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Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953

 Person

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Walter Stuart Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0910
Scope and Contents

Correspondence received by Mr. Stuart as editor of the West Union Record, West Union, including letters from John W. Davis, Douglas S. Freeman, Pearl S. Buck, Allen Nevins, William Jennings Bryan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, W. E. Chilton, Louis Johnson, Rush D. Holt, James A. Farley, John J. Cornwell, H. G. Kump, Homer A. Holt, and others.

Dates: 1910-1949

West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture Office Files

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1499
Overview

Office files and correspondence of James Blaine McLaughlin (1884-1955), commissioner of agriculture from 1933 to 1955. Correspondents include Clinton Anderson, William Blizzard, Robert C. Byrd, John J. Cornwell, James A. Farley, Rush D. Holt, Harley M. Kilgore, Okey L. Patteson, Chapman Revercomb, and Harley O. Staggers.

Dates: 1934, 1945-1953

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

West Virginia University, Honorary Degrees, Lists

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2583
Overview

Two lists, alphabetical and chronological, of honorary degree recipients of West Virginia University. Recipients include Newton D. Baker, Waitman Barbe, Michael Benedum, Luis Borges, Pearl Buck, Robert C. Byrd, Henry S. Commager, Roy Bird Cook, Earl Core, John J. Cornwell, Marmaduke Dent, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry D. Hatfield, John L. Lewis, J.A. McBride, Jennings Randolph, Sam Rayburn, Harold E. Stassen, Cyrus Vance, I.C. White, and Charles Yeager.

Dates: 1873-1988

William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1652
Scope and Content Papers of William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939), a lawyer, Democratic politician, publisher of the Charleston Gazette, and U.S. Senator (1911-1917); also includes correspondence of his son William E. Chilton, Jr., editor of the Gazette. The Chiltons were a prominent Charleston family who were long-time owners of the Gazette. There are series of correspondence, legal papers, speeches and writings, and other...
Dates: 1917, 1928-1939

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Politics and government. 20
Elections 11
Lawyers - letters and papers. 10
New Deal, 1933-1939 6
Railroads 6
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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
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