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Found in 2 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 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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- Baltimore Sun 1
- Buckhannon (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Upshur County 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Election of 1934. 1
- Election of 1936. 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Harper's Weekly 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Montana Territory 1
- New York Tribune 1
- Postal service 1
- Saint Louis Republican 1
- Taxation 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
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1 + ∧ less
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