Interviewer
Joyce M. Stover
Files
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Description
This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. In her life, Jean Dolan Vaeley has been a secretary and a bank president, the Administrative Aide to the State Highway Commissioner, and president of Ashland Coal. She discusses: her personal history; very detailed information about her family; farming and farm life; neighbors; renting a house from a black family; the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company; buying a house; a short discussion of the Jackson County Junior Fair; her education and her views on education; dairy farming; her employment history (including at Charleston National Bank, the Kaiser Aluminum Plant, the State Highway Commission, & Ashland Coal [Ashland Coal, Inc.?]); church, churches, and teaching Sunday school; health problems in her family; as well as other topics.
Publication Date
1999
Identifier
OH64-629
Type
Text
Comments
Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-629.
Rights
Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the content creator, author, artist or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the copyright owner.
Recommended Citation
Marshall University Special Collections, OH64-629, Huntington, WV.
Library of Congress Subjects
Vaeley, Jean Dolan, 1930- -- Autobiography.
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company -- Oral histories.
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation -- Oral histories.
Charleston National Bank -- Oral histories.
Rural schools -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.