Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Person
Found in 4 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
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
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview
Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates:
1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960
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- Elections 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Schools 2
- Unions. 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Academies 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Diaries 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Steamboats 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Valleys -- West Virginia 1
- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Church history. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1 + ∧ less
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