Revercomb, Chapman, 1895-
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview
Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates:
ca. 1840-1955
Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates:
1913-1958
Homer Adams Holt (1898-1975) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1450
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, messages, and state papers of West Virginia's twentieth governor, 1937-1941, and manuscript drafts of "West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State (1941)," the Works Project Administration's Federal Writer's Project's work on West Virginia. Also included are assorted speeches and addresses given by Holt, newspaper clippings and articles regarding Holt's successor as Governor of West Virginia, Matthew Neely, and other political figures, and correspondence with governors from...
Dates:
1937-1944
Howard Burton Lee (1879-1985) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2139
Overview
Correspondence and photographs used by Lee, who was a lawyer and attorney general of West Virginia, in the writing of his book, BLOODLETTING IN APPALACHIA, 1969, concerning the coalfields of West Virginia and the attempts by miners to unionize. The photographs show individuals, coal camps, mine guards, and scenes from the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek area in 1912-1913, Matewan, and Monongalia County during the 1925-1929 period. Correspondents include Gordon C. Felts, Coleman A. Hatfield, Henry D....
Dates:
1912-1964
John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. (1912-1962), Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1580
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, and newspaper clippings of a West Virginia Republican chairman, U.S. senator (serving in 1958), and member of the 1960 Republican National Convention platform committee.Subjects include: West Virginia and national Republican politics, 1956-1961; the 1958 Congressional election; the 1960 presidential campaign; the State Chamber of Commerce; State Economic Development Agency; Ohio Valley Improvement Association; and West Virginia University....
Dates:
1956-1962
Filtered By
- Subject: Coal mining. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Elections 4
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 3
- Coal mining. 3
- Politics and government. 3
- West Virginia - Governors. 3
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 2
- Account books 1
- Agriculture 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Gas industry 1
- General stores 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Matewan (W. Va.) 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1 + ∧ less
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