Wallace, George Selden, 1871-1963
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview
Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates:
1898-1963
Judge Evermont Ward, Typescript of Speech and Two Newspaper Clippings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0127
Overview
Typescript copy of a speech made about the life of Evermont Ward (1819-1882) given by Colonel George S. Wallace at a meeting of the Huntington Bar Association in 1947. Ward, a native of Cabell County, was a Circuit Court judge in Wayne County from 1873-1880. He was also named on the Committee on Judiciary and the Select Committee on Land Titles during the 1871 Consitutional Convention. Also contains two newspaper articles regarding Ward's judicial decisions.
Dates:
1947; Majority of material found in 1947
Miscellaneous Coal Strike Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0960
Scope and Contents
A collection of official records of the coal strikes in Kanawha, Boone, Fayette, and Raleigh counties in 1912 and 1913, including transcripts of proceedings of General Court Martial, and Military Commission; briefs of Kanawha County Circuit Court, and WV Supreme Court appeal cases, and court Record of the Provost Marshal listing prisoner's name, charge, date of trial, and remarks; witness and prisoner lists; general orders; summons, and warrants. There are also proclamations by Governor...
Dates:
1912-1914
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- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - 1912 and 1913. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Court records 1
- Depression. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Elections 1
- Epidemics 1
- France 1
- Genealogy 1
- Huntington. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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