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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgiss Papers, A&M 1899, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and other material of Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgis(s) and her son, George C. Sturgiss, a Morgantown businessman and politician. There are 130 letters, 6 WVU literary society and commencement announcements (1870-77), and an engagement book used by George C. and Charlotte Kent Sturgiss for 1907-1909.
Subjects include the activities of Alfred Gallentin Sturgiss, a Methodist Episcopal minister in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1845 (towns served included Painesville, Ravenna, Warren, and Poland, Ohio and Meadville, Pa.) ; Millerism; Henry Ward Beecher; P. T. Barnum; Duff's College (Pittsburgh) ; oil wells in Ohio, 1859; Civil War comment; and evangelism.
Correspondents include Francis II. Beck, Caroline Miner Giddings, Ellen Jones, Harriet P. Miner Kendall, Adiella Miner, J. S. Ritenour, Alfred G., George C. , Joseph W., and Sara Sturgis(s), and Sabra Jane Vance.
Related Material
1671, 1899
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
- Beck, Francis II
- Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
- Church buildings
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal
- Duff's College
- Giddings, Caroline Miner
- Jones, Ellen
- Judges - letters and papers.
- Kendall, Harriet P. Miner
- Miner, Adiella
- Ministers - letters and papers.
- Morgantown (W. Va.)
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Petroleum industry and trade
- Railroads
- Religion -- Millerism
- Ritenour, J.S.
- Sturgiss, Alfred Galletin.
- Sturgiss, Charlotte Kent.
- Sturgiss, George C.
- Sturgiss, Lucinda (Miner)
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States. Congress
- Universities and colleges
- West Virginia University Literary Society
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
- Beck, Francis II
- Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
- Giddings, Caroline Miner
- Jones, Ellen
- Kendall, Harriet P. Miner
- Miner, Adiella
- Ritenour, J.S.
- Sturgiss, Alfred Galletin.
- Sturgiss, Charlotte Kent.
- Sturgiss, George C.
- Sturgiss, Lucinda (Miner)
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Morgantown (W. Va.)
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865