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Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958

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Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1414
Scope and Contents Papers of Matthew Neely, a politician who had a long career as senator, congressman, governor, and Democratic political boss. Collection includes speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, legal papers, photographs, and copies of the Congressional Record . There are also newspaper clipping scrapbooks covering the years 1928-1954 (on five reels of microfilm). Neely had a long career, including law student at West Virginia University, Marion County lawyer, mayor of Fairmont, congressman, 1913-1921,...
Dates: 1900-1954

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1353
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings on Neely's controversy as a law student at WVU, and his subsequent career as a lawyer, Mayor of Fairmont, Congressman, and United States Senator.

Dates: 1900-1924

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1384
Scope and Contents

The two volumes of newspaper clippings cover the years 1913-1916, and 1922-1927 and are concerned with Neely's activities as Congressman and Senator, including his abortive attempt to have Judge A. G. Dayton impeached. There are also two volumes of speeches (clippings from the Congressional Record) for years 1926-1928, and 1931-1932.

Dates: 1913-1932

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

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Politics and government. 12
New Deal, 1933-1939 9
Lawyers - letters and papers. 7
Politicians -- United States 6
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Account books 5
Marion County (W. Va.) 5
Union names. 5
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 5
West Virginia - Governors. 5
Coal mining - coal companies. 4
Fairmont. 4
West Virginia -- Politics and government 4
Coal mining - Labor organization. 3
Editors - letters and papers. 3
General stores 3
Railroads 3
Taxation 3
Unions. 3
United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 3
Academies (Private schools) 2
Agriculture 2
Coal mining. 2
Diaries and journals. 2
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
Gas industry 2
Judges - letters and papers. 2
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
Mills and mill-work 2
Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
Petroleum industry and trade 2
United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 2
West Virginia - Politics and government. 2
Women 2
Women -- Roles in society 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
Coal mining - Medical care. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Education 1
Election of 1856. 1
Election of 1884. 1
Fairmont Index. 1
Fairmont Times. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Guffey Coal Act. 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
Labor organization - Interracial Council. 1
Labor organization - Labor's Non-Partisan League. 1
Land. 1
Lewis County. 1
Lumber trade 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Militia - West Virginia 2nd Volunteers, Company M. 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Preston County (W. Va.) 1
Preston County Herald. 1
Preston County Journal. 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
United States - Social Security. 1
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
West Virginia - politics. 1
Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
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