Lewis Hayes was the owner and manager of the Washington Hotel in Morgantown in the 1860s. In 1869 the building became the residence of Alexander Martin, the first president of West Virginia University.
Hagans served in many state and local government positions including Mayor of Morgantown, Judge in Second Judicial Circuit Court, United States Congressman for West Virginia, West Virginia State House of Delegates and Delegate to the 1872 West Virginia State Constitutional Convention. He was the son of Harrison Hagans, a Preston County delegate to the 1861 Wheeling Convention and he was also Waitman Willey's son-in-law.
Ada Enid Haldeman With Friend, Taylor County, W. Va.
Date:
1905
Description:
Photograph taken at Ada' s "Old home", before her marriage to Gene Ford. Ada was a West Virginia state leader in the Women's Suffrage Movement to ratify the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving the women the right to vote. Mrs. Ford was also president and founder of the Women's Suffrage League in Taylor County.
Portrait of Ada Enid Haldeman of Taylor County, W. Va.
Date:
1908
Description:
Photograph taken before her marriage to Gene Ford. Ada was a West Virginia state leader in the Women's Suffrage Movement to ratify the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution giving the women the right to vote. Mrs. Ford was also president and founder of the Women's Suffrage League in Taylor County.
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."
WVU Football Player Joseph V. Harrick, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1917
Description:
Joe Harrick ('21) played as a tackle for the West Virginia University Mountaineers and was described as one of the "greatest linesmen that ever wore the Old Gold and Blue" in the 1919 Monticola yearbook.
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.
Helen F. Holt was the first woman Secretary of State in the state of West Virginia. After her term she worked with the Federal Housing Administration and other organizations to establish one of the most important programs in housing and long term healthcare for the elderly.
