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Biographical / Historical
Gary Weiner
Gary Stephan (Steven) Weiner was born to parents Robert and Ethel Belle in New York City on July 29, 1942. He grew up in Clarksburg, West Virginia (WV), graduated from Washington Irving High School in 1960, and graduated from West Virginia University (WVU) in 1964. He returned to Clarksburg where he assisted his father in operating Clarksburg Iron and Steel Company and various other businesses. Gary became President of Clarksburg Iron and Steel Co. upon his father's death. He was also a stockholder of Hush, Inc.
Gary was a member of many social, community, and charitable organizations including the Jaycees, the Order of DeMolay, B'nai B'rith, and the Tree of Life Synagogue. He was a member and benefactor of the Gamma Delta chapter of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity at West Virginia University (WVU), and served as chapter advisor in the late 1970s and 1980s. He was also a member of Phi Sigma Delta at WVU. Gary was also a historian of Clarksburg who collected historical materials on the area and local families such as the Lynches, and involved himself in local historic preservation. He was president or chairman of the Harrison County Historic Landmark Commission in the early 1990s, and was a member of the Stonewall Jackson Civil War Round Table. He passed away on August 3, 2007.
Lynch and Spindler Families
Charles Wesley Lynch (1851-1932) was an attorney and a judge. He served in the West Virginia Supreme Court and West Virginia House of Delegates, was Prosecuting Attorney for Clarksburg, and was a prominent Methodist and Mason. He was a long-time member and President of the Board of Trustees of West Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the Lynch whose name is honored in the Lynch-Raine Administration Building on the campus of West Virginia Wesleyan College. Charles was married to Mary Virginia Robinson (a.k.a. Jennie Robinson, 1857-1939) of Clarksburg, WV, on March 8, 1888.
John Wesley Spindler (May 11, 1850-March 4, 1934) earned his B.A. and M.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1876 and 1895, and earned a law degree from Cincinnati Law School in 1882. He was superintendent of the school system in Winfield, Kansas for 22 years. In 1888, he married Mrs. Mellie Zook (nee Mary Camellia/Camilla Butler; December 4, 1861-March 22, 1909), and his daughter Gretchen was born in 1892. He then relocated the family to Ohio before moving to Clarksburg, WV in 1921.
Lawrence Robinson Lynch (May 29, 1890-January 9, 1964), son of Charles and Jennie, graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1913, Columbia University in 1914, and Harvard Law School in 1917. He met Gretchen Marie Spindler (July 5, 1892-May 1980) while attending Ohio Wesleyan. They married on August 30, 1916, and eventually relocated to Clarksburg, WV. Lawrence was responsible for the development of the Harrison County airport formerly known as Benedum Airport (now North Central West Virginia Airport). Charles and Jennie Lynch as well as Lawrence and Gretchen were pillars and primary contributors to the First United Methodist Church on Pike Street in Clarksburg.
Scope and Contents
Papers of Gary S. Weiner, documenting his personal and family history, professional activities, hobbies, and his collecting interests in the Lynch family and the history of Clarksburg and Harrison County, West Virginia.
The collection is divided into the following 11 series:
Series 1. Lynch Family Papers; ca. 1850-1960; boxes 1-7.
Series 2. Weiner Family Papers; ca. 1900-2005; boxes 8-11.
Series 3. Subject Files; ca. 1880-1992; box 12, folders 1-4.
Series 4. Miscellaneous Correspondence; ca. 1879-1994; box 12, folders 5-13.
Series 5. Miscellaneous Manuscripts; ca. 1850-1991; box 13, folders 1-5, and boxes 14-15.
Series 6. Miscellaneous Printed Materials and Ephemera; ca. 1910-1990; box 13, folders 6-11, and box 16.
Series 7. Miscellaneous Photographs; ca. 1850-1984; boxes 17-20.
Series 8. Sheet Music; ca. 1900-1940; boxes 21a and 21b.
Series 9. Artifacts; 1890-2006; box 22.
Series 10. Oversize Materials; 1874-1985; boxes 23-27, 3 loose framed items.
Series 11. Periodicals and Clippings; ca. 1900-1999; boxes 28-29.
Note regarding correspondence in this collection: In cases where letters were removed from their envelopes and do not bear the date of postmark, that date was written in brackets at the top right corner of each leaf. Correspondence includes letters, postcards, telegrams, and greeting cards, generally filed in chronological order.
Separated Material
Thirteen maps were separated to the Maps Collection (nos. 1316-1328):
"Coal Fields of the United States," 1907. Shows coal fields of the contiguous United States, types of coal (e.g. subbituminous, lignite), and tonnage. Includes descriptive text.
"Eastern States South," 1982. Road map of interstates and local roads from Illinois and Louisiana to the eastern seaboard. Map continues on verso.
"Map of the City of Clarksburg, West Virginia," 1921. Shows the nine wards of Clarksburg, with streets labeled. Includes advertisements for Clarksburg businesses around the border.
"A Modern Pilgrim's Map of the British Isles or More Precisely the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State," 1937. Shows nations, counties, cities, main roads, and railways. Includes Channel and Shetland Islands. Border is comprised of illustrations of famous people and places.
"Auto Trails Map, District No. 4: Eastern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, South East Michigan, Southern Ontario, Northern W. Virginia," 1923. Shows major roads and railways. Also shows hotels and garages/service stations.
No title, undated. Shows streets, railway, and some buildings along Baltimore Street and Ohio Avenue in Clarksburg.
"Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware: Main Traveled Routes," 1921. Shows roads and road type (e.g. improved road, concrete). Verso shows more detailed maps of various cities, including Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD, with a note about West Virginia scenery.
"Gulf Info-Map: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia," 1934. Front shows cities, roads, and road type (e.g. paved, improved). Sections of text on important state traffic laws and points of interest for the four states covered. Verso shows a road map of the contiguous U.S. with a list of enjoyable national parks, Gulf advertisements, and a mileage table.
"Road Map of West Virginia, July 1935," 1935. Shows primary state roads and the more important secondary state roads. Includes a mileage chart. Verso shows pastoral scenes, names of West Virginia state officials, airports, and dates and locations of West Virginia Fairs.
"Road Map of West Virginia, June, 1936," 1936. Shows primary state roads and the more important secondary state roads. Includes a mileage chart. Verso has pictures and text celebrating the 73rd birthday of West Virginia, and locations of Rotary and Kiwanis clubs.
"Road Map of West Virginia, March 1938," 1938. Shows primary state roads and the more important secondary state roads. Includes a mileage chart. Verso shows scenic pictures of West Virginia.
"Ohio Turnpike Map: the James W. Shocknessy Ohio Turnpike," 1992. Shows the turnpike, surrounding roads, exits, and connections. Verso shows service plaza and toll interchanges and descriptive text about Mr. Shocknessy.
"Indexed Guide Map and Key to World's Fair Buildings, Grounds and Exhibits," 1893. Shows the Chicago lakefront area with important locations numbered. Verso shows map of the World's Fair grounds, with important locations numbered.
Separated to Harold Forbes, Rare Books Curator, for processing:
29 volumes of the Washington Irving High School yearbook (Clarksburg, West Virginia) including:
Reminiscences for 1917, 1918, 1921, 1924-1933
Memoirs for 1935, 1941, 1952, 1954-1957, 1961, 1964-1969, 1971, 1972
10 volume set entitled "The Photographic History of the Civil War" edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller 
, published in 1912.
9 volume set entitled "Modern Eloquence" published in 1900 by John D. Morris and Company.
2 volumes of the West Virginia Wesleyan College Yearbook entitled "Murmurmontis" published in 1939 and 1941.
1 volume of Greenbrier Military School yearbook entitled "The Brier Patch" published in 1972.
1 volume of Polk's City Directory for Clarksburg published in 1954.
Book entitled "The Laws of Business" by Parsons, 1869.
Book entitled "History of Harrison County" by Haymond, 1910.
Book entitled "Harrison County 76" edited by Boram, 1976.
Separated to Harold Forbes, Rare Books Curator, for processing (2012/01):
Aladdin Company. Aladdin Homes . Bay City, Mich.: Aladdin Company, 1931.
Ambler, Charles 
Henry . West Virginia; Stories and Biographies . New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1942.
Ames, James Barr. A Selection of Cases on Pleading: With References and Citations . Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Law Review Pub. Co., 1905.
Anderson, Jack Sandy. Other Days . [Shinnston, W. Va.]: Shinnston Historical Association, 1978. (No. 276 of 500).
A Pictorial View of Early Clarksburg and Harrison County: Also the Complete Story of the Brutal Murders of Five Victims by "Killer Harry Powers" at His Quiet Dell Murder Farm . Clarksburg, W. Va.: [Out and About, 1999.]
Archibald, Joe. The Richie Ashburn Story . New York: J. Messner, 1962.
Atkinson, Geo. W. Public Addresses, Etc., of Geo. W. Atkinson, Governor of West Virginia, During His Term of Office. Embracing a Variety of Public Questions . [Charleston, W. Va.]: Public Printer, 1901.
Atkinson, Geo. W., and Alvaro F. Gibbens. Prominent Men of West Virginia: Biographical Sketches, the Growth and Advancement of the State, a Compendium of Returns of Every Election, a Record of Every State Officer . Wheeling: W.L. Callin, 1890.
Barkey, Frederick A. Cinder Heads in the Hills: The Belgian Window Glass Workers of West Virginia . Charleston, W. Va.: Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1988.
Barnet, Montrose L. Poems of Inspiration . Chicago: Acmegraph Company, 1911.
Boeckmann, P. von. Lung and Muscle Culture . 26th ed. [New York]: s.n., no date.
Buck, Pearl S. Mandala . New York: John Day Co., 1970.
Buckalew, Marshall. The Life of Morris Purdy Shawkey . Charleston, W. Va.: West Virginia Pub. Co., 1941.
Burns, James MacGregor. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox . New York: Smithmark, 1956.
Butcher, Bernard Lee, and James Morton Callahan. Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Under the Editorial Supervision of Bernard L. Butcher ... With an Account of the Resources and Industries of the Upper Monongahela Valley and the Tributary Region . New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912. (3 volumes).
Core, Earl Lemley. The Monongalia Story: A Bicentennial History . Vol. 4. Parsons, W. Va.: McClain Print. Co., 1982.
Davis, Julia. Legacy of Love . Parsons, W. Va.: McClain Print. Co., 1987. (4 copies; one signed by the author).
Dayton, Ruth Woods. Pioneers and Their Homes on Upper Kanawha . Charleston: West Virginia Pub. Co., 1947.
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America . Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1956.
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. The Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta . Vol. 32, no. 4. Evanston, Ill.: Bowman Publishing Co., 1909.
