Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Major W. P. Tams, Jr. Transcript of an Interview
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2584
Overview
Transcript of an interview by Richard Hadsell with Major W.P. Tams, Jr., former mine operator in the Winding Gulf coal mining region. Tams discusses his early days in coal mining, the opening of the Kanawha coal region, and coal operators and union officials such as: E.J. Berwind, Joe Beury, George Collins, Jarius Collins, Justus Collins, John J. Cornwell, Samuel Dixon, Elias Hatfield, Troy Hatfield, Isaac Mann, S.T. Patterson, J.A. Renahan, James O. Watts, and George Wolfe. Other...
Dates:
1825-1934
Richard M. Hadsell, Collector, Records Regarding History of Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2122
Overview
Correspondence, reports, petitions, agreements, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles relating to the soft coal industry and labor conditions, generally in southern West Virginia. Subjects covered include the eight-hour day; strikes; consolidation of coal operations; freight rates; government contracts for coal; Paint and Cabin creeks, 1912-1913; working conditions in the Polack Cigar Factory, Wheeling, 1914; investigation of the Gay Coal and Coke Company, Logan County, 1917;...
Dates:
1880-1935
Filtered By
- Subject: Coal mining -- Strikes X
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- Coal mining. 2
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Atwater. 1
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Cabin Creek (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 - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal trade 1
- Court records 1
- Depression. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Elections 1
- Epidemics 1
- France 1
- Genealogy 1
- Huntington. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Logan County. 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Unions. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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