West Virginia. Legislature
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Edward C. Bunker (1830-1867) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1615
Overview
Legal papers of a Morgantown lawyer, partner of United States Senator Waitman T. Willey, prosecuting attorney of Monongalia County, state senator, and judge of the Eleventh Circuit Court. Included are papers which relate to Bunker's Civil War service and Willey's legal practice. There are a few items of correspondence on land speculation and immigration in post-Civil War West Virginia.
Dates:
ca. 1850-1865, 1901
Goshorn Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2426
Overview
This collection comprises the personal and business correspondence, as well as financial and legal papers of the Goshorn family of Wheeling, West Virginia, including papers from members of several allied families. Highlights include letters from William S. Goshorn during his Civil War imprisonment and letters from a Virginia legislator in the House of Delegates (1833). An addendum (2012/09) contains three ledgers of John Goshorn (1827-1874). See the Scope and Content Note for more...
Dates:
1827-1926
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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Land. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Politics and government. 3
- Account books 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Immigration. 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Taxation 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Court records 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Education 1
- Elections 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- General stores 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Logan County. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Missouri 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- Primary election law - WV. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia - oath of allegiance. 1
- West Virginia - primary election law. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Women's Home Missionary Society 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Bristow-Mondell Resolution 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Opposition 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Draft resisters 1 + ∧ less
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