Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview
Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates:
1838-1899
Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0013
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904. The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well. His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads. Types of documents include letters, reports, account...
Dates:
1799-1919
John W. Mason (1842-1917) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1888
Overview
Correspondence, legal papers, photographs, and printed materials of John W. Mason (1842-1917). Mason was a circuit court and state Supreme Court judge, member of the Virginia State Debt Commission, and commissioner of Internal Revenue. The general correspondence contains personal and business letters, as well as manuscript speeches, notebooks, and reports. The period while Mason was circuit judge is particularly sparse. Also includes Internal Revenue correspondence consisting of about 8,500...
Dates:
1831-1928
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- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- California 1
- Cemeteries -- National Cemetery (Grafton, W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Civil War - United States 3rd Artillery Regiment, Company B. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 13th Infantry. 1
- Civil War battles - Mine Run. 1
- Civil War battles - The Wilderness. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Democratic Party 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elections 1
- Elk Garden Coal Field. 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rhode Island 1
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- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Temperance 1
- Texas 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Washington Territory 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1 + ∧ less
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