Charles Edgar Hogg, Dean of College of Law, West Virginia University
Date:
1909
Description:
Monticola Dedication to: 'Charles Edgar Hogg, the eldest son of James A. Susan (Knight) Hogg, was born in December 21, 1852, in Mason County, Virginia, (now West Virginia). He was admitted to the bar in 1875 to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia in 1876, and to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1889. In 1875 he was elected County Superintendent of Free Schools of his native county, and re-elected in 1877; was a presidential elector in 1884, and a member of Congress from March 4, 1887 to March 4, 1889. He is the author of Hogg's Pleading and Forms, Equity Principles and Equity Procedure. He has also written a work entitled Jurisdiction and Practice in Justices' Courts, to be published in the course of the year. He is the author of the subjects Documentary Evidence, Conclusive Evidence, Judgments as Evidence, and Evidence Relating to the Law of Sales, which appear in the Encyclopedia of Evidence, eleven volumes of which have already appeared, and will also write the article on Wills for this work. His practice has been varied and extensive, and he is now one the counsel for West Virginia at the suit of the Commonwealth of Virginia, pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, Temple University has conferred upon his degree of Doctor of laws. He has been Dean of the College of Law since September 1906.
Jerry West presents the first annual Jerry West Scholarship to Kenneth Tawney of Spencer, W. Va. Tawney attended WVU, subsequently earning a law degree.
Colson Hall, College of Law, West Virginia University
Date:
ca, 1924/08
Description:
Architect Charles W. Bates, Wheeling, W. Va.; Heating Contractor, Alex Zeck and Son, Morgantown, W. Va. From the Heating and Ventilating Magazine, August 1924, pg. 109 in and advertisement for Heatovent and the Buckeye Blower Company.
West Virginia University Football Player Fielding H. Yost
Date:
ca. 1895
Description:
Portrait of Fielding Harris Yost, graduate of Law 1897. 'Hurry Up' Yost was an outstanding tackle for WVU. He subsequently coached at several colleges including University of Michigan where he won six national championships.
Leila Jesse Frazier Rides Horse near Woodburn Hall, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1905
Description:
Leila Jesse Frazier, of Upper Norword in Surrey, England and an 1899 graduate of the WVU Law School, rides 'man fashion' or astride, near Woodburn Hall. A contemporaneous newspaper account depicts Frazier’s journey to Morgantown to begin her law studies, indicating that she put her husband, James C. Frazier, on the train in Martinsburg, and set off unaccompanied on horseback across the mountains. She arrived several days later,wearing a black riding habit with a divided skirt, riding ';man fashion', carrying a brace of revolvers, and 'armed with a most remarkable amount of courage and daring'. Frazier was president of the Woman’s League of WVU, the first women’s organization on campus. Information from Becky Lofstead, 'Trailblazers at the College of Law' in WVU Alumni Magazine, Winter 2000, p.18.
