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Group portrait of West Virginia University College of Pharmacy students visiting  Calco Chemical Plant in Willow Island, W. Va. See A&M 977 for correspondence regarding this trip. Kneeling:  Robert Lewis, Donald Douglas, Samuel Argentine, Benton Smith, William Hammett; Standing: William Shumate, Rudy Harman, Robert Robinson, Jack Riggs, Herbert Rothlisberger, Calco Rep.

1. College of Pharmacy Student Group on Visit to Calco Chemical Plant, Willow Island, W. Va.

2. Major Douglas, Reymann Memorial Farms, West Virginia University

3. Graduating Class of 1878, West Virginia University

A portrait of Class of 1878. Top row: Enoc J. Marsh, J.R. Thompson; Ben Morgan; Bottom row: A.G. Dayton, A.F. Courtney; J.M. Lee and Dan Rich.

4. Graduating Class of 1878, West Virginia University

Leaning against a fence, made with unhewn logs.

5. Students Edminston and Haymond, West Virginia University

Major James M. Lee commandant on far right poses with his cadets officers. Standing next to the Major is Robert Hall Armstrong, Adjutant.

6. Commandant Major James M. Lee and Cadet Officers, West Virginia University

The faculty in the back row, left to right, are named as the following:  John Harvey, Professor of Modern Language; R. C. Berkeley, Professor of Language; James Wilson, Professor of Math and Military; P. B. Reynolds, Professor of English; A. R. Whitehill, Professor of Chemistry; I. C. White, Professor of Geology; and W. P. Willey, Professor of Law.  The faculty in the front row, listed left to right, are named as the following:  St. George Tucker Brooke; D. B. Purinton, Professor of Metaphysics; Pres. E. M. Turner, Professor of Rhetoric; Okey Johnson, Professor of Law; A. Lorentz; and T. S. Stewart, Professor of Mathematics.  The subjects in the photograph were identified by Mr. Bayles and Dr. Callahan.

7. Faculty, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.

8. Corps of Cadets Officers, West Virginia University

9. John L. Johnston, West Virginia University

10. J. M. Callahan, West Virginia University

Riverview, Kanawha County, W. Va.

11. Robert E. L. Blackwood, West Virginia University

Dr. Hartigan, the instructor, is in the front row, second from the left; and Wayne Willey is in the front row, on the extreme right.  The other students are not identified.

12. Physiology Class, West Virginia University

From Left to Right: John Wiley Francis, A.B. 1892; William Charles Meyer, A.B. 1893; A. Brown Smith, A.B. 1893.

13. Corps of Cadets Officers, West Virginia University

14. Professor Russell L. Morris, West Virginia University

15. Rudolph DeRoode, Chemist, West Virginia University

From April 1936 Alumni Magazine. Harriet Eliza Lyon, a transfer student from Vassar College was WVU's first woman graduate. The only woman in the fourteen member Class of 1891, she won the honor of being valedictorian. Born in Fedonia, New York, she moved to Morgantown with her family in 1867 when her father, Franklin Smith Lyon, accepted a position as one of WVU's first professors. After graduating from the University, Harriet Lyon returned to Fredonia and married Franklin Jewett, a professor of science at the Fredonia Normal school. She raised four children and was active as a musician, singer, composer, and community leader. Harriet Lyon was a grandniece of Mary Lyon, the founder of Mt. Holyoke College.

16. Portrait of Harriet Lyon

'West Virginia University and Morgantown (1891-1892) as taken from a point some distance north of the U. The Catalogue for one of those subsequent years states that Science Hall was finished in 1893, but no sign of it is to be seen in this picture, but the roof was on Commencement Hall, and the Court House was built (1892), which fixes the date about as given above.' 'View of Morgantown & Sunnyside taken from North Morgantown Hill. Note the orchard along Overhill St. also showing the house owned by the Whites nearby.'

