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
Charles W. Osenton (b.1865) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1215
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other papers, of a state senate minority leader, 1899-1901, prominent Fayette County lawyer, and Democratic committeeman. Subjects include Osenton's early life; his law training at Georgetown University; his election to the state senate as a "silver" Democrat; William Jennings Bryan's tour of West Virginia, 1908; the presidential election of 1908; and Champ Clark's battle for the Democratic nomination, 1912. The papers also include a collection of...
Dates:
ca. 1847-1920
Francis Marion Reynolds (1843-1931) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0050
Overview
Business papers of a Keyser attorney who was judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, 1904-1920; member of the West Virginia Legislature, 1895-1896 and 1901-1904; and a member of many educational, commercial, and financial boards in Mineral County. Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, H.G. Davis, A.G. Dayton, S.B. Elkins, and Cecil B. Highland.
Dates:
1845-1931
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- Politics and government. 2
- Account books 1
- Agriculture 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Election of 1908. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Gas industry 1
- General stores 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kentucky 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Mineral County (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Universities and colleges 1 + ∧ less
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