Conditions Governing Use

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], Lloyd Laymen Papers Regarding Firefighting, A&M 4228, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

Lloyd Layman (1898-1968), a native of Fairmont, West Virginia, served as a law officer and later as a fire chief in Parkersburg. After conducting research in Parkersburg, and later in the Coast Guard Firefighting School, which he commanded during World War II (WWII), he published books in the field of fire engineering which have set standards in theory and practice, and that have been translated into several languages. He innovated practices of "fog" and "indirect application" which have revolutionized fire fighting.

Scope and Contents

Papers of influential fire engineer Lloyd Layman (1898-1968). Includes correspondence, reports, clippings and articles, photographs, books by Layman, scrapbook, and other material. This collection is minimally processed.

Separated Material

The book "Parkersburg Fire Department, Past and Present, 1897-1950" was forwarded to the rare book librarian for cataloging, and for shelving in the reading room of the West Virginia and Regional History Center.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Fire fighters
• Fire protection engineering