Skip to main content

Osenton, Charles W.

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Charles W. Osenton (b.1865) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1215
Overview Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other papers, of a state senate minority leader, 1899-1901, prominent Fayette County lawyer, and Democratic committeeman. Subjects include Osenton's early life; his law training at Georgetown University; his election to the state senate as a "silver" Democrat; William Jennings Bryan's tour of West Virginia, 1908; the presidential election of 1908; and Champ Clark's battle for the Democratic nomination, 1912. The papers also include a collection of...
Dates: ca. 1847-1920

William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1652
Scope and Content Papers of William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939), a lawyer, Democratic politician, publisher of the Charleston Gazette, and U.S. Senator (1911-1917); also includes correspondence of his son William E. Chilton, Jr., editor of the Gazette. The Chiltons were a prominent Charleston family who were long-time owners of the Gazette. There are series of correspondence, legal papers, speeches and writings, and other...
Dates: 1917, 1928-1939

Additional filters:

Subject
Charleston Gazette 1
Charleston. 1
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
Editors - letters and papers. 1
Election of 1908. 1