United States. Congress
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Edmiston Jr. (1892-1966) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1994
Overview
Correspondence, deeds, financial and military records, newspaper clippings, and photographs of a Democratic politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1933-1942, newspaper editor, and businessman from Weston, Lewis County. Subjects covered include the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the coal and glass industries. Correspondents include David Goff, Charles E. Hodges, Charles Lively, Alfred E. Smith, Harold L. Ickes, Joe L. Smith, Jennings Randolph, Clarence W. Meadows, James...
Dates:
1916-1948
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 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
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- Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 X
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- Baltimore Sun 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Elections 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Harper's Weekly 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- New York Tribune 1
- Ohio 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Postal service 1
- Railroads 1
- Religion -- Millerism 1
- Saint Louis Republican 1
- Taxation 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
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