy Flight Training Manual (1943) and a \"Historical Sketch of the University of Virginia\" by Thomas Abernethy (1948).","Includes: Spring Quarter Convocation, March 29, 1904; WVU Fourth Piano Recital by pupils of Miss Emily Jenks Bray, March 19, 1904; WVU Historical Pageant Official Program, June 8, 1925 (two copies); Postcard from the McCrew House; 125th Anniversary of Woodburn Hall Celebration Reception, February 23, 2001.","Two bulletins: \"Greater West Virginia Weekend,\" May 1953 and \"An Issue Containing Dedication Proceedings of the Mineral Industries Building,\" September 1944.","Two programs: \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Football Banquet, 1962\" and \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Basketball Banquet, 1963\"","Two programs: \"West Virginia University Ninety-Seventh Commencement, 1966\" and \"Rededication of Woodburn Cirle and Order of Vandalia Ceremony, 1979\"","Titles include: \"The System of Awards of Phi Sigma Kappa,\" \"By These Things We Stand,\" and \"Pledge Manual of Phi Sigma Kappa\" inscribed by Vaugh Kiger.","Includes Student Directories for 1946-1947 and 1947-1948. Also Freshman Handbook from 1938-1939, with \"Guide 1938\" ribbon and newspaper clipping announcing wedding of Catherine Fortney to Sergt. James Sigwart.","Includes two copies of \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: Short Biographical Sketches\" (1938) by James R. Moreland an one copy of \"Morgantown Rotary: The First Fifty Years 1918-1968\" (1968) by Frederick Carspecken.","Program and menu for dinner featuring The Honorable Herbert Hoover (secretary of commerce), Senator Guy D. Goff, The Honorable Franck L. Bowman, The Honorable Howard M. Gore (governor of West Virginia), Mr. Kent Cooper, Mr. Edward McKernon, Mr. R.H. Pritchard, Mr. Thurman Miller, Professor Frank Butler Trotter (president West Virginia University), Senator D.M. Willis, Judge I.G. Lazelle, and Dr. William E. Brooks as guests of honor. Program included entertainment by Al Mabey's Old Gold and Blue Orchestra.","\"Wheeling Rediscovered: A Bicentennial Project of Ohio County's Public, Private and Parochial Schools\"","Includes program from Order of Elks Memorial Service for Absent Brothers at Morgantown Lodge No. 411, on December 7, 1941. Also includes \"Bonds of Friendship, Love \u0026 Truth: Letters form Sallie Little Holmes to Anna Kennedy Davis, 1857-879\" published in 1987 with Christmas card that explains the family significance of the book to the recipient (unidentified). The letters were originally written by Sallie Little Holmes, a missionary to China in the mid-nineteenth century.","Includes correspondence, reciepts from Blosser's Boat Dock, hotel license for George Robison, and documents relating to a West Virginia Power and Transmission Company dam on the Cheat River and a contract for the moving of the Robison house. Also includes publication on Camp Rhododendron at Cooper's Rock State Forest by the Monongalia Historical Society, among other items.","Two identical cardboard signs that read \"Exchange Club Minstrel Tickets on sale here\"","Most includes postcards bearing early WVU buildings, but also contains one postcard of a crowd at a football game, one of the 1906 Mandolin Club and the 1906 Glee Club, and one with a group photo of the Delta Tau Delta brothers, undated. Many are black but some contain writing.","Subjects of the postcards include WVU buildings, aerial views of the campus, and images of the football stadium, among others. Some contain writing, others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings and includes a \"Souvenir Folder of Morgantown, W. Va.\" containing colored images of Morgantown scenes published by Stenger's News Stand. Some of the postcards contain writing and others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Several depict the Women's Hall and Woodburn Circle. Some contain writing while others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Also includes three photograph postcards, one with a group picture of \"The Mountain, Spring of 1919 Initiates,\" one with a group picture of a literature class of 1909, and one that appears to be a photo of an early marching band on the footbll field.","Images on the postcards include downtown Morgantown buildins and street scenes, aerial views of the city, scenes along the Cheat River, and a group picture of Star City glass workers. Some contain writing while others are blank.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Hotel Madera, the R.R. Passenger and Freight Station, the Sinclair Service Station, and the Morgantown Country Club House, among others.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Mississippi Glass Factory, Richard's Restaurant, Weil's storefront, and the Hotel Morgan among others. One postcard from 1925, featuring an image labeled \"Business section and bridge across Monongahela River,\" remarks on the steepness of Morgantown hills.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including Mont Chateau, Morgantown High School, an Oak Park Roller Coaster, and the Morgantown Suspension Bridge, among others.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Cooper's Rock overlook, the Vincent Pallotti Hospital, and the Morgantown Post Office, among others.","Five postcards include images of The People's Temple, Fairmont, W. Va.; the Clarksburg Courthouse; the two versions of the old State Capitol in Charleston; and one depicting the new Charleston State Capitol.","Prints of old photographs include many city scenes from Morgantown and WVU buildings. Also includes several images of parades and aerial views of the city.","Prints of old postcards include images of WVU buildings, M\u0026K trains and station, Oak Grove Cemetery, and a scene titled \"Bathing in Cheat River,\" among other subjects.","Includes photograph of the staff of the Morgantown Printing and Binding Company (ca. 1900), portrait of Forest P. Coombs in cadet uniform (ca. 1900), print of Soldiers and Sailors Monument (undated), photo of West Penn Beach (1958), portrait of unidentified man (ca. 1920), photo of four men on the front of a postcard labeled \"Pleasant St. Morgantown.\"","Published by the Monongalia Historical Society, edited by Earl L. Core and Mildred S. Clark.  Three copies, two with inscriptions.  One contains inscriptions on the inside front cover, including the signatures of Mrs. Rudolph S. Stoyer, Lloyd Felden, Vaughn L. Kiger, Ernest J. Nesius, Earl L. Core, Ray Swick, Bradford Laidley, and Virginia M. Gaston.","Includes two issues of the Monticola yearbook of WVU (1913 and 1927); a 1915-1916 issue of WVU Student Handbook; autograph book of Morgantown resident Gertie Hayes (ca. 1879-1883); and the 1892 diary of F.E. Delbridge, likely a telegraph operator in Shinnston.","Includes a WVU annual catalog from 1885-1886,  West Virginia University and its Picturesque Surroundings ,  WVU - an early portrait , and a WVU Foundation report for the fiscal year ending in 1981.","Includes a Congressional pictorial directory (1983) and a  Democrats in Convention 1972  book."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTwo volumes of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, one from 1927 and one from 1927 with corrections to the 1950s, have been separated to A\u0026amp;M 1307.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhi Sigma Kappa materials separated to A\u0026amp;M 3917 as addendum of 2014/06/17.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA book on Revolutionary Pensions of Monongalia County was separated to the book collection at the History Center. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe following were separated to the printed ephemera collection:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Women's Edition of the New Dominion, Morgantown, W. Va.\", 1896\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWest Virginia University Football Schedule, 1934\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFoot Ball Program, Morgantown High vs. Masontown High, 1934\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncement for Town Meeting with Senator Jay Rockefeller, Morgantown, W. Va., undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Tales From the Tower: If Woodburn Hall Could Speak\" by Barbara Howe, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"When Tidewater Invaded the Valley\" by Lucy Johnston Ambler, 1934 (regarding John Brown)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"The Story of Kenmore\" by Vivian Fleming, 1924 (regarding George Washington and a Fredericksburg plantation)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Wakefield, Birthplace of George Washington\" by Charles Moore, 1932\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"The Washington Manor House\" by Ethel Armes, 1922 (home of George Washington's ancestors)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe following were separated to the main book collection:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eByrd, Robert C. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Senate, 1789-1989: Vol. 3, Classic Speeches, 1830-1993\u003c/title\u003e. Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1994.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eByrd, Robert C. and Wendy Wolff. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Senate, 1789-1989: Vol. 4, Historical Statistics, 1789-1992\u003c/title\u003e. Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1993.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eButcher, Bernard L., and James M. Callahan. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eGenealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Under the Editorial Supervision of Bernard L. Butcher: With an Account of the Resources and Industries of the Upper Monongahela Valley and the Tributary Region\u003c/title\u003e. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOne copy of the WVU student handbook, 1915.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Two volumes of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, one from 1927 and one from 1927 with corrections to the 1950s, have been separated to A\u0026M 1307.","Phi Sigma Kappa materials separated to A\u0026M 3917 as addendum of 2014/06/17.","A book on Revolutionary Pensions of Monongalia County was separated to the book collection at the History Center. ","The following were separated to the printed ephemera collection:","\"Women's Edition of the New Dominion, Morgantown, W. Va.\", 1896","West Virginia University Football Schedule, 1934","Foot Ball Program, Morgantown High vs. Masontown High, 1934","Announcement for Town Meeting with Senator Jay Rockefeller, Morgantown, W. Va., undated","\"Tales From the Tower: If Woodburn Hall Could Speak\" by Barbara Howe, 1997.","\"When Tidewater Invaded the Valley\" by Lucy Johnston Ambler, 1934 (regarding John Brown)","\"The Story of Kenmore\" by Vivian Fleming, 1924 (regarding George Washington and a Fredericksburg plantation)","\"Wakefield, Birthplace of George Washington\" by Charles Moore, 1932","\"The Washington Manor House\" by Ethel Armes, 1922 (home of George Washington's ancestors)","The following were separated to the main book collection:","Byrd, Robert C.  The Senate, 1789-1989: Vol. 3, Classic Speeches, 1830-1993 . Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1994.","Byrd, Robert C. and Wendy Wolff.  The Senate, 1789-1989: Vol. 4, Historical Statistics, 1789-1992 . Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1993.","Butcher, Bernard L., and James M. Callahan.  Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Under the Editorial Supervision of Bernard L. Butcher: With an Account of the Resources and Industries of the Upper Monongahela Valley and the Tributary Region . New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912.","One copy of the WVU student handbook, 1915."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_08276c4957793d665b33dc791c14ce5f\"\u003eHistorical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others. See Historical Note for more information on Vaughn L. Kiger.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others. See Historical Note for more information on Vaughn L. Kiger."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_d81499d27dc9e8f3170a674f2b31b32b\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["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: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["Morgantown High School  (Morgantown, W. Va.)","West Virginia Mountaineers (Football team)","West Virginia University","Geiger family","Lemley family","Lee family","Robinson family","Robinson family","Kiger, Vaughn L.","Lemley, Samuel Newton"],"names_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","Morgantown High School  (Morgantown, W. Va.)","West Virginia Mountaineers (Football team)","West Virginia University","Geiger family","Lemley family","Lee family","Robinson family","Kiger, Vaughn L.","Lemley, Samuel Newton"],"corpname_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","Morgantown High School  (Morgantown, W. 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Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown"],"unitdate_ssm":["1784-circa 2010s","circa 1880s-2010"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["circa 1880s-2010"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1784-circa 2010s"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["A\u0026M 3950","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/5377"],"text":["A\u0026M 3950","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/5377","Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown","Cheat Lake (W. Va.)","Monongalia County (W. Va.)","Morgantown (W. Va.)","Real property","Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc. ","Vaughn L. Kiger  is a realtor from Morgantown, West Virginia. He and his wife, Meredith, both attended West Virginia University. He graduated from the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences in 1966, where he also joined the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He later attended the University of Virginia and completed the Graduate REALTORS Institute program. He joined the firm Dorsey \u0026 Kiger Realtors (then J. Dorsey Real Estate) in 1967, and became its president in 1979. He is also past president of the Morgantown Branch of Old Colony REALTORS. He has served in various leadership positions in the field of real estate, including president of the Morgantown Board of REALTORS, chairman of the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, and president of the West Virginia Association of REALTORS. He also has ties in the banking industry.","Kiger has also served his alma mater in various capacities. He served six years on the WVU Alumni Council (now WVU Alumni Board of Directors), serving one year as president; six years on the WVU Board of Advisors, serving one year as chairman; five years on the WVU Board of Governors, serving one year as chairman; and has served as a committee member of the WVU Alumni Association's Loyalty Permanent Endowment Fund Trust.","Kiger has received numerous awards, including REALTOR of the Year (1987), Phi Sigma Kappa Outstanding Alumnus (1991), Distinguished West Virginian (1984 and 1994), WVU Alumni Association's Outstanding Alumnus (2002), and Order of Vandalia (2006)--WVU's highest award for outstanding service.","Vaughn L. Kiger is first cousins once removed with Samuel N. Lemley. Icie Lemley (nee Kiger) was Vaughn's great aunt and a sister of Vaughn's grandfather, Arvel Kiger Sr. Arvel and Icie's parents were Isaac N. Kiger and Elizabeth J. John.","Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others.","Series include: \nSeries 1. Correspondence; 1784, 1850-1890s, ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated; boxes 1-3B. \nSeries 2. Lemley Family Material; 1861, ca. 1928-1970s, undated; boxes 4-9. \nSeries 3. Photographs; 1870s-1960s, 1998-2002, undated; boxes 10-14. \nSeries 4. Ley Family Material; 1856-1956, undated; box 15. \nSeries 5. Subjects; 2003-2004, undated; box 16. \nSeries 6. Printed Material; 1867, 1902-2005, undated; boxes 17-20. \nSeries 7. Ephemera; 1854-1959, undated; boxes 21-22. \nSeries 8. Artifacts; ca. 1914-1920, ca. 2006, undated; boxes 23-24. \nSeries 9. Scrapbooks; ca. 1880s-1988; boxes 25-27. \nSeries 10. Oversize; 1785-1829, 1871-2010s, undated (bulk 1880-1940); boxes 28-64, items 1-26, and map cabinet folders. \nSeries 11. Addendum of 2014/07/28; 1798-1853, 1896, undated; box 64 folders 1-2. \nSeries 12. Addendum of 2016/08/16; ca. 1838-2012; boxes 65-77, and two unboxed items. \nSeries 13. Addendum of 2017/07/19; 1859-1992, undated; boxes 77-87. \nSeries 14. Addendum of 2017/11/09; 1878-1990, undated; boxes 88-100. \nSeries 15. Addendum of 2017/12/12; 1903-1992, undated; boxes 101-102, and one unboxed item (fraternity cane). \nSeries 16. Addendum of 2018/07/02; 1903-2002; boxes 103-104. \nSeries 17. Addendum of 2018/07/09; 1879-1927; box 105. \nSeries 18. Addendum of 2018/09/13, 1886, 1971-1983, undated; box 105-106.","This series includes material pertaining to the history of Morgantown (box 1, folders 1-5 and 10 and box 2, folders 1-2; 1784, 1850-1890s, undated) as well as material pertaining to the life and work of Vaughn L. Kiger (box 1, folders 6-9 and box 2, folder 3 - box 3B; ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated)."," Subjects of the Morgantown history material include the lives of individuals and West Virginia University (WVU) history. The Morgantown history material includes a 1784 Monongalia County survey with plat; there are also a manuscript journal and diary, manuscript court document, ledger, letter, stationery, survey, and financial document."," The Kiger material includes letters, printed material, clippings, photographs, and other materials. Subjects of the Kiger material include Kiger's real estate career, the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, historic preservation, and political campaigns.","This series contains material pertaining to the Lemley family of Monongalia County, West Virginia, including correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, a bible, and various artifacts."," Correspondence includes letters, greeting cards, postcards, and other material, much of it addressed to Samuel Newton Lemley (1917-1981) and his mother, Ica (also called Icie or Icy) Myrtle Lemley (nee Kiger; 1885-1970). Icie Lemley's correspondence includes 19 letters from her nephew Michael Dimmick, a U.S. Army soldier serving in the Vietnam War. Dimmick's letters are dated April 1968 through January 1970, with topics including descriptions of some of the fighting, Dimmick's non-combat work (e.g., road building), politics, and home life. He was stationed near Qui Nhon, Vietnam in the 84th Engineer Battalion (Construction) for at least part of his service."," Photographs include photos taken after the end of World War II in occupied Japan, family photos, portraits, negatives, and framed photos."," Printed material includes programs and other items from Samuel Lemley's youth and his activities in the Hi-Y Club (the high school YMCA club, of which Samuel was president), Morgantown High School and University High School, and WVU. Also included are the family's World War II ration books."," The bible was given by Icie to her husband, mechanic William Lawrence Lemley (1882-1962). It includes genealogical information."," See also Series 10. Oversize--Miscellaneous for a framed lithograph marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger, as well as elementary and high school diplomas of Samuel Newton Lemley.","This series includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, prints, framed prints, cyanotypes, negatives, photo postcards, stereo cards, scrapbook pages, printed material, and other material documenting the history of the Morgantown area. Photos are generally sorted by type, then by subject."," Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1890, undated) include mostly unidentified portraits from Morgantown photography studios, as well as identified photos of WVU football players."," Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1900-1930, undated) include group portraits, Morgantown shops and buildings, Monongahela River views, James Pietro's construction company, Cheat Lake views, WVU football players, and other subjects. Group portraits include World War I draftees from Morgantown."," Subjects of the prints (ca. 1910s-1950s, 1999, undated) include scenery of the Cheat Lake area and Monongahela River; buildings and streets, especially in Morgantown; group portraits; WVU locations and life, such as Mountaineer Field and students on campus; WVU football players (1920s-1940s, undated); and other subjects. Group portraits include the Morgantown baseball league (1930s), Junior Order United American Mechanics Band, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Band (both undated)."," Subjects of the framed prints (ca. 1887-1930, 2001 or 2002, undated) include WVU buildings, such as the Agricultural Experiment Station; various houses in Morgantown; group portraits of Morgantown Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Members (1918) and WVU football players (1891); WVU Board of Governors (2001 or 2002); and other subjects."," Subjects of photo postcards (ca. 1900s-1920s, undated) include individual portraits, group portraits, special events, Morgantown bridges and buildings, WVU buildings, WVU-affiliated groups, and other subjects."," Additional photographs can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Photographs.","This series includes correspondence, financial material, photographs, printed material, ephemera, and other materials pertaining to the Ley family and descendants. Christian S. Ley (ca. 1825-1899) and his son William C. Ley (ca. 1865-1941) owned a boarding house or campground on the Cheat River at Laurel Iron Works/Uneva in the 1880s-1890s. In 1891, Christian Ley's daughter, Lillie C. Ley (ca. 1861-1942), married George W. Robison/Robinson (ca. 1855-1923). In 1895, the couple built Mont Chateau Hotel on the Cheat River at Uneva, and also resided at or near Cheat Haven, PA. They had a daughter, Mrs. Hugh M. Blosser (nee Eleanor Mary Robison, born ca. 1896). More on the history of Lillie and the hotel can be found in box 15, folder 1. Additional material can be found in A\u0026M 3328, the Ley, Robison, and Blosser Family Papers."," The Ley correspondence includes mostly requests for accommodations. The Robison/Robinson correspondence includes requests for accommodation (the location is called Robinson House, Robinson Hotel, and Mont Chateau) and financial matters. Blosser papers include photographs, printed material, and correspondence regarding Blosser Boat Docks and Mont Chateau."," The album material in box 15, folder 19 includes material related to the Cheat River and George Robison/Robinson, as well as local history.","This series includes a drawing, photo, and photocopies of book pages pertaining to Woodburn Seminary, as well as printed materials, correspondence, and a photo related to the Mountain Honorary.","This series includes books, pamphlets, ephemera, and correspondence. Highlights include material from Morgantown schools, including Morgantown High School yearbooks and event programs; pamphlets and booklets about Morgantown and programs of local events; and WVU material, including the West Virginia Agricultural College Inaugural Address of Reverend Dr. Alexander Martin (1867), three issues of  The Athenaeum  (1902), and a WVU football program (1922).","This series includes ephemera related to Monongalia County businesses and organizations. Creators include insurance companies, Morgantown Country Club, and stores on Morgantown's High Street. Types of ephemera include booklets, business cards, calendars, event tickets, membership cards, advertisements, and other materials. Also included are ephemera from WVU, such as a dance card, football schedules, and student activity books. For more ephemera, see also Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This series includes holiday ornaments, a product display box, pay roll cards, advertisements, and campaign items. The ornaments depict various WVU and Morgantown buildings and the WV state flag. The advertisements include pocket mirrors from O.B. Fawley Music Company and a paper puzzle from O.J. Morrison Company.","This series contains four scrapbooks, which include photographs, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, and other material. The scrapbooks were created by Virginia Esther Cole (Morgantown High School student), Eleanor Bolyard, Eva Coffman, and Colonel Thomas M. Davies (WVU student). Subjects include Morgantown High School (MHS) in the early 1920s, MHS graduates' military service and marriages in the 1940s (class of 1942), WVU, Cheat Lake, Cooper's Rock, and more.","This series includes oversize material in various formats regarding the history of the Morgantown area. The series contains 6 subseries:"," Oversize--Photographs; ca. 1880s - 2010s, undated (bulk 1900-1930, undated); box 28 - box 50 folder 4, box 51, two items in map cabinet, and items 1-23.  \n Oversize--Artwork \u0026 Picture Prints; 1871, 1900 - ca. 1929, 1965-1998, undated; box 50 folders 5-11, box 52-56, and items 24-25.  \n Oversize--Architectural Drawings \u0026 Maps; 1915-1924, 1972 - ca. 2007, undated; box 57 and items in map cabinet.  \n Oversize--Historical Manuscripts; 1785-1829; box 58 unfoldered item and box 59 folder 1.  \n Oversize--Printed Material; 1892-1921, 1976-2005, undated; box 59 folder 2 - box 60 folder 2.  \n Oversize--Miscellaneous; 1891-1948, 1975-1996, undated; box 58 folder 1, box 60 folder 3 - box 64, and item 26.","This subseries is sorted into categories: cabinet cards, framed photographs, mounted photographs, print photographs, and framed and unframed panoramic photographs."," Framed photographs are in boxes 29 through 47. (Note that framed panoramic photos are in a separate subseries). These include:  \n group portraits of Morgantown High School sports teams and graduating classes (1907-1911);  \n the Wesley United Methodist Church Board of Trustees (1904);  \n the Morgantown, WV Lions Club (1934, undated);  \n WVU groups, including the ROTC Band (undated), football team (1939, 1975), and basketball team (ca. 1946-1947);  \n composite photographs of WV judges, real estate commissioners, and lawyers who served in the military during World War I;  \n portraits of George C. Baker and Charles George Baker (Monongalia County Judge from 1928-1936 and 1944-1952; son of George C. Baker);  \n Deering Day parade (undated); and  \n buildings of Morgantown (ca. 1909-1910, undated)."," Mounted photographs are in boxes 47 through 49, with two additional items in map cabinets. Most of the mounted photos are group or individual portraits. Subjects include:  \n the Brewer family (1927, undated);  \n WVU athletic teams, with a focus on football (1891-1928, undated);  \n portraits of Frank M. and Gaylord Hess Dent, proprietors of McVicker's Drug Store (undated);  \n exhibit photos of outdoor scenes filed with the deposition of A.L. Woodfill in Monongalia County (undated);  \n outdoor photos of the Cheat Lake area (1922?, undated); and  \n additional group portraits related to WVU (1904-1919, undated), among other subjects."," Print photographs are in box 50. These include photos of Lake Lynn and dam (undated), aerial views of Morgantown (ca. 1950s?), a color photo of WVU's Old Mountaineer Field football stadium (pre-1979), and composite photos of West Virginia Real Estate Commissioners (ca. 1982)."," Panoramic (or Cirkut) photographs are in box 51, with an additional 23 framed photos that are unboxed. Subjects include WVU groups and buildings, groups of enlisted men or soldiers in the World War I era, church groups, scenic photos of Morgantown, and other subjects.","This subseries includes original artworks and prints of artwork. Types of artwork include watercolors, other types of painting, sketches, lithographs, and more. Subjects include WVU campus buildings, buildings in Morgantown, Waitman T. Willey and his wife Elizabeth Evans Willey (nee Ray), Thomas J. \"Stonewall\" Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. Photocopies of John Leech illustrations from an unknown book can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Printed Material. Additional lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This subseries includes architectural drawings, plats, and maps. Subjects include various buildings and developments in Morgantown, as well as a plat of the Mont Chateau area, and a district map of Monongalia County.","This subseries includes a framed land grant signed by Patrick Henry (1785), a survey (1785), and three indentures (1795-1829). Locations referenced in the materials include Monongalia, Yohogania, Ohio, and Harrison Counties in (West) Virginia, and Allegany County, Maryland. Named individuals include Lewis Criss, Richard Philan, John Shisler, Lamar Moore, and others.","This subseries includes photocopies of illustrations by John Leech, a 19th century English caricaturist, as well as original printed material. Original material includes various supplements to and special editions of the  New Dominion , the  Post-Chronicle , and the  Dominion Post ;  Dominion Post  articles pertaining to WVU; and a damaged issue of the Cincinnati spiritualist periodical  The Better Way . Picture prints and lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Artwork \u0026 Picture Prints and Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This subseries includes ephemera, certificates, broadsides, framed lithographs, and diplomas. Ephemera includes advertisements from Morgantown businesses and sample ballots. Broadsides include signs related to WVU sports, a theatrical production, political campaign signs for Jay Rockefeller and Gaston Caperton, and other subjects. The framed lithographs include two memorial lithographs for deceased members of the Kiger and John families, as well as a marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material). Diplomas include a Cornell University diploma for William Earle Rumsey, as well as elementary and high school diplomas for Samuel Newton Lemley (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material).","This addendum includes manuscript letters, invoices, and two mounted photographs. One invoice (1798-1800) concerns material purchased by postmaster and tavern operator Hugh McNeely from Michael Kern, who built Kern's Fort and was perhaps the first permanent settler of Morgantown. Five letters and one invoice (1823-1853, undated) concern John Rogers, a prominent Morgantown landowner and business leader in the early to mid-1800s. Both photos depict students of WVU.","This addendum includes manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts regarding primarily the history of West Virginia University and Morgantown, West Virginia. For example, there is a manuscript of a Morgantown tailor, Samuel Pickenpaugh (1838); there are also group portraits of WVU students (ca. 1890-1960), a Mountaineer Field button (ca. 1920s), and a wide array of WVU pennants (undated), among much other material. This series is minimally processed.","This addendum is minimally processed.","Box 77 includes a \"WVU 1966\" flag on a short stick, various other WVU artifacts such as pins, and a purple pennant that says \"West Virginia\" on it.","Boxes 78-81 include WVU publications (various issues of the Monticola from 1896 to 1965); other WVU printed material such as commencement programs, football programs, and a pamphlet titled \"Laws of West Virginia Agricultural College\" (1867); WVU ephemera; a WVU-related scrapbook (ca. 1929-1933); and an undated candy box with WVU on the label.","The last four folders of box 81 include photographs related to Vaughn Kiger, his work, and political campaigns (1970-1976).","Boxes 82-85 include books and pamphlets related to Morgantown, West Virginia in general, other cities, and local special interest groups. Also includes ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, audio recordings, and more. Additional topics include local schools, politics (including Jay Rockefeller), genealogy, local history, and more. One of the scrapbooks is from the Rogers family of Morgantown (ca. 1920s). The audio recordings are two identical records of Phi Sigma Kappa songs from 1910.  Additional highlights include Morgantown High School yearbooks, issues of the  Allerli , and items from the Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute.","Box 86 includes scrapbooks and an artifact.  The artifact is a decorative glass plate commemorating the Morgantown Bicentennial in 1985. The two scrapbooks are from Samuel Newton Lemley of Morgantown (ca. 1940-1946); Lemley served in WWII in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and was a cousin of Vaughn Kiger. They include mostly photographs with a few clippings and ephemera.","Box 87 includes books, clippings, a framed photograph of Vaughn Kiger and Judge Robert E. Maxwell, and artifacts, including a few from Morgantown High School (ca. 1903-1992).  Pamphlets include a U.S. Navy Flight Training Manual (1943) and a \"Historical Sketch of the University of Virginia\" by Thomas Abernethy (1948).","Includes: Spring Quarter Convocation, March 29, 1904; WVU Fourth Piano Recital by pupils of Miss Emily Jenks Bray, March 19, 1904; WVU Historical Pageant Official Program, June 8, 1925 (two copies); Postcard from the McCrew House; 125th Anniversary of Woodburn Hall Celebration Reception, February 23, 2001.","Two bulletins: \"Greater West Virginia Weekend,\" May 1953 and \"An Issue Containing Dedication Proceedings of the Mineral Industries Building,\" September 1944.","Two programs: \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Football Banquet, 1962\" and \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Basketball Banquet, 1963\"","Two programs: \"West Virginia University Ninety-Seventh Commencement, 1966\" and \"Rededication of Woodburn Cirle and Order of Vandalia Ceremony, 1979\"","Titles include: \"The System of Awards of Phi Sigma Kappa,\" \"By These Things We Stand,\" and \"Pledge Manual of Phi Sigma Kappa\" inscribed by Vaugh Kiger.","Includes Student Directories for 1946-1947 and 1947-1948. Also Freshman Handbook from 1938-1939, with \"Guide 1938\" ribbon and newspaper clipping announcing wedding of Catherine Fortney to Sergt. James Sigwart.","Includes two copies of \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: Short Biographical Sketches\" (1938) by James R. Moreland an one copy of \"Morgantown Rotary: The First Fifty Years 1918-1968\" (1968) by Frederick Carspecken.","Program and menu for dinner featuring The Honorable Herbert Hoover (secretary of commerce), Senator Guy D. Goff, The Honorable Franck L. Bowman, The Honorable Howard M. Gore (governor of West Virginia), Mr. Kent Cooper, Mr. Edward McKernon, Mr. R.H. Pritchard, Mr. Thurman Miller, Professor Frank Butler Trotter (president West Virginia University), Senator D.M. Willis, Judge I.G. Lazelle, and Dr. William E. Brooks as guests of honor. Program included entertainment by Al Mabey's Old Gold and Blue Orchestra.","\"Wheeling Rediscovered: A Bicentennial Project of Ohio County's Public, Private and Parochial Schools\"","Includes program from Order of Elks Memorial Service for Absent Brothers at Morgantown Lodge No. 411, on December 7, 1941. Also includes \"Bonds of Friendship, Love \u0026 Truth: Letters form Sallie Little Holmes to Anna Kennedy Davis, 1857-879\" published in 1987 with Christmas card that explains the family significance of the book to the recipient (unidentified). The letters were originally written by Sallie Little Holmes, a missionary to China in the mid-nineteenth century.","Includes correspondence, reciepts from Blosser's Boat Dock, hotel license for George Robison, and documents relating to a West Virginia Power and Transmission Company dam on the Cheat River and a contract for the moving of the Robison house. Also includes publication on Camp Rhododendron at Cooper's Rock State Forest by the Monongalia Historical Society, among other items.","Two identical cardboard signs that read \"Exchange Club Minstrel Tickets on sale here\"","Most includes postcards bearing early WVU buildings, but also contains one postcard of a crowd at a football game, one of the 1906 Mandolin Club and the 1906 Glee Club, and one with a group photo of the Delta Tau Delta brothers, undated. Many are black but some contain writing.","Subjects of the postcards include WVU buildings, aerial views of the campus, and images of the football stadium, among others. Some contain writing, others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings and includes a \"Souvenir Folder of Morgantown, W. Va.\" containing colored images of Morgantown scenes published by Stenger's News Stand. Some of the postcards contain writing and others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Several depict the Women's Hall and Woodburn Circle. Some contain writing while others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Also includes three photograph postcards, one with a group picture of \"The Mountain, Spring of 1919 Initiates,\" one with a group picture of a literature class of 1909, and one that appears to be a photo of an early marching band on the footbll field.","Images on the postcards include downtown Morgantown buildins and street scenes, aerial views of the city, scenes along the Cheat River, and a group picture of Star City glass workers. Some contain writing while others are blank.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Hotel Madera, the R.R. Passenger and Freight Station, the Sinclair Service Station, and the Morgantown Country Club House, among others.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Mississippi Glass Factory, Richard's Restaurant, Weil's storefront, and the Hotel Morgan among others. One postcard from 1925, featuring an image labeled \"Business section and bridge across Monongahela River,\" remarks on the steepness of Morgantown hills.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including Mont Chateau, Morgantown High School, an Oak Park Roller Coaster, and the Morgantown Suspension Bridge, among others.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Cooper's Rock overlook, the Vincent Pallotti Hospital, and the Morgantown Post Office, among others.","Five postcards include images of The People's Temple, Fairmont, W. Va.; the Clarksburg Courthouse; the two versions of the old State Capitol in Charleston; and one depicting the new Charleston State Capitol.","Prints of old photographs include many city scenes from Morgantown and WVU buildings. Also includes several images of parades and aerial views of the city.","Prints of old postcards include images of WVU buildings, M\u0026K trains and station, Oak Grove Cemetery, and a scene titled \"Bathing in Cheat River,\" among other subjects.","Includes photograph of the staff of the Morgantown Printing and Binding Company (ca. 1900), portrait of Forest P. Coombs in cadet uniform (ca. 1900), print of Soldiers and Sailors Monument (undated), photo of West Penn Beach (1958), portrait of unidentified man (ca. 1920), photo of four men on the front of a postcard labeled \"Pleasant St. Morgantown.\"","Published by the Monongalia Historical Society, edited by Earl L. Core and Mildred S. Clark.  Three copies, two with inscriptions.  One contains inscriptions on the inside front cover, including the signatures of Mrs. Rudolph S. Stoyer, Lloyd Felden, Vaughn L. Kiger, Ernest J. Nesius, Earl L. Core, Ray Swick, Bradford Laidley, and Virginia M. Gaston.","Includes two issues of the Monticola yearbook of WVU (1913 and 1927); a 1915-1916 issue of WVU Student Handbook; autograph book of Morgantown resident Gertie Hayes (ca. 1879-1883); and the 1892 diary of F.E. Delbridge, likely a telegraph operator in Shinnston.","Includes a WVU annual catalog from 1885-1886,  West Virginia University and its Picturesque Surroundings ,  WVU - an early portrait , and a WVU Foundation report for the fiscal year ending in 1981.","Includes a Congressional pictorial directory (1983) and a  Democrats in Convention 1972  book.","Two volumes of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, one from 1927 and one from 1927 with corrections to the 1950s, have been separated to A\u0026M 1307.","Phi Sigma Kappa materials separated to A\u0026M 3917 as addendum of 2014/06/17.","A book on Revolutionary Pensions of Monongalia County was separated to the book collection at the History Center. ","The following were separated to the printed ephemera collection:","\"Women's Edition of the New Dominion, Morgantown, W. Va.\", 1896","West Virginia University Football Schedule, 1934","Foot Ball Program, Morgantown High vs. Masontown High, 1934","Announcement for Town Meeting with Senator Jay Rockefeller, Morgantown, W. Va., undated","\"Tales From the Tower: If Woodburn Hall Could Speak\" by Barbara Howe, 1997.","\"When Tidewater Invaded the Valley\" by Lucy Johnston Ambler, 1934 (regarding John Brown)","\"The Story of Kenmore\" by Vivian Fleming, 1924 (regarding George Washington and a Fredericksburg plantation)","\"Wakefield, Birthplace of George Washington\" by Charles Moore, 1932","\"The Washington Manor House\" by Ethel Armes, 1922 (home of George Washington's ancestors)","The following were separated to the main book collection:","Byrd, Robert C.  The Senate, 1789-1989: Vol. 3, Classic Speeches, 1830-1993 . Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1994.","Byrd, Robert C. and Wendy Wolff.  The Senate, 1789-1989: Vol. 4, Historical Statistics, 1789-1992 . Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1993.","Butcher, Bernard L., and James M. Callahan.  Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Under the Editorial Supervision of Bernard L. Butcher: With an Account of the Resources and Industries of the Upper Monongahela Valley and the Tributary Region . New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912.","One copy of the WVU student handbook, 1915.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others. See Historical Note for more information on Vaughn L. Kiger.","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: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","Morgantown High School  (Morgantown, W. Va.)","West Virginia Mountaineers (Football team)","West Virginia University","Geiger family","Lemley family","Lee family","Robinson family","Kiger, Vaughn L.","Lemley, Samuel Newton","English \n.    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"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVaughn L. Kiger\u003c/emph\u003e is a realtor from Morgantown, West Virginia. He and his wife, Meredith, both attended West Virginia University. He graduated from the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences in 1966, where he also joined the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He later attended the University of Virginia and completed the Graduate REALTORS Institute program. He joined the firm Dorsey \u0026amp; Kiger Realtors (then J. Dorsey Real Estate) in 1967, and became its president in 1979. He is also past president of the Morgantown Branch of Old Colony REALTORS. He has served in various leadership positions in the field of real estate, including president of the Morgantown Board of REALTORS, chairman of the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, and president of the West Virginia Association of REALTORS. He also has ties in the banking industry.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eKiger has also served his alma mater in various capacities. He served six years on the WVU Alumni Council (now WVU Alumni Board of Directors), serving one year as president; six years on the WVU Board of Advisors, serving one year as chairman; five years on the WVU Board of Governors, serving one year as chairman; and has served as a committee member of the WVU Alumni Association's Loyalty Permanent Endowment Fund Trust.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eKiger has received numerous awards, including REALTOR of the Year (1987), Phi Sigma Kappa Outstanding Alumnus (1991), Distinguished West Virginian (1984 and 1994), WVU Alumni Association's Outstanding Alumnus (2002), and Order of Vandalia (2006)--WVU's highest award for outstanding service.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVaughn L. Kiger is first cousins once removed with Samuel N. Lemley. Icie Lemley (nee Kiger) was Vaughn's great aunt and a sister of Vaughn's grandfather, Arvel Kiger Sr. Arvel and Icie's parents were Isaac N. Kiger and Elizabeth J. John.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Vaughn L. Kiger  is a realtor from Morgantown, West Virginia. He and his wife, Meredith, both attended West Virginia University. He graduated from the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences in 1966, where he also joined the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He later attended the University of Virginia and completed the Graduate REALTORS Institute program. He joined the firm Dorsey \u0026 Kiger Realtors (then J. Dorsey Real Estate) in 1967, and became its president in 1979. He is also past president of the Morgantown Branch of Old Colony REALTORS. He has served in various leadership positions in the field of real estate, including president of the Morgantown Board of REALTORS, chairman of the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, and president of the West Virginia Association of REALTORS. He also has ties in the banking industry.","Kiger has also served his alma mater in various capacities. He served six years on the WVU Alumni Council (now WVU Alumni Board of Directors), serving one year as president; six years on the WVU Board of Advisors, serving one year as chairman; five years on the WVU Board of Governors, serving one year as chairman; and has served as a committee member of the WVU Alumni Association's Loyalty Permanent Endowment Fund Trust.","Kiger has received numerous awards, including REALTOR of the Year (1987), Phi Sigma Kappa Outstanding Alumnus (1991), Distinguished West Virginian (1984 and 1994), WVU Alumni Association's Outstanding Alumnus (2002), and Order of Vandalia (2006)--WVU's highest award for outstanding service.","Vaughn L. Kiger is first cousins once removed with Samuel N. Lemley. Icie Lemley (nee Kiger) was Vaughn's great aunt and a sister of Vaughn's grandfather, Arvel Kiger Sr. Arvel and Icie's parents were Isaac N. Kiger and Elizabeth J. John."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown, A\u0026amp;M 3950, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Vaughn L. Kiger, Collector, Historical Photographs and Records regarding Morgantown, A\u0026M 3950, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHistorical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1. Correspondence; 1784, 1850-1890s, ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated; boxes 1-3B.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Lemley Family Material; 1861, ca. 1928-1970s, undated; boxes 4-9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Photographs; 1870s-1960s, 1998-2002, undated; boxes 10-14.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Ley Family Material; 1856-1956, undated; box 15.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Subjects; 2003-2004, undated; box 16.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Printed Material; 1867, 1902-2005, undated; boxes 17-20.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Ephemera; 1854-1959, undated; boxes 21-22.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Artifacts; ca. 1914-1920, ca. 2006, undated; boxes 23-24.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Scrapbooks; ca. 1880s-1988; boxes 25-27.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Oversize; 1785-1829, 1871-2010s, undated (bulk 1880-1940); boxes 28-64, items 1-26, and map cabinet folders.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Addendum of 2014/07/28; 1798-1853, 1896, undated; box 64 folders 1-2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Addendum of 2016/08/16; ca. 1838-2012; boxes 65-77, and two unboxed items.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 13. Addendum of 2017/07/19; 1859-1992, undated; boxes 77-87.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 14. Addendum of 2017/11/09; 1878-1990, undated; boxes 88-100.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 15. Addendum of 2017/12/12; 1903-1992, undated; boxes 101-102, and one unboxed item (fraternity cane).\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 16. Addendum of 2018/07/02; 1903-2002; boxes 103-104.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 17. Addendum of 2018/07/09; 1879-1927; box 105.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 18. Addendum of 2018/09/13, 1886, 1971-1983, undated; box 105-106.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material pertaining to the history of Morgantown (box 1, folders 1-5 and 10 and box 2, folders 1-2; 1784, 1850-1890s, undated) as well as material pertaining to the life and work of Vaughn L. Kiger (box 1, folders 6-9 and box 2, folder 3 - box 3B; ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Subjects of the Morgantown history material include the lives of individuals and West Virginia University (WVU) history. The Morgantown history material includes a 1784 Monongalia County survey with plat; there are also a manuscript journal and diary, manuscript court document, ledger, letter, stationery, survey, and financial document.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The Kiger material includes letters, printed material, clippings, photographs, and other materials. Subjects of the Kiger material include Kiger's real estate career, the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, historic preservation, and political campaigns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains material pertaining to the Lemley family of Monongalia County, West Virginia, including correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, a bible, and various artifacts.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Correspondence includes letters, greeting cards, postcards, and other material, much of it addressed to Samuel Newton Lemley (1917-1981) and his mother, Ica (also called Icie or Icy) Myrtle Lemley (nee Kiger; 1885-1970). Icie Lemley's correspondence includes 19 letters from her nephew Michael Dimmick, a U.S. Army soldier serving in the Vietnam War. Dimmick's letters are dated April 1968 through January 1970, with topics including descriptions of some of the fighting, Dimmick's non-combat work (e.g., road building), politics, and home life. He was stationed near Qui Nhon, Vietnam in the 84th Engineer Battalion (Construction) for at least part of his service.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Photographs include photos taken after the end of World War II in occupied Japan, family photos, portraits, negatives, and framed photos.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Printed material includes programs and other items from Samuel Lemley's youth and his activities in the Hi-Y Club (the high school YMCA club, of which Samuel was president), Morgantown High School and University High School, and WVU. Also included are the family's World War II ration books.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The bible was given by Icie to her husband, mechanic William Lawrence Lemley (1882-1962). It includes genealogical information.