Dickson School of Memory and Mental Culture. Lesson Papers . 1903. (Parts 1-9)
Fortney, Harvey C., and Heisel M. Fox. History of Worthington, West Virginia, and Surrounding Communities . Parsons, W. Va.: McClain Printing Co, 1968.
Franke, David. Nemesis Shrine A.A.O.N.M.S. Parkersburg, West Virginia . [Parkersburg, W.Va.: s.n.], 2001.
Gems of Art . Chicago: White City Art Co., 1903.
Gottlieb, Louis Ross. The Tax Problem in West Virginia . New York: Nat. Industr. Conf. Board, 1925.
Griffith, Georgette B. Covered Bridges of West Virginia . Lost Creek, W.Va.: Woodland Brook Studio, n.d. (Pamphlet)
Harmer, Harvey Walker. Old Mills of Lower Harrison County . W. Va.: Published in Shinnston News, 1937.
Groat, George Gorham. An Introduction to the Study of Organized Labor in America . New York: Macmillan Co, 1916.
Hartman, Jeffry William. Payne and Todd Family History: A Collection of Primary Resource Material 1720 to 1987. Philadelphia: [Jeffry William Hartman], 1989.
Haymond, Henry . History of Harrison County, West Virginia: From the Early Days of Northwestern Virginia to the Present . Morgantown, W. Va.: Acme Pub. Co., 1910. (3 copies)
Holy Name Society, [and Charles Hyacinth McKenna?]. Official Holy Name Pocket Manual . New York City: Bureau of the Holy Name Society, 1914.
Johnston, Ross B. West Virginia "the Switzerland of America": A Brief Guide for Tourists to Some of Its Many Scenic and Historic Places . Charleston, W. Va.: West Virginia Dept. of Agriculture, 1926.
Laxness, Halldor, and J. A. Thompson. Independent People: An Epic . New York: A.A. Knopf, 1946.
Levermore, Charles H., and Henry Frederic Reddall. The Academy Song-Book: For Use in Schools and Colleges. Boston: Ginn, 1896.
Lewis, Virgil Anson. Second Biennial Report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . Charleston, W. Va.: s.n., 1908.
London: twenty-four artistic views - beautifully printed in latest Mezzo-Tint process . Glasgow [Scot.]: M. & L., 1930.
MacCorkle, William Alexander. Address of Ex-Governor W.A. MacCorkle Before the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute at Charleston, West Virginia, December 8, 1913, on the Relation of West Virginia Coals to the Panama Canal . Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Co., 1914.
Manly, John Matthews. English Prose (1137-1890) . Boston: Ginn and Company, 1909.
Mann, Thomas, and H. T. Lowe-Porter. Joseph in Egypt . New York: Knopf, 1938. (Vol. 1 and 2)
Martin, Tom. Early Clarksburg and Harrison County: Pictorial Events of Clarksburg in It's [sic] Infancy . Clarksburg, W. Va.: Tom Martin, [1966].
Maxwell, Haymond Sr. The Story of Sycamore . [S.l: s.n.], 1938. (Signed by the author)
Meadows, Clarence Watson. State Papers and Public Addresses . Charleston, W.Va.: [s.n., 1950].
Miller , C. V. History of Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va . Grafton, W. Va.: D. Grant Smith, 1938.
Monticola . Chicago: A.L. Swift & Co, 1915.
National Jewish Welfare Board, and Harry Coopersmith. Selected Jewish Songs for Members of the Armed Forces . New York: Jewish Welfare Board, 1943.
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ . New York: American Bible Society, 1862.
New York Illustrated by Camera . New York: Manhattan Card Pub. Co., 1937.
New York World's Fair Illustrated by Camera . New York City: Manhattan Post Card Pub, 1940.
Notes for new mountaineers: a student handbook . Morgantown, W. Va.: West Virginia University, 1960.
Notes for new mountaineers: a student handbook . Morgantown, W. Va.: West Virginia University, 1964.
Ohio Wesleyan University. Alumni Directory of the Ohio Wesleyan University; 1846-1901. Delaware, O.: The University, 1902.
Ohio Wesleyan University. Le Bijou. Delaware, Ohio: Ohio Wesleyan University, 1910.
Ohio Wesleyan University. Le Bijou. Delaware, Ohio: Ohio Wesleyan University, 1912.
Ohio Wesleyan University. Le Bijou. Delaware, Ohio: Ohio Wesleyan University, 1925.
Ohio Wesleyan University. Songs of Ohio Wesleyan. S.l: s.n., 1947.
Ohio Wesleyan University. Songs of Ohio Wesleyan . [Delaware, Ohio]: Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Association, 1923.
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Arthur R. Priest, and Latney Barnes. Songs of Phi Delta Theta . [U.S.]: The Fraternity, 1932.
Redway, Jacques W., and Russell Hinman. Natural Advanced Geography . New York: American Book Co., 1898.
Ripley, George, and Charles A. Dana. The Condensed American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge . New York: D. Appleton, 1877. (4 volumes)
Robinson, Neil. The Paint Creek Situation: A Review from the Operator's Standpoint. Charleston, W. Va.: West Virginia Mining Assoc., [1912].
Robinson, Neil. West Virginia on the Brink of a Labor Struggle . Charleston, W. Va.: West Virginia Mining Association, 1912. (Signed by author)
Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book: With a New Translation, Supplementary Readings and Notes . [New York]: Rabbinical Assembly of America and United Synagogue of America, 1949.
