Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gordon B. Gibbens Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2816
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Gordon B. Gibbens of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Subjects discussed include personal and family business, West Virginia Republican Party affairs, and Gibbens' political appointments. Correspondents include Senators Stephen B. Elkins, Nathan B. Scott, and James A. Hughes, as well as numerous Ohio Valley politicians. One letter (1896 December 21) is an endorsement by a group of "colored" voters of Wood County for Gibbens' appointment to political office, and another letter...
Dates:
1878-1902
Pittenger Family Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3127
Overview
Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.
Dates:
1841-1875
Filtered By
- Subject: African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. X
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- Abolition of slavery 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian and Reformed 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Hancock County 1
- Civil War -- Illinois 28th Infantry 1
- Clergy 1
- Elections 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Illinois 1
- Jews & Judaism. 1
- Livestock 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Ohio Valley - Republican Party. 1
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools 1
- Steamboats 1
- Teachers 1
- Union veterans - Wood County. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Weather 1
- Wheeling Convention -- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- First 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) -- Blacks 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) -- Union veterans 1 + ∧ less
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