United States. Congress
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
George H. McGrew Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1622
Overview
Correspondence, sermons, religious writings, and accounts of a graduate of Wesleyan University and Harvard Law School, Methodist missionary to India (ca.1876-1885), and son of Representative James Clark McGrew of Kingwood. Subjects include West Virginia politics; social activities in Kingwood; conditions in the Indian mission field; nautical improvements tested at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1879; Northwestern University; and the Republican National Convention of 1880.
Dates:
1865-1885
Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgiss Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1899
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and other material of Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgis(s) and her son, George C. Sturgiss, a Morgantown businessman and politician. There are 130 letters, 6 WVU literary society and commencement announcements (1870-77), and an engagement book used by George C. and Charlotte Kent Sturgiss for 1907-1909.Subjects include the activities of Alfred Gallentin Sturgiss, a Methodist Episcopal minister in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1845 (towns...
Dates:
1838-1896, 1907-1909
William Smith O'Brien (1862-1948) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1105
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal papers, notebooks, speeches, historical essays, genealogical records, clippings, and printed material of a Buckhannon lawyer, state jurist, member of Congress (1927-1929), and West Virginia Secretary of State (1933-1948). The collection also includes papers of O'Brien's father, Emmett J., a member of the state's first Constitutional Convention; letters from O'Brien's brother, Lieutenant A.L. O'Brien, 1874-1887, a West Point graduate serving at forts...
Dates:
ca. 1830-1950
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- Churches -- Methodist 2
- Elections 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Buckhannon (W. Va.) 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Upshur County 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1934. 1
- Election of 1936. 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- India 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Montana Territory 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Railroads 1
- Religion -- Millerism 1
- Republican National Convention - 1880. 1
- Texas 1
- Townsendites. 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Washington. 1
- West Virginia - Wheeling Conventions of 1861-1863. 1 + ∧ less
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