MORGANTOWN  , a

city and the county-seat of Monongalia county, West Virginia, U.S.A., on the Monongahela river, about 50 M . S.E. of Wheeling . Pop . (189o), Io1; (Igo0), 1895; (1910 census), g15o . The city is served by the Baltimore & Ohio and the Morgantown & Kingwood railways, and by several steamboat lines, the Monongahela being navigable to Fairmont, about 25 M. above Morgantown . Morgantown is the seat of the West Virginia University (co-educational), formed from the Monongalia Academy (incorporated, 1814) and the Woodburn Female Seminary (incorporated, 1858), and chartered in 1867 as the Agricultural College of West Virginia; in 1868 the present name was adopted . In 1908 the university had 8o instructors and 1534 students . Coal, glass-sand and limestone are found in- the vicinity of Morgantown . The first settlement here was made about 1768 by the brothers David and Zackwill Morgan, and was named in honour of the latter . It was incorporated as Morgan's Town in 1785; and in 1905 a city charter was granted to it after the annexation of Greenmont (pop . 1900, 349), Seneca (pop . 1900, 723), and South Morgantown (pop .

1900, 405) .