Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0040
Overview
Papers of the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of...
Dates:
1784-1924
Aretas Brooks Fleming Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0568
Overview
Papers of Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923), the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of...
Dates:
1784-1924
Arthur I. Boreman Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview
Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates:
1830-1949
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
Edward E. Meredith Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1814
Overview
Clippings, letters, broadsides, and articles written or collected by E.E. Meredith, author of the newspaper column, "Do You Remember," which appeared in the Fairmont TIMES-WEST VIRGINIAN. There are: copies of theatre programs, 1917-1919; electoral tickets, 1860, 1864; a proclamation by George B. McClellan, commanding the Department of the Ohio, 1861; and an open letter, "Monongahela River Bridge Underwriting Syndicate Managers," concerning the construction of the million-dollar bridge in...
Dates:
1817-1954
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0497
Overview
Correspondence, appointment, and notice. Correspondence includes a letter from Gideon D. Camden to Pierpont (1841); a letter from Frances Pierpont Pryor (F.H. Pierpont's granddaughter) to Professor Charles Ambler regarding documents of her grandfathers' which she is sending him and documents she will keep (1952); and a letter from Charles MacCarthy to W.H. Siviter, regarding Pierpont papers used by MacCarthy in writing his Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction...
Dates:
1841-1952
William Starke Rosecrans (1818-1898) Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1943
Overview
Correspondence of a Civil War general who had business interests in the Cannel Coal Company, Coal River Navigation Company, James River and Kanawha Company, and the Western Oil Company. Subjects include coal, oil, iron and steel; improvements on the Kanawha, Coal, and Ohio rivers; English investments in the Cannel Coal Company and the Winifrede Mining & Manufacturing Company; and timber prices. Civil War correspondence includes letters from Francis H. Pierpont and General Jacob D. Cox....
Dates:
1841-1879
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- Women's history -- 1850-1899 5
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- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Politicians -- United States 4
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- United States -- Politics and government 4
- Elections 3
- Fairmont. 3
- Rivers and river valleys. 3
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Genealogy 2
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- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
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- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
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- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
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- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
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- Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Coal River. 1
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- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
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- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1864. 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Judges -- West Virginia 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
- Ohio River 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics - Western Virginia. 1
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Steamboats 1
- Steel industry and trade 1
- Taxation 1
- Teachers 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Western Virginia -- Politics 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
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