West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence, 1909-1949 , A&M 1976

Abstract

Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium; Berkeley Springs Park; Concord College; Colored Orphans Home; Colored Insane Asylum; Colored Old Folks Home; Denmar Sanitarium; Demonstration Packing Plant at Inwood; Droop Mountain Battlefield; Fairmont Emergency Hospital; Industrial Home for Girls; Industrial Home for Colored Girls; Industrial Home for Boys; Industrial Home for Colored Boys; Hopemont Sanitarium; Huntington State Hospital; Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp; Indian Mound Cemetery; Lakin State Hospital; Marshall College; McKendree Hospital; Medium Security Prison; Miner's Hospitals 1, 2, and 3; Pinecrest Sanitarium; New River State School; Potomac State College; Spencer State Hospital; Storer College; Reymann Memorial Farms; Andrew S. Rowan Memorial Home; Rutherford Sanitarium; School for the Deaf and Blind; School for the Colored Deaf and Blind; Shepherd College; Weston State Hospital; West Liberty State College; Welch Emergency Hospital; West Virginia Training School; West Virginia State College; West Virginia Tech; and West Virginia University. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, R.A. Armstrong, Thurman Arnold, Cleveland M. Bailey, Charles Baker, J.J. Cornwell, Brooks Cottle, William M.O. Dawson, John W. Davis, W.E. Glasscock, Howard M. Gore, Denzil L. Gainer, C. Howard Hardesty, Henry D. Hatfield, Thomas E. Hodges, Homer A. Holt, Rush D. Holt, B.M. Laidley, E.F. Morgan, J.F. Marsh, C.W. Meadows, Robert H. Mollohan, Matthew M. Neely, Jennings Randolph, John D. Rockefeller II, A.M. Reese, D.B. Purinton, Frank B. Trotter, J.R. Turner, W.R. Thurmond, and I.C. White.

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans.
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957
Armstrong, R.A.
Arnold, Thurman Wesley, 1891-1969
Bailey, Cleveland Monroe, 1886-1965
Baker, Charles.
Barnes, J.W.
Berkeley Springs Park.
Berkeley Springs Sanitarium
Bluefield State College
Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery
Chambers, J.A.
Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3.
Colored Insane Asylum
Colored Old Folks Home
Colored Orphans Home
Concord College (Athens, W. Va.)
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953
Cottle, Brooks.
Darst, J.S.
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955
Dawson, William M.O.
Denmar Sanitarium
Droop Mountain Battlefield.
Education. SEE ALSO Schools.
Fairmont Emergency Hospital
Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.)
Fairmont State College and Fairmont Normal School.
Gainer, Denzil L.
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925
Glenville State College
Gore Hospital
Gore, Howard M.
Hardesty, C. Howard.
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962
Hodges, Thomas E.
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955
Hopemont Sanitarium
Hospitals and sanitariums.
Huntington State Hospital
Industrial Home for Colored Girls.
Industrial Home for Girls.
Industrial School for Boys.
Industrial School for Colored Boys.
Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant.
Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp.
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962
Laidley, B.M.
Lakin State Hospital
Lakin, John S.
Marsh, J. Frank.
Marshall College (Huntington, W. Va.)
Marshall College and University
McCullough, F.W.
McKendree Hospital
Meadows, Clarence W.
Mollohan, Robert H.
Morgan, E.F.
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958
New River State School
Pinecrest Sanitarium.
Politics and government.
Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners.
Purinton, D.B.
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998
Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore), 1872-1965
Reymann Memorial Farms
Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960
Rutherford Sanitarium
Shepherd College
Spencer State Hospital
Stewart, Edgar B.
Storer College
Terrell, J.Z.
Thurmond, Walter R., 1881-1967
Trotter, Frank B.
Turner, J.R.
Universities and colleges
Welch Emergency Hospital
West Liberty State College
West Virginia Board of Control
West Virginia Institute of Technology
West Virginia School for the Colored Deaf and Blind
West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.)
West Virginia Training School.
West Virginia University
West Virginia University. Potomac State College
Weston State Hospital
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927
White, John B.
Women's history -- 1900-1929