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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.

"WVU cadets stand for inspection beside the new $4000 Armory built in 1873. University Ave had not been built yet so the white fence delineates Woodburn Circle. Martin Hall includes an entrance porch with a balcony.", as described in  "West Virginia University, Symbol of Unity in a Sectionalized State".

2. Cadet Cannoneers in Battery Formation in Woodburn Circle, 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

7. Corps of Cadets Officers, West Virginia University

Riverview, Kanawha County, W. Va.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Corps of Cadets Officers, 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.

11. Portrait of Harriet Lyon

Group portrait of all male cast in costume for a student production of Shakespeare's 'Richard III.'  The play raised funds for WVU's first football team.  Proceeds bought, 'uniforms, football, and a rule book.'  Pictured, left to right, A. Brown Smith; Ed. Mayer; Claude Gore; Melville Davisson Post, Director; Richard Stine; Frederick Minshall, Doresey Stine; C. Earl Vance; Kemble White; Harry Smith.

12. Students in Cast of 'Richard III,' West Virginia University

From Sallie Norris' copy of original playbill. Most likely a photograph of members of the M[odern]. A[thens]. S[ocial]. O[rganization]. Sallie Norris sits at the bottom right; Harriet Lyon stands to the left rear. Community-based social organizations furnished entertainment in an era when fraternities and sororities were banned and there were no athletic teams.

13. Modern Athens Social Organization, Morgantown, W. Va.

'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.'

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

15. Class in Economic Science, West Virginia University

Five students stand on the steps outside of Science Hall (present Chitwood Hall).

16. Students, West Virginia University

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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Portrait of Stella White

The mandolin players are John Wallace, C. W. Kramer, G. M. Mayers, H. F. Armstrong, C. F. Lowther, and A. L. Sattell.  The guitar players are B. S. White, C. P. Shumann, E. M. Pearcy, S. W. Hogsett, and C. H. Trippett.  The banjo players are W. F. Alexander, H. B. McClure, and John Wallace.  The officers are B. G. Moore (president), H. B. McClure (secretary-treasurer), and John Wallace (leader).

20. Banjo, Mandolin, and Guitar Club, West Virginia University

'Editor in Chief.'

21. 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.

22. 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.'

23. 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.).

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

Standing in Back, left to right: Edgar Stewart, H.L. Swisher, G.M. Ford, J.M. Kunkle, Paul McCoy. Seated, from left to right: Mabel Reynolds, John Knutti, L.C. Anderson (Editor-in-Chief), W.B. Cutright (Business Manager), L.L. Friend, Winnie South.

25. Monticola Board of Editors, West Virginia University

26. Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity Members, West Virginia University

27. Columbian Literary Society, West Virginia University

28. Parthenon Literary Society, West Virginia University

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

29. 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.

30. Portrait of Mabel Reynolds

Students in football uniforms pose in offensive set in front of Episcopal Hall.

31. West Virginia University Students Lineup in Offensive Set in Front of Episcopal Hall, Morgantown, W. Va.

Students in a WVU medical class of 1896-1897 appropriately attired with long aprons pose outside of the Hick House for cadaver dissection.

32. Medical Class in front of Hick House, West Virginia University

Agricultural Experiment Station building in background.

33. Corps of Cadets Assembled on Woodburn Circle, West Virginia University

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

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

35. Corps of Cadets Muster in front of the Agricultural Experiment Station, West Virginia University

36. Corps of Cadets Muster in front of the Agricultural Experiment Station, West Virginia University

Cadet officers pose in front of Woodburn Hall.

37. Corps of Cadets Officers, West Virginia University

'Principal Shepherd College.'

38. John G. Knutti, West Virginia University

Class of 1897.

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

40. 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.

41. Medical Students at Falling Run, West Virginia University

42. Corps of Cadets Officers, West Virginia University

43. Corps of Cadets Officers, West Virginia University

'Photograph taken in front of Martin Hall'.

44. Civil Engineering Class with Surveying Equipment, West Virginia University

45. Ray Dille, West Virginia University

'A. B. 1898, Smithfield, Pa.'

46. Walter S. Deffenbaugh, West Virginia University

47. Stuart H. Bowman, West Virginia University

48. Willa N. Brand, West Virginia University

'WVU '98 Parkersburg, W. Va. [Prep. of 1896 Monticola p. 97 front row center, not listed in Barbe Alumni Record, 1867-1903.]'

49. A. Garland Butler, West Virginia University

'A.B. '98, Valley Furnace, Barbour County, W. Va.'

50. Stuart H. Bowman, West Virginia University

Class of 1898, Librarian 1910-1935.

51. L. D. Arnett, West Virginia University

'A. B. '98; Bridgeport, W. Va.'

52. Elmer Forrest Goodwin, West Virginia University

53. Thomas Johnson, Cousin of David Dale Johnson, West Virginia University

54. Charles McCoy, Class of 1898, West Virginia University

55. Wade Cullen Kilmer, West Virginia University

56. A. Lee Post, West Virginia University

'B.S. 1898, Capon Bridge, W. Va.'

57. J. Frank Nelson, West Virginia University

'A.B. 1898, Rural Dale, W. Va.'

