MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930
Person
Found in 5 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
George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview
Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates:
1898-1963
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
William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1652
Scope and Content
Papers of William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939), a lawyer, Democratic politician, publisher of the Charleston Gazette, and U.S. Senator (1911-1917); also includes correspondence of his son William E. Chilton, Jr., editor of the Gazette. The Chiltons were a prominent Charleston family who were long-time owners of the Gazette. There are series of correspondence, legal papers, speeches and writings, and other...
Dates:
1917, 1928-1939
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- New Deal, 1933-1939 3
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- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Banks and banking 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Unions. 2
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Court records 1
- Democratic Party 1
- Depression. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Elk Garden Coal Field. 1
- Epidemics 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- France 1
- Genealogy 1
- Huntington. 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Transportation 1
- United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia - coal lands. 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
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