Sage, X. LaMotte. Hypnotism As It Is: A Book for Everybody . Rochester, NY: New York State Publishing Company, 1901.
Sale, George. The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed. Translated into English from the Original Arabic, by George Sale . New York: American Book Exchange, 1880.
Scott, Walter. Waverley Novels . Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., 1829. (4 volumes)
Shawkey, Morris Purdy. West Virginia: A Book of Geography, History and Industry . Boston: Ginn and Co., 1922.
South Bend Lathe, Inc. How to Run a Lathe . South Bend, Ind.: South Bend Lathe, 1958.
Spalding, Walter Raymond. Music: An Art and a Language . Boston: The Arthur P. Schmidt Co., 1920.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company. Arkansas Fills the Bill . Little Rock, Ark.: St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co, [1900].
The Story of Rockefeller Center . [New York]: Rockefeller Center, Inc., 1942.
Taussig, F. W. Principles of Economics . New York: Macmillan, 1912. (2 volumes)
Terhune, Albert Payson. The Heart of a Dog . Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930.
Thrash, Mary. West Virginia Courthouses: A Pictorial History . Clarksburg, W. Va.: M. Thrash, 1984. (Signed by the author)
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904 . [Omaha, Neb.]: Union Pacific Railroad Co, 1904.
United States. Before the Interstate Commerce Commission: Investigation and Suspension Docket Nos. 26, 26-A, 26-B, and 26-C. In the Matter of the Investigation and Suspension of Advances in Rates for the Transportation of Coal by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, Norfolk & Western Railway Company, the Kanawha & Michigan Railway Company, and Their Connections. Report of the Commission . Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1912.
United States. Before the Interstate Commerce Commission: No. 3853. John W. Boileau et al. v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company et al. Report and Order of the Commission . Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1912.
United States. Before the Interstate Commerce Commission: No. 3853. John W. Boileau et al. v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company et al. Report of the Commission on Application for Modification of Order . Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1912.
United States. Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Sixty-Third Congress, First Session Pursuant to S. Res. 37, a Resolution Authorizing the Appointment of a Committee to Make an Investigation of Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia . Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1913.
United States. Interstate Commerce Commission: No. 3853. John W. Boileau et al. v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company et al. Report of the Commission on Application for Modification of Order . Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1912.
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United States. Statue of Governor Francis Harrison Pierpont. Proceedings in Statuary Hall and in the Senate and House of Representatives on the Occasion of the Unveiling, Reception, and Acceptance of the Statue from the State of West Virginia . Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1910.
United States. The United States Constitution: Text with Analytical Index: Unratified Amendments . Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1953.
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United States, and Claude Augustus Swanson. Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia ... Report. (In Pursuance of S. Res. 37.) . Washington: Govt. Print. Off, 1914.
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Virginia. Governor's Message and Annual Reports of the Public Officers of the State, and of the Boards of Directors, Visitors, Superintendents, and Other Agents of Public Institutions or Interests of Virginia . Richmond, Va.: Samuel Shepherd, public printer, 1848.
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Walsh, Christy, and Glenn Whittle, eds. Intercollegiate Football: A Complete Pictorial and Statistical Review from 1869 to 1934 . New York, N.Y.: Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., for Intercollegiate Football, Inc., 1934. (2 copies)
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1874 Hebrew book.
1901 Hebrew book.
1912 Hebrew book.
1923 Hebrew book printed in Poland.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Clarksburg (W. Va.)
- Clarksburg Iron and Steel Company.
- Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
- Harrison County (W. Va.)
- Lynch family
- Lynch, Gretchen Spindler.
- Lynch, Lawrence R.
- Spindler, John W.
- Weiner family
- Weiner, Gary S., 1942-2007
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Lynch, Gretchen Spindler.
- Lynch, Lawrence R.
- Spindler, John W.
- Weiner, Gary S., 1942-2007
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Clarksburg (W. Va.)
- Harrison County (W. Va.)
Container List
This series contains materials related to the Lynch and Spindler families, the bulk of which are letters. Purchased by Gary Weiner at a house sale held by the children of Lawrence R. and Gretchen Spindler Lynch, the Lynch Family Papers include a collection of approximately 300 letters, postcards, and other documents belonging to three generations of the Lynch family of Clarksburg, WV, as well as the Spindler family of Winfield, Kansas. The materials begin with Charles Wesley Lynch (1851-1932), an attorney and judge, and John Wesley Spindler (1850 May 11-1934 March 4), a school superintendent; continue through Lawrence Robinson Lynch (1890 May 29-1964 January 9) and his wife Gretchen Spindler Lynch (1892 July 5-1980 May); and conclude with correspondence between Lawrence, Gretchen, and their three children, Barbara Virginia, Mary Gretchen, and Charles Wesley Lynch, II. See Historical Note for more information. Electronic materials from Bill Arnett include: a 180 page document of transcripts, a 24 page document of transcripts (which are probably all included in the 180 page document, though perhaps with different metadata), a historical note, a 29 page documents of research notes from newspapers etc., and a document recording emails with Bill Arnett which include details pertaining to the collections materials.
Additional Lynch family materials can be found in Series 10. Oversize Materials and Series 11. Periodicals and Clippings. Transcripts of a few Lynch letters can be found in box 11, folder 1.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1
Correspondence (mostly letters and postcards) of John W. Spndler and His Wife1887-1921
- Mixed Materials Box: 2
Correspondence between Lawrence and Gretchen Lynch1888, 1905-1915 SeptemberScope and Contents
Other correspondents include former Governor Glasscock, who wrote a letter to Lawrence to congratulate him on his Master's Thesis (Columbia University) and published paper on the West Virginia Coal Strike; and Harry Westcott Worley and his wife Zela Wiltsie Worley, prominent Methodist missionaries who spent three decades in Foochow, China.
