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Joyce M. Stover

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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

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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.

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Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-629.

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Oral History Interview: Jean Dolan Vaeley

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