McGraw, John T.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1439
Scope and Contents
The bulk of these papers deal with Miss Jarvis' work as the founder of Mother's Day, her attempts to persuade state governors to issue proclamations to establish the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, and her later protests against the commercialization of the holiday, as well as the efforts of other organizations to promote Mother's Day.There are a few papers of her father, Grandville E. Jarvis; some correspondence and legal papers concerned with the Jarvis coal and farm...
Dates:
1858-1943
Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1609
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal papers, speeches, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a Randolph County prosecuting attorney, mayor of Elkins, judge of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit, Democratic politician, and state governor, 1933-1937.Subjects include John T. McGraw's senate contest, 1911; Canadian Reciprocity Agreement, 1911; women suffrage; State Prohibition Amendment, 1911-1912; VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA; Joseph Brown lynch case; New Deal operations and agencies in the...
Dates:
1883-1960
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- Subject: Women's history -- 1929-1950 X
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- Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Elections 1
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- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Literacy 1
- Mother's Day 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia - Five Year Plan. 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia - Prohibition Amendment. 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1
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