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e See also Series 10. Oversize--Miscellaneous for a framed lithograph marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger, as well as elementary and high school diplomas of Samuel Newton Lemley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, prints, framed prints, cyanotypes, negatives, photo postcards, stereo cards, scrapbook pages, printed material, and other material documenting the history of the Morgantown area. Photos are generally sorted by type, then by subject.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1890, undated) include mostly unidentified portraits from Morgantown photography studios, as well as identified photos of WVU football players.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1900-1930, undated) include group portraits, Morgantown shops and buildings, Monongahela River views, James Pietro's construction company, Cheat Lake views, WVU football players, and other subjects. Group portraits include World War I draftees from Morgantown.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Subjects of the prints (ca. 1910s-1950s, 1999, undated) include scenery of the Cheat Lake area and Monongahela River; buildings and streets, especially in Morgantown; group portraits; WVU locations and life, such as Mountaineer Field and students on campus; WVU football players (1920s-1940s, undated); and other subjects. Group portraits include the Morgantown baseball league (1930s), Junior Order United American Mechanics Band, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Band (both undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Subjects of the framed prints (ca. 1887-1930, 2001 or 2002, undated) include WVU buildings, such as the Agricultural Experiment Station; various houses in Morgantown; group portraits of Morgantown Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Members (1918) and WVU football players (1891); WVU Board of Governors (2001 or 2002); and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Subjects of photo postcards (ca. 1900s-1920s, undated) include individual portraits, group portraits, special events, Morgantown bridges and buildings, WVU buildings, WVU-affiliated groups, and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Additional photographs can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, financial material, photographs, printed material, ephemera, and other materials pertaining to the Ley family and descendants. Christian S. Ley (ca. 1825-1899) and his son William C. Ley (ca. 1865-1941) owned a boarding house or campground on the Cheat River at Laurel Iron Works/Uneva in the 1880s-1890s. In 1891, Christian Ley's daughter, Lillie C. Ley (ca. 1861-1942), married George W. Robison/Robinson (ca. 1855-1923). In 1895, the couple built Mont Chateau Hotel on the Cheat River at Uneva, and also resided at or near Cheat Haven, PA. They had a daughter, Mrs. Hugh M. Blosser (nee Eleanor Mary Robison, born ca. 1896). More on the history of Lillie and the hotel can be found in box 15, folder 1. Additional material can be found in A\u0026amp;M 3328, the Ley, Robison, and Blosser Family Papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The Ley correspondence includes mostly requests for accommodations. The Robison/Robinson correspondence includes requests for accommodation (the location is called Robinson House, Robinson Hotel, and Mont Chateau) and financial matters. Blosser papers include photographs, printed material, and correspondence regarding Blosser Boat Docks and Mont Chateau.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The album material in box 15, folder 19 includes material related to the Cheat River and George Robison/Robinson, as well as local history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a drawing, photo, and photocopies of book pages pertaining to Woodburn Seminary, as well as printed materials, correspondence, and a photo related to the Mountain Honorary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes books, pamphlets, ephemera, and correspondence. Highlights include material from Morgantown schools, including Morgantown High School yearbooks and event programs; pamphlets and booklets about Morgantown and programs of local events; and WVU material, including the West Virginia Agricultural College Inaugural Address of Reverend Dr. Alexander Martin (1867), three issues of \u003cemph\u003eThe Athenaeum\u003c/emph\u003e (1902), and a WVU football program (1922).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes ephemera related to Monongalia County businesses and organizations. Creators include insurance companies, Morgantown Country Club, and stores on Morgantown's High Street. Types of ephemera include booklets, business cards, calendars, event tickets, membership cards, advertisements, and other materials. Also included are ephemera from WVU, such as a dance card, football schedules, and student activity books. For more ephemera, see also Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes holiday ornaments, a product display box, pay roll cards, advertisements, and campaign items. The ornaments depict various WVU and Morgantown buildings and the WV state flag. The advertisements include pocket mirrors from O.B. Fawley Music Company and a paper puzzle from O.J. Morrison Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains four scrapbooks, which include photographs, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, and other material. The scrapbooks were created by Virginia Esther Cole (Morgantown High School student), Eleanor Bolyard, Eva Coffman, and Colonel Thomas M. Davies (WVU student). Subjects include Morgantown High School (MHS) in the early 1920s, MHS graduates' military service and marriages in the 1940s (class of 1942), WVU, Cheat Lake, Cooper's Rock, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes oversize material in various formats regarding the history of the Morgantown area. The series contains 6 subseries:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Oversize--Photographs; ca. 1880s - 2010s, undated (bulk 1900-1930, undated); box 28 - box 50 folder 4, box 51, two items in map cabinet, and items 1-23. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Oversize--Artwork \u0026amp; Picture Prints; 1871, 1900 - ca. 1929, 1965-1998, undated; box 50 folders 5-11, box 52-56, and items 24-25. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Oversize--Architectural Drawings \u0026amp; Maps; 1915-1924, 1972 - ca. 2007, undated; box 57 and items in map cabinet. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Oversize--Historical Manuscripts; 1785-1829; box 58 unfoldered item and box 59 folder 1. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Oversize--Printed Material; 1892-1921, 1976-2005, undated; box 59 folder 2 - box 60 folder 2. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Oversize--Miscellaneous; 1891-1948, 1975-1996, undated; box 58 folder 1, box 60 folder 3 - box 64, and item 26.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries is sorted into categories: cabinet cards, framed photographs, mounted photographs, print photographs, and framed and unframed panoramic photographs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Framed photographs are in boxes 29 through 47. (Note that framed panoramic photos are in a separate subseries). These include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n group portraits of Morgantown High School sports teams and graduating classes (1907-1911); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n the Wesley United Methodist Church Board of Trustees (1904); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n the Morgantown, WV Lions Club (1934, undated); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n WVU groups, including the ROTC Band (undated), football team (1939, 1975), and basketball team (ca. 1946-1947); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n composite photographs of WV judges, real estate commissioners, and lawyers who served in the military during World War I; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n portraits of George C. Baker and Charles George Baker (Monongalia County Judge from 1928-1936 and 1944-1952; son of George C. Baker); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n Deering Day parade (undated); and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n buildings of Morgantown (ca. 1909-1910, undated).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Mounted photographs are in boxes 47 through 49, with two additional items in map cabinets. Most of the mounted photos are group or individual portraits. Subjects include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n the Brewer family (1927, undated); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n WVU athletic teams, with a focus on football (1891-1928, undated); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n portraits of Frank M. and Gaylord Hess Dent, proprietors of McVicker's Drug Store (undated); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n exhibit photos of outdoor scenes filed with the deposition of A.L. Woodfill in Monongalia County (undated); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n outdoor photos of the Cheat Lake area (1922?, undated); and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n additional group portraits related to WVU (1904-1919, undated), among other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Print photographs are in box 50. These include photos of Lake Lynn and dam (undated), aerial views of Morgantown (ca. 1950s?), a color photo of WVU's Old Mountaineer Field football stadium (pre-1979), and composite photos of West Virginia Real Estate Commissioners (ca. 1982).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Panoramic (or Cirkut) photographs are in box 51, with an additional 23 framed photos that are unboxed. Subjects include WVU groups and buildings, groups of enlisted men or soldiers in the World War I era, church groups, scenic photos of Morgantown, and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes original artworks and prints of artwork. Types of artwork include watercolors, other types of painting, sketches, lithographs, and more. Subjects include WVU campus buildings, buildings in Morgantown, Waitman T. Willey and his wife Elizabeth Evans Willey (nee Ray), Thomas J. \"Stonewall\" Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. Photocopies of John Leech illustrations from an unknown book can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Printed Material. Additional lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes architectural drawings, plats, and maps. Subjects include various buildings and developments in Morgantown, as well as a plat of the Mont Chateau area, and a district map of Monongalia County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes a framed land grant signed by Patrick Henry (1785), a survey (1785), and three indentures (1795-1829). Locations referenced in the materials include Monongalia, Yohogania, Ohio, and Harrison Counties in (West) Virginia, and Allegany County, Maryland. Named individuals include Lewis Criss, Richard Philan, John Shisler, Lamar Moore, and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes photocopies of illustrations by John Leech, a 19th century English caricaturist, as well as original printed material. Original material includes various supplements to and special editions of the \u003cemph\u003eNew Dominion\u003c/emph\u003e, the \u003cemph\u003ePost-Chronicle\u003c/emph\u003e, and the \u003cemph\u003eDominion Post\u003c/emph\u003e; \u003cemph\u003eDominion Post\u003c/emph\u003e articles pertaining to WVU; and a damaged issue of the Cincinnati spiritualist periodical \u003cemph\u003eThe Better Way\u003c/emph\u003e. Picture prints and lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Artwork \u0026amp; Picture Prints and Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes ephemera, certificates, broadsides, framed lithographs, and diplomas. Ephemera includes advertisements from Morgantown businesses and sample ballots. Broadsides include signs related to WVU sports, a theatrical production, political campaign signs for Jay Rockefeller and Gaston Caperton, and other subjects. The framed lithographs include two memorial lithographs for deceased members of the Kiger and John families, as well as a marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material). Diplomas include a Cornell University diploma for William Earle Rumsey, as well as elementary and high school diplomas for Samuel Newton Lemley (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes manuscript letters, invoices, and two mounted photographs. One invoice (1798-1800) concerns material purchased by postmaster and tavern operator Hugh McNeely from Michael Kern, who built Kern's Fort and was perhaps the first permanent settler of Morgantown. Five letters and one invoice (1823-1853, undated) concern John Rogers, a prominent Morgantown landowner and business leader in the early to mid-1800s. Both photos depict students of WVU.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts regarding primarily the history of West Virginia University and Morgantown, West Virginia. For example, there is a manuscript of a Morgantown tailor, Samuel Pickenpaugh (1838); there are also group portraits of WVU students (ca. 1890-1960), a Mountaineer Field button (ca. 1920s), and a wide array of WVU pennants (undated), among much other material. This series is minimally processed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum is minimally processed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 77 includes a \"WVU 1966\" flag on a short stick, various other WVU artifacts such as pins, and a purple pennant that says \"West Virginia\" on it.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 78-81 include WVU publications (various issues of the Monticola from 1896 to 1965); other WVU printed material such as commencement programs, football programs, and a pamphlet titled \"Laws of West Virginia Agricultural College\" (1867); WVU ephemera; a WVU-related scrapbook (ca. 1929-1933); and an undated candy box with WVU on the label.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe last four folders of box 81 include photographs related to Vaughn Kiger, his work, and political campaigns (1970-1976).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 82-85 include books and pamphlets related to Morgantown, West Virginia in general, other cities, and local special interest groups. Also includes ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, audio recordings, and more. Additional topics include local schools, politics (including Jay Rockefeller), genealogy, local history, and more. One of the scrapbooks is from the Rogers family of Morgantown (ca. 1920s). The audio recordings are two identical records of Phi Sigma Kappa songs from 1910.  Additional highlights include Morgantown High School yearbooks, issues of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAllerli\u003c/emph\u003e, and items from the Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 86 includes scrapbooks and an artifact.  The artifact is a decorative glass plate commemorating the Morgantown Bicentennial in 1985. The two scrapbooks are from Samuel Newton Lemley of Morgantown (ca. 1940-1946); Lemley served in WWII in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and was a cousin of Vaughn Kiger. They include mostly photographs with a few clippings and ephemera.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 87 includes books, clippings, a framed photograph of Vaughn Kiger and Judge Robert E. Maxwell, and artifacts, including a few from Morgantown High School (ca. 1903-1992).  Pamphlets include a U.S. Navy Flight Training Manual (1943) and a \"Historical Sketch of the University of Virginia\" by Thomas Abernethy (1948).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: Spring Quarter Convocation, March 29, 1904; WVU Fourth Piano Recital by pupils of Miss Emily Jenks Bray, March 19, 1904; WVU Historical Pageant Official Program, June 8, 1925 (two copies); Postcard from the McCrew House; 125th Anniversary of Woodburn Hall Celebration Reception, February 23, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo bulletins: \"Greater West Virginia Weekend,\" May 1953 and \"An Issue Containing Dedication Proceedings of the Mineral Industries Building,\" September 1944.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo programs: \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Football Banquet, 1962\" and \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Basketball Banquet, 1963\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo programs: \"West Virginia University Ninety-Seventh Commencement, 1966\" and \"Rededication of Woodburn Cirle and Order of Vandalia Ceremony, 1979\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitles include: \"The System of Awards of Phi Sigma Kappa,\" \"By These Things We Stand,\" and \"Pledge Manual of Phi Sigma Kappa\" inscribed by Vaugh Kiger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Student Directories for 1946-1947 and 1947-1948. Also Freshman Handbook from 1938-1939, with \"Guide 1938\" ribbon and newspaper clipping announcing wedding of Catherine Fortney to Sergt. James Sigwart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes two copies of \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: Short Biographical Sketches\" (1938) by James R. Moreland an one copy of \"Morgantown Rotary: The First Fifty Years 1918-1968\" (1968) by Frederick Carspecken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram and menu for dinner featuring The Honorable Herbert Hoover (secretary of commerce), Senator Guy D. Goff, The Honorable Franck L. Bowman, The Honorable Howard M. Gore (governor of West Virginia), Mr. Kent Cooper, Mr. Edward McKernon, Mr. R.H. Pritchard, Mr. Thurman Miller, Professor Frank Butler Trotter (president West Virginia University), Senator D.M. Willis, Judge I.G. Lazelle, and Dr. William E. Brooks as guests of honor. Program included entertainment by Al Mabey's Old Gold and Blue Orchestra.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Wheeling Rediscovered: A Bicentennial Project of Ohio County's Public, Private and Parochial Schools\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes program from Order of Elks Memorial Service for Absent Brothers at Morgantown Lodge No. 411, on December 7, 1941. Also includes \"Bonds of Friendship, Love \u0026amp; Truth: Letters form Sallie Little Holmes to Anna Kennedy Davis, 1857-879\" published in 1987 with Christmas card that explains the family significance of the book to the recipient (unidentified). The letters were originally written by Sallie Little Holmes, a missionary to China in the mid-nineteenth century.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence, reciepts from Blosser's Boat Dock, hotel license for George Robison, and documents relating to a West Virginia Power and Transmission Company dam on the Cheat River and a contract for the moving of the Robison house. Also includes publication on Camp Rhododendron at Cooper's Rock State Forest by the Monongalia Historical Society, among other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo identical cardboard signs that read \"Exchange Club Minstrel Tickets on sale here\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost includes postcards bearing early WVU buildings, but also contains one postcard of a crowd at a football game, one of the 1906 Mandolin Club and the 1906 Glee Club, and one with a group photo of the Delta Tau Delta brothers, undated. Many are black but some contain writing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects of the postcards include WVU buildings, aerial views of the campus, and images of the football stadium, among others. Some contain writing, others are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings and includes a \"Souvenir Folder of Morgantown, W. Va.\" containing colored images of Morgantown scenes published by Stenger's News Stand. Some of the postcards contain writing and others are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Several depict the Women's Hall and Woodburn Circle. Some contain writing while others are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Also includes three photograph postcards, one with a group picture of \"The Mountain, Spring of 1919 Initiates,\" one with a group picture of a literature class of 1909, and one that appears to be a photo of an early marching band on the footbll field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages on the postcards include downtown Morgantown buildins and street scenes, aerial views of the city, scenes along the Cheat River, and a group picture of Star City glass workers. Some contain writing while others are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Hotel Madera, the R.R. Passenger and Freight Station, the Sinclair Service Station, and the Morgantown Country Club House, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Mississippi Glass Factory, Richard's Restaurant, Weil's storefront, and the Hotel Morgan among others. One postcard from 1925, featuring an image labeled \"Business section and bridge across Monongahela River,\" remarks on the steepness of Morgantown hills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including Mont Chateau, Morgantown High School, an Oak Park Roller Coaster, and the Morgantown Suspension Bridge, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImages on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Cooper's Rock overlook, the Vincent Pallotti Hospital, and the Morgantown Post Office, among others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive postcards include images of The People's Temple, Fairmont, W. Va.; the Clarksburg Courthouse; the two versions of the old State Capitol in Charleston; and one depicting the new Charleston State Capitol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrints of old photographs include many city scenes from Morgantown and WVU buildings. Also includes several images of parades and aerial views of the city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrints of old postcards include images of WVU buildings, M\u0026amp;K trains and station, Oak Grove Cemetery, and a scene titled \"Bathing in Cheat River,\" among other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photograph of the staff of the Morgantown Printing and Binding Company (ca. 1900), portrait of Forest P. Coombs in cadet uniform (ca. 1900), print of Soldiers and Sailors Monument (undated), photo of West Penn Beach (1958), portrait of unidentified man (ca. 1920), photo of four men on the front of a postcard labeled \"Pleasant St. Morgantown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by the Monongalia Historical Society, edited by Earl L. Core and Mildred S. Clark.  Three copies, two with inscriptions.  One contains inscriptions on the inside front cover, including the signatures of Mrs. Rudolph S. Stoyer, Lloyd Felden, Vaughn L. Kiger, Ernest J. Nesius, Earl L. Core, Ray Swick, Bradford Laidley, and Virginia M. Gaston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes two issues of the Monticola yearbook of WVU (1913 and 1927); a 1915-1916 issue of WVU Student Handbook; autograph book of Morgantown resident Gertie Hayes (ca. 1879-1883); and the 1892 diary of F.E. Delbridge, likely a telegraph operator in Shinnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a WVU annual catalog from 1885-1886,\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e West Virginia University and its Picturesque Surroundings\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWVU - an early portrait\u003c/emph\u003e, and a WVU Foundation report for the fiscal year ending in 1981.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a Congressional pictorial directory (1983) and a \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDemocrats in Convention 1972\u003c/emph\u003e book.