Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953
Person
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Blakeslee White (1856-1941) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0110
Scope and Contents
Business, political, and official correspondence of the eleventh governor, 1901-1905, of West Virginia. Owner and editor of the State Journal, Parkersburg, 1881-1899, White was associated with many banking and manufacturing enterprises, and was tax commissioner of West Virginia in 1907 and 1908, collector of internal revenues in 1889, 1897, and 1921, and a Republican member of the legislature in 1926. Among the correspondents are G.W. Atkinson, Waitman T. Barbe,...
Dates:
1888-1929
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
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
Francis Marion Reynolds (1843-1931) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0050
Overview
Business papers of a Keyser attorney who was judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, 1904-1920; member of the West Virginia Legislature, 1895-1896 and 1901-1904; and a member of many educational, commercial, and financial boards in Mineral County. Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, H.G. Davis, A.G. Dayton, S.B. Elkins, and Cecil B. Highland.
Dates:
1845-1931
George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview
Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates:
1898-1963
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
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
James Produce Company Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2336
Overview
Copies of correspondence and business records of Charles H. James, founder of the James Produce Company, one of the first totally black owned and managed businesses in West Virginia. Correspondents include: Governor J.J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Dates:
ca. 1915-1929
John J. Cornwell (1867-1953) Speech
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1813
Overview
Speech by governor John J. Cornwall on the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918. There is a brief report on demobilization orders.
Dates:
1918
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- Politics and government. 20
- Elections 11
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 10
- New Deal, 1933-1939 6
- Railroads 6
- Account books 5
- Editors - letters and papers. 5
- Politicians -- United States 5
- United States -- Politics and government 5
- West Virginia - Governors. 5
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 5
- World War, 1914-1918 5
- Coal mining - coal companies. 4
- Coal mining. 4
- Diaries and journals. 4
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 4
- Judges - letters and papers. 4
- Petroleum industry and trade 4
- Union names. 4
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 4
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 4
- Academies (Private schools) 3
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 3
- Agriculture 3
- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 3
- Land. 3
- Taxation 3
- Unions. 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Banks and banking 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Spanish-American War, 1898 2
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- West Virginia - politics. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Roles in society 2
- Women -- Suffrage 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- African Americans -- Business enterprises 1
- Armistice -- 1918 1
- Atwater. 1
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Baptists 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Boy Scouts of America - Colored Boy Scouts of Charleston. 1
- Business - African American. 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal companies - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal mining - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal trade 1
- Court records 1
- Depression. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Elections - 1920. 1
- Elections - 1924. 1
- England 1
- Epidemics 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- France 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Great Britain 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Huntington. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Maps. 1
- Militia - West Virginia 2nd Volunteers, Company M. 1
- Mineral County (W. Va.) 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1 + ∧ less
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