Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Edmiston Jr. (1892-1966) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1994
Overview
Correspondence, deeds, financial and military records, newspaper clippings, and photographs of a Democratic politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1933-1942, newspaper editor, and businessman from Weston, Lewis County. Subjects covered include the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the coal and glass industries. Correspondents include David Goff, Charles E. Hodges, Charles Lively, Alfred E. Smith, Harold L. Ickes, Joe L. Smith, Jennings Randolph, Clarence W. Meadows, James...
Dates:
1916-1948
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
Coal Company Records Survey
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2554
Overview
Twenty letters from various coal interests responding to an inquiry pertaining to the history of early coal development in West Virginia. The survey was conducted by J.S. McWhorter, Attorney for Gauley Coal Land Company, for the Business Historical Society. Respondents include: C.H. Ambler, W.W. Chilton, Brooks Fleming, Jr. B. Laing, and George T. Watson.
Dates:
1933
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview
Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates:
1845-1908
Kemble White (1873-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2209
Overview
Correspondence and other papers of Kemble White, one-time law partner of A.B. Fleming, specialist in oil and gas law, counsel for the West Virginia subsidiaries of Standard Oil (Hope Natural Gas, South Penn Oil, and Eureka Pipeline), charter member of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, veteran of the Spanish-American War, one-time president of the West Virginia Bar Association; and the West Virginia University Alumni Association. Additional items include: White's notebooks...
Dates:
1898-1965
William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1652
Scope and Content
Papers of William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939), a lawyer, Democratic politician, publisher of the Charleston Gazette, and U.S. Senator (1911-1917); also includes correspondence of his son William E. Chilton, Jr., editor of the Gazette. The Chiltons were a prominent Charleston family who were long-time owners of the Gazette. There are series of correspondence, legal papers, speeches and writings, and other...
Dates:
1917, 1928-1939
William Gordon Worley (1846-1928) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1547
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and financial papers of a lawyer and state senator from Kingwood, who was instrumental in the organization of the West Virginia Northern Railroad, and the Kingwood Coal and Coke Company. Subjects include state politics, 1888-1895, Virginia Debt Question, the tariff debate, land development, coal mining and railroads. Correspondents include J.M. Mason, W.E. Chilton, S.B. Elkins, and George C. Sturgiss.
Dates:
1853-1921
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- Subject: Coal mining. X
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- Politics and government. 6
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 5
- Coal mining. 4
- Editors - letters and papers. 4
- Railroads 4
- Coal mining - coal companies. 3
- Elections 3
- Land. 3
- New Deal, 1933-1939 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Petroleum industry and trade 2
- Unions. 2
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Agriculture 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- History -- Societies, etc. 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Militia - West Virginia 2nd Volunteers, Company M. 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Northern Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Transportation 1
- United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - coal lands. 1
- West Virginia - politics. 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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