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West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Primary Collecting Areas:
West Virginia and Appalachia History and Culture
Description:
The West Virginia & Regional History Center preserves and provides access to the records that document the history and culture of the state and the central Appalachian region. The Center is part of West Virginia University Libraries.
POC: Lori Hostuttler
Phone: (304) 293-3536
Start Over Repository West Virginia and Regional History Center Date range 1901

William S. Downs, Engineering Professor, Papers, 1900/1926 1.7 Linear Feet 1 ft. 8 in. (4 document cases, 5 in. each)

Downs, William S.

Downs was an engineering professor at West Virginia University and an engineer with the West Virginia State Road Commission. Includes records and photos of road-building projects in Bolivia and West Virginia, photograph albums of West Virginia hydro-electric plant construction, lists of lot owners for the area flooded by Cheat Lake, and a memoir of Downs' student years at West Virginia University, ca. 1905.

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William Smith O'Brien (1862-1948) Papers, 1830/1950 0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (1 document case, 5 in.; 1 folder, 1 item)

O'Brien, William Smith, 1862-1948
Correspondence, business and legal papers, notebooks, speeches, historical essays, genealogical records, clippings, and printed material of a Buckhannon lawyer, state jurist, member of Congress (1927-1929), and West Virginia Secretary of State (1933-1948). The collection also includes papers of O'Brien's father, Emmett J., a member of the state's first Constitutional Convention; letters from O'Brien's brother, Lieutenant A.L. O'Brien, 1874-1887, a West Point graduate serving at forts Assinniboine, Belknap, and Spokane in the Montana Territory and Washington State; letters of Henry M. White, O'Brien's brother-in-law, and a lawyer with the Immigration Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission; a diary of a trip to Texas in 1907; and genealogical records of the Joseph Hall, William Norris, O'Brien, and Jacob Reger families. Subjects include West Virginia Wildlife League; Methodism in Upshur County; an expedition in pursuit of Sitting Bull; the Rush Holt contested election of 1934; the McAdoo-Smith contest of 1924; the Townsendites; presidential election of 1936; state politics; pioneer history of West Virginia; and the Vandalia Company.
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William W. and J.J. Holloway Papers, 1880/1969 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in. (1 folder)

Holloway, William W.
Collection concerns J.J. Holloway, financier and banker of Wheeling, and his son William W. Holloway (Sr.), businessman and former executive of Wheeling Steel Corporation. There is a journal containing J.J. Holloway's personal expenditures for 1880, and a notebook of prices and specifications for iron and steel products of the Standard Steel and Iron Company.
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William Wesley Warder Papers, 1860/1939 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

Warder, William Wesley
Correspondence and sketches of Warder and his wife, Evaline C. Farnsworth. The letters, written by Warder while a member of the First Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1861-63, pertain to the activities and proceedings of the convention.
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William W. Fike, General Store Account Ledger and Customer Day Book, 1899/1917 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 3 in. (1 small flat storage box)

Fike, William W.
Two ledgers owned by farmer and merchant William W. Fike of Grant and Tucker Counties, W. Va. Includes general store account ledger for Dobbins, Grant County, W. Va. for years 1903-1904 listing inventory transactions such as candy, coal, coffee, dry goods, eggs, flour, fruit, furniture, hard ware, lumber, meat, medicine, postage, produce, shoes, snuff, sugar, syrup, tobacco, and wheat; includes farm expenses as well. Also includes customer day book for years 1899-1917 listing names, dates, and items purchased.
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William W. Trent (1878-1960) Papers, 1898/1954, bulk 1933/1956 2.1 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 1 in. (5 document cases, 5 in. each)

Trent, William W., 1878-1960

The papers of West Virginia's State Superintendent of Free Schools from 1933-1957 includes three boxes of newspaper clipping scrapbooks, 1934-1941, a file of mimeograph bulletins, news releases, reports and circular letters, 1937-1954. There is one box of Trent's college essays.

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Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. Genealogy Research Papers, 1708/1997 131.6 Linear Feet 131 ft. 7 in. (41 record cartons, 15 in. each); (1 oversize record carton, 18 in.); (1 flat storage box, 3 in.); (274 unboxed ledgers and notebooks, 78 ft. 7 in.)

Tetrick, Willis Guy, Jr., 1911-1995
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.
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Willy and Aenne Schutze Papers, 1880/1970 0.83 Linear Feet 2 document cases, 5 in. each

Schutze, Willy

Papers of Willy and Aenne Schutze. Most of the collection consists of letters written by Willy to Aenne Schutze in Arnstadt, Thuringia during the First World War (WWI) in the period 1915-1916. Willy was a member of the 4th Landwehr Division, a type of unit consisting primarily of older soldiers performing occupation and security services. There are also postcards from the 1880s, letters from circa 1909-1910, picture postcards, and photographs of Willy and Aenne Schutze. A calling card in the collection for Willy Schutze shows that he was a "Braumeister" for the "Frankenhausen Aktienbrauerei". There is also what appears to be a poem about World War I.

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