8.3 Linear Feet, 8 ft. 4 1/4 in. (9 document cases, 5 in. each); (3 records cartons, 15 in. each); (1 small flat storage box,
3 in.); (2 large storage boxes, 3 in. each); (1 folder, 1/4 in.); (1 scrapbook, 1 in.)
Creator
Brown family
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
Papers, photographs and maps of a wealthy Morgantown family with interests in real estate and coal mining. Most of the business
papers are those of J. M. G. Brown, a West Virginia University law school alumnus, who was president of Scotts Run Fuel Corporation.
Brown was also a housing developer whose company, Suburban Real Estate of Morgantown, was a competitive concern not only locally
but throughout north central West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania. There are papers indicating his attempts to open Morgantown
to airline service. His sister, Mary Virginia Brown was a genealogist and local historian noted for A History of the Negroes of Monongalia County . Among her papers are genealogies of the Bannister, Brown, Bushey, Dorsey, Suter and Williams families. There are also original
documents of Colonel William McCleary, an early settler of Morgantown. There is also a manuscript "List of Taxable Property
for 1786, Monongalia County," including five pages listing residents and their "tithables," horses, and cattle.
Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.
Conditions Governing Access
No special access restriction applies.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Brown Family Papers, Photographs and Maps, A&M 2604, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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