Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Person
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), Newspaperman, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0014
Overview
Papers of Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), editor of the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. A strong unionist and Republican Party member, he worked hard through his editorials and behind the scenes in order to support the formation of the new state of West Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing with the Civil War and political affairs in West Virginia's early statehood period. Some of the correspondence...
Dates:
1855-1899, 1907, 1941; Majority of material found within 1855-1899
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 (1823-1896) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0104
Overview
Personal and business papers of lawyer, U.S. Senator, circuit court judge, and first Governor of West Virginia, Arthur I. Boreman. See scope and content note for more details.
Dates:
1861-1895, undated
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
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Correspondence (photocopies)
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0420
Overview
Photostat negatives of correspondence to Francis H. Pierpont concerning statehood and secession. Also includes a petition of Harrison County, (West) Virginia citizens to Brigadier General Kelly protesting the return and admittance to the county of former members of the Confederate Army (undated); a petition of Gilmer County, (West) Virginia citizens denouncing secession and pledging action to suppress rebellion (1861); and the act by which the Restored Government of Virginia gave permission...
Dates:
1861-1865, 1916; Majority of material found within 1861-1865
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899), Letters to President Lincoln
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1034
Overview
Approximately twenty letters sent to President Abraham Lincoln from Francis H. Pierpont, the governor of the Reorganized Government of Virginia, between 1861 and 1864. Topics include the need for muskets in western Virginia in 1861; restoring the government of Virginia according to the Wheeling Convention after the war; using slaves from Virginia to do manual labor for the Union army; difficulty recruiting soldiers in western Virginia in 1862; the creation of the state of West Virginia; and...
Dates:
1861-1864
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Newspaper Clipping
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0418
Overview
Fairmont Times (W.Va.) newspaper clipping where Frances Pierpont Pryor, Francis H. Pierpont's granddaughter, is thanking the newspaper for including historical information about Pierpont's life in their articles.
Dates:
undated
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- Subject: Politics and government. X
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- Subject
- Politics and government. 19
- Politicians -- United States 15
- United States -- Politics and government 14
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 10
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 10
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 8
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 7
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 7
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 6
- Virginia -- Governors 6
- Railroads 5
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 5
- Coal mining. 4
- Judges - letters and papers. 4
- Marion County (W. Va.) 4
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 4
- Account books 3
- Genealogy 3
- Politicians 3
- Richmond (Va.) 3
- Rivers and river valleys. 3
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 3
- West Virginia - Governors. 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 2
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 2
- Diaries 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Elections 2
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Newspapers. 2
- Politics - Western Virginia. 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Secession 2
- Steamboats 2
- Transportation 2
- Unions. 2
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 2
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Ceredo (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles. 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal River. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Confederate States of America. 1
- Doddridge County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Land records and papers. 1
- Land. 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Missouri 1 + ∧ less
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