Moneypenny Family Portrait in front of their Home in Lewis County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1904
Description:
A group portrait in front of the James W. Moneypenny family home in Lewis County, West Virginia. From left to right: 'Levi Smith, husband of Bertie; Harvey C., a son; George, a son; Allen Markley, husband of Mary Luverna; Bertie, daughter; James F., a son; Jacob, a son; Eliza A., daughter; Sherman, son sitting, holding his son William; Luella, wife of Sherman, holding their daughter Anna. Front Row: left to right: sitting Ella May, wife of Harvery Columbus, holding their daughter Rosa; sitting Luverna, daughter, wife of Allen, holding their daughter Sallie; Bessie, daughter; Albert, son; James William Moneypenny, the father and grandfather; Sarah Ann Conley Moneypenny, wife of James W.,; Flora, daughter.'
Original Home of George Hammer II and Catharine Caplinger Hammer, Pendleton County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1904
Description:
'Picture taken ca. 1904. Home built in 1815 by George Hammer II. He lived there until his death February 4th, 1898. Pictured left to right: Ike Davis (died 07/23/1949 age 89), Ike Hammer (died 03/26/1932), Sam Moyers (died 07/06/1919 of flu), Ray Dickenson, Julius Davis (killed 05/06/1921), Willie Davis, Nina Lough, Ursula Hammer (died 07/25/1932), Reuben Dahmer (died 10/02/1915), Sis Dahmer (died 1916), Budd Hammer (died 12/18/1919).'
Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, First Rhodes Scholar from West Virginia University at Oxford
Date:
ca. 1904
Description:
Charles Tucker Brooke received an A.B. from West Virginia University at the age of eighteen and an M.A. one year later. Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1904, he was a member of the first group of Rhodes Scholars from around the world. At WVU he was class poet and a member of Kappa Alpha. He studied at St. John's (more properly, the President and Scholars of Saint John Baptist College in the University of Oxford) and received B.A. and B. Lit. Degrees. In 1908, 1909, and 1910, his works were published in England. In 1909, he began a teaching career at Yale University, eventually becoming the Sterling Professor of English and a leading authority on Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature.