Candid portrait of husband and wife, Clifford and Eva Condon from Morgantown, West Virginia. The photograph was probably taken in Long Beach, California.
Candid portrait of husband and wife, Clifford and Eva Condon (standing,right) with unidentified couple. The men are wearing navy dress whites. The photograph was probably taken in the Philippines before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Clifford Condon was captured by the Japanese in December, 1941 and died in a POW Camp in 1945.
In 1778 Colonel George Rogers Clark recruited 86 men from Kerns', Coon's and Prickett's Forts along the Monongahela River in Monongalia County to fight against the British and their Indian allies. Clark and his company won many battles, several times they were considerably outnumbered.
Fabricius A. Cather, Flemington, Taylor County, W. Va.
Date:
ca.1868
Description:
Cather was a Civil War veteran (Major, 1st West Virginia Cavalry), a farmer, surveyor and for a short time Adjutant General of West Virginia. He was married to Helen V. Mallonee.
Husband of Mary Adaline King Corrothers and founder of the White Day Glades Tannery (ca. 1846) in the Fetterman District, Taylor County, Virginia (later West Virginia).
Colonel Claude Crozet, 1790 - 1864, Chief Engineer of Virginia Board of Public Works
Description:
Crozet was involved in the planning and construction of several antebellum period transportation projects in Western Virginia including the Northwest Turnpike (1832) and the Staunton - Parkersburg Turnpike (1848). Crozet was also one of the founders of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Va.
Prisilla "Aunt Prissy" Clark was a slave owned by George Dorsey of Monongalia County. When he died in 1824, his slaves were willed to his wife and children. Prisilla was given to Dorsey's son. It is unknown if she ever gained her freedom. Information on p. 22 in "Our Monongalia" by Connie Park Rice. Information with the photograph includes "Reproduced from Spinster Club photo book, duplicate held by WVU Women's Centenary Project, Center for Women's Studies Archive. Original loaned by Ruth Lawrence Mahaney".
Robert Church of Monongalia County, W. Va. Operating Crane in Korea
Description:
Robert Church wearing Army fatigues, operating a crane while serving in Korea. Information on p. 143 in "Our Monongalia" by Connie Park Rice. Information with the photograph includes "Courtesy of Roberta Barbra Church".
Two African-American girls pose on a foot-bridge. Information on p. 149 in "Our Monongalia" by Connie Park Rice. Information with the photograph includes "Courtesy of Bobbie Drew Ward."
Cooper replaced John Carlile in the 1861 Virginia State Covention after the vote to secede. He served as an officer in the 31st Virginia Regiment, Confederate Army, for the duration of the Civil War.
Postcard photograph of a portrait of Alexander Campbell. He was known as a Bible teacher, minister and leader in the church planting movement of independent and predoniminational congregations that is historically known in America as the Restoration Movement. Campbell founded Bethany College in 1840 which is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia.
Clifford served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was a graduate of Storer College in Harpers Ferry, W. Va. by 1875. He was the first African-American lawyer admitted to the bar in West Virginia in 1887. He became one of the leaders int he Niagara Movement, the beginning of the NAACP and Modern Civil Rights Movement (1905-1906).