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Local man named director of Archives and History for state department
CHARLESTON -- Huntington resident Joe Geiger was named the director of the West Virginia's Archives and History Section, effective Jan. 1, 2009. Geiger will be responsible for administering the state archives, archives library, historical collections and the database for the Veterans Memorial.
Since 1998, Geiger has worked for Archives and History, serving as historian, Webmaster and assistant director. In November 2007, he was appointed acting director of the section. For the past 11 years, he also has served as an adjunct professor in the history department at Marshall University. Before that, Geiger worked in the finance division for the City of Huntington.
In addition, Geiger is a member of the Commission on Archives and History for the West Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church, the West Virginia Historical Society and the Mining Your History Foundation.