Topics covered in the Lynch correspondence (boxes 2-6) include education; world events; Clarksburg; Charleston; developments in West Virginia, including politics, conservation, personalities, and sermons; Ohio Wesleyan University; details of Lawrence's educational experiences at Columbia University when it had the preeminent Master's program in Political Science in the country; and details of his law classes at Harvard Law School.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3
Correspondence between Lawrence and Gretchen Lynch1915 September-1916 MayScope and Contents
Other correspondents include former Governor Glasscock, who wrote a letter to Lawrence to congratulate him on his Master's Thesis (Columbia University) and published paper on the West Virginia Coal Strike; and Harry Westcott Worley and his wife Zela Wiltsie Worley, prominent Methodist missionaries who spent three decades in Foochow, China.
Topics covered in the Lynch correspondence (boxes 2-6) include education; world events; Clarksburg; Charleston; developments in West Virginia, including politics, conservation, personalities, and sermons; Ohio Wesleyan University; details of Lawrence's educational experiences at Columbia University when it had the preeminent Master's program in Political Science in the country; and details of his law classes at Harvard Law School.
- Mixed Materials Box: 4
Correspondence between Lawrence and Gretchen Lynch1916 May-1940 SeptemberScope and Contents
Other correspondents include former Governor Glasscock, who wrote a letter to Lawrence to congratulate him on his Master's Thesis (Columbia University) and published paper on the West Virginia Coal Strike; and Harry Westcott Worley and his wife Zela Wiltsie Worley, prominent Methodist missionaries who spent three decades in Foochow, China.
Topics covered in the Lynch correspondence (boxes 2-6) include education; world events; Clarksburg; Charleston; developments in West Virginia, including politics, conservation, personalities, and sermons; Ohio Wesleyan University; details of Lawrence's educational experiences at Columbia University when it had the preeminent Master's program in Political Science in the country; and details of his law classes at Harvard Law School.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5
Correspondence between Lawrence and Gretchen Lynch1940 September-1941 MayScope and Contents
Other correspondents include former Governor Glasscock, who wrote a letter to Lawrence to congratulate him on his Master's Thesis (Columbia University) and published paper on the West Virginia Coal Strike; and Harry Westcott Worley and his wife Zela Wiltsie Worley, prominent Methodist missionaries who spent three decades in Foochow, China.
Topics covered in the Lynch correspondence (boxes 2-6) include education; world events; Clarksburg; Charleston; developments in West Virginia, including politics, conservation, personalities, and sermons; Ohio Wesleyan University; details of Lawrence's educational experiences at Columbia University when it had the preeminent Master's program in Political Science in the country; and details of his law classes at Harvard Law School.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6
Correspondence between Lawrence and Gretchen Lynch and Miscellaneous1941 May-1960sScope and Contents
Other correspondents include former Governor Glasscock, who wrote a letter to Lawrence to congratulate him on his Master's Thesis (Columbia University) and published paper on the West Virginia Coal Strike; and Harry Westcott Worley and his wife Zela Wiltsie Worley, prominent Methodist missionaries who spent three decades in Foochow, China.
Topics covered in the Lynch correspondence (boxes 2-6) include education; world events; Clarksburg; Charleston; developments in West Virginia, including politics, conservation, personalities, and sermons; Ohio Wesleyan University; details of Lawrence's educational experiences at Columbia University when it had the preeminent Master's program in Political Science in the country; and details of his law classes at Harvard Law School.
- Mixed Materials Box: 7
Manuscripts and Printed Materials Related to the Lynch Familyca. 1850-1960Scope and Contents
Items include Lawrence's class notes (1910s); two small ledgers relating to Mary Virginia Robinson Lynch and a church fundraiser (1901-6); financial records; event programs; Gretchen's diary (topics include social activities, household chores, her children, etc.), notebooks, and calendars (1937-1960); and a program for the inauguration of West Virginia Governor John J. Cornwell, at which C. W. Lynch administered the Constitutional Oath (1917). This box also contains Lynch family photographs (cartes de visite, tintypes, cabinet cards, and mounted photos), some of which are identified. Subjects include Charles, Lawrence, and Gretchen Lynch, as well as Robinson family members (Lawrence's mother's family).
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Transcriptions and Notes on Lynch Letters by William Arnett
This series contains materials related to Gary Weiner, his family, and his business and personal life. See Historical Note for information regarding Gary Weiner.
This series also includes incoming letters to Gary Weiner, historic preservation correspondence, manuscripts, and Jewish materials (box 8); miscellaneous material collected by Gary Weiner and photographs (box 9); records regarding Clarksburg Iron and Steel and West Virginia University fraternities (box 10); and miscellaneous Weiner family records, including records regarding Clarksburg Iron and Steel Company (box 11).
Additional materials related to the Weiner family may be found in: Series 3, Subject Files; Series 6, Miscellaneous Printed Materials and Ephemera; Series 9, Artifacts; Series 10, Oversize Materials; and Series 11, Periodicals and Clippings.
