Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971
Person
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
West Virginia Centennial Commission, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2050
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, financial records, and minutes of the West Virginia Centennial Commission from 1958-1964. This material was obtained for the Library by Festus P. Summers, commission member. Much of Dr. Summers' personal correspondence as a commission member is included.
Correspondents include Don Crislip, Cecil H. Underwood, P.H. Price, Lyndon B. Johnson, Philip Conley, William D. Barns, Ross B. Johnson, Festus P. Summers, Robert L. Hogg, George More, Frances Krauskopf, Donovan...
Dates:
1958-1964
West Virginia University, Department of History, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2216
Scope and Contents
Records of the WVU Department of History, consisting of applications for positions, invoices, purchase records, material on the Army Special Training Program, and faculty material such as grade books, exams, lecture notes, and course outlines.
Dates:
1902-1963
West Virginia War History Commission, Papers of Festus P. Summers, Chairman, World War II Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1705
Scope and Contents
Records of Festus P. Summers regarding his activities as chairman of the West Virginia War History Commission. Contains a speech, newsletter, war records collecting manuals, lists of Office of Civilian Defense directors, lists of potential and confirmed war records collectors, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and a traveling expense account.Items within this collection include: drafts for a speech entitled "Let History Arm the Mind". The some pages are handwritten, others are...
Dates:
1942-1945
West Virginia War History Commission, World War II Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0109
Scope and Contents
Records of the West Virginia War History Commission and the state, local, and national branches of the Office of Civilian Defense. Material within this collection documents civilian activities on the homefront during World War II in the state of West Virginia. The collection contains correspondence, publications, pamphlets, maps, posters, newspapers and clippings, radio scripts, and other material. The collection also contains 19 reels of microfilm regarding the Monongalia Office of Civil...
Dates:
1928-1946; Majority of material found within 1941-1945
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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- Civil defense -- United States 2
- Coal miners 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Account books 1
- Baltimore Sun 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Civil defense -- West Virginia 1
- Coal miners' trials. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elections 1
- Harper's Weekly 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Labor unions 1
- Librarians 1
- Logan County. 1
- Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- New York Tribune 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Postal service 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Saint Louis Republican 1
- Taxation 1
- Trials (Treason) -- United States 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- West Virginia -- History 1
- West Virginia - Civil War. 1
- West Virginia Mine Wars, W. Va., 1897-1921 1
- West Virginia University - Presidential Selection Committee. 1
- West Virginia University -- History 1
- West Virginia University -- History -- World War, 1939-1945 1
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Army Special Training Program 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- West Virginia 1 + ∧ less
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