17. Turn of the Century Morgantown and West Virginia University

18. Winter Scene on the Campus of West Virginia University

'Main Street. W. B. Cutright, Class of 1895, Commissary. Back Row (left to right): Lew Grenolds, Class of 1895. Beverly, W. Va.; J.W. McClung, ex? Ronceverte, W. Va.; E.F. Allen, ex? Montgomery, W. Va.; Jake Linn, ex? Uniontown, Pa.; G.H. Brownfield, ex? Fairmont, W. Va.; W.E. Baker, Class of 1896. Beverly, W. Va.; T.S. Tompkins, ex? Charleston, W. Va.; Charles Jacobs, ex? Charleston, W. Va.; W.T. Patton, ex? Charleston, W. Va.; Davidson, ex? Charleston, W. Va.; T.F. Watson, ex? Mobile, Ala. Middle Row (left to right): O.L. Haught, ex? Silver Hill, W. Va.; A.B. Carmack, ex? Brownsville, Pa.; C.W. Cramer, Class of 1897. Piedmont, W. Va.; J. Floyd Strader, Class of 1895. Beverly, W. Va.;  A.E. Boyd, ex? Uniontown, Pa.; W.B. Cutright, Class of 1895. Buckhannon, W. Va. Front Row (left to right): J. Morgan Orr, Class of 1892 and 1897. Kingwood, W.  Va.; L.N. Reichard, ex? Brownsville, Pa.; C.S. Elliott, Class of 1898. Redstone, Pa. This picture is from the collection of William Cramer.'

19. Student Members of Pool Forte Eating Club, West Virginia University

20. Class in Economic Science, West Virginia University

A seated portrait of Andrew D. Hopkins.

21. Andrew D. Hopkins, West Virginia University

A portrait of A.D. Hopkins seated and leaning against a table.

22. A. D. Hopkins , West Virginia University

A collection of portraits of A. D. Hopkins, entomologist.

23. Evolution of A. D. Hopkins, Entemologist, West Virginia University

Written on the back of photograph: 'Town and Campus in 1895 and 1945; two communities and one city looking forward to another two hundred years.'

24. View of Morgantown and West Virginia University Campus, Morgantown, W. Va.

Class of 1895 civil engineering class: from left to right: Si Sthathes; Tom Lavelle; Leach; Arch Rader and Prof. Russell 'Sport' Morris.

25. Civil Engineering Class, West Virginia University

Twins Anna and Stella White were the first women to earn Bachelor of Science degrees at WVU. Science degrees were especially attractive to women, who often had less secondary-level Latin and Greek languages needed for B.A.s--than their male peers. B.S. students took French or German. The White family moved to Morgantown from Ohio in 1886 They came, as did others, to give children access to higher education. In the 1890's all 6 White siblings (4 sons and the twins) attended WVU.

26. Portrait of Anna White in Cap and Gown

Twins, Anna and Stella White, were the first women to earn Bachelor of Science degrees from WVU. In 1886, the family sold their Ohio farm and moved to Morgantown so their children - 4 sons and two daughters, could attend WVU. Family or one parent relocation with students was not uncommon in and era when mid-western state universities did not routinely erect dormitories.

27. Portrait of Stella White

Waitman Barbe first row, center.

28. P4 Club at Office of B. M. Ambler, Parkersburg, W. Va.

29. A. W. Lorentz, West Virginia University

'Editor in Chief.'

30. L.C. Anderson, A. B., West Virginia University

The Society was formed in 1852, 15 years before the University was established. Meetings were held at the Monongalia Academy, near the site of the WVU campus.  No members are identified.

31. Columbian Literary Society, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.

Students taking a test.

