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Holloway, J.J.

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Justus Collins (1857-1934) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1824
Scope and Contents Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf...
Dates: 1887-1962

Wheeling Steel Corporation, Histories

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2948
Overview

Includes typescripts "The History of Principio and Iron Hill", clippings on J.J. Holloway, Earl Oglebay, Alexander Glass, Josiah Fox, and the iron and steel industry of the Wheeling area. Also includes sheet music for the theme song of the Wheeling Musical Steelmakers titled "Got a Feeling, I'll Be Stealing Back to Wheeling, West Virginia" by Bob Ellsworth. Also contains an issue of Time Magazine with an advertisement for Wheeling Steel's COP-R-LOY pipe on p. 41 (1928).

Dates: 1928-1980

William W. and J.J. Holloway Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2809
Overview

Collection concerns J.J. Holloway, financier and banker of Wheeling, and his son William W. Holloway (Sr.), businessman and former executive of Wheeling Steel Corporation. There is a journal containing J.J. Holloway's personal expenditures for 1880, and a notebook of prices and specifications for iron and steel products of the Standard Steel and Iron Company.

Dates: 1880-1969

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Account books 2
Steel industry and trade 2
Banks and banking 1
Church buildings 1
Coal Mining - Tug River field 1