Siss Hunter was the wife of John Hunter of Wheeling, West Virginia. Hunter made the brick for Martin Hall, the first West Virginia University building.
Hagans served in many state and local government positions including Mayor of Morgantown, Judge in Second Judicial Circuit Court, United States Congressman for West Virginia, West Virginia State House of Delegates and Delegate to the 1872 West Virginia State Constitutional Convention. He was the son of Harrison Hagans, a Preston County delegate to the 1861 Wheeling Convention and he was also Waitman Willey's son-in-law.
Lewis Hayes was the owner and manager of the Washington Hotel in Morgantown in the 1860s. In 1869 the building became the residence of Alexander Martin, the first president of West Virginia University.
Eugene Holland, United States Navy from Morgantown, W. Va.
Description:
Eugene Holland in his U. S. Navy uniform. Information on p. 143 in "Our Monongalia" by Connie Park Rice. Information with the photograph includes "Courtesy of Ivry Moore Williams".
Portrait of Ada Enid Haldeman of Taylor County, W. Va.
Date:
1908
Description:
Photograph taken before her marriage to Gene Ford. Ada was a West Virginia state leader in the Women's Suffrage Movement to ratify the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution giving the women the right to vote. Mrs. Ford was also president and founder of the Women's Suffrage League in Taylor County.
Ada Enid Haldeman With Friend, Taylor County, W. Va.
Date:
1905
Description:
Photograph taken at Ada' s "Old home", before her marriage to Gene Ford. Ada was a West Virginia state leader in the Women's Suffrage Movement to ratify the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving the women the right to vote. Mrs. Ford was also president and founder of the Women's Suffrage League in Taylor County.
Portrait of Hanslip Watkins of Taylor County, W. Va.
Description:
Taped to the back of the picture "Hanslip Watkins, grandfather of Joseph Hanslip Haldeman of near Thornton, Taylor Co, West Virginia. Watkins was around New York part of the time. This picture was found in a trunk given to Etta Haldeman (daughter of Joseph Haldeman) by Harriet Haldeman, her aunt.
Vance Harvey was the son of W. F. Harvey. Information with the photograph includes "Taken when a member of football team at Ellicot City College, Maryland, killed in mine not long after through school. Slate Fall. He was trained as a mine executive but was in the mine and was killed."
Representative in the United States Congress (1865-1868) for West Virginia, a member of the 1st and 2nd Wheeling Conventions and was actively involved in the formation of the state of West Virginia.
Frank Holme (right) from Preston County, West Virginia, was a nationally known artist and newspaper illustrator. In this staged photograph he pretends to share soup with an unidentified friend.
Frank Holme (standing, far left) from Preston County, West Virginia was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he poses with unidentified friends, one woman maybe his wife, Ida Van Dyke Holme.
Frank Holme, right, from Terra Alta, West Virginia was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he poses with an unidentified friend in a staged photograph.
Frank Holme, right, from Terra Alta, West Virginia, was a renown artist and newspaper illustrator. Here he clowns with an unidentified friend in staged photograph.