Stevenson, W. E. (William Erskine), 1820-1883
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Arrest Warrant for Horse Theft
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2669
Overview
An 1869 warrant, signed by Governor William E. Stevenson, for the arrest of Samuel Wormley. The document states that Wormley was wanted in Maryland for stealing a horse, and orders the Sheriff of Berkeley County to deliver Wormley to a Maryland law officer.
Dates:
1869
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
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview
Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates:
1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899
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
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
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
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- Politics and government. 2
- Transportation 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Academies 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Canals 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1870. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Elections 1
- Grafton. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia - Flick Amendment. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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