Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998
Person
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Edmiston Jr. (1892-1966) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1994
Overview
Correspondence, deeds, financial and military records, newspaper clippings, and photographs of a Democratic politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1933-1942, newspaper editor, and businessman from Weston, Lewis County. Subjects covered include the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the coal and glass industries. Correspondents include David Goff, Charles E. Hodges, Charles Lively, Alfred E. Smith, Harold L. Ickes, Joe L. Smith, Jennings Randolph, Clarence W. Meadows, James...
Dates:
1916-1948
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
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Daniel Hale, Physician and Conservationist, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3163
Overview
The correspondence, scrapbooks, articles and speeches of the collection document the later portion of the life of Daniel Hale (1912-1975), a Princeton physician and conservationist, who was a creator of the board of the Southern Soil Conservation District, and a founder of the Mountain Resource Conservation and Development Area. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, James Kee, Arch A. Moore, Jr., and Jennings Randolph.
Dates:
1953-1975
David A. Christopher Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0181
Overview
Correspondence, minutes and miscellaneous papers of David A. Christopher, West Virginia University stadium office manager (1923-42) and secretary of the University Committee of the State Planning board. Primarily these papers contain suggestions for long term improvements and of funding needs at WVU in the immediate post-war (World War II) era. Also there are papers from his days as a student at WVU, Class of 1918, reflecting his activities in fraternities, as editor and chief of the Daily...
Dates:
1920-63
E.C. and H.B. Eagle Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0721
Overview
The letters and papers of E.C. & H.B. Eagle, a father and son legal firm of Hinton, Summers County. Subjects mentioned are election campaigns, women's suffrage, prohibition, World War II, Korean War, gun control, and the goals and strategies of the Republican Party. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, Walter S. Hallanan, Rush D. Holt, Arch A. Moore, Jennings Randolph, Hulett C. Smith, Cecil Underwood.
Dates:
ca. 1910-1980
Ernest Glenwood Otey (1895-1966) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1909
Overview
Correspondence, financial records, speeches, reports, blueprints, and pamphlets of a Bluefield banker and businessman who was a treasurer of the Democratic Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Governors of West Virginia University. Subjects include numerous businesses in the Bluefield area, Bluefield State College, Concord College, Bank of Bramwell, Island Creek Coal Company, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Smokeless Operators Association, Virginia Railway,...
Dates:
1935-1965
Heister Guie Rhawn, Clarksburg Exponent Editor, Incoming Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3225
Overview
Correspondence, mostly letters of thanks, from national journalists and prominent West Virginia politicians to the editor of the Clarksburg Exponent, Heister Guie Rhawn, and to his daughter Harriette Rhawn Behringer. Noteworthy is a Jennings Randolph 1945 letter confiding his political ambitions. Also there is an Oct. 15, 1932 issue of the 'West Virginia Legionnaire' about the election of Louis A. Johnson of Clarksburg, West Virginia as American Legion national commander.
Dates:
1932-1975
Homer Adams Holt (1898-1975) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1450
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, messages, and state papers of West Virginia's twentieth governor, 1937-1941, and manuscript drafts of "West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State (1941)," the Works Project Administration's Federal Writer's Project's work on West Virginia. Also included are assorted speeches and addresses given by Holt, newspaper clippings and articles regarding Holt's successor as Governor of West Virginia, Matthew Neely, and other political figures, and correspondence with governors from...
Dates:
1937-1944
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Politics and government. 10
- Elections 9
- New Deal, 1933-1939 6
- Account books 4
- Editors - letters and papers. 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Union names. 4
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 4
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 4
- Coal mining. 3
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 3
- General stores 3
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 3
- Railroads 3
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 3
- Universities and colleges 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Banks and banking 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Glass manufacture 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Land. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 2
- Taxation 2
- Unions. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Roles in society 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Banks - Bank of Bramwell. 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Biology 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Botany 1
- Botany -- West Virginia 1
- Botany and botanists. 1
- Brush Creek (Mercer County, W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Conservation & Conservationists. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Folk music. SEE ALSO Music and musicians. 1
- Folklore 1
- Gas industry 1
- Glenn Ferris (W. Va.) 1
- Hinton (W. Va.) 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Korean Conflict. 1
- Labor organization - Interracial Council. 1
- Labor organization - Labor's Non-Partisan League. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Literacy 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Marshall County (W. Va.) 1
- Medicine 1
- Mercer County (W. Va.) 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
- Mother's Day 1
- Mountain Resource Conservation & Development Area. 1
- New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Princeton (W. Va.) 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Propaganda, Soviet 1
- Public health 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1 + ∧ less
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