58. Roy Reger, Class of 1898, 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.

59. 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.

60. Senior Engineering Class of 1898, West Virginia University

Class portrait with unidentified students.

61. Class of 1898, West Virginia University

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

62. 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.

63. Seniors Loughead and Davis, West Virginia University

64. Science Students, West Virginia University

A portrait of class of 1898, senior students of civil engineering; a male standing is Elmer Leach, the rest are unidentified.

65. Senior Civil Engineering Class, West Virginia University

Senior students Laughhead (left) and Davis (right) sit for an photo in a classroom.

66. Students Laughhead Davis, West Virginia Univrsity

Cadet R.E. Fast in uniform.

67. West Virginia University Cadet R. E. Fast

68. Students in a Horse and Buggy in Front of the Agricultural Experiment Station, West Virginia University

69. Unidentified Students, West Virginia University

A. B. '98, Morgantown, W. Va.

70. Eleanor B. Moreland, West Virginia University

'B. S. '98; Kenneth, Pa.'

71. Charles S. Elliott, West Virginia University

72. Friend Ebenezer Clark, B. S., West Virginia University

73. Harry O. Cole, B. S. C. E., West VIrginia University

'A.B. 1898, Rural Dale, W. Va.

74. Roy Reger, West Virginia University

A student tends to melons in a greenhouse.

75. Melons in Greenhouse, West Virginia University

'Photo taken on the steps of Science Hall. The engine in the picture was built by R.A. West in Fife Cottage.'

76. Engineering Society, West Virginia University

'Photo taken on the steps of Science Hall. The engine in the picture was built by R.A. West in Fife Cottage.'

77. Engineering Society, West Virginia University

78. James Edward Law, Class of 1899, West Virginia University

79. A. Gordon Tait, West Virginia University

80. 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.'

81. Student Group, West Virginia University

Back Row, left to right: Easley, Randolph, Maxwell, Thompson, Meredith, Smith, Lang. Second Row From Back, left to right: Smith, Boyers, Gramm, Kunst, Jones, Carskadon, Gore, Morris. Third Row From Back, left to right: Leps, Kee, Frazer, Willey, Willis, Laughlin, Neely. Front Row, left to right: South, Lively, Koblegard, Hereford.

82. Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity Members, West Virginia University

Students pose in front of Chitwood (Science) Hall with survey equipment.

83. Students with Surveying Equipment, West Virginia University

84. Students with Surveying Equipment, West Virginia University

Group portrait of students.

85. Engineering Class, West Virginia University

Lucy Wood was the first WVU woman to go to the far East as a missionary teacher,where she died giving birth to her only child, Faith Lawrence. Infant Faith was sent home to Morgantown to be raised by Ruth Wood. Faith graduated from WVU in 1927.

86. Portrait of Lucy Wood

Club members posing with their instruments.

87. Mandolin and Guitar Club, West Virginia University

88. Young Men's Christian Association, West Virginia University

Top three: Frankenberger, Assistant Advisory Editor; Neely, Business Manager; Miller, Associate Editor. In middle: Poe, Editor-in-Chief; Bottom three: Ireland, Associate Editor; Shaffer, Associate Editor; Six, Illustrative Editor.

89. Monticola Staff, West Virginia University

Back Row:  Stalnaker, Corbin, Waugh, Brahm, McVicker; Middle: Browning, Hite, Edith Grant, Dent, Hayes; Front: Bessie Grant, Butcher.

90. Kappa Delta Sorority, West Virginia University

91. Columbian Literary Society, West Virginia University

92. Parthenon Literary Society, West Virginia University

'E.I. Ireland (President 1900-1901), W.W. Smith (President 1901-1902), W.W. Smith (Vice President 1900-1901), F.L. Bowman (Vice President 1901-1902), F.L. Bowman (Recording Secretary 1900-1901), B.F. Sperrow (Recording Secretary 1901-1902), J.R. Moreland (Cor. Secretary 1900-1901), W.C. Bonar (Cor. Secretary 1901-1902), E.U. Richards (Treasurer 1900-1901), F.O. Leonard (Treasurer 1901-1902). Committees: Work for New Students- W.E. Albig, C.A. Ellison, J.E. Lareu; Membership- T.S. Boyd, F.F. Richards, F.L. Bowman; Religious Meetings- H.F. Rogers, L.L. Friend, W.A. Swallow; Bible Study- B.F. Sperrow, W.F. McCullough, Daniel Dawson; Finance- F.O. Leonard, E.U. Richards, E.C. Tabler; Intercollegiate  Relations- W.P. Bonar, J.R. Moreland, A.W. Poterfield; Missionary- W.H. Bayles, J.F. Miller, S.G. Moore; Socail- R.C. Shriver, S.A. Smith, B.G. Printz; Attendance- J.D. Vannoy, G.R. Whitham, A.D. Ellison.

93. YMCA Members, West Virginia University

94. Addison Dunlap Ellison, West Virginia University

A male in Mechanical Hall Lab operates on machine.

95. Student in Mechanical Hall Lab C, West Virginia University

Printed for WVU centennial film strip.

96. Students Relaxing Under a Tree Near Martin Hall, West Virginia University