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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Joseph W. Summers Papers, A&M 0927, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, maps, newspapers, and other printed materials of the family of Joseph W. Summers, Morgantown. Included are deeds for Summer land in Preston County, 1831-1903; genealogy notes complied by Mr. Summers on the Barker, Buzzard, Harris, Hoffman (Huffman), Holland, Knapp, Swisher, and Tarleton lines of the Summers family in West Virginia; obituary notices and local history clippings from the Morgantown Post, ca.1930-1956; and several scrapbooks of clippings of verse and political and historical affairs, ca. 1913-1956.

Related Material

927, 984

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Barker family
• Buzzard family
• Genealogy
• Harris family
• Hoffman family
• Holland family
• Knapp family
• Morgantown Post
• Preston County (W. Va.)
• Preston County - families.
• Scrapbooks
• Summers, Joseph W.
• Swisher family
• Tarleton family