Snyder, Melvin C.

Overview Papers of Harry Outen Cole (1874-1950), a Morgantown, West Virginia engineer who was with the Pacific Division of the Panama Canal, 1908-1912. In addition to correspondence there are reports, speeches, newspaper clippings, U.S. documents, photographs, blueprints, and structural drawings of the Panama Canal, with some data on the proposed Nicaraguan Canal. Correspondents include Chapman Revercomb and Melvin C. Snyder. Included is a microfilm of an autobiographical sketch, "Some Episodes in...

Scope and Contents Melvin Claude Snyder (1898-1972) was a lawyer, Republican Congressman, and judge from Preston County, West Virginia. Legal, personal, and political correspondence; speeches; and campaign materials document the political life of Melvin C. Snyder from 1946 to 1953. Box 1 contains speeches from 1947 and 1948 that concern political issues such as repealing New Deal policies, tax decreases, and communism. Box 2 houses letters from 1946 to 1953 that are chiefly from legal clients, political...

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Correspondence, reports, and other papers of a professor of educational administration and coordinator of field services, West Virginia University. Subjects include the county unit system, the election of superintendents of schools, legislative committee of the West Virginia State Education Association, the Thomas-Hall Education Bill, school taxation, and the State High School Principals Association. Correspondents include Charles E. Hodges, Chapman Revercomb, and Melvin C. Snyder.