Clair Bee coached college basketball at several schools including Long Island University, leading the team to two undefeated seasons in 1936 and 1939, and winning the NIT Championship in 1939 and 1941. He holds the highest lifetime winning percentage in college basketball, 82.6%. Bee's other contributions to the game include the 1-3-1 zone; the 3 second rule; and the 24 second shot clock. Bee also authored a popular series of fictional books for children, "The Chip Hilton Series". He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1968.
Sketch of James H. Brown, delegate to the 1861 Wheeling Convention, served in the Legislature of the Restored Government of Virginia and in 1863 he was elected to the West Virginia State Supreme Court.
Honorable William G. Brown of Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
Undated
Description:
Sketch of West Virginia Congressman (1863) William G. Brown, who served in the Virginia Legislature (1841-1848) before the war. Brown was also a member of the 1872 West Virginia State Constitutional Convention.
Major George Michael Bedinger of Jefferson County, Va. (W. Va.)
Description:
A print of a portrait sketch of Major Bedinger, born December 10, 1756, died December 7, 1843; married Henrietta Clay, February 11, 1792. The physical description on the back of the print includes: "Hair-Auburn, Eyes-dark blue almost black piercing, coat dark blue-gold buttons".
Mary Brown took the collegiate course at Glenville State Normal School before coming to WVU when her brother , Samuel Boardman Brown, left his position as Glenville Principal to accept a position in geology at WVU. Brown attended WVU for one year, leaving when her brother married her friend, Ella Butcher. She taught in area grammar schools before becoming an instructor of botany grammar and history at East Liberty (Pennsylvania) Normal School from 1891 to 1893. Married in 1894 to Rev. George Bent, she was active in Methodist Episcopal community and Women's Christian Temperance work before she died shortly after giving birth to her second child.
Annual Community Civic Merit Award Winner, D. D. Brown
Date:
1946
Description:
'D. D. Brown, picture taken in 1946 at the time of the American Legion H. W. Daniels Post No. 29 Annual Community Civic Merit Award for 1945. "In appreciation and recognition of his selfless service to his community, H. W. Daniels Post No. 29, The American Legion, associated civic groups presented this award to him for his indefatigable efforts in fostering the Elkins Flood Control Project and for his leadership in inspiring a unanimity of community spirit and cooperative action resulting in the consummation of that project and great community benefits and betterments." '
'The above is a picture of David Dare Brown I taken when he was somewhere around 30-40 years old as near as I can estimate. He started out by working on the Lehigh Canal helping build the locks and furnishing timbers for them and, then he built canal boats for several years coming down as far as Baltimore and going around thru the Erie Canal and then to New York City on the Hudson. During the winter he would build rafts of logs and put on top of them sawed rough lumber and take it down the Susquehanna River to either North Umberland, Pa., or Harrisburg, Pa., and some rafts went through to the Baltimore section. In 1880 he started continuous operations in the manufacture of lumber in Sullivan County, Pa.'
Margaret Barrick stands beside a portrait of her ancestor, Zackquill Morgan and replica of the Patrick Henry statue that use to adorn the top of the Monongalia Court house.
Izetta Jewell Brown, West Virginia Senatorial Candidate, with Supporters
Date:
1924
Description:
'Senators left the Teapot Dome discussions to wish Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown, of West Virginia, candidate for Democratic nomination for the Senate, good luck in her campaign. Left to right they are: Sen. Magnus Johnson, Minn., Sen. Andrieus Jones, New Mex., Mrs. Brown, Sen. Tom Heflin, Ala., and Sen. William King, Utah.'
Ira B. Bush: Candidate for State Superintendent of Free Schools. A native of Gilmer County, W. Va. Attended country school. Attended Glenville Normal. Graduated from W. Va. University. Did post graduate at Vanderbilt University. Taught fiver terms of country school. Taught three years at Concord Normal. Has been Superintendent of Hinton schools for four years.
Major Minter Bailey (left) and Colonel John Stringer
Description:
'Major Minter Bailey, surveyor of Lewis County, and owner of the Bailey House, (left) and Colonel John Stringer, (right). Copy of a sketch from life by J. H. Diss Debar, 1847, made in "old" Bailey Hotel, Weston. From original in Department Archives and History.'