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Days Of Anger, Days Of Tears: Rowan County, Kentucky, 1884-1887 - First Edition, Juanita Blair, Fred Brown Jr.

Rowan County War Collection

Section one of the first edition of Days of Anger, Days of Tears: Rowan County, Kentucky, 1884-1887, a self-published manuscript of the Rowan County War by Juanita Blair and Fred Brown Jr. printed in 1984.

0392: Denver C. Yoho Papers, 1906-1980, Marshall University Special Collections

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Photoreproduction of holograph note placed by Calvin Spurlock of Putnam County, West Virginia, in his log cabin during a 1906 remodeling and found in 1980 by William F. Hancock and reprinted in the Vandalia Historical Society newsletter.

0407: Marjorie Austin Smith Papers, 1950-1984, Marshall University Special Collections

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Collection consists of three-ring binders containing documents, newspaper clippings, ephemera and correspondence related to Mrs. Smith's extensive genealogical research. Extensive genealogical material concerning Austin, Rhoades, Gillespie, Prose, Smith, Graham, Spencer, and Bybee families, as well as related families. Geographical areas include Lawrence and Meigs County, Ohio, and Mason County, West Virginia.

0403: Grady Risen Collection, 1900-1980, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, realtor. Scrapbooks contain photographs and some appraisals of commercial property in downtown Huntington over nearly sixty years. Some holograph records of Aleshire-Harvey co., 1921-1922.

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0391: Eli Camden Henderson Papers, 1906-1956, Marshall University Special Collections

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The Cam Henderson papers consist primarily of papers related to his career as a football and basketball coach at Muskingum, Davis and Elkins and Marshall Colleges. A significant part of the collection relates to his wife Roxie Bell Henderson and includes many personal and family items as well as material related to her career as a public school teacher. Included also is material gathered by Dr. Sam Clagg for his biography of Henderson and afterward. Printed materials comprise most of the collection: yearbooks, newspaper clippings, textbooks, and books related to coaching basketball and football. The bulk of the correspondence is …

Morehead Told To Limit Programs, Morehead State Should Cut Programs, New Study Says, Lexington Herald-Leader

Morehead State College Histories

An article published in the Lexington Herald-Leader about Morehead State University on October 20, 1983.

Morehead University Violated The Academic Freedom Of Two Professors, Lexington Herald-Leader

Morehead State College Histories

An article published in the Lexington Herald-Leader about Morehead State University on March 31, 1983.

1983 Morehead First Christian Church Board Of Directors Minutes, First Christian Church (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead First Christian Church Records Archive

Morehead First Christian Church Board of Directors meeting minutes for 1983.

1983 Church Service Programs, First Christian Church (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead First Christian Church Records Archive

Weekly church service programs of the First Christian Church of Morehead, Kentucky from 1983.

William H. Vaughan: A Better Man Than I Ever Wanted To Be, Cratis Williams

Morehead State College Histories

A memoir by Cratis William titled, William H. Vaughan: A Better Man than I Ever Wanted to Be, published by the Appalachian Development Center in 1983.

Wayne County - Buck Murder, Robert M. Rennick

County Histories of Kentucky

A description of the murder of Ellen and Jarvis Buck from Wayne County, Kentucky in 1886.

The Woman Suffrage Movement In West Virginia, 1867-1920, Anne Wallace Effland

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

No abstract provided.

1982 Morehead First Christian Church Board Of Directors Minutes, First Christian Church (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead First Christian Church Records Archive

Morehead First Christian Church Board of Directors meeting minutes for 1982.

George T. Young Interview, George T. Young, Philip Conn

Morehead State College Histories

A transcription of an interview with George T. Young, who taught at Morehead State for over fifty years, by Phil Conn on the television show Our Appalachia from the spring of 1982.

Perry County - Bobby Davis Park, Vivian Carter

County Histories of Kentucky

A history of Bobby Davis Park in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky written in 1982 by Vivian Carter.

Wayne County - Slobaum's Well, Robert M. Rennick

County Histories of Kentucky

An oral history account of Earl Slobaum's suicide on January 16, 1910 near Burnside in Wayne County, Kentucky.

