Dawson, William M.O.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John W. Mason (1842-1917) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1888
Overview
Correspondence, legal papers, photographs, and printed materials of John W. Mason (1842-1917). Mason was a circuit court and state Supreme Court judge, member of the Virginia State Debt Commission, and commissioner of Internal Revenue. The general correspondence contains personal and business letters, as well as manuscript speeches, notebooks, and reports. The period while Mason was circuit judge is particularly sparse. Also includes Internal Revenue correspondence consisting of about 8,500...
Dates:
1831-1928
Virgil Anson Lewis, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1507
Overview
Published and unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and speeches of Virgil A. Lewis (1848-1912), the first state historian and archivist and a former state superintendent of schools. Subjects include the exploration, Indian wars, and settlement of Western Virginia; the Tory insurrection in the Valley of Lost River, 1781; the West Virginia new state movement; Masonry in West Virginia; Andrew S. Rowan; and various West Virginia authors. Correspondents include: George W. Atkinson, Waitman...
Dates:
1895-1912
West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview
Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates:
1909-1949
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- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Academies 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 9th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education 1
- Elections 1
- Freemasons 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Grafton. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Revolutionary War - Tory Insurrection. 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Valley of Lost River. 1
- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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