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others.","Series include: \nSeries 1. Correspondence; 1784, 1850-1890s, ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated; boxes 1-3B. \nSeries 2. Lemley Family Material; 1861, ca. 1928-1970s, undated; boxes 4-9. \nSeries 3. Photographs; 1870s-1960s, 1998-2002, undated; boxes 10-14. \nSeries 4. Ley Family Material; 1856-1956, undated; box 15. \nSeries 5. Subjects; 2003-2004, undated; box 16. \nSeries 6. Printed Material; 1867, 1902-2005, undated; boxes 17-20. \nSeries 7. Ephemera; 1854-1959, undated; boxes 21-22. \nSeries 8. Artifacts; ca. 1914-1920, ca. 2006, undated; boxes 23-24. \nSeries 9. Scrapbooks; ca. 1880s-1988; boxes 25-27. \nSeries 10. Oversize; 1785-1829, 1871-2010s, undated (bulk 1880-1940); boxes 28-64, items 1-26, and map cabinet folders. \nSeries 11. Addendum of 2014/07/28; 1798-1853, 1896, undated; box 64 folders 1-2. \nSeries 12. Addendum of 2016/08/16; ca. 1838-2012; boxes 65-77, and two unboxed items. \nSeries 13. Addendum of 2017/07/19; 1859-1992, undated; boxes 77-87. \nSeries 14. Addendum of 2017/11/09; 1878-1990, undated; boxes 88-100. \nSeries 15. Addendum of 2017/12/12; 1903-1992, undated; boxes 101-102, and one unboxed item (fraternity cane). \nSeries 16. Addendum of 2018/07/02; 1903-2002; boxes 103-104. \nSeries 17. Addendum of 2018/07/09; 1879-1927; box 105. \nSeries 18. Addendum of 2018/09/13, 1886, 1971-1983, undated; box 105-106.","This series includes material pertaining to the history of Morgantown (box 1, folders 1-5 and 10 and box 2, folders 1-2; 1784, 1850-1890s, undated) as well as material pertaining to the life and work of Vaughn L. Kiger (box 1, folders 6-9 and box 2, folder 3 - box 3B; ca. 1925-1928, 1950s-2005, undated)."," Subjects of the Morgantown history material include the lives of individuals and West Virginia University (WVU) history. The Morgantown history material includes a 1784 Monongalia County survey with plat; there are also a manuscript journal and diary, manuscript court document, ledger, letter, stationery, survey, and financial document."," The Kiger material includes letters, printed material, clippings, photographs, and other materials. Subjects of the Kiger material include Kiger's real estate career, the West Virginia Real Estate Commission, historic preservation, and political campaigns.","This series contains material pertaining to the Lemley family of Monongalia County, West Virginia, including correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, a bible, and various artifacts."," Correspondence includes letters, greeting cards, postcards, and other material, much of it addressed to Samuel Newton Lemley (1917-1981) and his mother, Ica (also called Icie or Icy) Myrtle Lemley (nee Kiger; 1885-1970). Icie Lemley's correspondence includes 19 letters from her nephew Michael Dimmick, a U.S. Army soldier serving in the Vietnam War. Dimmick's letters are dated April 1968 through January 1970, with topics including descriptions of some of the fighting, Dimmick's non-combat work (e.g., road building), politics, and home life. He was stationed near Qui Nhon, Vietnam in the 84th Engineer Battalion (Construction) for at least part of his service."," Photographs include photos taken after the end of World War II in occupied Japan, family photos, portraits, negatives, and framed photos."," Printed material includes programs and other items from Samuel Lemley's youth and his activities in the Hi-Y Club (the high school YMCA club, of which Samuel was president), Morgantown High School and University High School, and WVU. Also included are the family's World War II ration books."," The bible was given by Icie to her husband, mechanic William Lawrence Lemley (1882-1962). It includes genealogical information."," See also Series 10. Oversize--Miscellaneous for a framed lithograph marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger, as well as elementary and high school diplomas of Samuel Newton Lemley.","This series includes cabinet cards, mounted photographs, prints, framed prints, cyanotypes, negatives, photo postcards, stereo cards, scrapbook pages, printed material, and other material documenting the history of the Morgantown area. Photos are generally sorted by type, then by subject."," Cabinet cards (ca. 1870-1890, undated) include mostly unidentified portraits from Morgantown photography studios, as well as identified photos of WVU football players."," Subjects of the mounted photographs (ca. 1900-1930, undated) include group portraits, Morgantown shops and buildings, Monongahela River views, James Pietro's construction company, Cheat Lake views, WVU football players, and other subjects. Group portraits include World War I draftees from Morgantown."," Subjects of the prints (ca. 1910s-1950s, 1999, undated) include scenery of the Cheat Lake area and Monongahela River; buildings and streets, especially in Morgantown; group portraits; WVU locations and life, such as Mountaineer Field and students on campus; WVU football players (1920s-1940s, undated); and other subjects. Group portraits include the Morgantown baseball league (1930s), Junior Order United American Mechanics Band, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Band (both undated)."," Subjects of the framed prints (ca. 1887-1930, 2001 or 2002, undated) include WVU buildings, such as the Agricultural Experiment Station; various houses in Morgantown; group portraits of Morgantown Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Members (1918) and WVU football players (1891); WVU Board of Governors (2001 or 2002); and other subjects."," Subjects of photo postcards (ca. 1900s-1920s, undated) include individual portraits, group portraits, special events, Morgantown bridges and buildings, WVU buildings, WVU-affiliated groups, and other subjects."," Additional photographs can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Photographs.","This series includes correspondence, financial material, photographs, printed material, ephemera, and other materials pertaining to the Ley family and descendants. Christian S. Ley (ca. 1825-1899) and his son William C. Ley (ca. 1865-1941) owned a boarding house or campground on the Cheat River at Laurel Iron Works/Uneva in the 1880s-1890s. In 1891, Christian Ley's daughter, Lillie C. Ley (ca. 1861-1942), married George W. Robison/Robinson (ca. 1855-1923). In 1895, the couple built Mont Chateau Hotel on the Cheat River at Uneva, and also resided at or near Cheat Haven, PA. They had a daughter, Mrs. Hugh M. Blosser (nee Eleanor Mary Robison, born ca. 1896). More on the history of Lillie and the hotel can be found in box 15, folder 1. Additional material can be found in A\u0026M 3328, the Ley, Robison, and Blosser Family Papers."," The Ley correspondence includes mostly requests for accommodations. The Robison/Robinson correspondence includes requests for accommodation (the location is called Robinson House, Robinson Hotel, and Mont Chateau) and financial matters. Blosser papers include photographs, printed material, and correspondence regarding Blosser Boat Docks and Mont Chateau."," The album material in box 15, folder 19 includes material related to the Cheat River and George Robison/Robinson, as well as local history.","This series includes a drawing, photo, and photocopies of book pages pertaining to Woodburn Seminary, as well as printed materials, correspondence, and a photo related to the Mountain Honorary.","This series includes books, pamphlets, ephemera, and correspondence. Highlights include material from Morgantown schools, including Morgantown High School yearbooks and event programs; pamphlets and booklets about Morgantown and programs of local events; and WVU material, including the West Virginia Agricultural College Inaugural Address of Reverend Dr. Alexander Martin (1867), three issues of  The Athenaeum  (1902), and a WVU football program (1922).","This series includes ephemera related to Monongalia County businesses and organizations. Creators include insurance companies, Morgantown Country Club, and stores on Morgantown's High Street. Types of ephemera include booklets, business cards, calendars, event tickets, membership cards, advertisements, and other materials. Also included are ephemera from WVU, such as a dance card, football schedules, and student activity books. For more ephemera, see also Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This series includes holiday ornaments, a product display box, pay roll cards, advertisements, and campaign items. The ornaments depict various WVU and Morgantown buildings and the WV state flag. The advertisements include pocket mirrors from O.B. Fawley Music Company and a paper puzzle from O.J. Morrison Company.","This series contains four scrapbooks, which include photographs, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, and other material. The scrapbooks were created by Virginia Esther Cole (Morgantown High School student), Eleanor Bolyard, Eva Coffman, and Colonel Thomas M. Davies (WVU student). Subjects include Morgantown High School (MHS) in the early 1920s, MHS graduates' military service and marriages in the 1940s (class of 1942), WVU, Cheat Lake, Cooper's Rock, and more.","This series includes oversize material in various formats regarding the history of the Morgantown area. The series contains 6 subseries:"," Oversize--Photographs; ca. 1880s - 2010s, undated (bulk 1900-1930, undated); box 28 - box 50 folder 4, box 51, two items in map cabinet, and items 1-23.  \n Oversize--Artwork \u0026 Picture Prints; 1871, 1900 - ca. 1929, 1965-1998, undated; box 50 folders 5-11, box 52-56, and items 24-25.  \n Oversize--Architectural Drawings \u0026 Maps; 1915-1924, 1972 - ca. 2007, undated; box 57 and items in map cabinet.  \n Oversize--Historical Manuscripts; 1785-1829; box 58 unfoldered item and box 59 folder 1.  \n Oversize--Printed Material; 1892-1921, 1976-2005, undated; box 59 folder 2 - box 60 folder 2.  \n Oversize--Miscellaneous; 1891-1948, 1975-1996, undated; box 58 folder 1, box 60 folder 3 - box 64, and item 26.","This subseries is sorted into categories: cabinet cards, framed photographs, mounted photographs, print photographs, and framed and unframed panoramic photographs."," Framed photographs are in boxes 29 through 47. (Note that framed panoramic photos are in a separate subseries). These include:  \n group portraits of Morgantown High School sports teams and graduating classes (1907-1911);  \n the Wesley United Methodist Church Board of Trustees (1904);  \n the Morgantown, WV Lions Club (1934, undated);  \n WVU groups, including the ROTC Band (undated), football team (1939, 1975), and basketball team (ca. 1946-1947);  \n composite photographs of WV judges, real estate commissioners, and lawyers who served in the military during World War I;  \n portraits of George C. Baker and Charles George Baker (Monongalia County Judge from 1928-1936 and 1944-1952; son of George C. Baker);  \n Deering Day parade (undated); and  \n buildings of Morgantown (ca. 1909-1910, undated)."," Mounted photographs are in boxes 47 through 49, with two additional items in map cabinets. Most of the mounted photos are group or individual portraits. Subjects include:  \n the Brewer family (1927, undated);  \n WVU athletic teams, with a focus on football (1891-1928, undated);  \n portraits of Frank M. and Gaylord Hess Dent, proprietors of McVicker's Drug Store (undated);  \n exhibit photos of outdoor scenes filed with the deposition of A.L. Woodfill in Monongalia County (undated);  \n outdoor photos of the Cheat Lake area (1922?, undated); and  \n additional group portraits related to WVU (1904-1919, undated), among other subjects."," Print photographs are in box 50. These include photos of Lake Lynn and dam (undated), aerial views of Morgantown (ca. 1950s?), a color photo of WVU's Old Mountaineer Field football stadium (pre-1979), and composite photos of West Virginia Real Estate Commissioners (ca. 1982)."," Panoramic (or Cirkut) photographs are in box 51, with an additional 23 framed photos that are unboxed. Subjects include WVU groups and buildings, groups of enlisted men or soldiers in the World War I era, church groups, scenic photos of Morgantown, and other subjects.","This subseries includes original artworks and prints of artwork. Types of artwork include watercolors, other types of painting, sketches, lithographs, and more. Subjects include WVU campus buildings, buildings in Morgantown, Waitman T. Willey and his wife Elizabeth Evans Willey (nee Ray), Thomas J. \"Stonewall\" Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. Photocopies of John Leech illustrations from an unknown book can be found in Series 10, Oversize--Printed Material. Additional lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This subseries includes architectural drawings, plats, and maps. Subjects include various buildings and developments in Morgantown, as well as a plat of the Mont Chateau area, and a district map of Monongalia County.","This subseries includes a framed land grant signed by Patrick Henry (1785), a survey (1785), and three indentures (1795-1829). Locations referenced in the materials include Monongalia, Yohogania, Ohio, and Harrison Counties in (West) Virginia, and Allegany County, Maryland. Named individuals include Lewis Criss, Richard Philan, John Shisler, Lamar Moore, and others.","This subseries includes photocopies of illustrations by John Leech, a 19th century English caricaturist, as well as original printed material. Original material includes various supplements to and special editions of the  New Dominion , the  Post-Chronicle , and the  Dominion Post ;  Dominion Post  articles pertaining to WVU; and a damaged issue of the Cincinnati spiritualist periodical  The Better Way . Picture prints and lithographs can be found in the Series 10, Oversize--Artwork \u0026 Picture Prints and Series 10, Oversize--Miscellaneous.","This subseries includes ephemera, certificates, broadsides, framed lithographs, and diplomas. Ephemera includes advertisements from Morgantown businesses and sample ballots. Broadsides include signs related to WVU sports, a theatrical production, political campaign signs for Jay Rockefeller and Gaston Caperton, and other subjects. The framed lithographs include two memorial lithographs for deceased members of the Kiger and John families, as well as a marriage certificate for William Lawrence Lemley and Icy Myrtle Kiger (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material). Diplomas include a Cornell University diploma for William Earle Rumsey, as well as elementary and high school diplomas for Samuel Newton Lemley (see also Series 2, Lemley Family Material).","This addendum includes manuscript letters, invoices, and two mounted photographs. One invoice (1798-1800) concerns material purchased by postmaster and tavern operator Hugh McNeely from Michael Kern, who built Kern's Fort and was perhaps the first permanent settler of Morgantown. Five letters and one invoice (1823-1853, undated) concern John Rogers, a prominent Morgantown landowner and business leader in the early to mid-1800s. Both photos depict students of WVU.","This addendum includes manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts regarding primarily the history of West Virginia University and Morgantown, West Virginia. For example, there is a manuscript of a Morgantown tailor, Samuel Pickenpaugh (1838); there are also group portraits of WVU students (ca. 1890-1960), a Mountaineer Field button (ca. 1920s), and a wide array of WVU pennants (undated), among much other material. This series is minimally processed.","This addendum is minimally processed.","Box 77 includes a \"WVU 1966\" flag on a short stick, various other WVU artifacts such as pins, and a purple pennant that says \"West Virginia\" on it.","Boxes 78-81 include WVU publications (various issues of the Monticola from 1896 to 1965); other WVU printed material such as commencement programs, football programs, and a pamphlet titled \"Laws of West Virginia Agricultural College\" (1867); WVU ephemera; a WVU-related scrapbook (ca. 1929-1933); and an undated candy box with WVU on the label.","The last four folders of box 81 include photographs related to Vaughn Kiger, his work, and political campaigns (1970-1976).","Boxes 82-85 include books and pamphlets related to Morgantown, West Virginia in general, other cities, and local special interest groups. Also includes ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, audio recordings, and more. Additional topics include local schools, politics (including Jay Rockefeller), genealogy, local history, and more. One of the scrapbooks is from the Rogers family of Morgantown (ca. 1920s). The audio recordings are two identical records of Phi Sigma Kappa songs from 1910.  Additional highlights include Morgantown High School yearbooks, issues of the  Allerli , and items from the Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute.","Box 86 includes scrapbooks and an artifact.  The artifact is a decorative glass plate commemorating the Morgantown Bicentennial in 1985. The two scrapbooks are from Samuel Newton Lemley of Morgantown (ca. 1940-1946); Lemley served in WWII in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and was a cousin of Vaughn Kiger. They include mostly photographs with a few clippings and ephemera.","Box 87 includes books, clippings, a framed photograph of Vaughn Kiger and Judge Robert E. Maxwell, and artifacts, including a few from Morgantown High School (ca. 1903-1992).  Pamphlets include a U.S. Navy Flight Training Manual (1943) and a \"Historical Sketch of the University of Virginia\" by Thomas Abernethy (1948).","Includes: Spring Quarter Convocation, March 29, 1904; WVU Fourth Piano Recital by pupils of Miss Emily Jenks Bray, March 19, 1904; WVU Historical Pageant Official Program, June 8, 1925 (two copies); Postcard from the McCrew House; 125th Anniversary of Woodburn Hall Celebration Reception, February 23, 2001.","Two bulletins: \"Greater West Virginia Weekend,\" May 1953 and \"An Issue Containing Dedication Proceedings of the Mineral Industries Building,\" September 1944.","Two programs: \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Football Banquet, 1962\" and \"The Touchdown Club of Morgantown Basketball Banquet, 1963\"","Two programs: \"West Virginia University Ninety-Seventh Commencement, 1966\" and \"Rededication of Woodburn Cirle and Order of Vandalia Ceremony, 1979\"","Titles include: \"The System of Awards of Phi Sigma Kappa,\" \"By These Things We Stand,\" and \"Pledge Manual of Phi Sigma Kappa\" inscribed by Vaugh Kiger.","Includes Student Directories for 1946-1947 and 1947-1948. Also Freshman Handbook from 1938-1939, with \"Guide 1938\" ribbon and newspaper clipping announcing wedding of Catherine Fortney to Sergt. James Sigwart.","Includes two copies of \"The First Presbyterian Church of Morgantown, West Virginia: Short Biographical Sketches\" (1938) by James R. Moreland an one copy of \"Morgantown Rotary: The First Fifty Years 1918-1968\" (1968) by Frederick Carspecken.","Program and menu for dinner featuring The Honorable Herbert Hoover (secretary of commerce), Senator Guy D. Goff, The Honorable Franck L. Bowman, The Honorable Howard M. Gore (governor of West Virginia), Mr. Kent Cooper, Mr. Edward McKernon, Mr. R.H. Pritchard, Mr. Thurman Miller, Professor Frank Butler Trotter (president West Virginia University), Senator D.M. Willis, Judge I.G. Lazelle, and Dr. William E. Brooks as guests of honor. Program included entertainment by Al Mabey's Old Gold and Blue Orchestra.","\"Wheeling Rediscovered: A Bicentennial Project of Ohio County's Public, Private and Parochial Schools\"","Includes program from Order of Elks Memorial Service for Absent Brothers at Morgantown Lodge No. 411, on December 7, 1941. Also includes \"Bonds of Friendship, Love \u0026 Truth: Letters form Sallie Little Holmes to Anna Kennedy Davis, 1857-879\" published in 1987 with Christmas card that explains the family significance of the book to the recipient (unidentified). The letters were originally written by Sallie Little Holmes, a missionary to China in the mid-nineteenth century.","Includes correspondence, reciepts from Blosser's Boat Dock, hotel license for George Robison, and documents relating to a West Virginia Power and Transmission Company dam on the Cheat River and a contract for the moving of the Robison house. Also includes publication on Camp Rhododendron at Cooper's Rock State Forest by the Monongalia Historical Society, among other items.","Two identical cardboard signs that read \"Exchange Club Minstrel Tickets on sale here\"","Most includes postcards bearing early WVU buildings, but also contains one postcard of a crowd at a football game, one of the 1906 Mandolin Club and the 1906 Glee Club, and one with a group photo of the Delta Tau Delta brothers, undated. Many are black but some contain writing.","Subjects of the postcards include WVU buildings, aerial views of the campus, and images of the football stadium, among others. Some contain writing, others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings and includes a \"Souvenir Folder of Morgantown, W. Va.\" containing colored images of Morgantown scenes published by Stenger's News Stand. Some of the postcards contain writing and others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Several depict the Women's Hall and Woodburn Circle. Some contain writing while others are blank.","Postcards mostly contain images of WVU buildings. Also includes three photograph postcards, one with a group picture of \"The Mountain, Spring of 1919 Initiates,\" one with a group picture of a literature class of 1909, and one that appears to be a photo of an early marching band on the footbll field.","Images on the postcards include downtown Morgantown buildins and street scenes, aerial views of the city, scenes along the Cheat River, and a group picture of Star City glass workers. Some contain writing while others are blank.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Hotel Madera, the R.R. Passenger and Freight Station, the Sinclair Service Station, and the Morgantown Country Club House, among others.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Mississippi Glass Factory, Richard's Restaurant, Weil's storefront, and the Hotel Morgan among others. One postcard from 1925, featuring an image labeled \"Business section and bridge across Monongahela River,\" remarks on the steepness of Morgantown hills.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including Mont Chateau, Morgantown High School, an Oak Park Roller Coaster, and the Morgantown Suspension Bridge, among others.","Images on postcards depict buildings and scenes in and around Morgantown, including the Cooper's Rock overlook, the Vincent Pallotti Hospital, and the Morgantown Post Office, among others.","Five postcards include images of The People's Temple, Fairmont, W. Va.; the Clarksburg Courthouse; the two versions of the old State Capitol in Charleston; and one depicting the new Charleston State Capitol.","Prints of old photographs include many city scenes from Morgantown and WVU buildings. Also includes several images of parades and aerial views of the city.","Prints of old postcards include images of WVU buildings, M\u0026K trains and station, Oak Grove Cemetery, and a scene titled \"Bathing in Cheat River,\" among other subjects.","Includes photograph of the staff of the Morgantown Printing and Binding Company (ca. 1900), portrait of Forest P. Coombs in cadet uniform (ca. 1900), print of Soldiers and Sailors Monument (undated), photo of West Penn Beach (1958), portrait of unidentified man (ca. 1920), photo of four men on the front of a postcard labeled \"Pleasant St. Morgantown.\"","Published by the Monongalia Historical Society, edited by Earl L. Core and Mildred S. Clark.  Three copies, two with inscriptions.  One contains inscriptions on the inside front cover, including the signatures of Mrs. Rudolph S. Stoyer, Lloyd Felden, Vaughn L. Kiger, Ernest J. Nesius, Earl L. Core, Ray Swick, Bradford Laidley, and Virginia M. Gaston.","Includes two issues of the Monticola yearbook of WVU (1913 and 1927); a 1915-1916 issue of WVU Student Handbook; autograph book of Morgantown resident Gertie Hayes (ca. 1879-1883); and the 1892 diary of F.E. Delbridge, likely a telegraph operator in Shinnston.","Includes a WVU annual catalog from 1885-1886,  West Virginia University and its Picturesque Surroundings ,  WVU - an early portrait , and a WVU Foundation report for the fiscal year ending in 1981.","Includes a Congressional pictorial directory (1983) and a  Democrats in Convention 1972  book."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTwo volumes of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, one from 1927 and one from 1927 with corrections to the 1950s, have been separated to A\u0026amp;M 1307.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhi Sigma Kappa materials separated to A\u0026amp;M 3917 as addendum of 2014/06/17.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA book on Revolutionary Pensions of Monongalia County was separated to the book collection at the History Center. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe following were separated to the printed ephemera collection:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Women's Edition of the New Dominion, Morgantown, W. 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Butcher: With an Account of the Resources and Industries of the Upper Monongahela Valley and the Tributary Region . New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912.","One copy of the WVU student handbook, 1915."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_08276c4957793d665b33dc791c14ce5f\"\u003eHistorical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others. See Historical Note for more information on Vaughn L. Kiger.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and contemporary photographs and records collected by Vaughn L. Kiger, resident of Morgantown. The bulk of the collection pertains to Morgantown, West Virginia and the surrounding area. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, printed material, artifacts, scrapbooks, artwork, architectural drawings, maps, broadsides, and other materials. Subjects include the history of businesses and individuals in Morgantown and the surrounding area, including the Lemley, Ley, and Robison/Robinson families; West Virginia University (WVU) history; Kiger's real estate career; political campaigns; and Morgantown High School, among others. See Historical Note for more information on Vaughn L. Kiger."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_d81499d27dc9e8f3170a674f2b31b32b\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of the managing editor of the Parkersburg DAILY STATE JOURNAL, 1889-1895, editor of the WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL JOURNAL, and member of the English faculty of West Virginia University, 1895-1925. The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to Barbe's book, GOING TO COLLEGE, and memorabilia. The correspondence includes letters, in some cases accompanied by holograph verse, from Winston Churchill, Richard Harding Davis, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Hamlin Garland, R.W. Gilder, Edward E. Hale, William H. 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Va.)","West Virginia -- Politics and government","United States -- Politics and government","Politics and government.","Statehood politics -- West Virginia","Politicians -- United States","Secession","No special access restriction applies.","Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:","1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:","1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","\n2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4. Obituary,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. 