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Justus Collins (1857-1934) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1824
Scope and Contents
Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf...
Dates:
1887-1962
Minnie Kendall Lowther Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0740
Overview
M.K. Lowther (1869-1947) was a journalist and one of the first women newspaper editors in West Virginia. She was the author of the HISTORY OF RITCHIE COUNTY; BLENNERHASSETT ISLAND IN ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY; FRIENDSHIP HILL, HOME OF ALBERT GALLATIN; MARSHALL HALL AND OTHER POTOMAC POINTS IN STORY AND PICTURE; and MT. VERNON: ITS CHILDREN, ITS ROMANCES, ITS ALLIED FAMILIES AND MANSIONS. There are complete and incomplete typescripts, rough drafts, revisions, photographs and plates of her books....
Dates:
1907-1945
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- Account books 1
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- Blennerhassett Island (W. Va.) 1
- Church buildings 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
- Coal mining - New River field. 1
- Coal mining - Regulation. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
- Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Education 1
- Friendship Hill National Historic Site (Pa.) 1
- Maps. 1
- Maryland 1
- Mount Vernon (Va.) 1
- Mt. Vernon. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Potomac River Valley 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway - Winding Gulf Branch. 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Taxation 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) -- Coalfields 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
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