Morgantown

Population 2010 Census: 29,660
Median Age: 22.6 years

Courthouse: Completed 1891; addition 1975
Architect: James P. Bailey

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Primary Sources Online
1777 roster of Captain Haymond's company of Monongalia County militia
Morgantown Female Academy
Joseph Snider Appointed Colonel, 1862
Waitman T. Willey
Israel Charles White
William Ellsworth Glasscock
West Virginia Academy of Science, 1924
Explosion at Pursglove #2 Mine, 1942
Fire at Pursglove #15 Mine, 1943
1960 Presidential Campaign in Monongalia County

Photographs
Photographs of Schools in Monongalia County
James R. Boughner

Secondary Sources Online
List of Monongalia County Legislators
Halleck, Agricultural Extention Community History
Triune, Agricultural Extention Community History
Biography of Colonel Joseph Snider
Governor William Ellsworth Glasscock
"Anything But Cordial': Coeducation and West Virginia University's Early Women," by Lillian J. Waugh and Judith G. Stitzel (West Virginia History)
"When The Socialists Ran Star City," by Stephen Cresswell (West Virginia History)
"Scotts Run: An Introduction," by Ronald L. Lewis (West Virginia History)
"Scotts Run: A Community in Transition," by Matthew Yeager (West Virginia History)
"The Scotts Run Coalfield from the Great War to the Great Depression: A Study in Overdevelopment," by Phil Ross (West Virginia History)
"Health Services in a Stranded Coal Community: Scotts Run, 1920-47," by Sandra Barney (West Virginia History)
"'I wonder whom God will hold responsible': Mary Behner and the Presbyterian Mission on Scotts Run," edited by Christine M. Kreiser (West Virginia History)
"Casualties on the Homefront: Scotts Run Mining Disasters During World War II," by Paul H. Rakes (West Virginia History)
"A Generation in Revolt: Student Dissent and Political Repression at West Virginia University," by Jeffrey A. Drobney (West Virginia History)

West Virginia Veterans Memorial Biographies
Edgar G. Adams
Sullivan John Africano
Vensen Spillman Armstrong
Peter Oscar Babich
John James Barber
Nick Baron
George Milton Barrick Jr.
Thomas William Bennett
Anthon Martin Bloniarz
Joseph Phillip Bongiorni III
John George Britvec
Robert Palmer Cady
Ogle Ferguson Chambers
John Thurman Clevenger Jr.
Lee Peter Cordent
Russell Eugene Cyzick
Major Roy Dalton Jr.
Roy Lee Foster
Alan Dale Helmick
Bobby Neal Hiser
John Junior Hrivnak
Howard Wade Jackson
Whyley Elton Josh
Edward Paul Juristy
Blair James Lazzelle
Edward Salvatori Mascioli
David Paul McCord
John Burk McCue
Frank Howard Obrad Jr.
Henry Martin Orth Jr.
Charles James Parsons Jr.
Margaret Fae Perry
John Price Pickett
Bert C. Ponceroff
Clarence Prager
James Howard Sawyer
Joseph Slavensky Jr.
William Franklin Waychoff
James Elwood Wickline
Franklin Joseph Wilgus
Thomas Monroe Wright