United States. Congress
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Harry C. Woodyard (1867-1929) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2458
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal, and financial, and miscellaneous papers of a businessman and politician from Roane County, West Virginia, who was elected to the state Senate in 1898 and to the U.S. Congress as a Republican for several terms: 1902-11, 1916-23, 1925-27. His early business activity was in wholesale groceries and the lumber industry. He later engaged in newspaper publishing and owned an estimated eighteen weekly papers. Woodyard's sons continued in their father's business after his...
Dates:
ca. 1910-1929
Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2503
Overview
A collection of 400 letters, cards, petitions, telegrams, printed, and other similar items received and sent by U.S. Senator and Representatives Howard Sutherland (1865-1950) of West Virginia. The papers are part of Sutherland's constituent mail and are all concerned with the question of women's suffrage. The period covered is 1914-1919, and correspondence regarding both the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919,...
Dates:
1914-1919
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 3
- Politics and government. 3
- Washington (D.C.) 3
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Land. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Travel accounts. 2
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Buckhannon (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Charlottesville (Va.) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Upshur County 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Devil's Bake Oven. 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Election of 1924. 1
- Election of 1934. 1
- Election of 1936. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrisburg (Pa.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Falls. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Logan County. 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Maps. 1
- Missouri 1
- Montana Territory 1
- Monticello (Va.) 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- Natural Bridge (Va.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Primary election law - WV. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- San Francisco (Calif.) 1
- Taxation 1
- Texas 1
- Townsendites. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Washington. 1
- Weirs Cave. 1
- West Virginia - Wheeling Conventions of 1861-1863. 1
- West Virginia - primary election law. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Women's Home Missionary Society 1
- White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Bristow-Mondell Resolution 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Opposition 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Draft resisters 1 + ∧ less
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