Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Granville Davisson Hall (1837-1934) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0042
Overview
Correspondence and writings of Granville Davisson Hall, reporter for the Wheeling Intelligencer during the Wheeling conventions, 1861-1863; secretary of state of West Virginia, 1865-1873; and author of numerous works of fiction and historical studies about West Virginia.
Dates:
1861-1947 and undated; Majority of material found within 1861-1928
Richard M. Hadsell, Collector, Records Regarding History of Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2122
Overview
Correspondence, reports, petitions, agreements, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles relating to the soft coal industry and labor conditions, generally in southern West Virginia. Subjects covered include the eight-hour day; strikes; consolidation of coal operations; freight rates; government contracts for coal; Paint and Cabin creeks, 1912-1913; working conditions in the Polack Cigar Factory, Wheeling, 1914; investigation of the Gay Coal and Coke Company, Logan County, 1917;...
Dates:
1880-1935
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
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- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Logan County. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Transportation 1
- Unions. 1
- United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia - coal lands. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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