0.8 Linear Feet, Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)
Creator
Wiley, Samuel T.
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/
Language
English
Abstract
Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania,
and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection
includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers'
certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner speeches, history
of the United States, short stories, assorted sayings and aphorisms, notes for a history of Fayette County, Pennsylvania,
a biographical sketch of Wiley and copies from his diaries and works, and an autograph book and information on Monongahela
College at Jefferson, Pennsylvania.
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], Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers, A&M 1842, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.