39 Linear Feet, 39 ft. (93 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 index card box, 3 in.)
Creator
Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
Correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, research notes, and other papers of a historian who served on the faculty of West Virginia
University from 1932 to 1965 and as chairman of the history department from 1946 to 1962. Included are: his official as well
as personal correspondence; notes for speeches; research notes, rough drafts and proofs for his published works on William
L. Wilson and Johnson Newlon Camden; exams, outlines, and notes for classes he taught; material relating to the University
Senate and committees on which he served; a scrapbook covering Monongalia County and other subjects (1850-1897); and papers
relating to West Virginia University. Included is a manuscript history of West Virginia University which Summers worked on
during his retirement and which William T. Doherty, Jr. finished and published in 1982 as WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: SYMBOL
OF UNITY IN A SECTIONALIZED STATE. There is also desk plaque given to Summers when he served on the West Virginia Centennial
Commission; the plaque is fashioned of wood from the first capitol in Wheeling.
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.
Conditions Governing Access
No special access restriction applies.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Festus P. Summers (1895-1971), Historian, Papers, A&M 2208, West Virginia
and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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