Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2600
Overview
Papers of James ("Jim") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the West Virginia Hillbilly and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers. Materials include: general series of...
Dates:
1650-1671, 1717-2003, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1850-1995
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
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- Politics and government. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Baltimore Sun 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elections 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- General stores 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Harper's Weekly 1
- Land. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Marshall County (W. Va.) 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
- New York Tribune 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Postal service 1
- Propaganda, Soviet 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Saint Louis Republican 1
- Taxation 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Whiskey decanters 1
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1 + ∧ less
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