Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953
Person
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
Panoramic Photograph of 9th Infantry Training Company
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4047
Overview
One large panoramic photograph of West Virginia Governor Cornwell with 9th Infantry Training Company at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, on 10 November 1917.
Dates:
1917
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
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
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- Politics and government. 20
- Elections 11
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 10
- New Deal, 1933-1939 6
- Railroads 6
- 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 + ∧ less
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