College of Pharmacy Student Group on Visit to Calco Chemical Plant, Willow Island, W. Va.
Date:
1953/04
Description:
Group portrait of West Virginia University College of Pharmacy students visiting Calco Chemical Plant in Willow Island, W. Va. See A&M 977 for correspondence regarding this trip. Kneeling: Robert Lewis, Donald Douglas, Samuel Argentine, Benton Smith, William Hammett; Standing: William Shumate, Rudy Harman, Robert Robinson, Jack Riggs, Herbert Rothlisberger, Calco Rep.
Faculty, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1885-1886
Description:
The faculty in the back row, left to right, are named as the following: John Harvey, Professor of Modern Language; R. C. Berkeley, Professor of Language; James Wilson, Professor of Math and Military; P. B. Reynolds, Professor of English; A. R. Whitehill, Professor of Chemistry; I. C. White, Professor of Geology; and W. P. Willey, Professor of Law. The faculty in the front row, listed left to right, are named as the following: St. George Tucker Brooke; D. B. Purinton, Professor of Metaphysics; Pres. E. M. Turner, Professor of Rhetoric; Okey Johnson, Professor of Law; A. Lorentz; and T. S. Stewart, Professor of Mathematics. The subjects in the photograph were identified by Mr. Bayles and Dr. Callahan.
Dr. Hartigan, the instructor, is in the front row, second from the left; and Wayne Willey is in the front row, on the extreme right. The other students are not identified.
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.
Turn of the Century Morgantown and West Virginia University
Date:
1891-1892
Description:
'West Virginia University and Morgantown (1891-1892) as taken from a point some distance north of the U. The Catalogue for one of those subsequent years states that Science Hall was finished in 1893, but no sign of it is to be seen in this picture, but the roof was on Commencement Hall, and the Court House was built (1892), which fixes the date about as given above.' 'View of Morgantown & Sunnyside taken from North Morgantown Hill. Note the orchard along Overhill St. also showing the house owned by the Whites nearby.'
"First Football Team, WVU; lost to W & J at Morgantown 1891-92, the first and only intercollegiate game in 1891-92. S. steps of "Prep." Bldg. Top row L. to R.; 1 Wm. C. Meyer, Mgr., 2 A. Brown Smith, 3 Wm. G. Swaney, 4 Gory Hogg, 5 Alpheus Edw. Boyd, 6 Sam'l R. Jenkins. Second row, 1 Geo. Henry A Kunst, 2 Andrew Price, 3 J.W. Hughes, 4 R.F. Bivens, 5 John Thomas Holbert, B.S.C.E. '92. On the ground, 1 N.B. Blake, 2 Geo. M. Ford, A.B. 1892"
Student Members of Pool Forte Eating Club, West Virginia University
Date:
1893
Description:
'Main Street. W. B. Cutright, Class of 1895, Commissary. Back Row (left to right): Lew Grenolds, Class of 1895. Beverly, W. Va.; J.W. McClung, ex? Ronceverte, W. Va.; E.F. Allen, ex? Montgomery, W. Va.; Jake Linn, ex? Uniontown, Pa.; G.H. Brownfield, ex? Fairmont, W. Va.; W.E. Baker, Class of 1896. Beverly, W. Va.; T.S. Tompkins, ex? Charleston, W. Va.; Charles Jacobs, ex? Charleston, W. Va.; W.T. Patton, ex? Charleston, W. Va.; Davidson, ex? Charleston, W. Va.; T.F. Watson, ex? Mobile, Ala. Middle Row (left to right): O.L. Haught, ex? Silver Hill, W. Va.; A.B. Carmack, ex? Brownsville, Pa.; C.W. Cramer, Class of 1897. Piedmont, W. Va.; J. Floyd Strader, Class of 1895. Beverly, W. Va.; A.E. Boyd, ex? Uniontown, Pa.; W.B. Cutright, Class of 1895. Buckhannon, W. Va. Front Row (left to right): J. Morgan Orr, Class of 1892 and 1897. Kingwood, W. Va.; L.N. Reichard, ex? Brownsville, Pa.; C.S. Elliott, Class of 1898. Redstone, Pa. This picture is from the collection of William Cramer.'
Men Laying Wall for a Green House at WVU Farm, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1893/04/05
Description:
A group of men stand beside piles of bricks which they intend to use to erect green house building, much like the on to the left. Subjects unidentified.
Twins Anna and Stella White were the first women to earn Bachelor of Science degrees at WVU. Science degrees were especially attractive to women, who often had less secondary-level Latin and Greek languages needed for B.A.s--than their male peers. B.S. students took French or German. The White family moved to Morgantown from Ohio in 1886 They came, as did others, to give children access to higher education. In the 1890's all 6 White siblings (4 sons and the twins) attended WVU.
