Watson, James O.
Person
Found in 9 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
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Correspondence (photocopies)
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0420
Overview
Photostat negatives of correspondence to Francis H. Pierpont concerning statehood and secession. Also includes a petition of Harrison County, (West) Virginia citizens to Brigadier General Kelly protesting the return and admittance to the county of former members of the Confederate Army (undated); a petition of Gilmer County, (West) Virginia citizens denouncing secession and pledging action to suppress rebellion (1861); and the act by which the Restored Government of Virginia gave permission...
Dates:
1861-1865, 1916; Majority of material found within 1861-1865
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview
Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates:
1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899
Martha Dent Watson (1837-1905) Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1798
Overview
Diary written in Fairmont by an unmarried daughter of Thomas Watson and Rebecca Haymond Watson, the youngest sister of James Otis Watson. Comments concern the Civil War, the Southern cause, Lincoln and his assassination, and the attitudes of Fairmont residents toward Southern sympathizers and returning Confederate soldiers.
Dates:
1864 December 31 - 1865 December 21
Waitman T. Willey Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview
Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates:
1820-1917
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1815
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 57 letters (1795-1871) to or from Benjamin H., Henry, James G., James O., Rebecca D., and Thomas Watson; 3 land grants on sheep-skin (1787-1798) Monongalia County; 25 articles of agreement (1812-1875), manuscript; 4 manuscript wills or copies of wills (1852-1862); 32 surveys, maps, and plats of coal fields (1798-1892); 99 tax receipts (1807-1865), manuscript and printed forms; 44 receipts for clerking fees (1815-1845) manuscript and printed forms; 79 receipts, bills,...
Dates:
1798-1902
Additional filters:
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- Politics and government. 6
- Marion County (W. Va.) 5
- Politicians -- United States 5
- United States -- Politics and government 5
- Judges - letters and papers. 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Railroads 4
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 4
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Fairmont. 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 3
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 3
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Elections 2
- Genealogy 2
- General stores 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Transportation 2
- Unions. 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Agriculture 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Diaries 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Politicians 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Secession 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Temperance 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1 + ∧ less
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