Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953
Person
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
John W. Davis, Lawyer, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2963
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence and papers of the noted lawyer and 1924 presidential aspirant for the Democrats, John W. Davis, kept by his daughter, a famous author, Julia (McDonald) Davis Adams. Noteworthy is a 1948 official publication in tribute to Davis' career as Solicitor General of the United States (1913-1918). There is a typescript copy of his diary recounting his wartime and post-war tenure (1918-1921) as the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. His letters include some of his...
Dates:
1842, 1861-1897, 1918-1927, 1946-1953, 1978
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
Robert L. Pemberton (1860-1944) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0278
Scope and Contents
Letters, mainly incoming correspondence, speeches, and printed materials of R.L. Pemberton, for many years editor of The St. Marys Oracle. Correspondents include A.I. Boreman, G.W. Atkinson, Robert A. Armstrong, Louis Bennett, John J. Cornwell, W.E. Glasscock, H.C. Greer, P.I. Reed, Louis Johnson, and Homer A. Holt. The correspondence concerns politics and Pemberton's activities with newspaper associations in West Virginia. Included are religious pamphlets,...
Dates:
1880-1944; Majority of material found within 1891-1944
Walter Simms Hallanan (1890-1962) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1659
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printed material of the Republican national committeeman, state political leader, and president of the Plymouth Oil Company. Subjects include Republican national conventions, 1928-1960; state and local politics, 1919-1961; National Petroleum Council; Plymouth and related oil companies; Republican rejection of the League of Nations; and Hallanan's role as temporary chairman of the 1952 Republican National Convention. Correspondents include...
Dates:
1919-1961
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
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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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