Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Organization
Found in 8 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
Harvey W. Harmer (1865-1961) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1686
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, essays, clippings, and account books of a Clarksburg lawyer, Republican state senator, and Harrison County local historian. Subjects include the history of Clarksburg and Shinnston; the Progressive Movement, women's suffrage, and prohibition in West Virginia; West Virginia Wesleyan College; West Virginia Historical Society; Methodism in Harrison County and the state; Methodist missions in Korea, China, India, the Philippines, and the United States; gristmills and...
Dates:
1842-1961
Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview
Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates:
1838-1899
Lyman Stedman, Farmer and Politician, Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2042
Overview
Diary of Lyman Stedman (1824-1916), a farmer and former member of the House of Delegates, 1877, from Brown's Island, Hancock County. Entries concern farm operation, Republican political activities on the district and county level, comments on state and national organizations, floods on the Ohio River, steamboat and barge traffic, Hopedale School, Methodist Episcopal Church, railroad travel, circuses and fairs, taxes and land valuations, and Memorial Day.
Dates:
1880-1885
Osborne Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0930
Overview
A genealogy of the Osborne family of Greenbrier County. Originally from New Jersey, the family settled in Greenbrier and Hampshire counties.
Dates:
1987
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
Scott-Palmer Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1458
Scope and Contents
Family papers of school master Theodore Scott (1805-1877); his daughter Saida Scott Palmer, a music teacher; her husband, Jewett Palmer, Civil War officer, local Republican official, and mayor of Marietta; and his daughters, Winifred and Muriel, a concert contralto. Includes correspondence, letter books, diaries, school registers and reports, scrapbooks, genealogical records, and theatre and opera programs.Topics include Scott's teaching career at Portsmouth, Ohio (1836);...
Dates:
1829-1916
William Henry Harrison Flick (1841-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1349
Overview
Papers of a Pendleton County lawyer and prosecuting attorney who served in the state legislature, 1868-1870, where he introduced the Flick Amendment which removed voting restrictions on those who served in the Confederacy. Papers deal with Flick's legal practice; test oath cases; voting restrictions as a means of continuing Republican supremacy; state elections of 1868; Flick's campaign against Henry G. Davis for Congress in 1870; the West Virginia capital question; subscriptions to the...
Dates:
1867-1872
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- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- Account books 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 2
- America First Day 2
- China 2
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- Hancock County (W. Va.) 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Harrison County Fair. 2
- India 2
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- Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
- Philippines 2
- Progressive Union Movement. 2
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- Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry, Company G. 1
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- Civil War - Virginia 13th Infantry. 1
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- Election of 1868. 1
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- Fairmont. 1
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- Grafton. 1
- Illinois 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Jews & Judaism. 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Livestock 1
- Marietta (Ohio) 1
- Memorial Day 1
- New York (State) 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Ohio Valley - Republican Party. 1
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
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- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Secession - United States. 1
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