Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Person
Found in 5 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
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
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- Judges - letters and papers. 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Politics and government. 4
- Railroads 4
- Account books 3
- Coal mining. 3
- Elections 3
- Fairmont. 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 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
- General stores 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Transportation 2
- Unions. 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Augusta County (Va.) 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Bridges 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1864. 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
- Politicians 1
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Taxation 1
- Teachers 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United States -- 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 + ∧ less
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