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.
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.
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.'
Henry Clay Ruddle Home, Buffalo Hills, Pendleton County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
'Built in late 1880s. Pictured left to right: Ott Ruddle, Henry Clay Ruddle, Ona Ruddle, Hannah Dean, Luna Ruddle (Byrd), Maud Ruddle, Clara (Ruddle)Ruddle.
Fraternity Row, North High Street, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
Two unidentified men stand in the middle of the athletic field near Fraternity Row on North High Street in Morgantown, West Virginia. This photograph was taken when the first houses were being built along Fraternity Row.