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Dayton, Alston Gordon

 Person

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

A. Gordon Dayton, Student, Latin Copy Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0741
Overview

A copy book belonging to A. Gordon Dayton, containing his Latin lessons from Sept. 15, 1874 to Mar. 7, 1876, done while he was a WVU student.

Dates: 1874-1876

Albert Blakeslee White (1856-1941) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0110
Scope and Contents Business, political, and official correspondence of the eleventh governor, 1901-1905, of West Virginia. Owner and editor of the State Journal, Parkersburg, 1881-1899, White was associated with many banking and manufacturing enterprises, and was tax commissioner of West Virginia in 1907 and 1908, collector of internal revenues in 1889, 1897, and 1921, and a Republican member of the legislature in 1926. Among the correspondents are G.W. Atkinson, Waitman T. Barbe,...
Dates: 1888-1929

Alston Gordon Dayton, Collector, Congressional Autographs

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0698
Overview

Autographs of members of the House of Representatives, the Fifty-sixth Congress (1899) collected by Alston Gordon Dayton, the representative from West Virginia's second district.

Dates: 1899-1900

Alston Gordon Dayton Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0211
Scope and Contents

Collection contains Dayton’s appointment certificate in the West Virginia University’s Corps of Cadets (1878), newspaper articles containing speeches delivered by Dayton, copies and notes for speeches and lectures, notebooks, and an inventory of books owned by Dayton. Ephemera within the collection includes the 1898 report of the “New England Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania,” and programs from the West Virginia Republican Association and the New York County Lawyers Association.

Dates: 1878-1920

Alston Gordon Dayton Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0215
Scope and Contents

Letters of condolence received by Arthur S. Dayton and Mrs. Dayton on the death of Judge A. G. Dayton, 30 July 1920; an issue of The Philippi Republican, 5 August 1920, containing an Obituary notice; and nineteen envelopes of newspaper clippings and editorial comment from West Virginia newspapers on Judge Dayton's death.

Dates: 1920

Alston Gordon Dayton Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0052
Scope and Contents The papers of prominent Barbour County native, Alston G. Dayton (1857-1920), a lawyer, politician, and West Virginia Federal Court Judge, including correspondence, professional papers and manuscripts concerning West Virginia politics and development of state industry. Also included are the papers of Dayton's father, Spencer Dayton, lawyer, and Fred O. Blue, lawyer. Correspondence offers much insight into the attitudes and goals of these men and into their considerable direct and indirect...
Dates: 1846-1930s

Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0040
Overview Papers of the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of...
Dates: 1784-1924

Aretas Brooks Fleming Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0568
Overview Papers of Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923), the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of...
Dates: 1784-1924

Courtney Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1629
Overview Papers of a Monongalia County, West Virginia, farm family residing near Maidsville include: the farm account books of John and John J. Courtney, 1831-1877; family Bible records and photographs; college essays of Alpheus Courtney, a West Virginia University student; manuscript ciphering book, 1817; diary of Ulysses J. Courtney, 1878-1883 (7 vols.) pertaining to lumbering, farming, and livestock operations, and community religious and social life; correspondence; steamboat bills of lading,...
Dates: 1804-1920

Francis Marion Reynolds (1843-1931) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0050
Overview

Business papers of a Keyser attorney who was judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, 1904-1920; member of the West Virginia Legislature, 1895-1896 and 1901-1904; and a member of many educational, commercial, and financial boards in Mineral County. Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, H.G. Davis, A.G. Dayton, S.B. Elkins, and Cecil B. Highland.

Dates: 1845-1931

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Politics and government. 6
Lawyers - letters and papers. 5
Coal mining. 4
Marion County (W. Va.) 4
Politicians -- United States 4
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United States -- Politics and government 4
West Virginia - Governors. 4
West Virginia -- Politics and government 4
Elections 3
Judges - letters and papers. 3
Railroads 3
Banks and banking 2
Genealogy 2
Lumber trade 2
Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
Rivers and river valleys. 2
Transportation 2
Academies 1
Academies (Private schools) 1
Account books 1
Alabama 1
Autographs 1
Churches -- Methodist 1
Civil War -- Bounty receipts 1
Coal industry. 1
Coal mines and mining 1
Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
Coal mining - Safety. 1
Coal mining - disasters. 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Fraternal organizations - West Virginia. 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Grafton. 1
Illinois 1
Iowa 1
Keyser (W. Va.) 1
Land. 1
Livestock 1
Maps. 1
Mineral County (W. Va.) 1
Monongah (W. Va.) 1
Monongah Mines Disaster, Monongah, W. Va., 1907 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
New Deal, 1933-1939 1
Newport (R.I.) 1
Newspapers. 1
Obituaries and death records. 1
Parkersburg State Journal 1
Parkersburg. 1
Pennsylvania 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Philippines 1
Politicians 1
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
Railroads - Iron Valley Railroad. 1
Railroads - Monongahela Valley Railroad. 1
Railroads - Morgantown Railroad. 1
Schools 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Speeches, addresses, etc 1
Steamboats 1
Taxation 1
Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
United States Congress - autographs of the 56th Congress. 1
Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
West Virginia - politics. 1
West Virginia University - Fi Batar Capper. 1
Women 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
Women's schools. 1
speeches (documents) 1
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