Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900
Person
Found in 4 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
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
Fleming Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0638
Scope and Contents
Business and personal papers, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs of Benjamin Fleming (1806-1891), and his son Thurston Worth (b.1846), relating to various business enterprises carried on by the family in Fairmont. These included a large trade in manufacturing, importing and selling hats and furs, general merchandising, fertilizer and hardwood sales.There are many letters and advertisements from eastern mercantile houses; bills of lading showing names of steamboats on the Ohio...
Dates:
1810-1943
Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0576
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and printed material, and pictures collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. There are also a small number of Mr. West’s personal papers, consisting of letters concerning West Virginia University College of Engineering, Oak Grove Cemetery Association, and the Wesley Methodist Church, all of Morgantown, and business records of the Town Hill Service Station, owned by Mr. West. The...
Dates:
1774; 1780; 1830-1952
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- Subject: Fairmont. X
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- Academies (Private schools) 3
- Fairmont. 3
- General stores 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Account books 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Elections 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Unions. 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Cemeteries -- Oak Grove Cemetery 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Coal mining - coal industry. 1
- Education 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Fur trade 1
- Kingwood and West Union Turnpike. 1
- Land. 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River 1
- Orphans and orphanages. 1
- Palatine. 1
- Philippi. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Steamboats 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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