Twins, Anna and Stella White, were the first women to earn Bachelor of Science degrees from WVU. In 1886, the family sold their Ohio farm and moved to Morgantown so their children - 4 sons and two daughters, could attend WVU. Family or one parent relocation with students was not uncommon in and era when mid-western state universities did not routinely erect dormitories.
Columbian Literary Society, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1896
Description:
The Society was formed in 1852, 15 years before the University was established. Meetings were held at the Monongalia Academy, near the site of the WVU campus. No members are identified.
Freshman in the Class of 1899, West Virginia University
Date:
1896
Description:
The list of the names: C.S. Lowe (Eldora), W. F. McDonald (Charleston), C.A. Osborn (Clarksburg), Miss Evelyn Pratt (Wheeling), A.L. Sawtell, Phi Kappa Psi (Wheeling), W. H. South, Phi Sigma Kappa (Morgantown); G. E. Anderson, Phi Kappa Psi (Latrobe, PA), W. S. Arnold (Hartmansville), C. D. Barb (Morgantown), J.T. Beall (Capon Bridge), C.P. Davidson (Fleming), H.K. Brane (Piedmond), G. H. F. Holy (Grafton), J.W. Hugus (Wheeling), G.R. Krebbs, Sigma Chi (New Martinsville), Phillip Konrad, Sigma Chi (New Martinsville), J.E. Law (Clarksburg), Lee Lewellen (Duke), Miss Maud Sedgwick (Monterey, PA), C.H. Trippet (Wheeling), John Wallace (Wheeling), E.M. Whitescarver (Pruntytown), Miss Lucy B. Wood (Morgantown), H.M. White, Sigma Chi (Camden); F.N. Frum (Bridgeport), G.E. Gramm (Grafton), P.E. Greer (Wheeling), F.E. Gebhart (Latrobe, PA), Dale Grant (Morgantown), J.W. Horn (Capon Bridge). The caption reads : 'Fulton and Morse have exhausted the scope of invention, nor that Webster and Jefferson have reached the highest limit of statemanship; but we do belive that in these and other fields of activity there is work that we may do, and we are getting ready to enter them. Believing as we do in co-education, we are proud to have some young ladies in our class, and regret that their number is not larger. We give due praise to these ladies, who by their enrnest efforts, are profiting by the educational advantages which are as much theirs as anyone's else. May their example and influence and success induce many others to pursue the same course, and to help, by larger numbers, in representing future classes. The members of the class are not lacking in loyalty to the University and all its interests. Thoroughly imbued with the college spirit, they stand ready to help to enlist others in the work. We feel sure that many, if not all, of those who are now Freshmen will continue their work through the entire course, and finally go out from the University as graduates, and place their names upon the roll of the many who have gone from this institution and achieved honorable success.'
Student Group from the Class of 1895, West Virginia University
Date:
1896
Description:
Group of students from the graduating class of 1895 pose in cap and gown. In the forefront of the photo are twins Anna and Stella White of Morgantown, W. Va., who were the first women to receive Bachelors of Science degrees at West Virginia University.The other graduates of the class are: W. B. Cutright (Morgantown, W. Va.); C. E. Carrigan (Wheeling, W. Va.); T. L. Davies (Gleville, W. Va.); M. E. Gorman (Rivesville, W. Va.); W. J. Holden (Glenville, W. Va.); S. S. Jacob, Jr. (West Liberty, W. Va.); G. H. A. Kunst (Weston, W. Va.); U. S. G. Kendall (Fairmont, W. Va.); T. M. Lavell (Pencoyd, Pa.); Russell Morris (Morgantown, W. Va.); P. B. Martin (Kingwood, W. Va.); J. B. Protzman (Morgantown, W. Va.); C. N. Ridgway (Hospital, Illinois); Silas Stathers (Wheeling, W. Va.); and J. F. Strader (Morgantown, W. Va.).
The daughter of WVU professor Powell Benton Reynolds, Richmond native Mabel Curry Reynolds worked her way through WVU by teaching in the Morgantown public schools. She was active in a wide variety of women's organizations during this course of her life, including the Women's League of West Virginia branch of the General Federation of Women's Clubs during the 1920's. In 1908 Reynolds married attorney Samuel Fuller Glasscock. The couple had no children.
Alfred Jarrett 'Jack' Hare, West Virginia University
Date:
1896/05/17
Description:
Written on the back of the photograph, 'to Fortune and to Fame unknown: Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own...He gained from Heaven (twas all he wished)a friend.'
