Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview
Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates:
1845-1908
Kemble White (1873-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2209
Overview
Correspondence and other papers of Kemble White, one-time law partner of A.B. Fleming, specialist in oil and gas law, counsel for the West Virginia subsidiaries of Standard Oil (Hope Natural Gas, South Penn Oil, and Eureka Pipeline), charter member of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, veteran of the Spanish-American War, one-time president of the West Virginia Bar Association; and the West Virginia University Alumni Association. Additional items include: White's notebooks...
Dates:
1898-1965
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
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- Lawyers - letters and papers. 6
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- Coal mining - coal companies. 4
- Coal mining. 4
- Elections 4
- Academies (Private schools) 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Land. 3
- Petroleum industry and trade 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Account books 2
- Agriculture 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 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
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Spanish-American War, 1898 2
- Unions. 2
- West Virginia - politics. 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
- 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 - company stores. 1
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- Election of 1912. 1
- Epidemics 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- France 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Huntington. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Maps. 1
- Militia - West Virginia 2nd Volunteers, Company M. 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Iron Valley Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Romney (W. Va.) 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
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