Stevenson, W. E. (William Erskine), 1820-1883
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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, undated; Majority of material found within 1861-1928
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
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1870. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 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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