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0080: Hancock-Wilson-Baise Papers, 1887-1950, Marshall University Special Collections

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Correspondence of Proctorville, Ohio, and Huntington, West Virginia, families, including letters written during the first and second world wars. Also receipts, newspaper clippings, grade reports, and other personal papers.

0081: Henry Dourif Letters, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, businessman. Correspondence between Major Dourif and Colonel H. A. Toulmin of Dayton, Ohio, regarding Toulmin's book, Air Service American Expeditionary Force 1918 as well as other materials belonging to Dourif related to WWI.

0093: Wallace Garfield Hayner Papers, 1933-1973, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, W. Va. insurance agent; papers consist of his correspondence and personal papers. Included are a manuscript of a history of West Virginia compiled from secondary sources and oral tradition, personal reminiscences of `Devil Anse' Hatfield, poetry, and personal papers.

0099: Cabell-Wayne Historical Society Collection, 1880-1973, Marshall University Special Collections

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The Cabell-Wayne Historical Society Vertical Files consist of a variety of topics related to the Huntington, Ohio, and Kentucky regions of the United States. The collection covers the time period from the 1880s to the time of the Cabell-Wayne Historical Society's closure in 1974. The boxes were arranged in alphabetical order based on topic.

The bulk of the vertical file collection relates to activities, events, buildings, and personalities of the Cabell County, West Virginia tri-state area of southwestern West Virginia, southeastern Ohio, and eastern Kentucky. The collection includes material related to the Civil War, railroads and transportation in West Virginia, …

0102: Lorene Enochs Dunlap Papers, 1917-1971, Marshall University Special Collections

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Scrapbooks and photographs of Cabell County, West Virginia, family from near Milton; bulk of correspondence dates from the First World War and 1935-1945.

0118: Jane Adams Dingess Papers, 1906-1976, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, clubwoman and educator. Papers consist primarily of scrapbooks of school days at Huntington High School, West Virginia University, and Washington and Lee University; also included are resource materials related to conservation and social studies and items concerning the Junior League, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames, and garden club activities. Photographs of Italy in WWI, papers from the Marshall University plan crash in 1970, extensive newspaper clippings from circ WWII and conservation resource material.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Jane Adams Dingess Collection, 1906-1976 here.

0122: Huntington, Wv Phi Beta Kappa Associates, 1927-1960, Marshall University Special Collections

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Correspondence, minutes of meetings, membership lists, financial reports and pamphlets related to an attempt to establish a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Marshall College.

0275: Dorothy Spain Jones Papers, 1915-1977, Marshall University Special Collections

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Diarist; homemaker in Detroit, Michigan and Huntington, West Virginia. Primarily diaries kept of daily activities on farm near Detroit and later in daughter's home in Huntington. Also newspaper clippings, programs, cards and family memorabilia.

0092: Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church Records, 1873-1974, Marshall University Special Collections

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Register, minutes, annual reports; records of the Flats Presbyterian Church before it merged with the Point Pleasant church during the Second World War, when the Flats area was taken over by the War Department.

0112: Jude Stewart Papers, 1975, Marshall University Special Collections

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`Activities of the Church of God in Jesus' Name,' a report on a Pentecostal church in Wyoming County, West Virginia, for the Oral History Collection at Marshall University.

0117: Neal Family Papers, 1864-1957, Marshall University Special Collections

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Papers include diaries of Dr. Will Neal, Huntington, West Virginia, physician and member of Congress; diaries describe teaching school in Kentucky and Ohio in the 1890's, and life in Rome Township, Lawrence County, Ohio. Scrapbooks describing the career of Richard Nixon comprise the bulk of the collection.