Menu Expand Menu Close
Back to Top
Filter Search Expand Close Filter
Search Expand Search Close
A member and administrator of the Freewill Baptist congregation in New England, Curtis was one the founders of several mission schools established in the Shenandoah Valley to educated freed slaves and their children after the Civil War. Curtis was also instrumental in the founding of Storer College in Harpers Ferry.

1. Silas Curtis

IDNO:
027483
Title:
Silas Curtis
Date:
undated
Description:
A member and administrator of the Freewill Baptist congregation in New England, Curtis was one the founders of several mission schools established in the Shenandoah Valley to educated freed slaves and their children after the Civil War. Curtis was also instrumental in the founding of Storer College in Harpers Ferry.
Chadwick was born and raised in Morgantown. After graduating from the Monongalia Academy, Chadwick entered the U. S. Naval Academy at the outbreak of the Civil War. A decorated hero during the Spanish-American War, Chadwick was prominent in the naval reform movement of the post-Civil War era.

2. United States Navy Rear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick from Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
027674
Title:
United States Navy Rear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick from Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Chadwick was born and raised in Morgantown. After graduating from the Monongalia Academy, Chadwick entered the U. S. Naval Academy at the outbreak of the Civil War. A decorated hero during the Spanish-American War, Chadwick was prominent in the naval reform movement of the post-Civil War era.

3. Johnson Newlon Camden

IDNO:
027675
Title:
Johnson Newlon Camden
Date:
undated
Creekman, left, is the boss on the Tallery Mountain Road construction. Greene, pictured right, is from the Luther Greene Hollow Surveryor Branch.

4. Oren Creekman and Lonnie Greene Pose Together in Blueston River Country, W. Va.

IDNO:
048087
Title:
Oren Creekman and Lonnie Greene Pose Together in Blueston River Country, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Creekman, left, is the boss on the Tallery Mountain Road construction. Greene, pictured right, is from the Luther Greene Hollow Surveryor Branch.
Cook pictured wearing a dress and necklace.

5. Portrait of Mabel Martin Cook of Summers County, W. Va.

IDNO:
048715
Title:
Portrait of Mabel Martin Cook of Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Cook pictured wearing a dress and necklace.
Portrait of the older woman.

6. Sally Goff Cook Pettrey of Summers County, W. Va.

IDNO:
048716
Title:
Sally Goff Cook Pettrey of Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Portrait of the older woman.
Cohen was a member of Morgantown's City Council. He also served on the Monongalia County Commission and was a West Virginia University faculty member.

7. Milton Cohen with West Virginia Centennial Souvenir Plate Design

IDNO:
052083
Title:
Milton Cohen with West Virginia Centennial Souvenir Plate Design
Date:
undated
Description:
Cohen was a member of Morgantown's City Council. He also served on the Monongalia County Commission and was a West Virginia University faculty member.