Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Person
Found in 7 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
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview
Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates:
1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899
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
Jonathan M. Bennett (1816-1887) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0032
Overview
Correspondence and papers of a major political figure dealing largely with politics in Virginia, West Virginia, and Virginia in the Confederacy. Bennett, a lawyer and legislator, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, 1852-1853; president of the Weston Branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia; auditor of Virginia, 1857-1865; member of the senate of West Virginia, 1872-1876; and a member of the commission appointed to adjust the Virginia debt question in 1871. Correspondents include...
Dates:
1785-1899
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
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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- Politics and government. 5
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 5
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Elections 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Railroads 2
- Unions. 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 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
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Coal River. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America. 1
- Diaries 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Ohio River 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Politics - Western Virginia. 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Schools 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Steamboats 1
- Steel industry and trade 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 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 - General Assembly. 1
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Church history. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- Western Virginia -- Politics 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1 + ∧ less
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