United States. Congress
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Elections 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Land. 1
- Logan County. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missouri 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Primary election law - WV. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Religion -- Millerism 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia - primary election law. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Women's Home Missionary Society 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Bristow-Mondell Resolution 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Opposition 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Draft resisters 1 + ∧ less
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