Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Organization
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
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
Stephen B. Elkins Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0053
Overview
Stephen Benton Elkins (b. 1841) represented West Virginia in the United States Senate as a Republican from 1895-1911. Prior to his Senate service, Elkins served in the Union Army during the Civil War as a captain in the Kansas Militia. He practiced law in the Territory of New Mexico in 1864 and served as a member of the Territorial House of Representatives, 1864-1865. He was the district attorney for the Territory from 1866-1867, and the United States district attorney for the Territory from...
Dates:
1841-1955
Stephen B. Elkins Political Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0591
Scope and Contents
Typed abstracts of four letters written by Elkins to R.B. Hayes; copy of one letter written by Elkins to R. B. Hayes, November 1892; three letters to A.L. Conger to Elkins; two letters and two telegrams from Elkins to Murat Halstead. Some selected letters are available on microfilm.
Dates:
1877-1891
Stephen B. Elkins, Political Letter File Book regarding West Virginia Republican Party
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0548
Scope and Contents
Letter file book containing thirty-seven letters to Stephen B. Elkins from various West Virginia counties concerning political outlook for the Republican Party in 1900. It lists leading Republicans for each voting district in each county and includes one letter from Elkins to A. Howard Fleming, Fairmont, WV, outlining information he would like to have about Marion County.
Dates:
1899 May
Stephen Benton Elkins, Letter Copy Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3979
Overview
Letter copy book kept by Stephen Benton Elkins, a politician and businessman who would later become a prominent citizen of West Virginia. The book was kept from 23 October 1875 to 1 May 1878. It contains roughly 150 letters as well as a partial index of recipients. During the time this book was kept, Elkins resided in Santa Fe, New Mexico, practiced law, represented the territory in Congress, and acted as president of the Maxwell Land Grant Company. Letters concern political and business...
Dates:
1875-1878
Varner Family Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0891
Overview
Letters written by various members of the Varner family in Gilmer County and Baltimore, Maryland, and a number of letters of S.W. Varner, a physician in Kingwood, relating to his medical practice. Included is a letter from M.O. Dawson who is running for governor soliciting names of Republican voters. Subjects covered include death, illness, and news in the family, and West Virginia state politics.
Dates:
1864-1940
Walter Simms Hallanan (1890-1962) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1659
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printed material of the Republican national committeeman, state political leader, and president of the Plymouth Oil Company. Subjects include Republican national conventions, 1928-1960; state and local politics, 1919-1961; National Petroleum Council; Plymouth and related oil companies; Republican rejection of the League of Nations; and Hallanan's role as temporary chairman of the 1952 Republican National Convention. Correspondents include...
Dates:
1919-1961
William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), Governor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0006
Scope and Contents
Papers documenting the governorship of William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), who served West Virginia in the period 1909-1913. These papers include series of general correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets. General correspondence includes many letters regarding employee unrest in the mining regions of the Great Kanawha Valley in 1912-1913, commonly known as the Cabin Creek-Paint Creek strike. Subject files include telegrams, photographs, etc. Newspaper...
Dates:
1905-1913
William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), Governor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1447
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, and public papers of West Virginia's 13th governor. Papers deal primarily with the presidential election of 1904 in West Virginia; West Virginia Republican politics, 1904-1905; and Glasscock's role as Collector of Internal Revenues for West Virginia.Correspondents include William M.O. Dawson, Stephen B. Elkins, Elliott Northcott, Nathan B. Scott, and Harry C. Woodyard.Collection contains the papers of William L. Russell, general manager, and...
Dates:
1904-1925
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- Politics and government. 28
- Elections 15
- Politicians -- United States 9
- United States -- Politics and government 9
- Politicians 6
- West Virginia - Governors. 6
- Coal mining -- Strikes 5
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 5
- Railroads 5
- Taxation 5
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 5
- Coal mining. 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Universities and colleges 4
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 4
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 4
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 4
- Account books 3
- Churches -- Methodist 3
- Elkins (W. Va.) 3
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
- India 3
- Land. 3
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 3
- Transportation 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
- America First Day 2
- Banks and banking 2
- China 2
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Harrison County 2
- Churches -- Methodist missions 2
- Churches -- Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 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
- Education 2
- Election of 1908. 2
- Farms and farming. 2
- Harrison County Fair. 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 2
- Korea 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Mason-Dixon Line 2
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Missouri 2
- Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
- Parkersburg. 2
- Philippines 2
- Physicians - letters and papers. 2
- Political campaigns 2
- Progressive Union Movement. 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Schools 2
- Shinnston (W. Va.) 2
- Steamboats 2
- Teachers 2
- Temperance 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
- Washington (D.C.) 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women -- United States -- History 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Advertising 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1
- Americanism. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Banks - Ritchie County Bank. 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Bible 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- California 1
- Cemeteries -- National Cemetery (Grafton, W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Charleston. 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian and Reformed 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Hancock County 1 + ∧ less
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