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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Israel C. White Papers, A&M 0710, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Personal and business records of Dr. Israel C. White, assistant geologist, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1876-1883; professor of geology West Virginia University, 1877-1892; assistant geologist, U. S. Geological Survey, 1884-1888; delegate to the International Geological Congresses, St. Petersburg, 1897-1927; and chief geologist of the Brazilian Coal Commission, 1904-1906.

Included are family letters and pictures; also, diagram plans, and maps 1874-1941.

Additional White papers include correspondence, 1922-1928, both personal and business, concerning trips made by White as consulting geologist for the B&O, requests for estimates, and lawsuits on services rendered. There is a copy of a letter to Hon. John W. Davis in connection with a recent oil strike in Pecos (Trans-continental Oil Co., Tulsa). Other papers include White family genealogy, a right-of-way agreement - Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co., information on Bakerstown coal seam, Lincoln Coal Co., Lick Run Collieries Co., Telluric Company, Rock Camp Oil Company, Catskill Oil Company, and the Sewickly coal seam. Local interests include Morgantown Country Club, brick works, Mont Chateau, Tuberculosis sanitarium, rent on property, White's service as a trustee of Kiwanis International Council, and Morgantown's sesquicentennial. Stock referred to include: AT&T, C&O, B&O, Mt. Lake Corp. and Lake Wales, Florida.

Correspondents include: Milton Hirshman, J. Lewis Williams, Daniel Willard, Hans Van Hofer, & E. F. Simms.

Related Material

469, 710, 797

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
• Brazilian Coal Commission
• Catskill Oil Company
• Coal mining - coal companies.
• Coal mining.
• Geological Survey (U.S.)
• Geological Survey of Pennsylvania
• Keefer Coal and Coke Company
• Lick Run Collieries Company
• Lincoln Coal Company
• Maps.
• Morgantown (W. Va.)
• Rock Camp Oil Company
• Stewart Creek Coal Company
• Stuart Colliery Company
• Telluric Company
• West Virginia University
• White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927