Hewitt, Abram S.
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
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
William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1694
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, writings, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Wilson, a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), President of West Virginia University, 1882-1883, member of Congress, 1883-1895, Postmaster General, 1895-1897, author of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894, and President of Washington and Lee University, 1897-1900. The collection includes portions of the diaries covering the years 1862-1863, 1865, 1868-1870, 1877-1891, 1896-1899. Most of the...
Dates:
1862-1900
William Nelson Page (1854-1932) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1755
Overview
Papers of William Nelson Page, civil and mining engineer, who was manager of the Hawk's Nest Coal Company, 1877-1880; built and operated the Victoria Blast Furnace, Goshen, Virginia, 1880-1885; organized and developed the Gauley Mountain Coal Company, 1889-1917; served in the West Virginia National Guard for twenty years; and was mayor of Ansted for ten years. Subjects include the American Society of Civil Engineers, Deepwater Railway Company, Guy's Run Iron Land, Iron and Steel Works...
Dates:
1860, 1881-1890, 1924
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- Railroads 3
- Coal mining. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Ansted (W. Va.) 1
- Baltimore Sun 1
- Canals 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - engineers. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Elections 1
- Genealogy 1
- Harper's Weekly 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Land. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- New York Tribune 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Postal service 1
- Railroads - Deepwater Railway Company. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Tidewater Railway Company. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Saint Louis Republican 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Steel industry and trade 1
- Taxation 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1 + ∧ less
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