Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Person
Found in 2 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
J.B. Ford Legal Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1679
Overview
Suit papers and correspondence in the case of the BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD VS. J.B. FORD, general agent of the railroad at Cumberland and Wheeling. The papers include copies of documents relative to the building of the railroad from Cumberland westward to Parkersburg and Wheeling and the activities of Ford as general agent at Cumberland and Wheeling, 1852-1874. Most of Ford's evidence deals with the role of the railroad during the Civil War and its relations with the state of West...
Dates:
ca. 1877
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- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Account books 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Cumberland (Md.) 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Elections 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- General stores 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Transportation 1
- Unions. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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