Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Organization
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
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
Joseph B. Lightburn Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1224
Overview
Correspondence and writings of the mayor of Jane Lew and one-time Republican nominee for Congress, pertaining to fluoridation, United Nations, foreign aid, income tax, socialism, the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, and Lightburn's conservative interpretation of Americanism.
Dates:
1958-1959
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
Marshall County Republican Executive Committee, Record Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1643
Overview
Record book of the Marshall County Republican Executive Committee. Contains lists of candidates, and the number of votes each received. Includes a separation of the districts and precincts.
Dates:
1904-1950
Max Mathers Collection Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2386
Overview
Correspondence, financial papers, diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the Max Mathers family and Monongalia County, West Virginia. The activities of Anna DeGant Mathers, wife of Max Mathers, and Margaret Mathers Barrick, his daughter, as well as of Margaret's two sons, William Mathers Barrick and George Milton Barrick, Jr. are well represented in the family papers. Max Mather's own papers document his personal life, Republican party activities, genealogical...
Dates:
1821-1957
Melvin C. Snyder, Congressman, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2855
Scope and Contents
Melvin Claude Snyder (1898-1972) was a lawyer, Republican Congressman, and judge from Preston County, West Virginia. Legal, personal, and political correspondence; speeches; and campaign materials document the political life of Melvin C. Snyder from 1946 to 1953. Box 1 contains speeches from 1947 and 1948 that concern political issues such as repealing New Deal policies, tax decreases, and communism. Box 2 houses letters from 1946 to 1953 that are chiefly from legal clients, political...
Dates:
1946-1953
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
Roy H. Keadle Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2873
Overview
The scrapbook was kept by Roy H. Keadle (1890-1961), eldest son of N.S. Keadle (1860-1935), first sheriff of Mingo County. Included are: several printed programs and invitations for functions in Williamson, West Virginia; one letter from Virgil A. Lewis, West Virginia State Historian; and a printed "Official Vote of Mingo County" for an election on 3 November 1909. Scrapbook contains photographs, postcards, calling cards, entertainment programs and news clippings. Included are: news...
Dates:
ca. 1891-1896, 1900-1938
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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- Politics and government. 28
- Elections 18
- Politicians -- United States 9
- United States -- Politics and government 9
- Taxation 7
- West Virginia - Governors. 7
- Politicians 6
- Railroads 6
- Account books 5
- Coal mining -- Strikes 5
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 5
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 5
- Universities and colleges 5
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 5
- Coal mining. 4
- Land. 4
- Transportation 4
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 4
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 4
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 4
- Banks and banking 3
- Churches -- Methodist 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Education 3
- Elkins (W. Va.) 3
- Farms and farming. 3
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
- India 3
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 3
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 3
- Schools 3
- Steamboats 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 3
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 3
- Women -- Suffrage 3
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 2
- America First Day 2
- China 2
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Harrison County 2
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 2
- Churches -- Methodist missions 2
- Churches -- Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 2
- Coal mines and mining 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 2
- Covered bridges 2
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 2
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Election of 1908. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Grafton. 2
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 2
- Harrison County Fair. 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 2
- Korea 2
- Korean Conflict. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mason-Dixon Line 2
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Missouri 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
- Parkersburg. 2
- Philippines 2
- Physicians - letters and papers. 2
- Political campaigns 2
- Preston County (W. Va.) 2
- Progressive Union Movement. 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- Shinnston (W. Va.) 2
- Teachers 2
- Temperance 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
- Washington (D.C.) 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia - politics. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women -- Societies and clubs 2
- Women -- United States -- History 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Academies 1
- Advertising 1
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1 + ∧ less
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