West Virginia. Legislature
Organization
Found in 3 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
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
Gustavus Friend Taylor (1843-1915) Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1303
Overview
Scrapbook of the editor of the Sutton MOUNTAINEER, member of the Wheeling Convention, 1861, and the state legislature, 1867. Clippings pertain to election returns for Braxton County and the nation; Taylor's editorials; letters to the editor; population statistics; and politics. A section of the volume consists of Taylor's record of visits to the county schools as County Superintendent of Free Schools, 1869, and a record of personal accounts.
Dates:
1862-1878
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- Account books 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Gas industry 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Advertising 1
- Agriculture 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) 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 - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- General stores 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Sutton (W. Va.) 1
- Sutton Mountaineer. 1
- Taxation 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- West Virginia - Wheeling Conventions of 1861-1863. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1 + ∧ less
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