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In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNotes:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBibliography:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Ambler, C.H.; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n2. Corson, L.D.; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLegislative Career of Waitman T. Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDictionary of American Biography\u003c/emph\u003e, p. 426.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. Obituary, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMorgantown Weekly Post\u003c/emph\u003e, Thursday, May 10, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. Ware, A.F.; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement\u003c/emph\u003e, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. White, L.C.; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson\u003c/emph\u003e, 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePrepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:","1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:","1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","\n2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4. Obituary,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900) Papers, A\u0026amp;M 1361, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. 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Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:","1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:","1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","\n2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4. Obituary,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. 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In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. 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In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. 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He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. 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Ambler, C.H.; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n2. Corson, L.D.; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLegislative Career of Waitman T. Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDictionary of American Biography\u003c/emph\u003e, p. 426.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. Obituary, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMorgantown Weekly Post\u003c/emph\u003e, Thursday, May 10, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. Ware, A.F.; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement\u003c/emph\u003e, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. 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Boyd, M.D., 2000.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:","1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:","1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","\n2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4. Obituary,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900) Papers, A\u0026amp;M 1361, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. 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Willey Papers","Monongalia County (W. Va.)","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865","West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865.","West Virginia -- Politics and government","United States -- Politics and government","Politics and government.","Secession","Temperance","Politicians -- United States","Statehood politics -- West Virginia","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc. ","Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4.  Obituary ,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.","1361","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) ","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) ","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) ","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) ","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) ","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) ","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) ","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:"," Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) ","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) ","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) ","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) ","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) ","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) ","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) ","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) ","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) ","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) ","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) ","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) ","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) ","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) ","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) ","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) ","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) ","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) ","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) ","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) ","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) ","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) ","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) ","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) ","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) ","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) ","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) ","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) ","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) ","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) ","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) ","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) ","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) ","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) ","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) ","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) ","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) ","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) ","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) ","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) ","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) ","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) ","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) ","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) ","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) ","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) ","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) ","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) ","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) ","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) ","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) ","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) ","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) ","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) ","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) ","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) ","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) ","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) ","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) ","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) ","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) ","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) ","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) ","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) ","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) ","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) ","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) ","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) ","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) ","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) ","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) ","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) ","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) ","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) ","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) ","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) ","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) ","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) ","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) ","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) ","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) ","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) ","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) ","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230) ","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) ","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) ","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) ","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) ","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) ","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:"," Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) ","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) ","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) ","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) ","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) ","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:"," Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) ","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.","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: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","United States. Congress. 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"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNotes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Corson, L.D.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLegislative Career of Waitman T. Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDictionary of American Biography\u003c/emph\u003e, p. 426.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eObituary\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMorgantown Weekly Post\u003c/emph\u003e, Thursday, May 10, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. Ware, A.F.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eA Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement\u003c/emph\u003e, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. White, L.C.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWest Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson\u003c/emph\u003e, 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePrepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4.  Obituary ,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey Papers, A\u0026amp;M 0003, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. 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There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026amp;O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 516\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFriends (e.g. 1209)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (e.g. item 1230) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReligion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSome Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSlavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIllness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSchool and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Constituents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTemperance Activities\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for Jobs\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) ","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) ","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) ","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) ","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) ","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) ","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) ","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:"," Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) ","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) ","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) ","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) ","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) ","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) ","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) ","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) ","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) ","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) ","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) ","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) ","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) ","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) ","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) ","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) ","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) ","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) ","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) ","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) ","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) ","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) ","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) ","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) ","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) ","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) ","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) ","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) ","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) ","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) ","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) ","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) ","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) ","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) ","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) ","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) ","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) ","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) ","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) ","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) ","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) ","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) ","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) ","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) ","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) ","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) ","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) ","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) ","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) ","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) ","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) ","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) ","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) ","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) ","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) ","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) ","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) ","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) ","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) ","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) ","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) ","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) ","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) ","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) ","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) ","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) ","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) ","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) ","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) ","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) ","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) ","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) ","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) ","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) ","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) ","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) ","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) ","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) ","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) ","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) ","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) ","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) ","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) ","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230) ","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) ","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) ","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) ","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) ","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) ","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:"," Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) ","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) ","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) ","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) ","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) ","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:"," Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) ","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_18cd3685d4dadbc9e748f60d929a78ab\"\u003ePapers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_5cf97afe325843f43df11ef15816113b\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["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: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["United States. Congress. 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Willey Papers","Monongalia County (W. Va.)","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865","West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865.","West Virginia -- Politics and government","United States -- Politics and government","Politics and government.","Secession","Temperance","Politicians -- United States","Statehood politics -- West Virginia","Diaries","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc. ","Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4.  Obituary ,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.","1361","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) ","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) ","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) ","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) ","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) ","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) ","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) ","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:"," Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) ","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) ","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) ","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) ","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) ","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) ","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) ","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) ","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) ","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) ","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) ","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) ","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) ","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) ","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) ","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) ","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) ","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) ","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) ","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) ","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) ","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) ","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) ","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) ","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) ","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) ","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) ","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) ","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) ","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) ","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) ","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) ","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) ","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) ","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) ","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) ","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) ","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) ","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) ","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) ","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) ","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) ","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) ","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) ","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) ","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) ","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) ","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) ","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) ","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) ","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) ","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) ","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) ","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) ","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) ","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) ","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) ","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) ","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) ","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) ","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) ","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) ","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) ","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) ","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) ","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) ","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) ","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) ","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) ","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) ","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) ","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) ","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) ","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) ","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) ","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) ","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) ","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) ","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) ","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) ","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) ","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) ","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) ","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230) ","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) ","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) ","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) ","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) ","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) ","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:"," Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) ","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) ","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) ","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) ","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) ","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:"," Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) ","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.","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: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","United States. Congress. 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"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilley remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWaitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNotes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWaitman Thomas Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Corson, L.D.