Feb 1: The 13th Amendment in Wheeling

On February1 at noon, Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library will host a celebration of National Freedom Day. Dr. Connie Rice, lecturer at WVU and member of the W.V. Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, will discuss the impact —in Wheeling and in the state —of the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery. According to America’s Library.gov, National Freedom Day was created “to promote good feelings, harmony, and equal opportunity among all citizens and to remember that the United States is a nation dedicated to the ideal of freedom.” Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are provided. Please call the library at 304-232-0244 for more information.

January 25: BILLY SUNDAY COMES TO WHEELING!

Kate Quinn will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library on Tuesday, January 25 at noon to talk about the eccentric traveling preacher and baseball player Billy Sunday, who insisted that each town he visited build a "tabernacle" for his sermons. Wheeling complied, erecting a 6000 seat structure in just 4 days that would become the place to be seen in town. The Wheeling newspaper adored Sunday, awarding him daily front-page coverage. Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are provided. Please call the library at 304-232-0244 for more information.
Attendance: 72

Jan 18: Marshall County Heroes

Author Gary Rider will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library on Tuesday, January 18 at noon to discuss his new book, Marshall County Patriots and Heroes, which features 131 military profiles of men and women from Marshall County who served at Gettysburg, Antietam, Appomattox Court House, the Little Bighorn, Philippines, Bataan Death March, Hiroshima, D-Day, Heartbreak Ridge, Kuwait and Iraq. Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are provided. Please call the library at 304-232-0244 for more information.

History of Wheeling Bibliography Compiled by Dr. David Javersak

THE PEOPLE’S UNIVERSITY

OHIO COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

HISTORY OF WHEELING

FALL 2010

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

COMPILED BY

DR. DAVID T. JAVERSAK

GENERAL HISTORIES

West Virginia History

Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review

History of the Northern West Virginia Panhandle

Peter Boyd

History of Wheeling City and Ohio County

Gibson Lamb Cranmer

Wheeling: An Illustrated History

Doug Fetherling

History of the Pan Handle

J. H. Newton

History of Greater Wheeling and Vicinity

Charles A. Wingerter

LECTURE 1

“One Place on this Great Green Planet Where Andrew Carnegie can’t get a Monument with his Money”

West Virginia History Vol. XLI, No.1

David T. Javersak

The Library: An Illustrated History

Stuart Murray

LECTURE 2

Chronicles of Border Warfare

Alexander Scott Withers

History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia

Wills De Hass

That Dark and Bloody River

Alan Eckert

The Tales of Wheeling’s Heroic Age

William Hintzen and Joe Roxby

Every Home A Fort Every Man A Warrior

Michael Edward Nogay

The Shepherds and Their Mansion

David T. Javersak

LECTURE 3

The National Road

Phillip Jordan

Route 40

George R. Stewart

LECTURE 4

“Traitors in Wheeling” Journal of Appalachian Studies

Vol. 13, No. 1 & 2

Ken Fones-Wolf

Bits of Gossip

Life in the Iron Mills

Rebecca Harding Davis

LECTURE 5

“The Ohio Valley Trades & Labor Assembly: The

Formative Years, 1882-1915” Dissertation

David T. Javersak

Stifel: An Historical Perspective of the Stifel Family in

Wheeling, West Virginia”

David T. Javersak

Principio to Wheeling, 1715-1945

Earl May

“Labor Day in Wheeling”

“The Pollack Memorial Monument”

David T. Javersak

Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review (1978 & 1979)

LECTURE 6

“The Trial of Alice Bradford: A Study in the Politics of

Prostitution in Wheeling, West Virginia”

“The Committee of One Hundred”

“Prostitution and the Sporting Life: Aspects of Working

Class Culture and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century

Wheeling”

David Rose

Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review (1985-87)

LECTURE 7

“Valley of the Ohio” Holiday (1960)

Davis Grubb

Dr. William M Seaman

Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review (1979)

The Wheeling Family: A Celebration of Immigrants and Neighborhoods, by Sean Duffy (Creative Impressions: 2008)

LECTURE 8

Wheeling in the 20^th Century

Tom Dunham

Fort Henry Mall (planning document)

LECTURE 9

IMPORTANT STRUCTURES IN WHEELING

North Main Street (between 7^th and 9^th Streets)

Pollack Monument

Suspension Bridge

Capitol Theatre

Stone & Thomas Department Store

National Bank of West Virginia, 12^th Street and Main

Artisan Center

Flat Iron Building

Main Street Bridge

Wagner Building

Orrick Building

Centre Market Houses

Menkemeller Building

Bennett Square (Wheeling Public Library)

St. Alphonsus Church

Maxwell Center

B & O Station

Chapline Street Row Houses (2300 Block)

West Virginia Independence Hall

First English Lutheran Church

St. James Lutheran Church

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church

First Presbyterian Church

German Fire Insurance Building

Paxton House

Kepner Funeral Home Buildings

Fort Henry Club

14^th Street Buildings (between Chapline and Eoff)

First Capitol of West Virginia

Reymann Carriage House

St. Joseph’s Cathedral

Fourth Street Methodist Church

U.S. Court House

Schmulbach Building

STRUCTURES EAST OF WHEELING HILL

Hempfield Viaduct

Vance Memorial Church

Kenwood Place, Woodsdale

Willow Glen

National Road, Washington Avenue to Wheeling Park

Greenwood and Mt. Calvary Cemeteries

Elmhurst

Mount de Chantal

Shepherd Mansion

Wheeling Then & Now by Sean Duffy and Paul Rinkes (Arcadia: 2010)

January 11 at noon: Church & State in Communist Poland

Rev. Marian S. Mazgaj will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library on Tuesday January 11 at noon. Born in Poland in 1923, Rev. Marian S. Mazgaj is a pastoral associate at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church. He will discuss his new book, Church and State in Communist Poland: A History, 1944-1989, which explores Polish Catholicism under Soviet Communism and how the strong Polish culture prepared the populace to resist attempts to destroy the church. Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are provided. Please call the library at 304-232-0244 for more information.

York's Visit a Hit...

91 people attended a spirited, energetic, and surprisingly musical program today featuring actor Greg Kenney as the slave YORK, who accompanied Lewis & Clark on their famous expedition. Great show Greg. We were even treated to bonus tracks from the great Satchmo. What a fantastic way to start the new season of Lunch With Books! Average 2011 attendance = 91 . :-) Thanks to all for your support. Let's keep it rolling!