Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958
Person
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1439
Scope and Contents
The bulk of these papers deal with Miss Jarvis' work as the founder of Mother's Day, her attempts to persuade state governors to issue proclamations to establish the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, and her later protests against the commercialization of the holiday, as well as the efforts of other organizations to promote Mother's Day.There are a few papers of her father, Grandville E. Jarvis; some correspondence and legal papers concerned with the Jarvis coal and farm...
Dates:
1858-1943
Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview
Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates:
ca. 1840-1955
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates:
1913-1958
Homer Adams Holt (1898-1975) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1450
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, messages, and state papers of West Virginia's twentieth governor, 1937-1941, and manuscript drafts of "West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State (1941)," the Works Project Administration's Federal Writer's Project's work on West Virginia. Also included are assorted speeches and addresses given by Holt, newspaper clippings and articles regarding Holt's successor as Governor of West Virginia, Matthew Neely, and other political figures, and correspondence with governors from...
Dates:
1937-1944
Kemble White (1873-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2209
Overview
Correspondence and other papers of Kemble White, one-time law partner of A.B. Fleming, specialist in oil and gas law, counsel for the West Virginia subsidiaries of Standard Oil (Hope Natural Gas, South Penn Oil, and Eureka Pipeline), charter member of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, veteran of the Spanish-American War, one-time president of the West Virginia Bar Association; and the West Virginia University Alumni Association. Additional items include: White's notebooks...
Dates:
1898-1965
Richard M. Hadsell, Collector, Records Regarding History of Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2122
Overview
Correspondence, reports, petitions, agreements, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles relating to the soft coal industry and labor conditions, generally in southern West Virginia. Subjects covered include the eight-hour day; strikes; consolidation of coal operations; freight rates; government contracts for coal; Paint and Cabin creeks, 1912-1913; working conditions in the Polack Cigar Factory, Wheeling, 1914; investigation of the Gay Coal and Coke Company, Logan County, 1917;...
Dates:
1880-1935
Robert G. Kelly Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1959
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, telegrams, newspaper clippings, reports, and speeches of a Democratic Party official; correspondence and minutes of Democratic State Executive Committee meetings. Subjects include West Virginia gubernatorial campaign of 1932, political patronage, federal relief programs in West Virginia, Rush Holt's senatorial campaign of 1934, the Holt-Kelly feud, and the miners' strike of 1939 Correspondents include Robert G. Kelly, Herman Guy Kump, M.M. Neely, Joe L. Smith, Homer A. Holt,...
Dates:
1932-1941
Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview
Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates:
1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955
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- Politics and government. 9
- Elections 8
- New Deal, 1933-1939 6
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 5
- Coal mining - coal companies. 4
- Coal mining. 4
- Editors - letters and papers. 4
- Unions. 4
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 4
- Account books 3
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 3
- General stores 3
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 3
- Politicians -- United States 3
- Railroads 3
- United States -- Politics and government 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Agriculture 2
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Farms and farming. 2
- Gas industry 2
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Land. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Petroleum industry and trade 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Literacy 1
- Logan County. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Militia - West Virginia 2nd Volunteers, Company M. 1
- Mother's Day 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Public utilities 1
- Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad. 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Taxation 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
- United States - Social Security. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia - coal lands. 1
- West Virginia - politics. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
- Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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