Watson, James O.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Account books 1
- Agriculture 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Elections 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- General stores 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Unions. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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