United States. Congress
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
George Cookman Sturgiss (1842-1925) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1671
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and newspaper clippings of a Morgantown judge, railroad promoter, and U.S. Congressman. Papers deal with Sturgiss' political troubles in his bid for re-nomination in 1910 and the unveiling of the Francis H. Pierpont statue in Statuary Hall, Washington.
Dates:
1879, 1909-1910
Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1791
Overview
Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond...
Dates:
1828-1890, 1901, 1935
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 -- West Virginia -- Upshur County 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
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- Election of 1934. 1
- Election of 1936. 1
- Elections 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
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- Montana Territory 1
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- Texas 1
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851. 1
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