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Joseph Moreland was a prominent Morgantown attorney, serving in the West Virginia State Legislature and on the WVU Board of Regents during late 19th century.

1. Joseph Moreland, Morgantown, W. Va.

Meador wearing a hat and jacket.

2. Ernest Meador of Summers County, W. Va.

Miller (b. 11/24/1911-d. 11/8/2006) was the son of Henry C. and Marguarite E. Miller. He was a life-long school teacher at Terra Alta High School. He served in both World War II and the Korean War.

3. Portrait of Harold H. Miller of Preston County, W. Va.

Miller was the daughter of Henry E. and "Maggie" Margarite E. Miller. Her siblings were E. Paul Miller, Harold H. Miller, and Marie Miller Davis. The family was from the towns of Kingwood and Tunnelton, W. Va.--both located in Preston County, W. Va. Miller was born in 1908 and attended West Virginia University, where she joined a sorority, identified in the photo as Gamma Phi Beta.

4. Portrait of E. Ruth Miller Parrack, Morgantown, W. Va.

A young Morton is pictured inside A. M. Slusher's photo studio.

5. B. Morton, Bluefield, W. Va.

Morton is pictured sitting in A. M. Slusher's photo studio.

6. Vernie Morton, Bluefield, W. Va.

Portrait of baby Morton.

7. Guthur Price Morton, Bluefield, W. Va.

Portrait of Elizabeth Irwin Moore.  Moore, who was married to James Robertson Moore, was the principal of Woodburn Female Seminary before the building and land were incorporated into the campus of West Virginia University.  She later opened Morgantown Female Seminary on High Street.Elizabeth Moore Hall on the Morgantown campus of West Virginia University was named in her honor shortly before her death in 1930.

8. Portrait of Elizabeth Moore

Victorine Louistall Monroe was the first African-American woman to earn a graduate degree from WVU. She joined the faculty in 1966 as a professor of library science.

9. Victorine Louistall Monroe

Mary Ann (Molly) of the Gibson family.

10. Portrait of Mary Ann

Photograph taken during the construction on the Ohio Extension of the Norfolk & Western Railroad along the Tug Fork and Big Sandy Rivers. None of the family members are identified.

11. Jim Mounce & Family, Tug Fork River Area, W. Va.

Widow of Congressman William Brown from West Virginia and the first woman to second a presidential nominee in a major party (1920) and also the first woman south of the Mason-Dixon line to run for the United States Senate, losing the West Virginia Democratic Party nomination to Matthew Neely by only 6,000 votes in 1922.

12. Izetta Jewel Brown Miller of Kingwood, W. Va.