- Mixed Materials Box: 8
Correspondence (mostly letters to Gary Weiner)1960-2005Scope and Contents
Topics include holiday greetings, business matters, and Weiner's participation in various organizations, including the Tree of Life Synagogue and Jaycees. The correspondence folders are ordered chronologically, with separate folders for materials regarding the Harrison County Historic Landmark Commission (business meeting correspondence, applications for WV State Historic Preservation grants, a project involving Salem-Teikyo University's Administration Building auditorium restoration) and Stonewall Jackson materials (Stonewall Jackson Civil War Round Table letters, and correspondence about the acquisition of highway signs to mark Clarksburg as Jackson's birthplace). Also includes information on George Braxton Bennett and a photo of him with Ronald Reagan. This box also contains Weiner family manuscripts, including invitations to JFK inauguration events, Gary's report cards, a Tree of Life Sisterhood Book of Life (1940s-1960s), and other Jewish texts and ephemera.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9
Variety of Materialca. 1850-2000Scope and Contents
Includes Gary Weiner's school autograph album (1955), family recipes (ca. 1940-1970), miscellaneous ephemera and printed materials collected by Gary (regarding West Virginia University football, Jaycees, historic preservation, etc.) (1923-2004), a WVU Homecoming program (1960), and Weiner family photographs (ca. 1850-2000). Photographs include unidentified studio portraits from New York (probably Weiner family members, ca. 1920-1940), candid images of West Virginia University's Delta Tau Delta Fraternity members and Jaycee events, photos of celebrity handprints and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, etc.
- Mixed Materials Box: 10
Correspondence and Printed Materials1882-1999Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and printed materials about the Clarksburg Iron and Steel Company (ca. 1980-1999); Delta Tau Delta (ca. 1960-1999); and Hush, Inc., a music company of which Gary Weiner was a stockholder (1997-1998). There is also historical information on fraternities at West Virginia University (WVU), beginning with Gamma and Delta Prime at Monongalia Academy, heavily emphasizing the beginnings of the Delta Tau Delta chapter at WVU in the early 1900s, and concluding with information about other WVU fraternities (covers 1882-1967).
- Mixed Materials Box: 11
Additional Weiner Materialsca. 1927-2003Scope and Contents
Includes business and legal documents, Clarksburg Iron and Steel Company materials, miscellaneous correspondence, and miscellaneous printed materials (ca. 1927-2003).
This series contains materials related to the Anderson/Freeland Family of Clarksburg, WV (correspondence, photographs, and printed materials related to Bertha Freeland Anderson, her husband Cecil E. Anderson, and their family; ca. 1880-1992), and art (prints, book plates, and a few original paintings and sketches; ca. 1905-1983). For periodicals belonging to Bertha Anderson, see Series 11, Periodicals and Clippings.
This series includes personal correspondence to Frank A. Smith of Bridgeport, WV (1879-1894); letters to Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert N. Black of Clarksburg, WV, and Atlantic City, New Jersey (bulk 1925-1930); correspondence from World War I and World War II, including letters from Noel A. Conley of Clarksburg, WV and a photo of him with his B-17 bomber and crew (1917-1945); and additional letters and postcards. Much of the correspondence is about daily life and travel.
This series includes notebooks, typescripts, autograph albums, diaries, etc. Few items show a direct connection to West Virginia.
- Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 1-5
Notebooks, Typescripts, etc.ca. 1923-1946Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks, typescripts, etc. Highlights include a history of the Brake Family in West Virginia (1946), a journalism class notebook from Fairmont State College (1938), a typescript of a speech welcoming Elmer Guy Cutshall to the presidency of West Virginia Wesleyan College (ca. 1923), and a marriage license of Emmett Ewing and Bessie Wallace of Kaufman County, Texas (1924).
- Mixed Materials Box: 14
Autograph Books, Ledgers, Diaries, and Moreca. 1850-1920, 1998Scope and Contents
Contains a "Token Album" autograph book which includes inscriptions and autographs (1850s); a diary or ledger which includes account information, recipes, and correspondence, possibly belonging to J. P. Hyde or family (1890s-1910s); a pilot log (1998); a blue diary which includes references to travel between and experiences in Clarksburg and eastern cities, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Atlantic City (1925); Ella M. Stealey's ledger of her account with the Eureka Loan and Building Association (1899); Bella Spritzer's autograph album (1920); a brown diary which includes references to the unknown author's work at Hope Natural Gas Company, church activities, WWI events, and time at Camp Meade (now Fort George G. Meade in Maryland) where the author was first assigned to the 154th Depot Brigade, 314th Infantry, 79th Division. (1918-1920); and a small blue and yellow notebook (undated).
- Mixed Materials Box: 15
Scientific Scrapbook and Store Ledger1874-1908Scope and Contents
Contains a scientific scrapbook of flora specimens with accompanying notes for each specimen (1908), and a store ledger containing customer names, items purchased, and whether the accounts are paid (1874-1875).
This series includes advertising materials (many from West Virginia businesses), calendars, phone books, etc.
- Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 6-11
Advertisements, Calendars, etc.1936-1955Scope and Contents
Includes advertisements, calendars, etc. Highlights include Clearlite Window Glass advertisements from Fourco Glass Company featuring the Dionne Quintuplets (1936-1937) and a souvenir program from the musical South Pacific, directed by Joshua Logan (ca. 1950-1955).
