Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998
Person
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Jack W. Preble Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1315
Scope and Contents
Material includes a clipping scrapbook of Preble's column on hunting and fishing published in the Steubenville Herald Star, 1939-1942; miscellaneous clippings on Tucker County local history published in the Davis News, 1939; correspondence, 1940-1941, 13 items concerning the Mountain Lake, Maryland folk music festival, and the David H. Strother Memorial. Other newspaper clippings deal with Preble's spelunking activities and snake hunting. Correspondents include Felix G. Robinson and Jennings...
Dates:
1872-1956
Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2600
Overview
Papers of James ("Jim") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the West Virginia Hillbilly and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers. Materials include: general series of...
Dates:
1650-1671, 1717-2003, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1850-1995
John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. (1912-1962), Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1580
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, and newspaper clippings of a West Virginia Republican chairman, U.S. senator (serving in 1958), and member of the 1960 Republican National Convention platform committee.Subjects include: West Virginia and national Republican politics, 1956-1961; the 1958 Congressional election; the 1960 presidential campaign; the State Chamber of Commerce; State Economic Development Agency; Ohio Valley Improvement Association; and West Virginia University....
Dates:
1956-1962
Perry D. Strausbaugh (1886-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1848
Scope and Contents
Papers of P. D. Strausbaugh, former head of the Department of Botany, author of a biology textbook, and professor of Botany at WVU.Papers consist mainly of correspondence concerning the writing, compiling, editing, and revising a college biology text in cooperation with B. R. Weimar and Earl L. Core. Also included are letters concerning the investigation of plants for identification, the making of "Wild Flowers of the Alleghenies" and other moving pictures, and the signing of...
Dates:
1913-1964
Samuel T. Mallison Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1913
Overview
Correspondence, speeches, reminiscences, and newspaper clippings of a West Virginia newspaperman, state auditor, 1927-1929, and businessman. Subjects covered include the West Virginia gubernatorial campaign of 1924, Rush D. Holt's decision to run for the U.S. Senate in 1934, oil wildcatting ventures of Michael Benedum and J.C. Trees, the economy, oil imports, depletion allowances on the production of oil and gas, and labor legislation. Correspondents include Holmes Alexander, Robert C. Byrd,...
Dates:
1915-1964 ca.
Toni Katsiotis, Two Letters from Senator Jennings Randolph
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4008
Overview
Two letters from West Virginia Senator Jennings Randolph to Toni Katsiotis. The first, dated 18 October 1980, thanks Katsiotis for delivering a letter. The second, dated 24 May 1981, thanks Katsiotis for sending condolences on the death of Randolph's wife Mary.
Dates:
1980-1981
Union Carbide Corporation, Hawk's Nest Project Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1916
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda, drafts, briefs, exhibits, reports, and newspaper clippings on the Federal Power Commission's licensing of Union Carbide Corporation's Hawk's Nest and Glenn Ferris power dam projects. Subjects include FPC hearings, history of navigability of the Kanawha River, efforts to dam the Kanawha River, the navigability of the New River, and the New-Kanawha Power Company. Correspondents include H.G. Davis, Russell A. Alger, Homer Adams Holt, Robert C. Byrd, and Jennings...
Dates:
1873-1966
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1658
Overview
The West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO, which was formed in 1958, includes the records of those organizations which preceded it: the West Virginia Industrial Union Council (CIO) and the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, unofficially and more commonly known as the West Virginia Federation of Labor (AFL). There is from the AFL affiliate Congressional correspondence; officers' files (president and secretary-treasurer); delegate convention files; financial records; auditors' reports;...
Dates:
1897-1972
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0160
Overview
Executive council minutes and proceedings, correspondence, and printed material of the state organization of the American Federation of Labor founded in 1903. Papers include congressional correspondence, 1950-1957; correspondence of President E. A. Carter, 1949-1957; a few papers of H. M. Rogers, 1905-1959, and Frank W. Snyder, 1906-1911; records of the Parkersburg Central Trades and Labor Council, 1924-1942; and a typescript copy of the minutes of the Wheeling Typographical Union.
Dates:
1905-1959
West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview
Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates:
1909-1949
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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