32. Professor Miller Monitors an Examination in the Preparatory School, West Virginia University

The list of the names: C.S. Lowe (Eldora), W. F. McDonald (Charleston), C.A. Osborn (Clarksburg), Miss Evelyn Pratt (Wheeling), A.L. Sawtell, Phi Kappa Psi (Wheeling), W. H. South, Phi Sigma Kappa (Morgantown); G. E. Anderson, Phi Kappa Psi (Latrobe, PA), W. S. Arnold (Hartmansville), C. D. Barb (Morgantown), J.T. Beall (Capon Bridge), C.P. Davidson (Fleming), H.K. Brane (Piedmond), G. H. F. Holy (Grafton), J.W. Hugus (Wheeling), G.R. Krebbs, Sigma Chi (New Martinsville), Phillip Konrad, Sigma Chi (New Martinsville), J.E. Law (Clarksburg), Lee Lewellen (Duke), Miss Maud Sedgwick (Monterey, PA), C.H. Trippet (Wheeling), John Wallace (Wheeling), E.M. Whitescarver (Pruntytown), Miss Lucy B. Wood (Morgantown), H.M. White, Sigma Chi (Camden); F.N. Frum (Bridgeport), G.E. Gramm (Grafton), P.E. Greer (Wheeling), F.E. Gebhart (Latrobe, PA), Dale Grant (Morgantown), J.W. Horn (Capon Bridge).  The caption reads : 'Fulton and Morse have exhausted the scope of invention, nor that Webster and Jefferson have reached the highest limit of statemanship; but we do belive that in these and other fields of activity there is work that we may do, and we are getting ready to enter them.  Believing as we do in co-education, we are proud to have some young ladies in our class, and regret that their number is not larger.  We give due praise to these ladies, who by their enrnest efforts, are profiting by the educational advantages which are as much theirs as anyone's else.  May their example and influence and success induce many others to pursue the same course, and to help, by larger numbers, in representing future classes.  The members of the class are not lacking in loyalty to the University and all its interests.  Thoroughly imbued with the college spirit, they stand ready to help to enlist others in the work.  We feel sure that many, if not all, of those who are now Freshmen will continue their work through the entire course, and finally go out from the University as graduates, and place their names upon the roll of the many who have gone from this institution and achieved honorable success.'

33. Freshman in the Class of 1899, West Virginia University

Group of students from the graduating class of 1895 pose in cap and gown. In the forefront of the photo are twins Anna and Stella White of Morgantown, W. Va., who were the first women to receive Bachelors of Science degrees at West Virginia University.The other graduates of the class are: W. B. Cutright (Morgantown, W. Va.); C. E. Carrigan (Wheeling, W. Va.); T. L. Davies (Gleville, W. Va.); M. E. Gorman (Rivesville, W. Va.); W. J. Holden (Glenville, W. Va.); S. S. Jacob, Jr. (West Liberty, W. Va.); G. H. A. Kunst (Weston, W. Va.); U. S. G. Kendall (Fairmont, W. Va.); T. M. Lavell (Pencoyd, Pa.); Russell Morris (Morgantown, W. Va.); P. B. Martin (Kingwood, W. Va.); J. B. Protzman (Morgantown, W. Va.); C. N. Ridgway (Hospital, Illinois); Silas Stathers (Wheeling, W. Va.); and J. F. Strader (Morgantown, W. Va.).

34. Student Group from the Class of 1895, West Virginia University

35. Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity Members, West Virginia University

Students of junior Geology class in Fall 1896; one individual is identified as Fred E. Clark.

36. Junior Geology Class, West Virginia University

The daughter of WVU professor Powell Benton Reynolds, Richmond native Mabel Curry Reynolds worked her way through WVU by teaching in the Morgantown public schools. She was active in a wide variety of women's organizations during this course of her life, including the Women's League of West Virginia branch of the General Federation of Women's Clubs during the 1920's. In 1908 Reynolds married attorney Samuel Fuller Glasscock. The couple had no children.

37. Portrait of Mabel Reynolds

Seated from left to right: Nelson, Ice, Moore, Brooks. Standing from left to right: Alderson, Bruner, Staniford, Knutti, Stout.

38. Young Men's Christian Association Officers, West Virginia University

Written on the back of the photograph, 'to Fortune and to Fame unknown: Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own...He gained from Heaven (twas all he wished)a friend.'

39. Alfred Jarrett 'Jack' Hare, West Virginia University

A view of WVU campus scene from 1896: twin oak trees.

40. Twin Oaks on the Campus of West Virginia University

An impressive sycamore tree on campus.

41. Sycamore Tree on the Campus of West Virginia University

'Principal Shepherd College.'

42. John G. Knutti, West Virginia University

Class of 1897.

43. Larry Taylor, Class of 1897, West Virginia University

44. Law Class of 1897, West Virginia University

Group of students in a medical class pose by a small water fall near Falling Run, some are wearing long aprons; on the site now stand Business and Economic and Life Science Buildings. An inscription of 'Dr. J.F. Trippett died August 20, 1912' with a signature of Clyde Trippett, M.D. on the back.

45. Medical Students at Falling Run, West Virginia University

46. Corps of Cadets Officers, West Virginia University

'Faculty 1897 Romine, Konrad, White, James W. Hartigan (bio & athletics), R. H. Douthat (ancient lang.) wife & child, Mrs. Wood, Bernhardt & Bennett.'

47. Faculty Group, West Virginia University

48. Corps of Cadets Officers, West Virginia University