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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1904/1944" type="inclusive">1904-1944</unitdate>
    <abstract id="aspace_3457f4c90ec6e6c39d7afb5a450cdd67">Eleven years of diaries of James Howard Patterson, a Glen Roy, Ohio, teacher. Describes weather, daily school routines and lessons, and general affairs of his personal and social life. Diaries are for years 1904, 1911, 1913, 1921, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1938, and 1944.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], James Howard Patterson Diaries, A&amp;M 2866, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>James Howard Patterson, a noted educator in the Morgantown area, authored "Of Me I Sing: or, Me, and Education" in 1940.  The book is autobiographical and explains Patterson's ideas about education. He died in Morgantown on April 12, 1949.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <geogname source="ingest">Glen Roy (Ohio)</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Diaries and journals.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040989" source="lcsh">Education</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85132964" source="lcsh">Teachers</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Schools. SEE ALSO Academies</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Teachers' letters and papers.</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Patterson, James Howard, 1867-1949</persname>
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