.9 Linear Feet, 11 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.); (1 flat storage box, 3 in.)
Creator
Federer, Greenland Thompson, 1888-1961
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/
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Greenland Thompson Federer Papers, A&M 3624, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Greenland Thompson (G.T.) Federer (1888-1961) was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, the son of the Reverend and Mrs.
G. A. Federer. In 1897 they moved to Preston County, West Virginia and then to Morgantown in 1908. He received his early
education in the public schools and graduated from Fairmont State Normal School in 1915. He attended West Virginia University
seeking an A.B. degree, 1915 to 1917, but his education was interrupted by his service during World War I in Company E, 317
Infantry, 80th Division of the United States Army. After the war he returned from France to Morgantown where he started a
mercantile business, a meat market, in 1919. He married Thora Leoti Robinson, a teacher at the William R. White School in
Fairmont, in 1920.
In 1924, Federer, a Republican, was elected to represent Monongalia County in the West Virginia House of Delegates where he
served on the Taxation and Finance Committee, the Prohibition and Temperance Committee, and the State Boundaries and Re-Districting
Committee.
For a brief time after WWII Federer sold real estate. He continued to live in Morgantown until his death in 1961.
Excerpted from a marriage notice in The West Virginian (Fairmont, WV) 1920, and the West Virginia Blue Book , 1926.
Records of Greenland Thompson Federer, a WWI veteran, Morgantown businessman, and politician. Includes records documenting
his WWI service in Company E, 317 Infantry, 80th Division in France, and papers from his campaign and political career as
a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. Federer's business, a meat market, is shown in photographs, including interior
and exterior views. The collection also includes postcards and some artifacts.
The collection is grouped into eight series: 1) World War I Material; 2) Political Material; 3) Printed Ephemera; 4) Postcards;
5) Photographs; 6) Publications; 7) Artifacts; 8) Oversize.
Two Postcards (President Woodrow Wilson; photograph of nurses)
ca. 1917-1918
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Two Manuals (includes "English-French Conversation Book" and "Army and Navy Service Book"; a ticket to a vaudeville show in
Bourges, France on the day of the Armistice, November 11, 1918)
ca. 1917-1918
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Enlistment and Discharge Papers (also includes letter from 10-10-1918 with thumbnail sketch of G.T. Federer's military service,
and work pass from 12-1918 issued by "Headquarters U.S. Troops Bourges")
Program for Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Charleston, West Virginia (attended by G.T. Federer); "The Palmer Method
of Business Writing" by A.N. Palmer, 1928 (used by Eloise Yvonne Federer in 1934-1935 in Wiles Hill School in Morgantown)
1925, 1928
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Business Card and Billing Form from Federer's Market House on 229 Chestnut Street, Morgantown
ca. 1920s
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Certificate Licensing G.T. Federer as Class Slaughterer by the U.S. War Food Administration
Group Portrait of Students and Faculty of the Normal School at Terra Alta, Preston County, West Virginia (G.T. Federer's sister
Beatrice taught here)
1913
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Group Portrait of Loyal Temperance Union of Rock Cave, West Virginia
ca. 1900-1915
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Wrecked Steamboat in River Ice
ca. 1900-1915
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Group Portrait of Employees of Snider Brothers (Bros.) Meat Market (includes G.T. Federer in white coat; he was the butcher
at this meat market)
ca. 1915-1920
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Exterior of G.T. Federer Meat Market (through window is G.T. Federer on right in white coat; there are fruits stacked in
the window); ca. 1920s Box 1; Folder 12; Interior of G.T. Federer Meat Market (G.T. Federer on right in white coat)
Book -- Monticola, West Virginia University Yearbook (includes advertisement on page 296 for Federer's market, on the corner
of High and Pleasant Streets)
1921
Mixed Materials Box: 1
Book -- "Preparing for Citizenship" by William Backus Guitteau
Photograph -- Interior of Jamison and Jollife City Meat Market, Morgantown, West Virginia, 230 High Street
1911
Mixed Materials Box: 2
Photograph -- Parade of John F. Casey Company Employees of Marion County (this was apparently an event to welcome home soldiers
returning from WWI)
ca. 1917-1918
Mixed Materials Box: 2
Photograph -- Interior of Meat Market of G. T. Federer, Morgantown, West Virginia, High and Pleasant Streets
1922
Mixed Materials Box: 2
Real Estate Broadside (G.T. Federer was involved with real estate after WWII; his real estate office was located at 295 High
Street, Morgantown, West Virginia)
ca. 1945-1950
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1
Souvenir Newspapers from France (includes photocopies of five mastheads from newspapers that were purchased as souvenirs by
G.T. Federer in France at the time World War I ended; originals of these five papers were disposed of because of their condition)
1918/11-12
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
Souvenir Newspapers from France (includes photocopies of mastheads and original front pages of five newspapers that were purchased
as souvenirs by G.T. Federer in France at the time World War I ended; originals are in folders 3-7)
1918/11
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3
"Le Journal" (souvenir, original front page of newspaper)
1918 November 11
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4
"L'Oeuvre" (souvenir, original front page of newspaper)
1918 November 20
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5
"Le Matin" (souvenir, original front page of newspaper)
1918 November 20
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6
"Le Victoire" (souvenir, original front page of newspaper)
1918 November 20
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7
"L'Echo De Paris" (souvenir, original front page of newspaper)
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