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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Milton R. Yarger, Inventor, Papers, A&M 4279, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Papers of inventor Milton R. Yarger, who lived and worked in Morgantown, West Virginia. Includes copies of Yarger's patents, correspondence, photographs, and documentation of his work (including plans, sketches, development costs), among other material.

Correspondence includes 5 letters from Ann Hastings, patent searcher, and 4 carbons and a draft of Yarger's letters to Hastings; 7 letters from Victor Evans, office of patent attorneys, a draft of letter to Evans from Yarger, a set of recruitment literature from Evans and 2 certificates of invention from Evans; letter from Inventor's League with their resume that Yarger partially completed; record of invention from Patent Service Institute with description and diagram, also with patent research letters from Inventors Patent Exchange with their brochures; letter from Dixie Manufacturing rejecting Yarger's invention; letter from Yarger to Cromwell manufacturing; and 4 drafts of letters from Yarger to store that may sell his invention.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Inventors and inventions.
• Patents