- Mixed Materials Box: 16
Small Books and Pamphlets1910, 1975-1983Scope and Contents
Contains small books and pamphlets (including an Order of DeMolay Monitor of Ceremonies booklet (1975); a history of the US Postal Service in Lost Creek, WV, by Alton Bell (1983); and instructions to census enumerators (1910)); as well as packages of unused greeting cards, some of which were sent to Gary Weiner (undated).
This series includes tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, mounted photographs, prints on paper, and real photo postcards. The majority of the photos are portraits, with some candid family photos.
Additional photo albums can be found in Series 10, Oversize Materials.
- Mixed Materials Box: 17
Miscellaneous Photographsca. 1870-1971Scope and Contents
Includes: identified portraits, many from Clarksburg, Parkersburg, or Baltimore studios (ca. 1870-1984); Ball family photos and real photo postcards (ca. 1900-1950); unidentified portraits, some from Clarksburg, Grafton, and other West Virginia studios (ca. 1850-1980); photos related to WWI and WWII (1917-1918 and 1941-1945); and a photo album of a joint bar mitzvah celebration for the boys of the Hadar School (1971), among other items. Note: unidentified portraits from New York studios can be found in Series 2, Weiner Family Papers, box 9. Also note that some of the photographs in this box may have fallen out of other photo albums in this collection (e.g. photos in folder 27 may once have been in the WWI album in box 24).
- Mixed Materials Box: 18
Photo Album of Mostly Unidentified Cartes de Visite and Tintypes1850-1910Scope and Contents
Contains a photo album of mostly unidentified cartes de visite and tintypes created in Morgantown and Clarksburg, including portraits of Frank Young, Lucy Fleming, and Icie Nevada Lynch (ca. 1850-1880); and a blue cloth-covered album of unidentified cabinet cards, mounted portraits, cartes de vistite, and a tintype from studios in Grafton, Clarksburg, Fairmont, and outside of West Virginia (ca. 1890-1910).
- Mixed Materials Box: 19
Photograph Albumsca. 1860-1910Scope and Contents
Contains a brown album of unidentified cabinet cards, cartes de viste, and tintypes, some of which were created in studios in Clarksburg, WV (ca. 1860-1890); and a tan and red album of unidentified cabinet cards, cartes de viste, and tintypes, many from studios in Pennsylvania (ca. 1860-1910).
- Mixed Materials Box: 20
Framed Photograph and Standundated, ca. 1880-1886Scope and Contents
Contains a gilt or brass framed photograph of a baby (undated) and a Victorian photograph album stand, possibly a souvenir (ca. 1880-1886). The stand includes brass decorations and clasp, measures 13 inches tall by 7 1/2 inches wide, has gilt page edges, and probably originated in Germany. It contains 29 portrait cabinet cards; subjects include Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Frederick III, Leopold II of Belgium, Empress Eugenie de Montijo, and other European royals.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21a
Sheet Music for Theater Orchestra Arrangements of Popular Music1917-1924Scope and Contents
Contains 29 items of sheet music for theater orchestra arrangements of popular melodies (1917-1924); each of these arrangements include most or all parts. Some of these items were sold at the H. Boffa Music House in Clarksburg, WV. Titles include:
"At the End of the Road (That Leads to Home Sweet Home)"; 1924
"Dearest You're the Nearest to My Heart"; 1922
"Deedle Deedle Dum"; 1922
"Don't Bring Me Posies, It's Shoesies That I Need"; 1922
"Every Morning She Makes Me Late"; 1918
"Everybody Shimmies Now"; 1918
"Jazz Baby"; 1919
"The Lovelight in Your Eyes"; 1922
"Maggie! Yes! Ma'am!"; 1923
"Mickey" and "Come on Papa"; 1919
"Moonlight Blues"; 1916
"My Yankee Sailor Boy (or Along the Road to Hong Kong)"; 1918
"Naomi"; 1919
"Never Mind"; 1922
"No One Knows What Happens in the Old Arm Chair"; 1923
"Rag-a-Minor"; 1917
"Rose of the Desert"; 1920
"Shadows Will Fall Away"; 1920
"She Loves Me"; 1924
"Somewhere in Dixie"; 1917
"Sunrise and You" and "Roses of Love"; 1924
"Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight" and "You Can Have It -- I Don't Want It"; 1918
"Sweetheart"; 1920
"That Naughty Waltz" and "Fan San"; 1919
"While the Incense is Burning"; 1917
"Who Is It Who Loves You, Who Is It -- Huh?"; 1923
"Whose Izzy is He (Is He Yours or is He Mine)"; 1924
"You're in Kentucky Sure as You're Born"; 1923
- Mixed Materials Box: 21b
Sheet Music for Popular Songs and Piano Pedagogyca. 1900-1940Scope and Contents
Contains approximately 70 items of sheet music for popular songs and piano pedagogy, some of which may have belonged to Gretchen Lynch (ca. 1900-1940); and a circular from the publicity department of Irving Berlin music publishers regarding sheet music of dance tunes for sale (1924)
This series contains political buttons, textiles, name tags, etc. It also includes a West Virginia Masons pin (undated), black fabric samples from Perkins & Co. (1890), and a political button supporting Raese for Governor (1988).
This series includes photographs and photo albums, scrapbooks, diaries, and ephemera. It also includes items related to the Lynch family (boxes 23, 24, and 27) and to the Weiner family (boxes 23 and 24). For additional materials related to the Lynch and Weiner families, please see Series 1. Lynch Family Papers and Series 2. Weiner Family Papers. Please note that some of the photographs in Series 7. Miscellaneous Photographs, box 17 may have fallen out of photo albums in this series (e.g. photos in box 17, folder 27 may once have been in the World War I album in box 24).
