United States National Guard - West Virginia.
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview
Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates:
ca. 1840-1955
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959), Barns Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1604
Overview
Correspondence, business, and legal papers, and photographs of Thomas Barns (1750-1836) and his son John S. Barns, who operated a grist and saw mill at Polsleys Mill (now Fairmont). Papers deal with a river trip to Indiana, 1837; coal mining in 1839; the money question, 1838; land transactions, farming, and mercantile operations of the Barns family; Rosecrans in Middle Tennessee, 1863; and the poor economic conditions, 1878.
Dates:
1795-1908
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview
Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates:
1898-1963
William Nelson Page (1854-1932) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1755
Overview
Papers of William Nelson Page, civil and mining engineer, who was manager of the Hawk's Nest Coal Company, 1877-1880; built and operated the Victoria Blast Furnace, Goshen, Virginia, 1880-1885; organized and developed the Gauley Mountain Coal Company, 1889-1917; served in the West Virginia National Guard for twenty years; and was mayor of Ansted for ten years. Subjects include the American Society of Civil Engineers, Deepwater Railway Company, Guy's Run Iron Land, Iron and Steel Works...
Dates:
1860, 1881-1890, 1924
Additional filters:
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- Coal mining. 4
- Elections 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Railroads 4
- Account books 3
- Coal mining - coal companies. 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Editors - letters and papers. 3
- General stores 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Mills and mill-work 3
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 3
- Politics and government. 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Genealogy 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Unions. 2
- Agriculture 1
- Ansted (W. Va.) 1
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining - engineers. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Court records 1
- Depression. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Epidemics 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- France 1
- Gas industry 1
- Huntington. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Deepwater Railway Company. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Tidewater Railway Company. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Steel industry and trade 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1 + ∧ less
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