Dayton, Spencer
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
David Goff Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1027
Scope and Contents
Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). The papers include correspondence; land papers, particularly, for Randolph County; court...
Dates:
1840-1878
Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0013
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904. The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well. His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads. Types of documents include letters, reports, account...
Dates:
1799-1919
William Henry Harrison Flick (1841-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1349
Overview
Papers of a Pendleton County lawyer and prosecuting attorney who served in the state legislature, 1868-1870, where he introduced the Flick Amendment which removed voting restrictions on those who served in the Confederacy. Papers deal with Flick's legal practice; test oath cases; voting restrictions as a means of continuing Republican supremacy; state elections of 1868; Flick's campaign against Henry G. Davis for Congress in 1870; the West Virginia capital question; subscriptions to the...
Dates:
1867-1872
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- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Railroads 2
- Banks and banking 1
- Canaan Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Democratic Party 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1870. 1
- Elk Garden Coal Field. 1
- Land. 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia - Flick Amendment. 1
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