Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958
Person
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
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
John W. Davis, Lawyer, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2963
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence and papers of the noted lawyer and 1924 presidential aspirant for the Democrats, John W. Davis, kept by his daughter, a famous author, Julia (McDonald) Davis Adams. Noteworthy is a 1948 official publication in tribute to Davis' career as Solicitor General of the United States (1913-1918). There is a typescript copy of his diary recounting his wartime and post-war tenure (1918-1921) as the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. His letters include some of his...
Dates:
1842, 1861-1897, 1918-1927, 1946-1953, 1978
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
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
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958) Vest
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3753
Overview
Vest owned by West Virginia politician Matthew M. Neely around the age of 22 years.
Dates:
1896
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- Subject: Politics and government. X
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- Elections 12
- New Deal, 1933-1939 9
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 8
- Politicians -- United States 8
- United States -- Politics and government 8
- West Virginia - Governors. 7
- Marion County (W. Va.) 5
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 5
- Account books 4
- Coal mining - coal companies. 4
- Fairmont. 4
- Union names. 4
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 4
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Editors - letters and papers. 3
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 3
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 3
- Taxation 3
- Unions. 3
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 3
- Universities and colleges 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Charleston. 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Railroads 2
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Roles in society 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education 1
- England 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Great Britain 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Huntington. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Land. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Militia - West Virginia 2nd Volunteers, Company M. 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Public utilities 1
- Railroads - Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad. 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Transportation 1
- United Kingdom. 1
- United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
- United States - Social Security. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia - First Governors Conference on Human Rights. 1
- West Virginia - coal lands. 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
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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