West Virginia. Legislature
Organization
Found in 6 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
William Henry Harrison Flick (1841-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1349
Overview
Papers of a Pendleton County lawyer and prosecuting attorney who served in the state legislature, 1868-1870, where he introduced the Flick Amendment which removed voting restrictions on those who served in the Confederacy. Papers deal with Flick's legal practice; test oath cases; voting restrictions as a means of continuing Republican supremacy; state elections of 1868; Flick's campaign against Henry G. Davis for Congress in 1870; the West Virginia capital question; subscriptions to the...
Dates:
1867-1872
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- Coal mining. 5
- Politics and government. 5
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Railroads 4
- Elections 3
- Transportation 3
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Gas industry 2
- Genealogy 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- Account books 1
- Advertising 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 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 - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1870. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- General stores 1
- Immigration. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Logan County. 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Missouri 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 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
- Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Taxation 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia - Flick Amendment. 1
- West Virginia - primary election law. 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 + ∧ less
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