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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], James R. Moreland (1879-1955) Papers, A&M 1146, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Family papers of Alexander Smith, Charles Edgar Brown, and Joseph Moreland; correspondence; materials relating to local history and Moreland's civic, social, religious, and professional activities.

Typescript on the Union in West Virginia Coal Fields; a bound typescript on the History of the Various Courts of Monongalia County; and abstracts and legal papers of the Connellsville Basin Coke Company.

Material also includes plats and maps relating to the residential and commercial development of Morgantown, the coal and gas fields in the Monongalia County area; and railways in the vicinity.

Collection contains the memorandum book, 1849-1850, of John Rogers, Morgantown sawmill operator. (For detailed listing, see inventory sheet.)

Related Material

870, 1146

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Agriculture
• Brown, Charles Edgar
• Builders and contractors.
• Coal mining - coal companies.
• Coal mining.
• Connellsville Basin Coke Company
• Gas industry
• Lawyers - letters and papers.
• Maps.
• Mills and mill-work
• Monongalia County (W. Va.)
• Moreland, Joseph.
• Morgantown (W. Va.)
• Religion. SEE ALSO Churches.
• Rogers, John
• Rogers, John, 1786-1864
• Smith, Alexander family.
• United Mine Workers of America