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Semi Centennial History of West Virginia by James Morton Callahan 1913 HC
Semi Centennial History of West Virginia by James Morton Callahan 1913 HC
Hard Cover
1913
594 Pages
Fold Out Map
The Semi-Centennial Commission decided that the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the state should be given a practical form in some enterprise of permanent value. It seized the opportunity, furnished by the occasion, to collect data and publish a historical volume the value of which will be increasingly realized and appreciated in the later years of maturity of development resulting from the recent industrial awakening.
At the close of November 1912, in response to an invitation of the Governor and the Executive Committee of the Commission, I agreed to furnish for publication in connection with the Semi-Centennial celebration the manuscript of a condensed historical narrative which I had prepared largely from researches conducted, during several vacation periods, incidental to the assemblage of materials for class use at the West Virginia University and coincident with various attempts to stimulate the study of local history in the state. At the same time, I agreed to take general editorial control of the preparation of a series of special articles, by different contributors, to combine with the unified narrative.
What at first seemed an innocent, and even an attractive, proposition, later assumed uglier proportions as I approached the duties of its concrete requirements. In addition to the duties incident to the editorial work I have spent much additional time and labor in the further elaboration and completion of the chapters of my historical narrative.
By much strenuous but quiet labor, the author obtained his materials from many sources-from old files of various newspapers, old manuscript record books and old letters, pamphlets and public documents, and reminiscences secured by interviews with the participants in public affairs. Arduous investigations, requiring much correspondence with many people in all parts of the state, and necessitating visits to many points in the state, have been conducted principally in the Department of Archives and History at Charleston, in the Library of Congress at Washington, D. C., in the Library of West Virginia University, in the Wheeling Public Library and in the Carnegie Library at Pittsburg.
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