West Virginia. Legislature
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0040
Overview
Papers of the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of...
Dates:
1784-1924
Aretas Brooks Fleming Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0568
Overview
Papers of Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923), the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of...
Dates:
1784-1924
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
George C. McIntosh (1868-1935) Typed Document
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2599
Overview
Memoirs of a retired newspaperman, editor, and Republican state house representative (1898-1901). McIntosh supported the Republican party and coal operator interests through his newspapers and periodicals, which included: HUNTINGTON GAZETTE, HUNTINGTON SUNDAY GAZETTE, HINTON FREE LANCE, FAYETTE JOURNAL, NEWS-MAIL CO., RALEIGH HERALD, and company magazines for the Island Creek Coal Company and Solvay Collieries. McIntosh discusses: his early employment on the railroads as census taker and...
Dates:
1895-1920
Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2503
Overview
A collection of 400 letters, cards, petitions, telegrams, printed, and other similar items received and sent by U.S. Senator and Representatives Howard Sutherland (1865-1950) of West Virginia. The papers are part of Sutherland's constituent mail and are all concerned with the question of women's suffrage. The period covered is 1914-1919, and correspondence regarding both the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919,...
Dates:
1914-1919
Huett Nestor, Compiler, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1885
Overview
Archives of the Fairmont Labor Temple, 1921-1940, including certificate of incorporation, bylaws, financial records, minutes, and correspondence. There are also notes on the labor movement in Marion County, compiled by Huett Nestor, concerning the membership and officers of local unions, and a list of "Prominent Members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. from Marion County."
Dates:
1921-1940, 1963
Monongalia County Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0026
Scope and Contents
The collection contains record books and papers covering a period from the formation of the county of Monongalia in 1776 to 1933. The collection is broken prior to 1796. There are approximately six hundred thousand pieces including papers on civil and criminal cases, bonds, deeds, wills, licenses, settlements of public offices, school reports, and other papers commonly filled or recorded at county courthouses in the Virginias.There are two hundred and seventy-five volumes...
Dates:
1774-1933
Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview
Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates:
1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955
Filtered By
- Subject: Coal mining. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining. 6
- Politics and government. 6
- Elections 4
- Railroads 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Politicians -- United States 3
- Taxation 3
- United States -- Politics and government 3
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 3
- Account books 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Education 2
- Gas industry 2
- Genealogy 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Land. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Transportation 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- Advertising 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - coal operators. 1
- Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Court records 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Immigration. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan County. 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Missouri 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politicians 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 1
- Primary election law - WV. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Public utilities 1
- Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- United States - Social Security. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia - primary election law. 1
- Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
- Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Women's Home Missionary Society 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Bristow-Mondell Resolution 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Opposition 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Draft resisters 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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