West Virginia Folk Music: A Descriptive Guide To Field Recordings In The West Virginia And Regional History Collection, John A. Cuthbert

Bibliographies and Research Guides

West Virginia University's contribution to the foundation of modern folk music scholarship is widely recognized. Due to the pioneering achievements of its faculty, the University became an important center of folksong scholarship in the 1920s and 30s. John Harrington Cox's Folk-Songs of the South' served as both precedent and pattern for the myriad of subsequent publications upon which folksong study is based.Various works by Josiah Combs, who taught at the University for but a few years, and Louis Watson Chappell, who remained throughout his career, are equally notable if less obviously influential. The University's subsequent contributions to the field, however, …

The January 1937 Flood In The Ohio Valley And Its Impact On The Tri-State Area, Paula Tammie Click

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In January of 1937, the largest flood of record hit the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. Lowell Thomas compared the flood of 1937 with the Great Flood of the Bible. While this exaggerates somewhat the magnitude of the disaster, the people of the Tri-State area must have felt their world was coming to an end; indeed, for the individuals killed in the deluge, their world did end. Yet, the Tri-State and the Ohio Valley survived the inundation. In this paper, the writer intends to concentrate on the effects of the flood on the cities of Ashland, Kentucky, Huntington, West Virginia and …

Cemetery Records - A Window To The Past, Jaunita Blair

Rowan County Histories Collection

A two-volume collection on cemetery records from Rowan and surrounding counties with a letter from Lloyd Dean in 1982.

Cave Run Lake Scrapbook, 1979-1982, Unknown

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

No abstract provided.

0368: Sterrett Family Records, 1807-1884, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of fifteen items that are indentures of bargain and sale for land in Mason County, Virginia (later West Virginia). The items appear to have been collected by the Sterrett family as they were party to many of the deed transactions. Parties of the sales include Alexander E. Spotswood and Betsey Washington Spotswood, William Trotter and Mary Trotter, Walter Newman and Ellen Newman, Bushrod Washington Jr., Henry C./G. Dade and Catherine Dade, Phillip Long and Adam Long, Washington Steritt(?), and William Sterritt (sometimes Sterrett). The land was originally part of the George Washington military tract. This collection includes …

Magoffin County - Founder's Day, Pioneer

County Histories of Kentucky

Special Edition of Pioneer newspaper about the history of Magoffin County published on Spetember 4 1981.

Kentucky Geographic Names: Alphabetical Finding List, Book 1, United States Geological Survey. Topographic Division.

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Kentucky Geographic Names: Alphabetical Finding List, Book 1.

Kentucky Geographic Names: Alphabetical Finding List, Book 2, United States Geological Survey. Topographic Division.

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Kentucky Geographic Names: Alphabetical Finding List, Book 2.

1981 Morehead First Christian Church Board Of Directors Minutes, First Christian Church (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead First Christian Church Records Archive

Morehead First Christian Church Board of Directors meeting minutes for 1981.

1981-1982 Church Service Programs, First Christian Church (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead First Christian Church Records Archive

Weekly church service programs of the First Christian Church of Morehead, Kentucky from 1981 and 1982.

Rowan County - Rowan County News Name Index, 1936-1937, Rowan County News

County Histories of Kentucky

Rowan County News names index from 1936 and 1937. The handwritten index cards were created in 1981 and include surnames, dates of publication, pages and columns of names mentioned in the newspaper.

0335: Wpby-Tv “The Comstock Load” Script, 1980, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of scripts for five WPBY programs. Each program is divided into tapes. Program one is composed of three tapes, while programs two through four are composed of two, and program five is composed of three. These tapes are transcripts of televised conversations with Jim Comstock in 1980, where Comstock speaks with the host “Dick” about subjects relevant to West Virginia, including poetry, politics, his lived experiences, and history.

0331: The Woman’S Club Of Kenova Scrapbook, 1908-1971, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of one scrapbook containing pasted in yearbooks containing the yearly theme, member directories, and events for the Woman’s Club of Kenova, West Virginia from its start in 1908 until 1971.

0343: Peaco Family Scrapbook, C. 1880 - 1946, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection includes one scrapbook that is mostly composed of newspaper clippings about firemen, firefighting, other local events and local history in Huntington, WV. Less represented in the scrapbook are postcards of fire stations and state capitols from around the United States, a cloth reading “U.S. Registered June 5th, 1917” to signify that Lyle Peaco registered for the draft, two unidentified tintypes, photographs of members of the fire department, other photographs of unidentified people, ephemera such as licenses related to Lyle Peaco, business cards, a court document requesting Peaco to attend, a Barnum Club ribbon, a warrant for the arrest …