West Virginia University President James G. Harlow at the Dedication of the Bell of the U.S.S. West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va.
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1967/12/07
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WVU President James G. Harlow speaks at dedication ceremony of the bell from the armored cruiser and battleship U.S.S. West Virginia. Oglebay Hall is pictured in the background.
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Judge J. T. Hoke, President West Virginia University Board of Regents
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'Photograph of Judge J.T. Hoke, President, Board of Regents, 1867, who presented the keys to Dr. Alexander Martin, First President of the University, June 27, 1867.; Presented to Dr. John R. Turner by R.A. West, May 31, 1934.'
'Samuel R. Hurley, of Grundy, Va., who will be nominated for Congress by Republicans of the Ninth Virginia district at their convention to be held in Bristol Saturday, April 3.'
'Hall distinguished himself as author, editor, historian and public official. As a young man, this Harrison County author became so interested in the Pitman shorthand system that he determined he would master it from a manual which he possessed. After teaching school for one term, he took his earnings and went to Washington where he obtained a position in the U. S. Senate copying debates. He returned to his native Virginia in 1861 and went to work on the Wheeling Intelligencer just before Virginia seceded from the Union in April, 1861. He made verbatim recordings of the conventions held in Wheeling from 1861-1863. When the legislature of the new state met at Linsly Institute, Hall was chosen clerk of the House of Delegates. He served as Secretary of State from 1866-1868 and then retired from political life, having acquired part ownership of the Wheeling Intelligencer. He was the paper's editor until 1873. Hall's historical works include: The Rending of Virginia (1902); Lee's Invasion of Northwest Virginia in 1861 (1911); and The Two Virginias (1915). Among his works of literature are: Daughter of the Elm (1899) and Old Gold (1907).
Capt. George Haldeman of Haldeman Elder Trans-Atlantic Flight.He was a pioneering aviator who barnstormed and set flight records. In 1921 he made one of the first trans-continental flights from Florida to California.
He preached the first Mother's Day Methodist Sermon in Andrews Methodist Church. He chose as his text John 19 chapter, 26-27 verses. "Woman, behold thy son, and to the Disciple, behold thy Mother."
