Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
David Goff Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0975
Scope and Contents
Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). Includes letters, surveys, land grant, bonds, and receipts. The correspondence includes...
Dates:
1826-1878
F.B. Voegele, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1102
Scope and Contents
These items include an autograph letter of Governor J.B. Jackson, 1884; and embossed state seal with the autograph signature of Governor Henry M. Mathews, ca. 1877-1861; and a picture of Joseph H. Diss Debar, designer of the W. Va. State seal.
Dates:
ca. 1878-1884
Haymond-Fleming Law Firm Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0544
Overview
Correspondence of A.F. Haymond and A. Brooks Fleming, Fairmont attorneys. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, G.D. Camden, J. Carlile, Henry Mathews, and F.H. Pierpont mentioning politics, separation from Virginia, the Arthurdale community development, and routine legal business. Included are land and legal papers, 1760-1797, from Hampshire, Monongalia, and Ohio counties, mentioning Patrick Henry and Henry Lee. Also in the collection are: a leather billfold; estate papers and marriage...
Dates:
1760-1936
Henry Mason Mathews, Governor, Letter to John R. Donehoo Regarding Mathew's Senate Candidacy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1718
Overview
Letter from Governor Mathews to John R. Donehoo pertaining to Mathew's candidacy for the United Sates Senate.
Dates:
1882
Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1940
Overview
Professional correspondence, newspaper clipping, manuscript notes, and speech of West Virginia politician Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920). Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919). The letters and telegram are in a series written in August, 1876; correspondents are Nathan Goff...
Dates:
1876-1891, undated
Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3082
Scope and Contents
The papers of a prominent Lewisburg, Greenbrier County lawyer and politician, Samuel Price, who served numerous terms in the Virginia state legislature and was Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851, the Secession Convention of 1861, and the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and he completed the U. S. Senate term of Allen Caperton in 1876. The papers include correspondence relating to local...
Dates:
circa 1788-1888
Works Progress Administration, West Virginia Publications
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4093
Overview
West Virginia related publications of the Work Progress Administration, mainly consisting of Inventories of the County Archives of West Virginia prepared by The Historical Records Survey Division of Women's and Professional Projects, as well as inventories of federal archives in West Virginia, church archives, public vital statistics, and calendars of letters and papers. Also includes two folk studies of counties by the West Virginia Writers' Program. The Historical Records Survey was a...
Dates:
1937-1941
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- Politics and government. 4
- Land. 3
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 2
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 2
- Railroads 2
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Virginia 2
- Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
- Canals 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Franklin (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton (W. Va.) 1
- Grant County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Judges -- West Virginia 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Marlinton (W. Va.) 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Mineral County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Petersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Presbyterian - Churches. 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- Union. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Historic Records Survey. 1
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