Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Person
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Deed
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0526
Overview
Photocopies of correspondence relating to Francis H. Pierpont's law license in Mississippi and Virginia, and an early (1784) Virginia deed to John Pierpont (likely grandfather of Francis).
Dates:
1784-1842; Majority of material found within 1841-1842
Francis Harrison Pierpont Note regarding Ordinance of Secession
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0559
Overview
Note supposedly written by 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. The note outlines the steps to be taken upon the adoption of the Ordinance of Secession, including the convening of a second convention on June 11 and rules about the number of representatives allowed for each county. It may be a draft of a resolution proposed by the Committee on State and...
Dates:
circa 1861
Francis Pierpont Statue Committee, Model of Statue and Portrait of Pierpont
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4186
Overview
Model of statue of Francis Pierpont (1814-1899), first governor of West Virginia, by sculptor Gareth Curtis. The full sized sculpture was erected in front of Independence Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia in 2015. Also includes a limited edition print of a portrait rendering of Pierpont by the same artist.
Dates:
ca. 2015
George Cookman Sturgiss (1842-1925) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1671
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and newspaper clippings of a Morgantown judge, railroad promoter, and U.S. Congressman. Papers deal with Sturgiss' political troubles in his bid for re-nomination in 1910 and the unveiling of the Francis H. Pierpont statue in Statuary Hall, Washington.
Dates:
1879, 1909-1910
George H. King, Civil War Commission
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2776
Overview
Photocopy of commission appointing George H. King, 1st Lieutenant, Co. A, First Reg., Virginia Mounted Volunteers, 18 July 1861. The document is signed by F.H. Pierpont, Gov.
Dates:
1861
Haymond-Fleming Law Firm Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0544
Overview
Correspondence of A.F. Haymond and A. Brooks Fleming, Fairmont attorneys. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, G.D. Camden, J. Carlile, Henry Mathews, and F.H. Pierpont mentioning politics, separation from Virginia, the Arthurdale community development, and routine legal business. Included are land and legal papers, 1760-1797, from Hampshire, Monongalia, and Ohio counties, mentioning Patrick Henry and Henry Lee. Also in the collection are: a leather billfold; estate papers and marriage...
Dates:
1760-1936
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
John W. Mason (1842-1917) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1888
Overview
Correspondence, legal papers, photographs, and printed materials of John W. Mason (1842-1917). Mason was a circuit court and state Supreme Court judge, member of the Virginia State Debt Commission, and commissioner of Internal Revenue. The general correspondence contains personal and business letters, as well as manuscript speeches, notebooks, and reports. The period while Mason was circuit judge is particularly sparse. Also includes Internal Revenue correspondence consisting of about 8,500...
Dates:
1831-1928
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
Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0750
Overview
Two original commissions belonging to General J.A.J. Lightburn (1824-1901); the first commissioning him a Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers, signed by F. H. Pierpont, Governor of the restored government of Virginia (August 14, 1861), and the second commissioning him a Brigadier General of Volunteers, signed by Abraham Lincoln (March 16, 1863). Also includes typescript copy of a newspaper article regarding a Fourth of July celebration honoring General Lightburn, held...
Dates:
1861-1865
Additional filters:
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- Politics and government. 19
- Politicians -- United States 15
- United States -- Politics and government 14
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 12
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 10
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 8
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 8
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 8
- Railroads 7
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 7
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 6
- Marion County (W. Va.) 6
- Virginia -- Governors 6
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 6
- Coal mining. 5
- Elections 5
- Judges - letters and papers. 5
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 5
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 5
- Account books 4
- Genealogy 4
- Rivers and river valleys. 4
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 4
- Civil War battles. 3
- Fairmont. 3
- General stores 3
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 3
- Lewis County. 3
- Politicians 3
- Richmond (Va.) 3
- Steamboats 3
- Transportation 3
- West Virginia - Governors. 3
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Banks and banking 2
- Charleston (W. Va.) 2
- Civil War - West Virginia. 2
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 2
- Coal mines and mining 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
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Kanawha Valley. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Land. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Newspapers. 2
- Ohio 2
- Politics - Western Virginia. 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Schools 2
- Secession 2
- Unions. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 2
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 2
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
- Weston (W. Va.) 2
- Women's history -- 1951-present 2
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Academies 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) 1
- Augusta County (Va.) 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Baptists 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 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Carnifex Ferry, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 1
- Ceredo (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Civil War - Thurmond's Rangers. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia Mounted Volunteers, 1st Regiment, Company A. 1 + ∧ less
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