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Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975

 Person

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates: ca. 1840-1955

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

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

Robert G. Kelly Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1959
Scope and Contents Correspondence, telegrams, newspaper clippings, reports, and speeches of a Democratic Party official; correspondence and minutes of Democratic State Executive Committee meetings. Subjects include West Virginia gubernatorial campaign of 1932, political patronage, federal relief programs in West Virginia, Rush Holt's senatorial campaign of 1934, the Holt-Kelly feud, and the miners' strike of 1939 Correspondents include Robert G. Kelly, Herman Guy Kump, M.M. Neely, Joe L. Smith, Homer A. Holt,...
Dates: 1932-1941

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

Union Carbide Corporation, Hawk's Nest Project Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1916
Scope and Contents Correspondence, memoranda, drafts, briefs, exhibits, reports, and newspaper clippings on the Federal Power Commission's licensing of Union Carbide Corporation's Hawk's Nest and Glenn Ferris power dam projects. Subjects include FPC hearings, history of navigability of the Kanawha River, efforts to dam the Kanawha River, the navigability of the New River, and the New-Kanawha Power Company. Correspondents include H.G. Davis, Russell A. Alger, Homer Adams Holt, Robert C. Byrd, and Jennings...
Dates: 1873-1966

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 Chamber of Commerce Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2074
Overview

Correspondence, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings of chamber officers concerning business and economic subjects. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, Robert H. Mollohan, Cleveland M. Bailey, Arch A. Moore, and W.W. Barron.

Dates: 1938-1968

West Virginia Governors' Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1977
Scope and Contents General correspondence and papers, ca. 1929-1964, of Governors William G. Conley (18th Governor, in office 1929-1933), Herman G. Kump (19th Governor, in office 1933-1937), Homer A. Holt (20th Governor, in office 1937-1941), Matthew M. Neely (21st Governor, in office 1941-1945), Clarence W. Meadows (22nd Governor, in office 1945-1949), Okey Patteson (23rd Governor, in office 1949-1953), William C. Marland (24th Governor, in office 1953-1957), Cecil H. Underwood (25th Governor, in office...
Dates: ca. 1929-1964

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Politics and government. 11
Elections 8
Editors - letters and papers. 6
New Deal, 1933-1939 6
Account books 5
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Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 3
General stores 3
Railroads 3
Union names. 3
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 3
Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
Academies (Private schools) 2
Coal mining - coal companies. 2
Diaries and journals. 2
Fairmont. 2
Judges - letters and papers. 2
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
Marion County (W. Va.) 2
Mills and mill-work 2
Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
Politicians -- United States 2
Taxation 2
Unions. 2
United States -- Politics and government 2
United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 2
West Virginia - Governors. 2
Women 2
Women -- Roles in society 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Agriculture 1
Berkeley Springs Park. 1
Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
Charleston Gazette 1
Charleston. 1
Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Coal mining. 1
Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
Election of 1856. 1
Election of 1884. 1
Fairmont Index. 1
Fairmont Times. 1
Gas industry 1
Glenn Ferris (W. Va.) 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
Kentucky - coal lands. 1
Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
London Naval Conference 1
Lumber trade 1
New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
New River coalfields. 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
Preston County (W. Va.) 1
Preston County Herald. 1
Preston County Journal. 1
Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Saint Marys Oracle 1
Transportation 1
Union Carbide Corporation - Hawk's Nest Project. 1
United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
Universities and colleges 1
West Union Record 1
West Union. 1
West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
West Virginia - coal lands. 1
Wetzel Democrat (New Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1
Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
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