Kenna, John E.
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Frank Hereford (1825-1891) Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1386
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Congressman and U.S. Senator, Frank Hereford. Papers deal with the machinations of the Camden-Davis ring, Hereford's election to the Senate, and West Virginia politics. Most of the letters involve the attempts of Johnson Camden and John E. Kenna to secure Hereford a seat on the Utah Commission in 1886.
Correspondents include: J. Ogden Murray, John E. Kenna, Johnson N. Camden, Lewis Baker, John Brannon, John Echds, and J. W. McCreery.
Dates:
1874-1901
Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview
Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates:
1838-1899
Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0013
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904. The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well. His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads. Types of documents include letters, reports, account...
Dates:
1799-1919
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
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- Railroads 3
- Coal mining. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1
- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- California 1
- Camden-Davis ring 1
- Cemeteries -- National Cemetery (Grafton, W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Civil War - United States 3rd Artillery Regiment, Company B. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 13th Infantry. 1
- Civil War battles - Mine Run. 1
- Civil War battles - The Wilderness. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Democratic Party 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elk Garden Coal Field. 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Maps. 1
- New York (State) 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Temperance 1
- Texas 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Washington Territory 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1 + ∧ less
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