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Sketch of Lorenzo Dow at age 39 in 1816. Dow was an eccentric itinerant American Preacher, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He was also a fierce abolitionist whose sermons were often unpopular in the southern United States, and he was frequently threatened with violence. He was also an important figure in the Second Great Awakening, as well as a successful writer.

1. Lorenzo Dow

IDNO:
041345
Title:
Lorenzo Dow
Date:
1816
Description:
Sketch of Lorenzo Dow at age 39 in 1816. Dow was an eccentric itinerant American Preacher, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He was also a fierce abolitionist whose sermons were often unpopular in the southern United States, and he was frequently threatened with violence. He was also an important figure in the Second Great Awakening, as well as a successful writer.
Note included with photo reads: "Melissa Long (on the left) later married John F. Rohr and she was teaching school at Bayard at the time. Mrs. John Landacre (on the right) whose husband was the superintendent of the Saw Mill for the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company at Richwood, W. Va. At the beginning they lived on Walnut Street. His brother owned the shoe repair on Oakford Avenue across from the railroad station."

2. Malissa Long and Mrs. John Landacre, Bayard, W. Va.

IDNO:
041344
Title:
Malissa Long and Mrs. John Landacre, Bayard, W. Va.
Date:
1900
Description:
Note included with photo reads: "Melissa Long (on the left) later married John F. Rohr and she was teaching school at Bayard at the time. Mrs. John Landacre (on the right) whose husband was the superintendent of the Saw Mill for the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company at Richwood, W. Va. At the beginning they lived on Walnut Street. His brother owned the shoe repair on Oakford Avenue across from the railroad station."
From left to right the sixth person is Malissa Rohr, the child standing next to her is her son Glen Rohr. The other people are not known.

3. Laurel Inn, Jenningston, W. Va.

IDNO:
041343
Title:
Laurel Inn, Jenningston, W. Va.
Date:
1919
Description:
From left to right the sixth person is Malissa Rohr, the child standing next to her is her son Glen Rohr. The other people are not known.

4. Students Board a Bus Outside of Towers Dormitories, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
041342
Title:
Students Board a Bus Outside of Towers Dormitories, Morgantown, W. Va.

5. Fritz Dreisbach Preparing Shearing at Blenko Glassworks, Milton, W. Va.

IDNO:
041341
Title:
Fritz Dreisbach Preparing Shearing at Blenko Glassworks, Milton, W. Va.

6. Jamie Carpenter Finishing One of His Designs at Fostora Glass Co., Moundsville, W. Va.

IDNO:
041340
Title:
Jamie Carpenter Finishing One of His Designs at Fostora Glass Co., Moundsville, W. Va.
Harvey Littleton and Roberto Moretti working with glass.

7. Harvey Littleton working with Pilgrim's Roberto Moretti

IDNO:
041339
Title:
Harvey Littleton working with Pilgrim's Roberto Moretti
Description:
Harvey Littleton and Roberto Moretti working with glass.
Caption on photo reads: "Pharmaceutical vials are shown undergoing cutting and fire polishing at Parkersburg, West Virginia plant of Corning Glass Works."

8. Pharmaceutical Vials at Corning Glass Works, Parkersburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
041338
Title:
Pharmaceutical Vials at Corning Glass Works, Parkersburg, W. Va.
Description:
Caption on photo reads: "Pharmaceutical vials are shown undergoing cutting and fire polishing at Parkersburg, West Virginia plant of Corning Glass Works."
Caption on photo reads: "An employee at the Parkersburg, West Virginia plant of Corning Glass Works fabricates a fitting for Pyrex brand glass piping."

9. Employee of Corning Glass Works, Parkersburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
041337
Title:
Employee of Corning Glass Works, Parkersburg, W. Va.
Description:
Caption on photo reads: "An employee at the Parkersburg, West Virginia plant of Corning Glass Works fabricates a fitting for Pyrex brand glass piping."
Note the plank footbridge leading to the church.

10. Unidentified Church in W. Va. Countryside

IDNO:
041336
Title:
Unidentified Church in W. Va. Countryside
Description:
Note the plank footbridge leading to the church.
Built in 1812.

11. Fort Pleasant Meeting House and Cemetery, Old Fields, Hardy Co., W. Va.

IDNO:
041335
Title:
Fort Pleasant Meeting House and Cemetery, Old Fields, Hardy Co., W. Va.
Description:
Built in 1812.
Tuscavora Church, one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in the east, near Martinsburg, W. Va. First Presbyterian Church west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, established in 1745.

12. Tuscavora Church Near Martinsburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
041334
Title:
Tuscavora Church Near Martinsburg, W. Va.
Description:
Tuscavora Church, one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in the east, near Martinsburg, W. Va. First Presbyterian Church west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, established in 1745.