McKinley, William, 1843-1901
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Blakeslee White (1856-1941) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0110
Scope and Contents
Business, political, and official correspondence of the eleventh governor, 1901-1905, of West Virginia. Owner and editor of the State Journal, Parkersburg, 1881-1899, White was associated with many banking and manufacturing enterprises, and was tax commissioner of West Virginia in 1907 and 1908, collector of internal revenues in 1889, 1897, and 1921, and a Republican member of the legislature in 1926. Among the correspondents are G.W. Atkinson, Waitman T. Barbe,...
Dates:
1888-1929
Atkeson-Morgan Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3372
Scope and Contents
Papers of John and Sarah Atkeson-Morgan documenting Atkeson-Morgan family history and the history of the Morgan home and farm in Putnam County, West Virginia for period ca. 1840-1900.Materials include Civil War papers; personal and business correspondence; legal documents; school compositions and poetry; one photograph; and invoices and receipts.Subjects include: personal business (such as health, travel, and courtship), farm business, hunting, education (particularly...
Dates:
1833-1923; Majority of material found in 1850-1900
John W. Mason (1842-1917) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1888
Overview
Correspondence, legal papers, photographs, and printed materials of John W. Mason (1842-1917). Mason was a circuit court and state Supreme Court judge, member of the Virginia State Debt Commission, and commissioner of Internal Revenue. The general correspondence contains personal and business letters, as well as manuscript speeches, notebooks, and reports. The period while Mason was circuit judge is particularly sparse. Also includes Internal Revenue correspondence consisting of about 8,500...
Dates:
1831-1928
Lewis Donnally Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2880
Overview
Diary kept by Lewis Donnally, an attorney at Charleston, containing entries throughout the year, mainly concerns the weather and his fiancee, but mentions some current events topics, like McKinley's nomination.
Dates:
1896
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
Roy H. Keadle Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2873
Overview
The scrapbook was kept by Roy H. Keadle (1890-1961), eldest son of N.S. Keadle (1860-1935), first sheriff of Mingo County. Included are: several printed programs and invitations for functions in Williamson, West Virginia; one letter from Virgil A. Lewis, West Virginia State Historian; and a printed "Official Vote of Mingo County" for an election on 3 November 1909. Scrapbook contains photographs, postcards, calling cards, entertainment programs and news clippings. Included are: news...
Dates:
ca. 1891-1896, 1900-1938
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
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- Schools 3
- Banks and banking 2
- Elections 2
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Steamboats 2
- Taxation 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Academies 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Agriculture 1
- Barboursville (W. Va.) 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 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
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Gallipolis (Ohio) 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Hunting -- West Virginia 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Marietta (Ohio) 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Ohio River and Valley. 1
- Parkersburg State Journal 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Poetry. 1
- Point Pleasant (Mason County, W. Va.) 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Secession - United States. 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Teachers 1
- Temperance 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Valleys -- West Virginia 1
- Veterans. SEE ALSO under Civil War - veterans. 1
- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Walnut Grove, Kanawha County. 1
- Weather 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Church history. 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Williamson (W. Va.) 1
- Williamstown (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1 + ∧ less
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