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Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Moreland Family Papers, A&M 2983, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Brown, John, Jr.
- Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919
- Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961
- Fayette County (Pa.) -- History
- Heiskell Memorial Hospital
- Land Companies -- History
- Land grants - Monongalia County, (West Virginia).
- Land patents - Monongalia County.
- Mason-Dixon Line
- Meredith, Edward E.
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) -- History
- Monongalia County Hospital.
- Moreland family
- Moreland, Ethel B. (Finnicum)
- Moreland, James R., 1879-1955
- Moreland, John.
- Moreland, Joseph.
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History
- Morgantown Bridge Company
- Morgantown Hospital Association
- Morgantown Militia Reserve.
- Mother's Day
- Mt. Harmony M. P. Church (Marion County).
- Price, Andrew.
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
- Shisler, Edward.
- Slavery -- West Virginia -- Monongalia County
- West Virginia -- History
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Fayette County (Pa.) -- History
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) -- History
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History
- West Virginia -- History
Container List
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Land patent to Bartholomew Harrison of Monongalia County, Virginia, signed by Governor Edmund Randolph
1788 March 17
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Title and receipt for an enslaved African named Gabriel from Thomas I. and Sarah Massie to Benjamin F. Smith of Monongalia
County, Virginia
1857
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Pennsylvania Soldier's Land Grant to John Cummings, administrator of John Smith's estate, of land in Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania, signed by Benjamin Franklin
1887 August 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Land patent to James Cleland of Monongalia County, Virginia, signed by Governor Patrick Henry
1785 October 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Money purse made from a parchment land patent belonging to Michael Kern of Monongalia County, Virginia
1788
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Deed of land in Monongalia County, Virginia, from John How to Samuel Jones
1807 September 7
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Land patent to Robert Hawthorn of Monongalia County, Virginia, signed by Governor James P. Preston
1819 October 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Notes on early Morgantown history taken by Edward Shisler
ca. 1900s
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
John Moreland papers (including personal receipts, bills, and correspondence)
1800–1867
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Leather purse
ca. 1800s
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Correspondence of Joseph Moreland (includes letters concerning Moreland's attempt to acquire a passport for his daughter Eleanor
and the drive to pass the State Prohibition Amendment in the 1912 election; correspondents include U.S. Senators Stephen B.
Elkins and J.P. Dolliver)
1904–1912
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Assorted correspondence (includes letters regarding the Great Depression, the failure of the coal industry in West Virginia,
and Eleanor Roosevelt's concern for local residents)
1937–1939
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Receipt to James R. Moreland from the Athens Lumber Co. and a Democratic Party handbill satirizing the Republicans during
the 1932 Presidential campaign
1908–1932
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14
Assorted correspondence (includes invitations from James R. Moreland [celebration committee chairman] to various dignitaries
inviting them to ceremonies marking the opening of Richwood Avenue in Morgantown, which was constructed by the Works Progress
Administration; replies from dignitaries are included, including those by Representative Jennings Randolph and Governor Homer
A. Holt)
1937
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15
Personal correspondence and notes of James R. Moreland (subjects include West Virginia history and Moreland's involvement
with the West Virginia Historical Society; correspondents include Innis C. Davis, Roy B. Cook, R. Gerald McMurty, L.J. Priestley,
and Phil Conley)
1938–1946
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16
Chancery order in the court case of Morgantown Bridge Company vs. Bright, Durbin, Hays, Nimon, and Dawson ordering $1,100
to Morgantown Bridge Company (secretary was Joseph Moreland)
1860 August 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17
Unit roll book of the Morgantown Militia Reserve (includes demerits; James R. Moreland was a sergeant in the reserve)
1918
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18
Assorted records regarding the Morgantown Militia Reserve in World War I
1918
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Typescripts on Morgantown history by James R. Moreland, Joseph Moreland, and Ruth C. Woods
ca. 1900s
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Typescripts on the Mason-Dixon Line, Washington's visit to Monongalia County, and the Cheat area of Monongalia County
ca. 1900s
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Bibliography on the West Virginia frontier complied for the Sons of the American Revolution, anecdotal typescripts and notes
about Morgantown, and notes on Morgantown history
ca. 1900s
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Typescript histories of the Ohio Company of Virginia and the Indiana Company written by James R. Moreland
ca. 1900s
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
Genealogical sketches of the Moreland/Brown, Tennat, Lugh, Hanway, and Hanks/Lincoln families of West Virginia
ca. 1940s
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
Notes and a scrapbook compiled by James R. Moreland on the judicial history of Monongalia County
1776–1955
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
Newspaper clippings and scrapbooks regarding West Virginia history
1946–1947
Mixed Materials Box: 2
Scrapbook regarding Morgantown history with a special emphasis on education
1830–1947
Mixed Materials Box: 3
Three scrapbooks containing various clippings and notes on West Virginia History with particular attention on Morgantown
1795–1953
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
Autographed copy of Senator M.M. Neely's Mother's Day speech at Grafton in 1933 and a typescript entitled "Marking WV Points
of Interest" by Ross M. Johnston
1933–1935
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
Histories of Blennerhasset Island by A.F. Gibbens and John A. Hutchinson
ca. 1900s
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
Assorted West Virginia history typescripts and a list of West Virginia Revolutionary War pensioners
ca. 1900s
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
"Dr. H.B. Allsup: The Story of a Hermit" by E.E. Meredith [typescript]
1937
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
Assorted speeches and addresses
1876–1946
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6
Assorted West Virginia history typescripts
ca. 1900s
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8
Assorted papers from the celebration in Morgantown honoring Admiral French Ensor Chadwick, a veteran of the Spanish-American
War (one of the speeches given was by Joseph Moreland)
1899 October 10
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 9
Excerpts from "History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania" by Ellis
ca. 1900s