Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
James Monroe Ingalls (1837-1927) Service Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1903
Overview
Selected documents from the service record of Col. James Monroe Ingalls, U.S. Army, who was professor of military science and tactics and professor of mathematics at West Virginia University, 1877-1878. The collection includes correspondence and memoranda, 1878-1884, concerning the retention of Ingalls at WVU or the assignment of another qualified officer, comments on the inadequacy of the law governing the apportionment of officers to land-grant colleges, and a catalog of the professional...
Dates:
1865-1898
Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0953
Overview
Negative photostats of letters of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920), as Secretary of the Navy, to President Rutherford B. Hayes. Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919).
Dates:
1880-1883
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview
Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates:
1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960
Scott-Palmer Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1458
Scope and Contents
Family papers of school master Theodore Scott (1805-1877); his daughter Saida Scott Palmer, a music teacher; her husband, Jewett Palmer, Civil War officer, local Republican official, and mayor of Marietta; and his daughters, Winifred and Muriel, a concert contralto. Includes correspondence, letter books, diaries, school registers and reports, scrapbooks, genealogical records, and theatre and opera programs.Topics include Scott's teaching career at Portsmouth, Ohio (1836);...
Dates:
1829-1916
Stephen B. Elkins Political Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0591
Scope and Contents
Typed abstracts of four letters written by Elkins to R.B. Hayes; copy of one letter written by Elkins to R. B. Hayes, November 1892; three letters to A.L. Conger to Elkins; two letters and two telegrams from Elkins to Murat Halstead. Some selected letters are available on microfilm.
Dates:
1877-1891
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- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry, Company G. 1
- Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Civil War -- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil service reform -- United States 1
- Diaries 1
- Education 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Judges -- West Virginia 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Marietta (Ohio) 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
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- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
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- Veterans. SEE ALSO under Civil War - veterans. 1
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- West Virginia - Church history. 1
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