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLegislative Career of Waitman T. Willey\u003c/emph\u003e, 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDictionary of American Biography\u003c/emph\u003e, p. 426.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eObituary\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMorgantown Weekly Post\u003c/emph\u003e, Thursday, May 10, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. Ware, A.F.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eA Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement\u003c/emph\u003e, 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. White, L.C.; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWest Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson\u003c/emph\u003e, 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePrepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Waitman Thomas Willey, West Virginia pioneer, lawyer, Methodist churchman, and United States Senator, was born October 18, 1811, at Buffalo Creek, Virginia (near Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia), the son of William Willey, Jr., former Revolutionary War soldier under General Anthony Wayne, and Sarah Barnes, a member of a prominent family of northwestern Virginia.","Willey's first twelve years were spent at Buffalo Creek where his father's farm was a frontier homestead isolated from the few towns in the area. In 1823, the family (which now included stepmother, Mary McCormack Willey) moved to a farm on the Monongahela River in Monongalia County near present-day Rivesville. Here, Willey received a rudimentary formal education with readings from the classics and the Bible.","In 1827, Willey walked the forty miles from his home to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to attend Madison College (later Allegheny College) where he excelled in classical studies and mathematics. After three and one half years he received a B.A. degree, and then read law in the office of Philip Doddridge and John Campbell in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1833; in addition, he received an M.A. degree from Augusta College in Kentucky in 1834.","Willey settled in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1832, with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Ray, a prominent citizen of Morgantown who was Clerk of the Court and a founder of the Morgantown Female Academy (to which he gave his home). The Willey family subsequently included seven children: Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. M.L. Casselberry of Morgantown; Sarah Barnes, wife of J. Marshall Hagans, distinguished judge; William Patrick, professor of law at West Virginia University; Julia, wife of Major William McGrew, Union Army officer, West Virginia state senator, and Morgantown banker; Thomas Ray, United States government clerk in the Interior Department; Louisa, unmarried, who remained at home; and John Byrne, deputy clerk of Monongalia County.","Waitman T. Willey maintained a successful and lucrative law practice in Morgantown for 67 years. He served as Monongalia County Clerk and clerk of the Circuit Superior Court from 1841 to 1852, and was Morgantown's first Superintendent of Schools. Willey had an early interest in politics and was an active member of the conservative Whig Party: he served as an elector for the Harrison-Tyler election of 1840, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1852, an unsuccessful Opposition (Whig Party) candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 1859, and a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice President in 1860. In 1850, Willey had been a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he championed western Virginia interests, white manhood suffrage, and governmental reforms. Again, in 1861, he was a delegate to the Virginia Convention that voted for secession (Willey voted against it). In the subsequent, Pro-Union, reorganized legislature (the \"Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling\"), Willey was elected to Congress to complete the term of James M. Mason for two years. While in the Senate, Willey actively introduced legislation to admit West Virginia into the Union. The Reorganized Government proposed a new state Constitution that Willey supported in Congress in 1862. Following revision of the proposal to include emancipation of slaves and a favorable referendum by the West Virginia voters, statehood was achieved in 1863.","Willey returned to the Senate in 1863 and was elected to the full six-year term in 1865. During his tenure, he initially opposed Republican lawmakers over issues involving the war, confiscation of rebel property, and slavery. But because of his \"ardent support\" of the Union, Willey's political views evolved through the years to support Republican aims, including national emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of disloyal citizens. He considered the latter appropriate in order to keep \"southern sympathizers\" from gaining control of West Virginia and perhaps reuniting the state with Virginia. Although Willey was aligned with conservative Republicans in the Senate, he did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the removal of President Johnson, and the 14th and 15th Amendments. He opposed the Freedman's Bureau and the Enforcement Acts of 1870. Many in West Virginia opposed Republican Party policies, and in 1870 the party lost control of state government. Willey left the Senate in 1871 and returned to his Morgantown law practice and the County Clerkship (1882-1890).","Willey remained active in politics throughout his later life. He served in the 1872 State Constitutional Convention and supported Republican Party policies and candidates, and was chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the GOP National Convention in 1876. He also continued his active service in the Methodist Church where he was an advocate for lay participation in the national conference and served as delegate from West Virginia in 1880. Willey was much in demand as a public speaker throughout his life -- he was called, \"old man eloquent\" -- because of his commanding appearance, \"thrilling\" voice, evident sincerity, and knowledge. He spoke frequently on Temperance, Methodist beliefs, politics, the classics, and history. He collected a large library, wrote numerous articles and a biography of Philip Doddridge. He received several honorary degrees, including LLD from Allegheny College and West Virginia University. Willey's last public appearance was at the funeral of Governor Pierpont when he gave a \"stirring\" eulogy. He was 88 years of age.","Waitman T. Willey, \"Grand Old Man of West Virginia,\" died May 2, 1900, at his home, Chancery Hill, in Morgantown. His funeral was the largest ever held in Morgantown to that time. He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.","Notes:\n1. In June, 1861, Willey was not present at the second convention in Wheeling at which the Reorganized Government of Virginia was established in preparation for statehood. His father and stepmother were fatally ill at the time and he was at home.","2. Willey never wrote a history of the statehood deliberations, politics, or conventions. He felt he was too biased to do justice to the history. No history was ever written by the participants.","Bibliography:\n1. Ambler, C.H.;  Waitman Thomas Willey , 1954, Standard Printing and Publishing C., Huntington, W. Va.","2. Corson, L.D.;  Legislative Career of Waitman T. Willey , 1942, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","3. Moore, J.T.; \"Waitman T. Willey,\" in  Dictionary of American Biography , p. 426.","4.  Obituary ,  Morgantown Weekly Post , Thursday, May 10, 1900.","5. Ware, A.F.;  A Study of the Rhetoric of Waitman T. Willey in the West Virginia Statehood Movement , 1952, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","6. White, L.C.;  West Virginia and Her U.S. Senators in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson , 1928, master's thesis, West Virginia University.","7. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Liberty and Union,\" 1854, Wheeling, J.E. Wharton, publisher. A speech.","8. Willey, Waitman T.; address delivered before the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in the City of Wheeling, 12 February 1863.","9. Willey, Waitman T.; \"Historical Address,\" Celebration of the Municipal Centennial of Morgantown, 1885.","10. Willey, William P.; The Formation of the State of West Virginia, 1901, The News Publishing Co., Wheeling, W. Va.","Prepared by Carole B. Boyd, M.D., 2000."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey Papers, A\u0026amp;M 0003, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Willey Papers, A\u0026M 0003, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e1361\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related A\u0026M Collections"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["1361"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026amp;O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 516\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLaw/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026amp;M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSelected correspondents include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRobert Anderson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.W. Arnett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Barns (WTW's uncle); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGordon Battelle; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlfred Beckley; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJudge Berkshire; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGideon D. Camden; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nArchibald W. Campbell; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn S. Carlile; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSchyler Colfax; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Davis; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSpencer Dayton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH.C. Dean; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nM.M. Dent; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nH. Dering; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.J. Evans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nHarrison Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJ. Marshall Hagans; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGranville D. Hall; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlpheus F. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT. and L. Haymond; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRichard Garrett; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNathan Goff; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUlysses S. Grant (autograph); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn J. Jackson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJohn L. Pendleton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nT.P. Ray; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nF.W. Seward; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nW.M. Shinn; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nEdwin M. Stanton; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nDavid Hunter Strother; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nGeorge W. Summers; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAlexander L. Wade; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames O. Watson; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s); \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFriends (e.g. 1209)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (e.g. item 1230) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReligion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSome Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSlavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIllness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Temperance\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLegal Matters\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSchool and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Constituents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Family and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Politics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGovernment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTemperance Activities\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for Jobs\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRequests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Political Topics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Legal\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBusiness\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePolitics\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily and Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material.","Series include:","Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied, 1840–1898, boxes 1-4\nSeries 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied, 1833–1900, boxes 4-16\nSeries 2. Financial Records, 1837–1869, boxes 17-18\nSeries 3. Legal Papers, 1820–1856, boxes 19-20\nSeries 4. W.T. Willey's Diary, 1830–1908, boxes 21-22\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous, 1827-1917, undated, box 22 and unboxed","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)","Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates) ","Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard \"abolitionists\" in the Methodist Church) ","Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) ","Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) ","Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of Merchants and Mechanics Bank)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) ","Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) ","Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) ","Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling; woolen factory [item 86])","Topics include:"," Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor) ","Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers) ","Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) ","Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) ","Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be built)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) ","Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) ","Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or Northern route)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore) ","Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin) ","Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville) ","Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants) ","Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) ","Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217 (patent information for a seed spreader, burning of a newspaper thought to be abolitionist in Gilmer County, post office refuses to deliver newspaper in Glenville, man indicted over newspaper in Glenville)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions) ","Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told \"Northern men not wanted in the state\" [item 238])","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons) ","Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College) ","Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) ","Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) ","Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a telegraph line, railroad land obtained by condemnation of land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont) ","Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union) ","Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention) ","Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery) ","Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361]) ","Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues) ","Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) ","Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) ","Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) ","Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses, arrest, government claims)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) ","Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) ","Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown business)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches) ","Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness) ","Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle) ","Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military) ","Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B\u0026O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, \"colored colonization\" law, citizen prisoners) ","Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase) ","Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling) ","Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property) ","Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County) ","Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Item 516","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) ","Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) ","Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item 518]; relative in Ohio talks of the Copperheads; church matters)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) ","Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in Kanawha County; exchange of prisoners from Richmond prison; story of a Camp Chase prisoner) ","Family and Friends: Items 548, 557, 559, 560 (church matters, friend requests seeds from Patent Office, Morgantown news)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) ","Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by \"rebels;\" redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an officer [items 577, 581]) ","Family and Friends: Items 562-563 (WTW elected to Literary Society at University of Illinois, Morgantown news) ","Law/Business: Item 578 (white pine timber land in West Virginia for sale)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of \"loyal\" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released; requests for money for a lost ship) ","Family and Friends: Items 588-589, 593, 597 (\"rebels\" in Morgantown carry off a prisoner from the town jail, local politics, local farming) ","Law/Business: Item 582 (new state laws)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 602-612, 614-620 (government and slavery, appointment request, elections) ","Government/War: Item 621 (request for exchange of a prisoner)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 623-625, 627, 629-641 (oil craze in Morgantown, activities of legislature, legal position of Virginia) ","Family and Friends: Item 622 (books sent) ","Law/Business: Items 626, 628, 636 (sale of Dorsey estate in Morgantown, suit against Judge Berkshire, railroad in Iowa and land)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 642-645, 647-650, 652-657, 661 (WTW elected to Senate; Congressional bills discussed; state legislature and election discussed; requests for jobs and money from government; Governor Boreman on loyalty and visit to the President regarding West Virginia; death of Lincoln reported by Van Winkle [item 656]) ","Government/War: Items 659-660 (widow requests pension from the government, list of officers petitioning for release from Fort Delaware) ","Law/Business: Items 646, 651 (publication of Alexander Hamilton's papers by his son; a lawyer wants to locate to West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 662-665, 668, 670, 678 (West Virginia banks and the government, West Virginia boundaries, losses in the Valley of Virginia, Van Winkle on war and Congress, job requests, a citizen in Virginia tells of conditions in the Valley) ","Law/Business: Items 666, 669, 679 (a Virginia man wants help in combating extortion; business in post-war Morgantown; library wanted for Weston State Hospital)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 681-684, 686, 689, 691-693, 695-701 (Iowa correspondent on politics, war, slavery; job requests; Frederick County, Virginia and the possibility of its joining West Virginia; West Virginia laws to prohibit former rebels from voting; loyalty oaths in Virginia; Pierpont on the Virginia Governor's office; Boreman on the need for Congress to pass bill regarding Jefferson and Berkeley Counties; Pierpont on President Johnson's oath of allegiance; a bill in Congress regarding steamboat inspections; an appointment to the Sandwich Islands wanted; Morgantown view of Johnson's Reconstruction plans; the Presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; appointment to Ecuador wanted; IRS office politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 685, 687 (lost baggage, news of Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 688, 690, 694 (letter from Alfred Beckley, Sr., founder of Raleigh County, about the County's resources; Boreman on business; Logan County resources)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 702-705, 707-720 (Pierpont on President Johnson and freed enslaved persons; upcoming election; Civil Rights bill in Congress; inability of Winchester, Virginia to pay its taxes; Civil Rights bill veto by President Johnson; northern officeholders in Virginia; former rebels holding office in Virginia; Pierpont on news articles regarding WTW's voting against the Civil Rights bill; WTW's bill for reparations for loyal suppliers to the Army; Union men in Randolph County; Boreman on Copperheads) ","Family and Friends: Item 706 (WTW told of the acquittal of his brother and his need for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 722, 725-727, 731-732, 734-740 (Morgantown town meeting; Jefferson and Berkeley Counties and Congress; rebel activities in Richmond, Union men in Virginia; postmaster in Parkersburg opposes the President, Governor Boreman's brother is the postmaster in Parkersburg who is being removed from office; bankruptcy bill in Congress discussed) ","Family and Friends: Item 724 (from WTW's son concerning law practice in Morgantown) ","Law/Business: Items 723, 728-729, 733 (law practice in Morgantown, railroad routes in West Virginia, production of soda ash in West Virginia, land for sale in Grafton)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 741-754, 756-763 (requests for speeches, bills in Congress and Constitutional Amendments, the question of whether or not medals for soldiers to be mailed free, opposition to the postmaster of Wheeling, Civil Rights bill in Congress, WTW elected to Senate) ","Family and Friends: Item 755 (from son, William, on the future of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts) ","Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779]) ","Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 784-785, 787-799, 802 (bills in Congress, government of Virginia, West Virginia woman asks about pension for a family with ancestors in Revolution and War of 1812, complaints that government is treating all Southerners the same, West Virginia complaints about Congress and freed enslaved persons, WTW objects to calling Major Doddridge and his son \"rebels\")","Family and Friends: Items 786, 800, 803 (Morgantown news, the high price of horses) ","Law/Business Item 801 (West Virginia coal)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) ","Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana Territory and its rebel population; report card for John Byrne Willey from West Virginia Agricultural College [item 820]) ","Law/Business: Items 804-807, 809, 822 (water and rail transportation in West Virginia and Morgantown; financing of West Virginia Agricultural College; Union Pacific Railroad seeking government money to complete line to the west coast)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of \"Negroes\" from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of \"disabilities;\" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840]) ","Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.) ","Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859]) ","Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883]) ","Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution) ","Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of \"disabilities;\" bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; \"WVU\" used instead of \"WV Agricultural College\" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) ","Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company requests money from the government to build monitors; WTW thanked for making a pro-railroad speech)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about \"disabilities\")","Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) ","Law/Business: Item 934 (grounds and buildings of Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute sold to Mrs. E. J. Moore for $5000)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about \"disabilities;\" whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments) ","Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) ","Family and Friends: Item 973 (more on Van Winkle's retirement) ","Law/Business: Items 975, 977 (use of coal and resources of West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on \"disabilities;\" Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government) ","Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 (\"disabilities;\" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1004-1020 (\"disabilities\" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a \"colony of men\" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) ","Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family) ","Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more \"disabilities;\" requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the \"coal fight;\" and WTW [item 1040]) ","Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to \"worthless people\")","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by \"rebels\" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more \"disabilities;\" a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) ","Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060 (description of the Far East by a naval officer aboard the USS Alaska [item 1047]; Van Winkle illness; life after Congress [item 1060]) ","Law/Business: Items 1049, 1052 (railroads in West Virginia; WTW bank account)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) ","Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's son, William, moved to St. Louis and writes about life and the practice of law there) ","Law/Business: Item 1081 (Southern Law Review)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) ","Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) ","Law/Business: Items 1086, 1093 (investing in railroads)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) ","Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) ","Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall Street brokers and stock sales)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) ","Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) ","Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern, and West Virginia Railroad in 1879, and the first train to reach Morgantown arrived in 1886; see \"Waitman Thomas Willey\" by Charles Ambler)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) ","Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in England; requests for WTW to speak at the Morgantown Centennial; a letter regards the history of West Virginia; WTW article about the schools) ","Law/Business: Items 1143, 1150 (officers of a Morgantown bank, and money for railroads in Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) ","Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an article written by WTW) ","Law/Business: Item 1167 (railroad finances)","This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. ","The letters have been previously divided into \"copied\" (Series 1a.) and \"not copied\" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the letters for which transcripts were made, apparently in connection with research by Ambler for his biography of Willey. These transcripts are filed in the Charles H. Ambler Collection (A\u0026M 122, boxes 10-12). In general, the \"copied\" letters are more pertinent to Willey's political career, especially his senate tenure during the Civil War, and his Methodist Church activities. Although the \"not copied\" letters also include material regarding his political and church activities, they are more concerned with his law and business interests, and family and friends.  \n\"Copied\" (transcribed) letters are found in boxes 1 through 4, are numbered 1 through 1181, and date from 1833 to 1898. ","\"Not copied\" (not transcribed) letters are found in boxes 4 through 16, are numbered 1182 through 7008, and date from 1833 to 1900. ","The incoming letters encompass a variety of topics: ","Everyday life in rural United States in the 19th Century (e.g., West Virginia); life in newly developed urban centers (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.); political life before the Civil War in Virginia and later in West Virginia; the plight of citizens and communities resulting from war (e.g., battle casualties and damage, reparation requests, loyalty \"disabilities\"); new territories and foreign countries visited by Willey's correspondents (e.g., the Western Territories of the USA, China, Japan, Central America, and Australia in the 1860s); the Methodist Church, temperance movement, school activities and needs (e.g., those of his sons and of the early years of West Virginia University). ","The letters represent the opinions, observations, requests, and activities of Willey's correspondents, and Willey himself is seen only through their writings. Willey's thoughts and commentaries can be found in his two-volume diary (see Series 4, W.T. Willey's Diary, boxes 21-22). ","Selected correspondents include:","Robert Anderson;  \nW.W. Arnett;  \nJames Barns (WTW's uncle);  \nGordon Battelle;  \nAlfred Beckley;  \nJudge Berkshire;  \nJacob Blair (Minister to Costa Rica);  \nGovernor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia;  \nR.M. Brown (U.S. Navy);  \nGideon D. Camden;  \nArchibald W. Campbell;  \nJohn S. Carlile;  \nSecretary of Treasury [Salmon P.?] Chase;  \nSchyler Colfax;  \nJohn J. Davis;  \nSpencer Dayton;  \nH.C. Dean;  \nM.M. Dent;  \nH. Dering;  \nT.J. Evans;  \nHarrison Hagans;  \nJ. Marshall Hagans;  \nGranville D. Hall;  \nAlpheus F. Haymond;  \nT. and L. Haymond;  \nRichard Garrett;  \nNathan Goff;  \nUlysses S. Grant (autograph);  \nJohn J. Jackson;  \nGovernor John Letcher of Virginia;  \nAlexander Martin (West Virginia University President);  \nJohn L. Pendleton;  \nFrancis H. Pierpont (governor of loyal Virginia);  \nT.P. Ray;  \nGeneral Winfield Scott (copy of letter);  \nF.W. Seward;  \nW.M. Shinn;  \nEdwin M. Stanton;  \nGovernor William E. Stevenson of West Virginia;  \nDavid Hunter Strother;  \nGeorge W. Summers;  \nPeter G. Van Winkle (U.S. Senator with Willey);  \nAlexander L. Wade;  \nJames O. Watson;  \nWilliam J. Willey (regarding Virginia legislature, 1830s);  \nWilley's sons (William, John, Ray), daughters, and wife.","The letters are generally in good condition and legible. Many letters have the original franking information and/or stamps; envelopes are few in number. Many letters have embossed watermarks or printed letterheads, and typewritten letters appear during the late 1800s.","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Friends (e.g. 1209)","(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Legal Matters","Family and Friends (e.g. item 1230) ","Religion (e.g. items 1251, 1258, 1280, 1291-1292, 1401) ","Politics (e.g. items 1275, 1326, 1366) ","(Note: during this time, WTW practiced law in Morgantown)","Topics include:"," Primarily Legal Matters (e.g. property suits) ","Some Political Matters (e.g. item 1447 -- WTW as elector for the Harrison/Tyler Presidential election) ","Slavery (e.g. item 1512 -- \"slave boy [sic], Thomas Jefferson\" should be free) ","Illness and Death in the Family (e.g. items 1497, 1499, 1502 -- death of Thomas P. Ray)","Items include:"," Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) ","Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) ","Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) ","(Note: WTW is Clerk of Monongalia County)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family Matters","Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)","(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)","Topics include:"," Temperance","Legal Matters","Family and Friends","School and Church Matters (e.g. items 2262-2300 -- applications for the Morgantown Female Academy) ","Politics (e.g. items 2370 and 2376 -- election and WTW running for office in 1859)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) ","(Note: WTW is in Richmond for the secession vote during this period)","Topics include:"," Constituents","Family and Friends","Politics and War (e.g. item 2988 -- recommendation to President Lincoln regarding General Rosecrans; e.g. item 3052 -- WTW voted against emancipation; e.g. item 3239 -- Jenkins raid in West Virginia)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3696 -- list of IRS fees for legal services; e.g. item 3703 -- translation of a letter in French)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. item 3641 -- advertising and testimonials by Professor Lacknow, \"only liver and blood physician of the age;\" e.g. item 4112 -- a prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, claims wrongful imprisonment)","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Government","War","Other Topics (e.g. items 4330a-4330b -- brief messages regarding fall of Richmond and fate of Lee's army; e.g. item 4421 -- letter from J. Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, regarding \"Sand Creek Affair\")","Topics include:"," Family and Friends","Politics","Other Topics (folder 3 -- President Andrew Johnson's appointments, and state jobs disputed between \"loyal\" citizens and \"rebels;\" folder 23 -- letter regarding enslaved persons and voting; folder 25 -- a person's claim for war work; folder 27 -- \"impeachment trial\" mentioned)","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that \"rebels\" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political \"disabilities,\" and information about railroads and the West)","(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the \"impeachment trial;\" folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the \"rebels\" in Greenbrier County [item 5786]; a letter lobbying for the government to do something for the railroads in WV since \"all the bridges\" were destroyed by the \"rebels\" [item 5788]; folders 24, 25, 27 -- similar subjects as above; folder 26 -- a letter requesting seeds and bulbs from the Agriculture Department [items 5849, 5851]; letters praising speech by WTW regarding Southern loyalists [items 5847, 5848] and a news article about fraud involving counterfeit money [item 5863])","Topics include:"," Politics","Government","Family and Friends","Business (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)","(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants another term in Senate [item 5902]; folder 2 -- an invitation for WTW to an excursion on the new Kansas-Pacific Railroad [item 5908] and more on the 15th Amendment [item 5909]; folder 10 -- contains the first postcard among the incoming letters; folder 19 -- letter detailing property values in Missouri and a letter from A.L. Purinton of Morgantown requesting job as agent for the \"civilized tribes\" in Bureau of Indian Affairs; folder 20 -- letter inviting WTW to lay cornerstone for a new building at Waynesburg College [July 1879])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends","Temperance Activities","Recommendations for Jobs","Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","General Political Topics","Family and Friends' Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis) ","(Note: WTW has written \"The Life of Philip Doddridge;\" Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding \"loyal WV from 1861-1865\" [item 6916], and a letter from son, Ray, about illness and a smallpox epidemic in Washington, D.C. [item 6917]; folder 28 -- letter regarding WTW's retirement at age 85 [item 6973])","Topics include:"," Legal","Business","Politics","Family and Friends","(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)","This series consists of Waitman T. Willey's financial records, including bills, checks, orders, and receipts.","This series includes Waitman T. Willey's legal papers, specifically uncategorized legal documents.","This series includes two volumes of Waitman T. Willey's personal diary. Volume 1 covers the years 1830-1899. Volume 2 includes clippings added posthumously and covers the years 1899-1908.","This series includes a folder of miscellaneous material (1827-1917); and an account book for \"Line Ferry,\" operator George Frankenberry, with entries for 1830-1856. The oversize folder includes an envelope, Willey's diploma from Madison College (1832), Willey's diploma from Augusta College (1834), and Willey's license to practice law (1832)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman T. Willey dating from 1833 to 1900 (bulk 1859-1869) concerning political, social, and economic affairs. There is much material on the temperance movement in Virginia (1845-1860), the Civil War, and the statehood movement in West Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous financial records (1837-1869) and legal papers (1820-1856); Willey's diary (entries from 1830-1899, posthumously added clippings through 1908); and other material. For more information about Willey, see the Historical Note."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_5cf97afe325843f43df11ef15816113b\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["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: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["United States. Congress. 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Includes correspondence and financial and legal papers (such as indentures, land records, wills, etc.) of William Price and the Price family regarding slaves, health, personal advice, farming, etc. There are two letters from Michael Price describing experiences during the campaign to capture Forts Henry and Donelson (1862), correspondence with William Price discussing West Virginia legislative matters (1872-1873), and a few letters from relatives in Wales. Includes Price genealogy information. Bulk of papers date from 1853 to 1875. (Includes transcriptions for all letters.) 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Land papers also relate to Greene County, Pennsylvania. There is a diary and memo book of William Price, 1861-1863, containing two references to his membership in the Wheeling Convention, 20 June 1861; an account book, 1885-1890; a journal maintained by Price during two business trips to Philadelphia in 1865; and a novel, \"Charlotte Temple\" published in 1807 owned by Mary Swon, with her family history inscribed on the back pages. There are also letters from Monongalia County citizens commenting on legislative enactments. Correspondents include R.L. Berkshire and Alexander Martin. An addendum of 2001/06/29 contains typescript transcriptions of the papers of William Price and family.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of William Price (1803-1881), a Monongalia County, West Virginia, resident, member of the Wheeling Convention, and state legislator, 1869-1873. Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, legal documents, and pictures. 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Tetrick maintained a lifetime interest in genealogy and local history, the result of which was this collection, perhaps the most comprehensive private family history collection ever compiled for West Virginia. Tetrick was also a founding member of the George Rogers Clark chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.","\n Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. (23 August 1911-30 December 1995) was the oldest of W. Guy Tetrick's four children. He attended West Virginia University, graduating in 1934. He was a retired lieutenant colonel from the Army Corps of Engineers and was owner and operator of Mineral Property Management. He shared his father's interest in history and genealogy.","\n A dedication ceremony for the collection was held on 20 September 1997. Copies of the program from this ceremony can be found in the Subject Series, box 6, folder 8C.","Genealogy research papers compiled by W. Guy Tetrick and his son Willis G. Tetrick, Jr. The Tetricks were from Harrison County and the material in the collection mainly regards families of Harrison County and north central West Virginia. The collection contains mostly original genealogical compilations and family histories. It also contains personal and business correspondence; financial records; publications regarding local and state history; newspapers and news clippings; obituaries, cemetery records; records of the Sons of the American Revolution; and other material.","This series consists of thirteen notebooks containing historic records relating to the West Virginia Cemetery Survey, including volumes 1-10, 14 and an index for cemeteries in Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Harrison, Jackson, Lewis, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Preston, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Upshur, and Wetzel Counties, and for cemeteries of unknown location.","Contains correspondence and related material between W. Guy Tetrick, members of the Sons of the American Revolution, and other correspondents. The series contains letters, annual chapter reports, membership lists, clippings, pamphlets, photographs, bulletins, and material regarding family histories. Correspondents include the National Sons of the American Revolution, Franklin Burdette (Secretary of West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution), the George Rogers Clark Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Margaret Anne Tetrick, Amy R. Anderson, the West Virginia Auditor's Office, the Upper Monongahela Valley Association, and the Caldwell Telephone Company. This series also includes correspondence regarding the West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution, organized alphabetically.","This series mainly consists of the correspondence of W. Guy Tetrick, organized alphabetically by correspondent, as well as related material including clippings, legal and financial documents, pamphlets, programs, telegrams, drafts of newspaper articles, a photograph of Henry N. Tetrick, and other material. Correspondents include the Exponent Corporation; Clarksburg Trust Company; C.M. Bailey; the Boise Placer Company; W.M. Morgan; Everett F. Moore; George H. Smith; D. J. Carter; and the Clinchfield Coal Company. Subjects of the correspondence include Tetrick's business dealings, family histories, and information regarding the property of Virginia A. Tetrick.","Contains nine diaries kept by W. Guy Tetrick. Most diary entries briefly describe daily events and activities; entries also describe weather conditions, places where Tetrick stayed, and financial information.","Contains material regarding genealogy and family history collected by W. Guy Tetrick. The majority of the material in the series concerns the history of various West Virginia families. The series also contains a Harrison County Clerk's property book, birth certificates, letters, maps, news clippings, pamphlets, and other material.","This series consists of ledgers containing genealogical and related information. The majority of this material regards families from north central West Virginia. There are wills, vital statistics, church and parish records, cemetery records, inventories and appraisals, property taxes, documents regarding land ownership, and other material. There are also Harrison County records and W. Guy Tetrick's notes.","This series consists of notebooks containing family genealogies and family histories, particularly those of north central West Virginia families. Also included within this series are census records; cemetery records; birth, marriage, and death records; and other material."," Most of the Genealogy Notebooks series was previously microfilmed and made accessible as A\u0026M 1306. There is also an index to material that was not microfilmed. Please refer to the control folder of this collection for a name index to post-microfilm insertions to the Genealogy Notebooks series.","Contains material regarding the historical and genealogical research performed by W. Guy Tetrick and others. Family histories compose the majority of the material within this series. Other material within the series includes correspondence, notebooks of information organized by county, West Virginia newspapers and news clippings, miscellaneous publications, posters, and material regarding W. Guy Tetrick, including letters and financial information.","Contains newspapers and news clippings collected by W. Guy Tetrick and others. Articles are mainly taken from West Virginia newspapers and concern historical subjects, mostly state and local history.","Contains obituaries, as well as photocopies of clippings, notices, and miscellaneous material.","Contains publications, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, newsletters, and other material. Items in this series mainly regard subjects of national, state, and local history, particularly West Virginia subjects and history. This series also contains two bibles and an epistle dedicatory.","Contains material related to the Sons of the American Revolution, including administrative and organizational documents, correspondence, and material relating to history and genealogy. The administrative and organizational material includes applications for membership, documents regarding the processing of applications, membership kits, pamphlets and other material regarding the application process. It also includes programs, pamphlets and other material regarding state, annual, and other meetings, as well as governing documents of the Sons of the American Revolution including its constitution, by-laws, and proposed amendments. This material also includes financial documents including treasurer's reports, an account book, checks, deposit tickets, financial statements, bills, tax forms, and other material. It also includes annual chapter reports, membership lists, minutes, memoranda, and other miscellaneous material. Correspondence within this series includes communications between members of the Sons of the American Revolution, its chapters, and outside parties such as the state government of West Virginia. It also includes miscellaneous correspondence. The material relating to history and genealogy within this series includes a history of the West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution; news clippings and other material regarding state history; supporting material for membership application, including birth, marriage, and death records; family histories; and material regarding Revolutionary War soldiers.","Contains Civil War Research Material (1929-1980), consisting of news clippings regarding Civil War history, typescript copies of muster rolls and other lists of soldiers, correspondence regarding Tetrick's research; and other material; property records (1891-1903) including hand written descriptions of agreements that indicate lot coordinates; two typescript copies of Monongalia District Court Records (1789); and typescript copies of volumes 1 through 9 of the Harrison County Minute Books (1792-1809).","Contains material regarding W. Guy Tetrick, including correspondence, financial records, pamphlets, photographs, and a diary, among other items. Corporate correspondents include the West Virginia Society, Sons of the American Revolution; the Central West Virginia Coal Producers Association; the Reserve Officers Association; the Harrison County Historical Society; the Historic Record Association; the Baltimore Office Supply Company; and H.E. Harris and Company Postage Stamps and Philatelic Supplies. Personal correspondents include Cleveland M. Bailey; J.S. Freeman, mayor of Rivesville, West Virginia; Harley Kilgore, Criminal Court of Raleigh County; Corliss F. Randolph, Seven Day Baptist Historical Society; and Lee Stern of the Stern Brothers Stock Farm. Financial records include income tax forms and reports, an account book, and bills, among other items.","The Tetrick collection included numerous books and journals, and about 1,800 of them were added to the Libraries' collections. The vast majority of them were about genealogy, family history, and local history of West Virginia and neighboring states. In the WVU Libraries instance of WorldCat, a keyword search on \"Tetrick\" limited by location to \"West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center\" will retrieve titles from his Collection that were placed in the Rare Book Room, as well as works he authored. Other separated titles can be found by examining a list located in the Subject series, located in box 6, folders 8B-8C. A special bookplate was attached in all volumes from the Tetrick collection.","\n  Unboxed item nos. 275-291 (Maryland Historical Magazine vol. XX no. 2 and vol. XXI nos. 1-4, 8-10, 12-20) were forwarded to the rare book librarian in August 2004 and are currently available in the West Virginia Collection under call number 975.2 M368.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Guy Tetrick (3 January 1883-15 July 1956) was a native of Harrison County, West Virginia. As a young man, he moved to Clarksburg, serving as deputy county clerk, then later as county clerk and in various other civil positions. Tetrick was one of the founders, and later the manager, of the local newspaper the \"Clarksburg Exponent\". He was also involved in a number of other local businesses. Tetrick maintained a lifetime interest in genealogy and local history, the result of which was this collection, perhaps the most comprehensive private family history collection ever compiled for West Virginia. Tetrick was also a founding member of the George Rogers Clark chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. (23 August 1911-30 December 1995) was the oldest of W. Guy Tetrick's four children. He attended West Virginia University, graduating in 1934. 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Correspondents include the National Sons of the American Revolution, Franklin Burdette (Secretary of West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution), the George Rogers Clark Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Margaret Anne Tetrick, Amy R. Anderson, the West Virginia Auditor's Office, the Upper Monongahela Valley Association, and the Caldwell Telephone Company. This series also includes correspondence regarding the West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution, organized alphabetically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series mainly consists of the correspondence of W. Guy Tetrick, organized alphabetically by correspondent, as well as related material including clippings, legal and financial documents, pamphlets, programs, telegrams, drafts of newspaper articles, a photograph of Henry N. Tetrick, and other material. Correspondents include the Exponent Corporation; Clarksburg Trust Company; C.M. Bailey; the Boise Placer Company; W.M. Morgan; Everett F. Moore; George H. 