Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953
Person
Found in 21 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
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
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
John Jacob Cornwell (1867-1953), Governor, Papers and Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0952
Scope and Contents
Papers of the fifteenth governor of West Virginia who was a newspaper publisher in Romney, an orchardman, lawyer, and counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. There are a few papers of W.B. Cornwell. The collection includes: personal and business correspondence, 1896-1953; correspondence as governor, 1916-1922; legal papers, ca.1843-1916; and material relating to "Cornwell Day," 1931; Baltimore and Ohio and other railroads; Romney Orchard Company, ca. 1916-1919; South Branch Development...
Dates:
ca. 1843, 1896-1953
John Thomas McGraw (1856-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0086
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and...
Dates:
1842-1927, 1948
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- Politics and government. 20
- Elections 11
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 10
- New Deal, 1933-1939 6
- Editors - letters and papers. 5
- Politicians -- United States 5
- Railroads 5
- United States -- Politics and government 5
- West Virginia - Governors. 5
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 5
- World War, 1914-1918 5
- Account books 4
- Diaries and journals. 4
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 4
- Judges - letters and papers. 4
- Petroleum industry and trade 4
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 4
- Academies (Private schools) 3
- Agriculture 3
- Coal mining - coal companies. 3
- Coal mining. 3
- Land. 3
- Taxation 3
- Union names. 3
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Banks and banking 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 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
- Spanish-American War, 1898 2
- Unions. 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. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Court records 1
- Depression. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Election of 1912. 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
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Maps. 1
- Militia - West Virginia 2nd Volunteers, Company M. 1
- Mineral County (W. Va.) 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Parkersburg State Journal 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Politicians 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Iron Valley Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
- Republican National Convention - 1952. 1
- Romney (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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