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0375: Lenna Lowe Yost Papers, 1921-1972, Marshall University Special Collections

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Civic leader, native of Marion County, West Virginia. Includes correspondence between Mrs. Yost and Morris Shawkey, president of Marshall College, 1923-1935.

0373: Winston W. Murrill Scrapbook, 1933-1983, Marshall University Special Collections

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Former Huntington, West Virginia, journalist. Miscellanea pasted on a photo reproduction of a volume of the West Virginia Book Bank, reset and bound by Mr. Murrill.

0378: Donald And Nell Rose Hale Hansen Papers, 1925-1979, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, residents and former members of the United States Air Force: Mr. Hansen from 1943 to 1964; Mrs. Hansen from 1951 to 1958. Papers consist of service-related items, including special orders, certificates, photographs, applications, training school papers, and other related items.

0379: Alma Nease Noble Papers, 1861-1981, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, educator; Marshall University French professor, 1942-1969, Morris Harvey College, Charleston, West Virginia, 1969-1972. Papers include teaching materials; class notes as an undergraduate at Wittenberg College and a graduate student at Ohio State University; drafts and notes of her dissertation; and family papers relating to Warren County, Ohio, and New Vienna, Ohio.

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0376: United Brethren In Christ. Huntington W.Va. Circuit Collection, 1871-1917, Marshall University Special Collections

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Primarily membership rolls of church of rural Cabell County. Churches in circuit include Milton, Mercer's Bottom, Green Bottom, Nine Mile, Z. Warner Chapel and Cabell School House.

0380: Mary Burnside Reynolds Papers, 1861-1992, Marshall University Special Collections

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The collection contains primarily genealogical notes on the Burnside, and Fulton families. The Burnside family especially is the largest series in the collection and takes up more than half the size. Ms. Reynolds researched and collected prominent documents of members of the Burnside family including a diary, newspaper clippings, articles, and books. Ms. Reynolds also collected an extensive amount of records of her ancestors including census records, war records, and records from the families’ origins in Great Britain. She also collected various materials relating to her interests including items relating to steamboats and British history and ancestry. Several scrapbooks are …

0382: Macdonald Family Papers, 1513-1972, Marshall University Special Collections

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Family group sheets of a Logan County, West Virginia family; includes Fortner, Yaeger, and allied families.

0385: Peters Family Papers, 1800-1981, Marshall University Special Collections

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Genealogical materials relating to a family from Wyoming and Fayette counties, West Virginia.

0386: W. Steele Gilmore Correspondence, 1939 And 1943, Marshall University Special Collections

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Letters to Mr. Baer's father-in-law, who was associated with the Detroit News. Includes a letter from William Allen While. These were found in books donated to library by Philip Baer.

0374: Harvey And Beulah Mobley Manuscript, 1757-1957, Marshall University Special Collections

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Manuscript entitled, `Thomas Hannan and descendants,' covering from 1757 to 1957, with family group sheets, transcriptions of wills and deeds, and addenda.

0377: Mccomas-Mckendree-Henderson Family Papers, 1875-1946, Marshall University Special Collections

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Cabell and Kanawha County, West Virginia, families. Photographic reproductions of correspondence among family members describing women's life in the West during the 1870's and 1880's. Unpublished family history includes description of childhood in St. Albans, West Virginia, 1900-1910.