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2737. West Virginia University Students, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
037145
Title:
West Virginia University Students, Morgantown, W. Va.

2738. West Virginia University Students, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
037146
Title:
West Virginia University Students, Morgantown, W. Va.
A postcard photograph of a group of unidentified children and young adults standing in line according to height. Inscribed on the back, "Professor Grover C. Jones".

2739. Grover Jones Family Day, Peterstown, W. Va.

IDNO:
037147
Title:
Grover Jones Family Day, Peterstown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1940
Description:
A postcard photograph of a group of unidentified children and young adults standing in line according to height. Inscribed on the back, "Professor Grover C. Jones".
Spangler subsequently became a member of the WVU faculty as a Professor of Biology

2740. West Virginia University Graduate Robert C. Spangler, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
037153
Title:
West Virginia University Graduate Robert C. Spangler, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Spangler subsequently became a member of the WVU faculty as a Professor of Biology
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.

2741. Portrait of Harriet Lyon

IDNO:
037169
Title:
Portrait of Harriet Lyon
Date:
1891
Description:
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.
Harriet Lyon Jewett from a photo accompanying her April 1936 WVU Alumni reminiscence of life as one of WVU's first female students. Enlarged from Sallie Norris Showalter's copy of the WVU Alumni. Donor: Norris' grandaughter Sallie Showater Barnes.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.

2742. Portrait of Harriet Lyon, West Virginia University

IDNO:
037170
Title:
Portrait of Harriet Lyon, West Virginia University
Date:
1936
Description:
Harriet Lyon Jewett from a photo accompanying her April 1936 WVU Alumni reminiscence of life as one of WVU's first female students. Enlarged from Sallie Norris Showalter's copy of the WVU Alumni. Donor: Norris' grandaughter Sallie Showater Barnes.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.
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.

2743. Harriet Eliza Lyon as Teenager

IDNO:
037171
Title:
Harriet Eliza Lyon as Teenager
Date:
ca. 1879
Description:
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.
Former WVU Professor Franklin Smith Lyon with three grandchildren - all children of Harriet Eliza "Hattie" Lyon Jewett.

2744. Professor Franklin Smith Lyon with Three Grandchildren

IDNO:
037173
Title:
Professor Franklin Smith Lyon with Three Grandchildren
Date:
ca. 1897
Description:
Former WVU Professor Franklin Smith Lyon with three grandchildren - all children of Harriet Eliza "Hattie" Lyon Jewett.
Age 16/17. Sallie Lowther Norris attended Glenville State Normal School before entering WVU. in 1889. Like her classmate and lifelong friend Harriet Lyon, she excelled in her studies, winning a freshman math prize. Norris spoke out frequently and eloquently on behalf of the right of women to a West Virginia University education and was a charter member of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (now the AAUW) chapter in Fairmont. She raised four children of whom attended WVU, and provided essential assistance to her husband Judge Emmet Showalter, after illness left him partially disabled.

2745. Portrait of Sallie Norris

IDNO:
037174
Title:
Portrait of Sallie Norris
Date:
ca. 1889-90
Description:
Age 16/17. Sallie Lowther Norris attended Glenville State Normal School before entering WVU. in 1889. Like her classmate and lifelong friend Harriet Lyon, she excelled in her studies, winning a freshman math prize. Norris spoke out frequently and eloquently on behalf of the right of women to a West Virginia University education and was a charter member of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (now the AAUW) chapter in Fairmont. She raised four children of whom attended WVU, and provided essential assistance to her husband Judge Emmet Showalter, after illness left him partially disabled.
Sallie Lowther Norris attended Glenville State Normal School before entering WVU. in 1889. Like her classmate and lifelong friend Harriet Lyon, she excelled in her studies, winning a freshman math prize. Norris spoke out frequently and eloquently on behalf of the right of women to a WVU education and was a charter member of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (now the AAUW) chapter in Fairmont. She raised four children of of whom attended WVU, and provided essential assistance to her husband Judge Emmet Showalter, after illness left him partially disabled.

2746. Portrait of Sallie Norris

IDNO:
037175
Title:
Portrait of Sallie Norris
Date:
ca. 1894
Description:
Sallie Lowther Norris attended Glenville State Normal School before entering WVU. in 1889. Like her classmate and lifelong friend Harriet Lyon, she excelled in her studies, winning a freshman math prize. Norris spoke out frequently and eloquently on behalf of the right of women to a WVU education and was a charter member of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (now the AAUW) chapter in Fairmont. She raised four children of of whom attended WVU, and provided essential assistance to her husband Judge Emmet Showalter, after illness left him partially disabled.
Sallie Lowther Norris attended Glenville State Normal School before entering WVU. in 1889. Like her classmate and lifelong friend Harriet Lyon, she excelled in her studies, winning a freshman math prize. Norris spoke out frequently and eloquently on behalf of the right of women to a WVU education and was a charter member of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (now the AAUW) chapter in Fairmont. She raised four children of of whom attended WVU, and provided essential assistance to her husband Judge Emmet Showalter, after illness left him partially disabled.

2747. Portrait of Sallie Norris

IDNO:
037176
Title:
Portrait of Sallie Norris
Description:
Sallie Lowther Norris attended Glenville State Normal School before entering WVU. in 1889. Like her classmate and lifelong friend Harriet Lyon, she excelled in her studies, winning a freshman math prize. Norris spoke out frequently and eloquently on behalf of the right of women to a WVU education and was a charter member of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (now the AAUW) chapter in Fairmont. She raised four children of of whom attended WVU, and provided essential assistance to her husband Judge Emmet Showalter, after illness left him partially disabled.
An 1884 graduate of Morgantown High School, Lillian May Hackney taught public school in Monongalia County for several years before entering WVU in 1889. Following her graduation from the University in 1893, she taught high school for one year in Cleveland, Ohio and then accepted a position as instructor of mathematics at Marshal Normal School in Huntington. Hackney remained at Marshall for 45 years. During the course of her lengthy career, she undertook additional work at Cornell, Columbia, the University of Chicago and the University of Marburg (Germany). She belonged to the AAUW as well as to several state and national mathematics associations.

2748. Portrait of Lillian Hackney

IDNO:
037177
Title:
Portrait of Lillian Hackney
Date:
ca.1905
Description:
An 1884 graduate of Morgantown High School, Lillian May Hackney taught public school in Monongalia County for several years before entering WVU in 1889. Following her graduation from the University in 1893, she taught high school for one year in Cleveland, Ohio and then accepted a position as instructor of mathematics at Marshal Normal School in Huntington. Hackney remained at Marshall for 45 years. During the course of her lengthy career, she undertook additional work at Cornell, Columbia, the University of Chicago and the University of Marburg (Germany). She belonged to the AAUW as well as to several state and national mathematics associations.