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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers, A&M 1808, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Materials Collected by Mrs. Louise Morris, genealogist and authority on local history. The collection includes a notebook kept by J. H. Wherry, a student at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1859; a genealogy of the DeVaul, Haun, [F]ast families of Marion and Monongalia counties, 1817-1957; an essay on "Immigration" by George Whitham, 1896, favoring immigration restriction because of the increased number coming from " the Latin races of southeastern Europe;" land surveys from dead books, 1827-1933, mostly in Monongalia County: and a scrapbook of pictures, early 20th century, including WVU buildings (Martin Hall, the old library, The Drill Field area), Raven Rocks at Uffington, the Cheat River and Cooper's Rocks, Cascades on Deckers Creek, Oak Park near Masontown, White Rocks in Marion County in 1912, and numerous unidentified people.

Microfilm includes (1) "An Old Timer Remembers, Early Days of Green County, Pa., [1850-1925];" (2) "People Living in the Neighborhood of the Fairview Church, Clinton District of Monongalia Co., W. Va., from June 1845 to 1900," including Halls, Baileys, Austins, Millers, Shuttlesworths, Lanhams, Joliffe's and related families; (3) "The History of Halleck Community, Monongalia County, W. Va., [1830-1917]," by Elijah MoRae; notes on the genealogy of the Morris, Baker, Le V[e]lle, Bunner, Keister-Jenkins, Chadwick, Lewellen families; and (5) "Roster of the 1st W. Va. Vol. Infantry, Spanish-American War, 1898," (including also certain W. Va. Civil War companies: 1st W. Va. Calvary, Company A; 3rd W. Va. Cavalry, Companies C and D; 6th W. Va., Calvary, Company A; 7th W. Va., Infantry, Company E; 14th W. Va. Infantry, Companies C and [I]; 17th W. Va. Infantry, Company E; 1st W. Va. Lt. Arty., Battery F; Monongalians serving in other organizations and Monongalians serving the Confederacy)

There is history and genealogy of Helmick, Ryan, and McNemar families.

Xerox copy of a newspaper clipping scrapbook for the period 1910-1940 includes articles on P.J Crogan, P.G. Cutlip, S. O. Davis, Solomon Day, the Hacker family, Hacker's Valley, Joseph H. Huldeman, newspaper columns by L.V. Keck; Simon Kenton, Kern's Fort (Revolutionary War), Old Preston County Courthouse, Rawley Lucas, Mrs. Caroline B. Rinehart, Robinson's Run, old water mills, and William M. and Mary Jane Wilson.

Related Material

1454, 1808, 2195

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Austin family
• Bailey family
• Baker family
• Bunner family
• Chadwick family
• Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.)
• Church buildings
• Churches -- Fairview Church
• Civil War - West Virginia 14th Infantry.
• Civil War - West Virginia 17th Infantry.
• Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry.
• Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. Company A
• Civil War - West Virginia 1st Light Artillery.
• Civil War - West Virginia 3rd Cavalry
• Civil War - West Virginia 6th Cavalry, Company A.
• Civil War - West Virginia 7th Volunteer Infantry.
• Clinton District, Monongalia County.
• Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County
• Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.)
• Crogan, Patrick J., 1856-1949
• Cutlip, P. G.
• David, S. O.
• Day, Solomon.
• DeVaul family
• Deckers Creek
• Fast/Fass/Faust family.
• Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort.
• Genealogy
• Greene County (Pa.)
• Hacker Valley.
• Hacker family
• Hahn family
• Hall family
• Halleck Community
• Helmick family
• Huldeman, Joseph H.
• Immigration.
• Jefferson College, Pa.
• Jolliffe family
• Keck, L.V.
• Keister-Jenkins family.
• Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836
• Kern's Fort.
• Land.
• Lanham family
• LeVelle family
• Lewellen family
• Lucas, Rawley
• Marion County (W. Va.)
• McNemar family
• Miller family
• Mills and mill-work
• MoRae, Elijah
• Monongalia County (W. Va.)
• Morris family
• Morris family
• Morris, Mrs. Louise.
• Preston County Courthouse.
• Raven Rocks
• Revolutionary War.
• Rinehart, Caroline B.
• Robinson's Run.
• Robinson's Run.
• Ryan family
• Shuttleworth family
• Spanish-American War, 1898
• Surveyors and surveying.
• Uffington.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• West Virginia University
• West Virginia University - Drill Field
• West Virginia University - buildings - Main Library.
• West Virginia University - buildings - Martin Hall.
• Wherry, J.H.
• White Rocks -- Marion County (W. Va.)
• Whitham, George.
• Wilson, Mary Jane
• Wilson, William M.