Jones, Mary.
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates:
1913-1958
Joseph Ozanic, Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2482
Overview
Joe Ozanic went to work in the coal mines of Mt. Olive, joining in 1909, UMW Local 728. After serving briefly in the army during World War I, Ozanic returned to work in the mines at Mt. Olive. In 1932, Ozanic joined the Progressive Mine Workers of America, a rival organization to the United Mine Workers, serving both as president of PMWA District 1 and as national president. During the 1940s, Ozanic was an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. These papers reflect Ozanic's...
Dates:
1932-1974
Major W. P. Tams, Jr. Transcript of an Interview
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2584
Overview
Transcript of an interview by Richard Hadsell with Major W.P. Tams, Jr., former mine operator in the Winding Gulf coal mining region. Tams discusses his early days in coal mining, the opening of the Kanawha coal region, and coal operators and union officials such as: E.J. Berwind, Joe Beury, George Collins, Jarius Collins, Justus Collins, John J. Cornwell, Samuel Dixon, Elias Hatfield, Troy Hatfield, Isaac Mann, S.T. Patterson, J.A. Renahan, James O. Watts, and George Wolfe. Other...
Dates:
1825-1934
Mary "Mother" Jones Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1823
Overview
Letter from Mary "Mother" Jones to T.V. Powderly, Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. "Mother" Jones introduces Fred Mooney, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, District 17, asks Powderly to get him a passport, and says she does not know when she will leave for Mexico.
Dates:
1920
Mother Jones Typescript Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2778
Overview
Typescript memoir of the life of Mother Jones, entitled "Mother Jones: the Life Story of the Irish Immigrant Girl Who Became the Most Unique Character in the American Labor Movement, Living Past 100 Years," written by Lillie May Burgess of Hyattsville, Maryland, and copyrighted 8 February 1938. The manuscript is in two parts, several pages of which are missing. The first part (241pp.) is entitled "The Life Story of Mother Jones: American Labor's Joan of Arc," and is a narration of events in...
Dates:
1938
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- Union names. 4
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 4
- Coal mining. 3
- Coal miners 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Unions. 2
- Women -- United States -- History 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Atwater. 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal companies - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal miners' spouses 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal trade 1
- Colorado 1
- Elections 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mexico 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Strikes - Colorado miners. 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women brewery workers -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
- Women labor union members 1
- Women textile workers 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
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