United States. Congress
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1694
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, writings, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Wilson, a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), President of West Virginia University, 1882-1883, member of Congress, 1883-1895, Postmaster General, 1895-1897, author of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894, and President of Washington and Lee University, 1897-1900. The collection includes portions of the diaries covering the years 1862-1863, 1865, 1868-1870, 1877-1891, 1896-1899. Most of the...
Dates:
1862-1900
William Reynolds Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0048
Overview
Extracts from a diary of a tour of the eastern states by a resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, with descriptions of travel through Greenbrier, Fayette, Kanawha, and Cabell counties, (West) Virginia. Subjects covered include descriptions of buildings, as well as musings about diversions and people of various U.S. cities, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. (where Reynolds attended a session of Congress and heard Clay, Calhoun and...
Dates:
May-July, 1841
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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- Elections 2
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- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Baltimore Sun 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Buckhannon (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Charlottesville (Va.) 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Upshur County 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Devil's Bake Oven. 1
- Election of 1934. 1
- Election of 1936. 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harper's Weekly 1
- Harrisburg (Pa.) 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Falls. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Montana Territory 1
- Monticello (Va.) 1
- Natural Bridge (Va.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- New York Tribune 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Postal service 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Saint Louis Republican 1
- Taxation 1
- Texas 1
- Townsendites. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Washington. 1
- Weirs Cave. 1
- West Virginia - Wheeling Conventions of 1861-1863. 1
- White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) 1
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1 + ∧ less
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