Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Helen Holt Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1858
Overview
Papers of Helen Louise (Froelich) Holt (1913-2015) relating to her personal, educational, and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into five series: Personal and Political Papers (1912-2015 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1937-2008 and undated), State Government Papers (1955-1960), Federal Government Papers (1960-1984 and undated), and Rush Dew Holt, Jr. Papers...
Dates:
1912-2015 and undated
John W. Mason (1842-1917) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1888
Overview
Correspondence, legal papers, photographs, and printed materials of John W. Mason (1842-1917). Mason was a circuit court and state Supreme Court judge, member of the Virginia State Debt Commission, and commissioner of Internal Revenue. The general correspondence contains personal and business letters, as well as manuscript speeches, notebooks, and reports. The period while Mason was circuit judge is particularly sparse. Also includes Internal Revenue correspondence consisting of about 8,500...
Dates:
1831-1928
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
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
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- Education 3
- Politics and government. 3
- Schools 3
- Elections 2
- Farms and farming. 2
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 2
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
- Steamboats 2
- Taxation 2
- Teachers 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Academies 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian and Reformed 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Hancock County 1
- Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry, Company G. 1
- Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Civil War -- Illinois 28th Infantry 1
- Civil War -- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil service reform -- United States 1
- Clergy 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Floods 1
- Grafton. 1
- Illinois 1
- Jews & Judaism. 1
- Land. 1
- Livestock 1
- Marietta (Ohio) 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Memorial Day 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Nursing Homes -- United States 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River 1
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Secession - United States. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Temperance 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Veterans. SEE ALSO under Civil War - veterans. 1
- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Weather 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Wheeling Convention -- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- First 1
- Williamstown (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1 + ∧ less
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