Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Harry C. Woodyard (1867-1929) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2458
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal, and financial, and miscellaneous papers of a businessman and politician from Roane County, West Virginia, who was elected to the state Senate in 1898 and to the U.S. Congress as a Republican for several terms: 1902-11, 1916-23, 1925-27. His early business activity was in wholesale groceries and the lumber industry. He later engaged in newspaper publishing and owned an estimated eighteen weekly papers. Woodyard's sons continued in their father's business after his...
Dates:
ca. 1910-1929
Howard Sutherland, U.S. Senator for West Virginia, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2503
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, postcards, and other correspondence retained from Sutherland's daily activities as U.S. Senator. This includes constituent mail and correspondence with other politicians. Much of the correspondence deals with appointments and patronage. Other subjects mentioned are federal and West Virginia legislation, state Republican Party affairs, the West Virginia coal miners’ march on Logan County, prohibition, disarmament, bonus claims, immigration, West Virginia primary election...
Dates:
1914-1922
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- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Election of 1924. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Logan County. 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Maps. 1
- Missouri 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- Primary election law - WV. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- San Francisco (Calif.) 1
- Taxation 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- West Virginia - primary election law. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Women's Home Missionary Society 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Bristow-Mondell Resolution 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Opposition 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Draft resisters 1 + ∧ less
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