Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958
Person
Found in 9 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
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
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
West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview
Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates:
1909-1949
William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1652
Scope and Content
Papers of William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939), a lawyer, Democratic politician, publisher of the Charleston Gazette, and U.S. Senator (1911-1917); also includes correspondence of his son William E. Chilton, Jr., editor of the Gazette. The Chiltons were a prominent Charleston family who were long-time owners of the Gazette. There are series of correspondence, legal papers, speeches and writings, and other...
Dates:
1917, 1928-1939
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- Elections 7
- New Deal, 1933-1939 6
- Coal mining - coal companies. 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 3
- Editors - letters and papers. 3
- Politicians -- United States 3
- Unions. 3
- United States -- Politics and government 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Railroads 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- World War, 1914-1918 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
- Charleston. 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
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 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
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Taxation 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 Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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