Three loose framed items include a portrait of an unidentified woman, a photographic panorama of a city and river, and a colored etching of Woodburn Circle on the West Virginia University Campus in Morgantown (all undated).
- Mixed Materials Box: 23
Diploma, Photographs, and More1895-1966Scope and Contents
Contains John Spindler's diploma from Ohio Wesleyan University (1895); four group portraits of the Washington Irving High School Band of Clarksburg, WV (1960s); facsimile photograph of Gary Weiner and an unidentified man (1965); facsimile group portrait of unidentified individuals (ca. 1920); facsimile group portrait of the Clarksburg chapter of the Order of DeMolay (undated); facsimile composite of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity at West Virginia University (1966); photo of West Virginia Capital Building, Charleston, WV (1916); official West Virginia certificates for "West Virginia Ambassador of Good Will Among All People" for Gary Weiner and Irene Adams (1979); calendar (1985); and four print blocks, likely of Charles and Lawrence Lynch (1900-1910).
- Mixed Materials Box: 24
Scrapbooks, Photo Albums, and More1870s, 1910-1952, undatedScope and Contents
Contains an 11 in. x 16 in. scrapbook that includes Lynch-related clippings (ca. 1919-1926); a 9 in. x 11.5 in. scrapbook created by Eva Waldo of Clarksburg that includes clippings and correspondence (ca. 1918-1920); a WWI photo album depicting soldiers and Camp Lee, Virginia (ca. 1917-1918); a red "Album of Snapshots" and accompanying folder, which includes correspondence, ephemera, and photos belonging to Lawrence and Gretchen Lynch (1910-1952); an official document regarding Charles Lynch (1877); a hardcover photo album possibly belonging to John Spindler during his time as a student at Ohio Wesleyan University containing portraits of fellow students, many of whom are identified (1870s); three softcover photo albums containing family photos, probably belonging to the Weiner family (ca. 1920s-1940s); and a box lid featuring an artistic rendering of a woman's face (undated).
- Mixed Materials Box: 25
Broadsides and Photographs1890-1910, 1937, ca. 1975Scope and Contents
Contains two broadsides advertising a concert in Uniontown, Pennsylvania by B.B. King and Esther Satterfield, 22 in. x 15 in. (ca. 1975); two Fourco Glass Company Clearlite Window Glass advertisement broadsides, 34 1/2 in. x 18 in. (1937); a photograph of an unidentified person playing a guitar at a musical performance, 20 in. x 30 in. (undated); and two photo portraits with charcoal shading in large oval frames (ca. 1890-1910).
- Mixed Materials Box: 26
Scrapbook, Yearbook, and More1920-1986Scope and Contents
Contains Rachel Boynton's scrapbook of Washington Irving High School in Clarksburg, WV (1920s), Raymond Rowe's Washington Irving High School "Reminiscences" yearbook (1924), and clippings related to the class reunion (1974-1986), and program and news clipping regarding senior classes of Washington Irving High School (1946-1968).
- Mixed Materials Box: 27
Photographs and Ephemera1905-1950, 1977-1981Scope and Contents
Contains photographs and ephemera. Highlights include three mounted portraits of Lawrence and Charles W. Lynch with a hunting and fishing party (ca. 1905-1910), one group portrait taken on an Atlantic City beach (ca. 1910), Delta Tau Delta (WVU fraternity) composites (1977-1981), an agricultural auction broadside (1919), and large Valentine greeting cards (ca. 1930-1950).
- Mixed Materials Item: Unfoldered
Portrait of an Unidentified Womanundated
- Mixed Materials Item: Unfoldered
Panorama Photograph of a City and Riverundated
- Mixed Materials Item: Unfoldered
Colored Etching of Woodburn Circle on the West Virginia University Campus in Morgantownundated
This series includes magazines, newspapers, and clippings. Topics include historic preservation, Jewish topics, general interest, and the Lynch and Weiner families. For additional materials related to these families, please see Series 1. Lynch Family Papers and Series 2. Weiner Family Papers.
- Mixed Materials Box: 28
Magazines Belonging to Bertha Anderson1917-1994Scope and Contents
Contains early to mid-1900s magazines, including three needlework journals belonging to Bertha Anderson (1917), an issue of American Druggist (1931), an issue of Time (1944), and an issue of Good Housekeeping (1929); and magazines to which Gary Weiner subscribed that cover Jewish topics (1960-1994). For additional materials related to Bertha Anderson, see Series 3, Subject Files
- Mixed Materials Box: 29
Newspapers and Newspaper Clippings1900-1999Scope and Contents
Contains three folders of newspaper clippings: Lynch-related, Weiner-related, and miscellaneous (ca. 1900-1999). It also contains a facsimile page of the August 1773 issue of The Maryland Journal &c. (The Maryland Journal, and the Baltimore Advertiser; undated); early to mid-1900s newspapers (including two issues of The Saturday Evening Post, local papers about WWI and FDR's death; 1913-1963); and contemporary newspapers collected by Weiner (ca. 1985-1999). Contemporary newspapers include: Senate Chambers (a Florida Jaycees publication); The Harrison County Value Guide; Four Star Review (a B'nai B'rith publication); WVU Alumni News; The Senator from Davis & Elkins College; Times-West Virginian from Fairmont, WV; and The Shinnston News & Harrison County Journal/The Shinnston News.