Dayton, Alston Gordon
Person
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
French E. Chadwick Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0605
Scope and Contents
Two signed letters written from Newport, Rhode Island to A. G. Dayton, a member of Congress from West Virginia, requesting an appointment; mentions John Bassett Moore. Chadwick was a native of Morgantown, West Virginia and served in the United States Navy, achieving the rank of Rear Admiral.
Dates:
1904
John Thomas McGraw (1856-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0086
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and...
Dates:
1842-1927, 1948
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
Knights of the Maccabees, Morgantown Tent No. 8, Charter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4164
Overview
Charter for the Morgantown, West Virginia "tent" of the Knights of the Maccabees, a fraternal organization which provided life insurance and other benefits to its members. The charter is dated 20 December 1894 and is 22 1/2 in. X 28 1/2 in. The charter was signed by members of the "tent", including an "A. Dayton", assumed to be Alston Gordon Dayton, alumnus of West Virginia University and West Virginia Federal Court Judge. For more information concerning Dayton, please see A&M 52. For...
Dates:
1894
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1384
Scope and Contents
The two volumes of newspaper clippings cover the years 1913-1916, and 1922-1927 and are concerned with Neely's activities as Congressman and Senator, including his abortive attempt to have Judge A. G. Dayton impeached. There are also two volumes of speeches (clippings from the Congressional Record) for years 1926-1928, and 1931-1932.
Dates:
1913-1932
Monongah Mine Disaster Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0524
Overview
The collection consists of: a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings on the explosion at Monongah Mines No.6 and No.8 on 6 December 1907, rescue operations, the inquest, and mine law reforms; photographs of the disaster; maps of the interior of the mines; printed and typescript reports and pamphlets on mining operations; script of a 1952 television broadcast on the disaster; material on mine disasters in Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Illinois; and newspaper accounts of the agitation for the...
Dates:
1907-1952
Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3186
Overview
Record book, photo and certificate of the West Virginia University Alpha chapter of a national honorary fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa. A chapter charter was granted only to those institutions whose standards measured up to a high scholastic ideal. The fraternity's purpose being to undertake to conserve the influences that were restored and liberated by the Renaissance, specifically those influences that refine and humanize mankind. Membership was open to those undergraduate seniors in the top...
Dates:
1910-1936
Spencer and Alston G. Dayton Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1216
Overview
Business and legal correspondence of Spencer Dayton including letters describing the state legislature of 1872; college correspondence, biographical sketches, testimonials, and memorials of Alston G. Dayton. Other A. G. Dayton material includes papers and letters dealing with his support of the "Big Navy " program in congress and his tour of the British Naval Yards in 1903. There are several family letters including his last letters to his wife. The rest of the collection contains material...
Dates:
1801-1948
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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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- 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
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- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- United States Congress - autographs of the 56th Congress. 1
- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
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