Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920
Person
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Scott-Palmer Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1458
Scope and Contents
Family papers of school master Theodore Scott (1805-1877); his daughter Saida Scott Palmer, a music teacher; her husband, Jewett Palmer, Civil War officer, local Republican official, and mayor of Marietta; and his daughters, Winifred and Muriel, a concert contralto. Includes correspondence, letter books, diaries, school registers and reports, scrapbooks, genealogical records, and theatre and opera programs.Topics include Scott's teaching career at Portsmouth, Ohio (1836);...
Dates:
1829-1916
Waitman T. Willey Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview
Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates:
1820-1917
William Henry Harrison Flick (1841-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1349
Overview
Papers of a Pendleton County lawyer and prosecuting attorney who served in the state legislature, 1868-1870, where he introduced the Flick Amendment which removed voting restrictions on those who served in the Confederacy. Papers deal with Flick's legal practice; test oath cases; voting restrictions as a means of continuing Republican supremacy; state elections of 1868; Flick's campaign against Henry G. Davis for Congress in 1870; the West Virginia capital question; subscriptions to the...
Dates:
1867-1872
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Politics and government. 9
- Politicians -- United States 5
- United States -- Politics and government 5
- Judges -- West Virginia 3
- Politicians 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 3
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 3
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 3
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Coal mines and mining 2
- Education 2
- Farms and farming. 2
- Land. 2
- Railroads 2
- Schools 2
- Taxation 2
- Temperance 2
- Transportation 2
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- Academies 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry, Company G. 1
- Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Civil War -- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil service reform -- United States 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America. 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1870. 1
- Elections 1
- Floods 1
- Grafton. 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Leases - Oil and gas. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Marietta (Ohio) 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Memorial Day 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Secession 1
- Secession - United States. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Steamboats 1
- Teachers 1
- Veterans. SEE ALSO under Civil War - veterans. 1
- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
- Virginia - General Assembly. 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Flick Amendment. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Williamstown (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1 + ∧ less
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