Frank McDaniel Pictured Inside of a Home Likely in Keyser, W. Va.
Date:
1891/08/26
Description:
McDaniel is pictured sitting at a table. The photo is from a photograph album of late nineteenth century images featuring residents from Keyser, W. Va.
Male Members of Miller Family, Bellepointe, W. Va.
Date:
1914
Description:
1. G.A. Miller 2. A.E. Miller 3. James H. Miller 4. C.L. Miller 5. J.H. Miller of Texas. Photograph was taken at the Miller house, also known as the John Cooke home.
WVU Football Player Fred Mills, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1917
Description:
Fred "Ike" Mills ('20) played an end position for West Virginia University's football team. He came to WVU from Keyser Prep, where he had won himself a name as a backfield man. Shortly after the 1917 season, Mills enlisted in the military.
WVU Footbal Player Russel D. Meredith, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1917
Description:
Russel "Rus" Meredith ('21) played as a guard for West Virginia University. He came to WVU from Fairmont High School where he had had a successful career in football.
West Virginia University's Fred "Ike" Mills ('20) was a versatile football player, playing tackle and end positions. He came to WVU from Keyser Prep where he had made a name for himself as a backfield man. Shortly after the 1917 season, he joined the United State military.
Information included with the photograph,"Hu Maxwell standing where Polly Stephenson's cabin was. All that remains of the cabin is a heap of stones which had been the chimney."
Doris Miller Awarded Navy Cross, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Date:
1942/05/27
Description:
Miller was a member of the U.S.S. West Virginia as a Messman Third Class during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was awarded the Navy Cross--the third highest navy award for gallantry during combat--for "distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack. Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain who had been mortally wounded to a place of greater safety and later manned and operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge."Miller was personally awarded the medal by Admiral Chester Nimitz. He was the first African-American to be awarded the honor.
Postcard with photograph addressed to W. T. Mathers of Harrisville, West Virginia. Inscribed on the postcard is "the picture on the other side was my uncle Will Mathers, my father's only brother", probably written by Max Mathers.
'Publication of this photograph is not authorized unless approved for release by a public information office at any Army activity or installation and so noted hereon. Its use in commercial advertisement must be approved by the Public Information Division, Office of the Chief of Information, Department of the Army, the Pentagon, Washington 25, D.C. If published, please credit, "U.S. Army Photo."'
Harold H. Miller Outside of Cecil Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
Date:
1960/06
Description:
Miller was a life-long school teacher who taught in the Maryland towns of Oakland and Elkton, as well as Terra Alta High School in Preston County, W. Va. He served in both World War II and the Korean War.
Memorial to Karl Myers, First Poet Laureate of West Virginia, Moore Cemetery, Tucker County, W. Va.
Date:
1963
Description:
Myers was West Virginia Poet Laureate from 1927 to 1937. His remains are buried in an unknown grave in an IOOF cemetery near Elkins. The people of Tucker County, determined to honor Myers, raised money to place this monument near the Myers family graves in Moore Cemetery. A bucket of dirt from the immediate area of where Karl Myers is thought to be buried was placed in his plot with the monument.
Michael McCormick, Advertising Manager for Fostoria Glassware
Date:
1966
Description:
'Mr. Michael McCormick, who has been named new Advertising Manager for Fostoria Glassware. Mr. McCormick lives at 144 E. Cove Avenue, Wheeling, W. Va.'
The 89th birthday celebration for Izetta Jewel Brown Miller, widow of West Virginia Congressman, William Gay Brown of Preston County. Mrs. Miller was the first woman to second a presidential nominee in a major party convention (1920) and the first woman, south of the Mason-Dixon line to run for the U.S. Senate losing the West Virginia Democratic Party nomination to Matthew Neely by 6,000 votes (1922).
This photo was collected by George and Mike Barrick, two WVU students. He performed at The Met. in Morgantown as part of Will Bradley's orchestra. The photo is signed "To George Best Wishes Ray McKinley"
This photograph is of the unveiling of a boulder commemorating George Washington's visit to John Pierpont's home 148 years ago. In the photograph are the members of the Col. John Evans chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. All persons in the photo are unidentified.
'Prelude to Swing', Zula Mae Mckinley (Banks), Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
Undated
Description:
Young Zula Mae McKinley dancing on stage. Information on p. 128 in "Our Monongalia" by Connie Park Rice. Information with the photograph includes "Courtesy of Ivry Moore Williams".
Waitman T. Mathers of Harrisville, Ritchie County, W. Va.
Date:
ca, 1900
Description:
Waitman T. Mathers started a newspaper in Morgantown during the Civil War in 1863, called the "Morgantown Herald". The newspaper had a short life of only a few weeks. "Factional strife" was responsible for its failure. Mr. Mathers died in Harrisville in 1909.
Photograph of McFarland's portrait painted by Charles Wilson Peale. McFarland was a prominent Charleston businessman during the Antebellum period and was appointed president of the Branch Bank of Virginia in Charleston in 1831.
Drusilla A. Morgan Mathers and Son, Eugene Mathers of Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1857
Description:
Drusilla Mathers, wife of Dr. Joseph R. Mathers and daughter of Enos D. Morgan. Her son, Eugene L. Mathers, the compiler of the scrapbook containing this photograph, worked in his Uncle Henry Morgan's printing and publishing office and later partnered with his son, Max Mathers in the printing business.
Rev. Moore was the superintendent of the Woodburn Female Seminary in Morgantown. Moore ran the school with his wife, Elizabeth Moore until 1866. In 1867 the new land-grant University (later known as West Virginia University) took over the building.
Mrs. Mattie Morgan, Widow of Captain Zadock Morgan, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1870
Description:
Sometime after her husband's death at the Battle of Petersburg, Va. during the Civil War, Mrs. Morgan moved to Moon Township, Pa. and died there in 1907.
According to an 1897 obituary, Jim McCoy was a dentist. He died while in Alliance, Ohio. The cause of death was alcohol poisoning after he drank a "quantity of wood alcohol as a substitute for whiskey". He was 50 years old and left a wife and four children.
Born in Green County, Pennsylvania, Moore was the son of John W. and Mazie Moore. The family came to West Virginia in 1847 and settled on a large farm near Matamoras Station, where he later married Adaline W. Hanes in 1856. The couple bore nine children, seven of whom survived. After Hanes death in 1915, Moore re-married with Sallie A. Rarick in 1902.In 1862, Moore volunteered as a Union soldier in the 14th Regiment, Company E., West Virginia Infantry and was honorably discharged at the close of the war, having received a severe wound in the right hand.He later served his country as a member of the county court for six years and was also an overseer of the poor in Lincoln District (which included Sistersville) for many years.He died of bronchial trouble on his family farm at Pursely Creek on November 24, 1915 at the age of 81.
Born in Green County, Pennsylvania, Moore was the son of John W. and Mazie Moore. The family came to West Virginia in 1847 and settled on a large farm near Matamoras Station, where he later married Adaline W. Hanes in 1856. The couple bore nine children, seven of whom survived. After Hanes death in 1915, Moore re-married with Sallie A. Rarick in 1902.In 1862, Moore volunteered as a Union soldier in the 14th Regiment, Company E., West Virginia Infantry and was honorably discharged at the close of the war, having received a severe wound in the right hand.He later served his country as a member of the county court for six years and was also an overseer of the poor in Lincoln District (which included Sistersville) for many years.He died on his family farm at Pursely Creek on November 24, 1915 at the age of 81.
