Della Auvil and Sarah Alice Harsh Kidwell, Davis, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
Kidwell, left, and Auvil, right, are pictured together. Della Auvil was the daughter of John and Amelia Harsh Auvil. Della is the niece of Sarah Alice, but the two girls were close in age.
Early Residents of Canaan Valley, Tucker County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
The man to the far left is Bob Cooper. A young Ben Thompson is pictured in the forefront with his back to the camera. To the left of the horses is Frank Cooper, and to the right of the horses is Jeff Roby. The women are unidentified.This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.Ben Thompson was the son of George Thompson. He became a well known farmer in Canaan Valley.
Dry Kiln Fire at Blackwater Lumber and Boom Company, Davis, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.The Blackwater Boom and Lumber Company (also known as the Thompson Lumber Company) was started by Albert Thompson, who brought his family to Tucker County, West Virginia in the late 1800's to take advantage of Tucker County's forests.The company was bought by Babcock Lumber Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1907. The mill closed at Davis in 1924.
E. C. Grimmett Family Outside of Log Home in Elk Knob, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
Erastis Clay Grimmett with wife Liza Ann Buckland, sons William "Forint", Romie, Rushford "Rush", Vergil "Bird", and daughters Minnie and Gray.Liza died in 1936 at the age of 96.
Photo taken from a tin type. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Odell pose with their daughters Pina Odeell (left) and Fannie Odell (right). Fannie is the mother of Atley Bowyer.
Two unidentified men and a small African-American boy stand by a horse outside of the wooden building. Here is the location where the Hinton Presbyterian Church is currently.
Freight and Lumber Yard Next to C. & O. Station, Sandstone, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
Men and their cattle pictured in the lumber yard located next to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway station. Note "N" Telegraph Office over the roof of the station.
Two priests and a group of children are pictured on the altar. The priest on the left is believed to be Fr. John Werninger. Other subjects unidentified.
Four unidentified men pose by the building's entrance. The store windows advertise "American Field and Hog Fencing: For Sale Here" and "The Two Johns". This is became the location of Danny Foster's in 1986.
Portrait of a smiling, elderly Governor Francis H. Pierpont holding an unidentified infant. Pierpont served as the Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia which was loyal to the Union during the Civil War. He is known as "The Father of West Virginia"
Frank Holme, right, from Terra Alta, West Virginia, was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he clowns with an unidentified friend in staged photograph.
Frank Holme, right, from Terra Alta, West Virginia was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he poses with an unidentified friend in a staged photograph.
Frank Holme (standing, far left) from Preston County, West Virginia was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he poses with unidentified friends, one woman maybe his wife, Ida Van Dyke Holme.
Frank Holme (right) from Preston County, West Virginia, was a nationally known artist and newspaper illustrator. In this staged photograph he pretends to share soup with an unidentified friend.
A three story building decorated with bunting and employees (mostly women) standing at several open windows. A delivery wagon, hitched-up and covered with advertisements is park in front.
Several people, including workers and children line the sidewalk on the left side of the building which is decorated with bunting and flags. A delivery wagon, hitched-up and covered with advertisements is parked in front.
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.
The Wood sisters, Ruth and Lucy were early WVU students. Ruth entered WVU in 1890 and left after falling ill with typhoid fever. She became the first female stenographer in Morgantown (1895), the first woman to run for political office in Monongalia County, (1926) and the first West Virginia woman to become a certified Realtor.
'Back row: Mrs. S.S. Greene, Jim E. Wing, Gypsy Fleming, Mr. S.S. Greene, a guest of Mrs. Greene, Governor A.B. Fleming; Front row: Edward W. Knight, unidentified lady, Dallas Payne, Ida Fleming'
'Corn bread breakfast at "The modest brown cottage," A.B. Fleming's home in Charleston, W. Va. While Governor, center back; Walton Miller; 2nd row: Alec Quarrier, George McClintic, Mary Long, George Summers, Brad Clarkson, Minnie Owings (married Clarence Watson), Gypsy Fleming, Bob Ewing, Harrison B. Smith; Front Row: Ida Fleming, neice of Mrs. P.C. Gallaher, Fontaine Brown, Miss Caldwell, Bess Summers, Jim Ewing'
Campus of West Virginia University Looking down University Avenue, then called Front Street
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
'Campus of West Virginia University looking down University Avenue, then called Front Street, past the present location of Elizabeth Moore Hall. Note the sycamore tree to the right of center, which is only tree still standing. Beyond it he building is the old Millspaugh home, now site of the President's Home. Taken about 1890.'
Road Past Experiment Station, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
'Negative by John L. Johnston, print by F. A. Molby. Johnston named it 'West Virginia Road System'. L. L. Friend and Friend E. Clark say this was the road past the Experiment Station into Falling Run on the Campus of West Virginia University, about 1890 perhaps.'
'University Campus about 1890. Negative by John L. Johnston, Professor in Civil Engineering. Negative and the camera used are now in the Physics Department. Print 20 percent enlarged by Molby, 1938.'
George Simmins in front of Woodburn Hall, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
'Yoko and the late George Simmins who was janitor here in 1897. Taken in front of Woodburn Hall. Simmins is an engineer in Charleston at the present time. He taught the colored school in Morgantown for a number of terms.'
George Simmins in front of Woodburn Hall, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
'Yoko and the late George Simmins who was the janitor here (WVU) in 1897. Taken in front of Woodburn Hall. Simmins is an engineer in Charleston at the present time. He taught the colored school in Morgantown for a number of terms.'