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1. Graduating Class of 1878, West Virginia University

Leaning against a fence, made with unhewn logs.

2. Students Edminston and Haymond, 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.

3. Physiology Class, 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.'

4. Student Members of Pool Forte Eating Club, 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.

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

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.'

6. 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.).

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

8. 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.

9. Medical Students at Falling Run, West Virginia University

Senior Engineering students posed in classroom.  From left to right:  Harry Cole, Bert Lawhead, Elmer Leach, Bill Bruner, Fred Davis, and Charles McCoy.

10. Senior Engineering Class of 1898, West Virginia University

Left to right, Harry O. Cole, Fred Davis, Berton M. Laughead, Elmer Leach, Wm. J. Bruner, Charles  E. McCoy. Senior engineering class of 1898. Leach, a consulting engineer; C.E. McCoy, now in Insurance business in Charleston, W. Va; Bruner, who is with the Highland Contracting Co. in Pittsburgh; Fred Davis, head of the . W. Va. Good-roads testing department; Laughead, who is now with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. at Washington, Pa; and Harry Cole who is president of the Cole Brothers Construction Co. of Morgantown.

11. Senior Engineering Class of 1898, West Virginia University

Class portrait with unidentified students.

12. Class of 1898, West Virginia University

Left to right: Cole, Davis, Leach, Laughead, Bruner.

13. Senior Civil Engineering Class of 1898, West Virginia University

Loughead is with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. at Washington, Pa. Davis is head of Good Road Testing Department. Taken in Science Hall in 1898.

14. Seniors Loughead and Davis, West Virginia University

15. Science Students, West Virginia University

16. Engineering Class, West Virginia University

'Leonard S. Null, Class of 1900; Frederic William Williamson, Class of 1899; Walter Lawrence Pierpoint, Class of 1900; Robert Maxwell Kimble, Class of 1899; Frank Edward Cox, Class of 1900; Charles Lorraine Wilson, Class of 1899; Albert Lawrence Smith, Class of 1897; James William Scott, Class of 1899; Charles Parker Wortman, Class of 1987; William Henry Wolfe, Class of 1899; Charles Edward O'Neill; Friend Cochran, Class of 1901; Robert Dawson Ford, Class of 1899.'

17. Student Group, West Virginia University

18. Senior Law Students, West Virginia University

Identifed as: Riffe, Ellison, Comin, Friedman, Kirkpatrick, Laurence, Ellison, Daugherty, Meadows, Koonce, Fortney, Parsons, Riley, Robinson, Robinson, Stricklen, Hall, Dyer, Holt, Wood, Mason, and Mackelfresh.'

19. Group of Students, West Virginia University

The Spinster Club in Gym Suits, 1903. From left: Ruth Wood, Sallie Bennett, Willa Brand, Stella Hall, Lucy Wood, Minnie Core, Josie Kunkle. Lucy Wood left a letter which mentioned wearing her gym suit as one of six layers to keep warm in western China.

20. Spinster Club, West Virginia University

21. Freshman Class Portrait, West Virginia University

22. YWCA Group, West Virginia University

Senior Civil Engineers, posing for a group photograph with engineering equipment.

23. Senior Civil Engineers, Class of 1907, West Virginia University

The Spinster Club at Lucy Wood Lawrence's wedding, February 18, 1908. From left: Bess Brown, Willa Brand, Sallie Bennett, Lucy Wood, Minnie Core, Josie Kunkle, Tillie Bernhardt. The Spinster Club of Morgantown flourished by the first decade of this century. At least two members married. All were Morgantowners who had graduated from high school and several had finished West Virginia University. Most were teachers. The Club met to socialize and visit on Saturday nights, with an occasional male friend or fiance allowed to attend. Members helped Ruth Wood, a pioneer stenographer, Realtor,and political candidate, raise her sister Lucy's daughter after Lucy died in China giving birth to her only child.

24. Spinster Club, West Virginia University