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Guy Tetrick, including correspondence, financial records, pamphlets, photographs, and a diary, among other items. Corporate correspondents include the West Virginia Society, Sons of the American Revolution; the Central West Virginia Coal Producers Association; the Reserve Officers Association; the Harrison County Historical Society; the Historic Record Association; the Baltimore Office Supply Company; and H.E. Harris and Company Postage Stamps and Philatelic Supplies. Personal correspondents include Cleveland M. Bailey; J.S. Freeman, mayor of Rivesville, West Virginia; Harley Kilgore, Criminal Court of Raleigh County; Corliss F. Randolph, Seven Day Baptist Historical Society; and Lee Stern of the Stern Brothers Stock Farm. 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It also contains personal and business correspondence; financial records; publications regarding local and state history; newspapers and news clippings; obituaries, cemetery records; records of the Sons of the American Revolution; and other material.","This series consists of thirteen notebooks containing historic records relating to the West Virginia Cemetery Survey, including volumes 1-10, 14 and an index for cemeteries in Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Harrison, Jackson, Lewis, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Preston, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Upshur, and Wetzel Counties, and for cemeteries of unknown location.","Contains correspondence and related material between W. Guy Tetrick, members of the Sons of the American Revolution, and other correspondents. The series contains letters, annual chapter reports, membership lists, clippings, pamphlets, photographs, bulletins, and material regarding family histories. Correspondents include the National Sons of the American Revolution, Franklin Burdette (Secretary of West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution), the George Rogers Clark Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Margaret Anne Tetrick, Amy R. Anderson, the West Virginia Auditor's Office, the Upper Monongahela Valley Association, and the Caldwell Telephone Company. This series also includes correspondence regarding the West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution, organized alphabetically.","This series mainly consists of the correspondence of W. Guy Tetrick, organized alphabetically by correspondent, as well as related material including clippings, legal and financial documents, pamphlets, programs, telegrams, drafts of newspaper articles, a photograph of Henry N. Tetrick, and other material. Correspondents include the Exponent Corporation; Clarksburg Trust Company; C.M. Bailey; the Boise Placer Company; W.M. Morgan; Everett F. Moore; George H. Smith; D. J. 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Correspondence within this series includes communications between members of the Sons of the American Revolution, its chapters, and outside parties such as the state government of West Virginia. It also includes miscellaneous correspondence. The material relating to history and genealogy within this series includes a history of the West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution; news clippings and other material regarding state history; supporting material for membership application, including birth, marriage, and death records; family histories; and material regarding Revolutionary War soldiers.","Contains Civil War Research Material (1929-1980), consisting of news clippings regarding Civil War history, typescript copies of muster rolls and other lists of soldiers, correspondence regarding Tetrick's research; and other material; property records (1891-1903) including hand written descriptions of agreements that indicate lot coordinates; two typescript copies of Monongalia District Court Records (1789); and typescript copies of volumes 1 through 9 of the Harrison County Minute Books (1792-1809).","Contains material regarding W. Guy Tetrick, including correspondence, financial records, pamphlets, photographs, and a diary, among other items. Corporate correspondents include the West Virginia Society, Sons of the American Revolution; the Central West Virginia Coal Producers Association; the Reserve Officers Association; the Harrison County Historical Society; the Historic Record Association; the Baltimore Office Supply Company; and H.E. Harris and Company Postage Stamps and Philatelic Supplies. Personal correspondents include Cleveland M. Bailey; J.S. Freeman, mayor of Rivesville, West Virginia; Harley Kilgore, Criminal Court of Raleigh County; Corliss F. Randolph, Seven Day Baptist Historical Society; and Lee Stern of the Stern Brothers Stock Farm. 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XXI nos. 1-4, 8-10, 12-20) were forwarded to the rare book librarian in August 2004 and are currently available in the West Virginia Collection under call number 975.2 M368.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The Tetrick collection included numerous books and journals, and about 1,800 of them were added to the Libraries' collections. The vast majority of them were about genealogy, family history, and local history of West Virginia and neighboring states. In the WVU Libraries instance of WorldCat, a keyword search on \"Tetrick\" limited by location to \"West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center\" will retrieve titles from his Collection that were placed in the Rare Book Room, as well as works he authored. Other separated titles can be found by examining a list located in the Subject series, located in box 6, folders 8B-8C. A special bookplate was attached in all volumes from the Tetrick collection.","\n  Unboxed item nos. 275-291 (Maryland Historical Magazine vol. XX no. 2 and vol. XXI nos. 1-4, 8-10, 12-20) were forwarded to the rare book librarian in August 2004 and are currently available in the West Virginia Collection under call number 975.2 M368."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Tetrick maintained a lifetime interest in genealogy and local history, the result of which was this collection, perhaps the most comprehensive private family history collection ever compiled for West Virginia. Tetrick was also a founding member of the George Rogers Clark chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.","\n Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. (23 August 1911-30 December 1995) was the oldest of W. Guy Tetrick's four children. He attended West Virginia University, graduating in 1934. He was a retired lieutenant colonel from the Army Corps of Engineers and was owner and operator of Mineral Property Management. He shared his father's interest in history and genealogy.","\n A dedication ceremony for the collection was held on 20 September 1997. Copies of the program from this ceremony can be found in the Subject Series, box 6, folder 8C.","Genealogy research papers compiled by W. Guy Tetrick and his son Willis G. Tetrick, Jr. The Tetricks were from Harrison County and the material in the collection mainly regards families of Harrison County and north central West Virginia. The collection contains mostly original genealogical compilations and family histories. It also contains personal and business correspondence; financial records; publications regarding local and state history; newspapers and news clippings; obituaries, cemetery records; records of the Sons of the American Revolution; and other material.","This series consists of thirteen notebooks containing historic records relating to the West Virginia Cemetery Survey, including volumes 1-10, 14 and an index for cemeteries in Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Harrison, Jackson, Lewis, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Preston, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Upshur, and Wetzel Counties, and for cemeteries of unknown location.","Contains correspondence and related material between W. Guy Tetrick, members of the Sons of the American Revolution, and other correspondents. The series contains letters, annual chapter reports, membership lists, clippings, pamphlets, photographs, bulletins, and material regarding family histories. Correspondents include the National Sons of the American Revolution, Franklin Burdette (Secretary of West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution), the George Rogers Clark Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Margaret Anne Tetrick, Amy R. Anderson, the West Virginia Auditor's Office, the Upper Monongahela Valley Association, and the Caldwell Telephone Company. This series also includes correspondence regarding the West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution, organized alphabetically.","This series mainly consists of the correspondence of W. Guy Tetrick, organized alphabetically by correspondent, as well as related material including clippings, legal and financial documents, pamphlets, programs, telegrams, drafts of newspaper articles, a photograph of Henry N. Tetrick, and other material. Correspondents include the Exponent Corporation; Clarksburg Trust Company; C.M. Bailey; the Boise Placer Company; W.M. Morgan; Everett F. Moore; George H. Smith; D. J. Carter; and the Clinchfield Coal Company. Subjects of the correspondence include Tetrick's business dealings, family histories, and information regarding the property of Virginia A. Tetrick.","Contains nine diaries kept by W. Guy Tetrick. Most diary entries briefly describe daily events and activities; entries also describe weather conditions, places where Tetrick stayed, and financial information.","Contains material regarding genealogy and family history collected by W. Guy Tetrick. The majority of the material in the series concerns the history of various West Virginia families. The series also contains a Harrison County Clerk's property book, birth certificates, letters, maps, news clippings, pamphlets, and other material.","This series consists of ledgers containing genealogical and related information. The majority of this material regards families from north central West Virginia. There are wills, vital statistics, church and parish records, cemetery records, inventories and appraisals, property taxes, documents regarding land ownership, and other material. There are also Harrison County records and W. Guy Tetrick's notes.","This series consists of notebooks containing family genealogies and family histories, particularly those of north central West Virginia families. Also included within this series are census records; cemetery records; birth, marriage, and death records; and other material."," Most of the Genealogy Notebooks series was previously microfilmed and made accessible as A\u0026M 1306. There is also an index to material that was not microfilmed. Please refer to the control folder of this collection for a name index to post-microfilm insertions to the Genealogy Notebooks series.","Contains material regarding the historical and genealogical research performed by W. Guy Tetrick and others. Family histories compose the majority of the material within this series. Other material within the series includes correspondence, notebooks of information organized by county, West Virginia newspapers and news clippings, miscellaneous publications, posters, and material regarding W. Guy Tetrick, including letters and financial information.","Contains newspapers and news clippings collected by W. Guy Tetrick and others. Articles are mainly taken from West Virginia newspapers and concern historical subjects, mostly state and local history.","Contains obituaries, as well as photocopies of clippings, notices, and miscellaneous material.","Contains publications, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, newsletters, and other material. Items in this series mainly regard subjects of national, state, and local history, particularly West Virginia subjects and history. This series also contains two bibles and an epistle dedicatory.","Contains material related to the Sons of the American Revolution, including administrative and organizational documents, correspondence, and material relating to history and genealogy. The administrative and organizational material includes applications for membership, documents regarding the processing of applications, membership kits, pamphlets and other material regarding the application process. It also includes programs, pamphlets and other material regarding state, annual, and other meetings, as well as governing documents of the Sons of the American Revolution including its constitution, by-laws, and proposed amendments. This material also includes financial documents including treasurer's reports, an account book, checks, deposit tickets, financial statements, bills, tax forms, and other material. It also includes annual chapter reports, membership lists, minutes, memoranda, and other miscellaneous material. Correspondence within this series includes communications between members of the Sons of the American Revolution, its chapters, and outside parties such as the state government of West Virginia. It also includes miscellaneous correspondence. The material relating to history and genealogy within this series includes a history of the West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution; news clippings and other material regarding state history; supporting material for membership application, including birth, marriage, and death records; family histories; and material regarding Revolutionary War soldiers.","Contains Civil War Research Material (1929-1980), consisting of news clippings regarding Civil War history, typescript copies of muster rolls and other lists of soldiers, correspondence regarding Tetrick's research; and other material; property records (1891-1903) including hand written descriptions of agreements that indicate lot coordinates; two typescript copies of Monongalia District Court Records (1789); and typescript copies of volumes 1 through 9 of the Harrison County Minute Books (1792-1809).","Contains material regarding W. Guy Tetrick, including correspondence, financial records, pamphlets, photographs, and a diary, among other items. Corporate correspondents include the West Virginia Society, Sons of the American Revolution; the Central West Virginia Coal Producers Association; the Reserve Officers Association; the Harrison County Historical Society; the Historic Record Association; the Baltimore Office Supply Company; and H.E. Harris and Company Postage Stamps and Philatelic Supplies. Personal correspondents include Cleveland M. Bailey; J.S. Freeman, mayor of Rivesville, West Virginia; Harley Kilgore, Criminal Court of Raleigh County; Corliss F. Randolph, Seven Day Baptist Historical Society; and Lee Stern of the Stern Brothers Stock Farm. Financial records include income tax forms and reports, an account book, and bills, among other items.","The Tetrick collection included numerous books and journals, and about 1,800 of them were added to the Libraries' collections. The vast majority of them were about genealogy, family history, and local history of West Virginia and neighboring states. In the WVU Libraries instance of WorldCat, a keyword search on \"Tetrick\" limited by location to \"West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center\" will retrieve titles from his Collection that were placed in the Rare Book Room, as well as works he authored. Other separated titles can be found by examining a list located in the Subject series, located in box 6, folders 8B-8C. A special bookplate was attached in all volumes from the Tetrick collection.","\n  Unboxed item nos. 275-291 (Maryland Historical Magazine vol. XX no. 2 and vol. XXI nos. 1-4, 8-10, 12-20) were forwarded to the rare book librarian in August 2004 and are currently available in the West Virginia Collection under call number 975.2 M368.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Guy Tetrick (3 January 1883-15 July 1956) was a native of Harrison County, West Virginia. As a young man, he moved to Clarksburg, serving as deputy county clerk, then later as county clerk and in various other civil positions. Tetrick was one of the founders, and later the manager, of the local newspaper the \"Clarksburg Exponent\". He was also involved in a number of other local businesses. Tetrick maintained a lifetime interest in genealogy and local history, the result of which was this collection, perhaps the most comprehensive private family history collection ever compiled for West Virginia. Tetrick was also a founding member of the George Rogers Clark chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. (23 August 1911-30 December 1995) was the oldest of W. Guy Tetrick's four children. He attended West Virginia University, graduating in 1934. 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Tetrick maintained a lifetime interest in genealogy and local history, the result of which was this collection, perhaps the most comprehensive private family history collection ever compiled for West Virginia. Tetrick was also a founding member of the George Rogers Clark chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.","\n Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. (23 August 1911-30 December 1995) was the oldest of W. Guy Tetrick's four children. He attended West Virginia University, graduating in 1934. He was a retired lieutenant colonel from the Army Corps of Engineers and was owner and operator of Mineral Property Management. He shared his father's interest in history and genealogy.","\n A dedication ceremony for the collection was held on 20 September 1997. 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Correspondents include the National Sons of the American Revolution, Franklin Burdette (Secretary of West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution), the George Rogers Clark Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Margaret Anne Tetrick, Amy R. Anderson, the West Virginia Auditor's Office, the Upper Monongahela Valley Association, and the Caldwell Telephone Company. This series also includes correspondence regarding the West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution, organized alphabetically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series mainly consists of the correspondence of W. Guy Tetrick, organized alphabetically by correspondent, as well as related material including clippings, legal and financial documents, pamphlets, programs, telegrams, drafts of newspaper articles, a photograph of Henry N. Tetrick, and other material. Correspondents include the Exponent Corporation; Clarksburg Trust Company; C.M. Bailey; the Boise Placer Company; W.M. Morgan; Everett F. Moore; George H. 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Correspondents include the National Sons of the American Revolution, Franklin Burdette (Secretary of West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution), the George Rogers Clark Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Margaret Anne Tetrick, Amy R. Anderson, the West Virginia Auditor's Office, the Upper Monongahela Valley Association, and the Caldwell Telephone Company. This series also includes correspondence regarding the West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution, organized alphabetically.","This series mainly consists of the correspondence of W. Guy Tetrick, organized alphabetically by correspondent, as well as related material including clippings, legal and financial documents, pamphlets, programs, telegrams, drafts of newspaper articles, a photograph of Henry N. Tetrick, and other material. Correspondents include the Exponent Corporation; Clarksburg Trust Company; C.M. Bailey; the Boise Placer Company; W.M. Morgan; Everett F. Moore; George H. Smith; D. J. Carter; and the Clinchfield Coal Company. Subjects of the correspondence include Tetrick's business dealings, family histories, and information regarding the property of Virginia A. Tetrick.","Contains nine diaries kept by W. Guy Tetrick. Most diary entries briefly describe daily events and activities; entries also describe weather conditions, places where Tetrick stayed, and financial information.","Contains material regarding genealogy and family history collected by W. Guy Tetrick. The majority of the material in the series concerns the history of various West Virginia families. The series also contains a Harrison County Clerk's property book, birth certificates, letters, maps, news clippings, pamphlets, and other material.","This series consists of ledgers containing genealogical and related information. The majority of this material regards families from north central West Virginia. There are wills, vital statistics, church and parish records, cemetery records, inventories and appraisals, property taxes, documents regarding land ownership, and other material. There are also Harrison County records and W. Guy Tetrick's notes.","This series consists of notebooks containing family genealogies and family histories, particularly those of north central West Virginia families. Also included within this series are census records; cemetery records; birth, marriage, and death records; and other material."," Most of the Genealogy Notebooks series was previously microfilmed and made accessible as A\u0026M 1306. There is also an index to material that was not microfilmed. Please refer to the control folder of this collection for a name index to post-microfilm insertions to the Genealogy Notebooks series.","Contains material regarding the historical and genealogical research performed by W. Guy Tetrick and others. Family histories compose the majority of the material within this series. Other material within the series includes correspondence, notebooks of information organized by county, West Virginia newspapers and news clippings, miscellaneous publications, posters, and material regarding W. Guy Tetrick, including letters and financial information.","Contains newspapers and news clippings collected by W. Guy Tetrick and others. Articles are mainly taken from West Virginia newspapers and concern historical subjects, mostly state and local history.","Contains obituaries, as well as photocopies of clippings, notices, and miscellaneous material.","Contains publications, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, newsletters, and other material. Items in this series mainly regard subjects of national, state, and local history, particularly West Virginia subjects and history. This series also contains two bibles and an epistle dedicatory.","Contains material related to the Sons of the American Revolution, including administrative and organizational documents, correspondence, and material relating to history and genealogy. The administrative and organizational material includes applications for membership, documents regarding the processing of applications, membership kits, pamphlets and other material regarding the application process. It also includes programs, pamphlets and other material regarding state, annual, and other meetings, as well as governing documents of the Sons of the American Revolution including its constitution, by-laws, and proposed amendments. This material also includes financial documents including treasurer's reports, an account book, checks, deposit tickets, financial statements, bills, tax forms, and other material. It also includes annual chapter reports, membership lists, minutes, memoranda, and other miscellaneous material. Correspondence within this series includes communications between members of the Sons of the American Revolution, its chapters, and outside parties such as the state government of West Virginia. It also includes miscellaneous correspondence. The material relating to history and genealogy within this series includes a history of the West Virginia Sons of the American Revolution; news clippings and other material regarding state history; supporting material for membership application, including birth, marriage, and death records; family histories; and material regarding Revolutionary War soldiers.","Contains Civil War Research Material (1929-1980), consisting of news clippings regarding Civil War history, typescript copies of muster rolls and other lists of soldiers, correspondence regarding Tetrick's research; and other material; property records (1891-1903) including hand written descriptions of agreements that indicate lot coordinates; two typescript copies of Monongalia District Court Records (1789); and typescript copies of volumes 1 through 9 of the Harrison County Minute Books (1792-1809).","Contains material regarding W. Guy Tetrick, including correspondence, financial records, pamphlets, photographs, and a diary, among other items. Corporate correspondents include the West Virginia Society, Sons of the American Revolution; the Central West Virginia Coal Producers Association; the Reserve Officers Association; the Harrison County Historical Society; the Historic Record Association; the Baltimore Office Supply Company; and H.E. Harris and Company Postage Stamps and Philatelic Supplies. Personal correspondents include Cleveland M. Bailey; J.S. Freeman, mayor of Rivesville, West Virginia; Harley Kilgore, Criminal Court of Raleigh County; Corliss F. Randolph, Seven Day Baptist Historical Society; and Lee Stern of the Stern Brothers Stock Farm. 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A special bookplate was attached in all volumes from the Tetrick collection.","\n  Unboxed item nos. 275-291 (Maryland Historical Magazine vol. XX no. 2 and vol. XXI nos. 1-4, 8-10, 12-20) were forwarded to the rare book librarian in August 2004 and are currently available in the West Virginia Collection under call number 975.2 M368."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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