Johnson, George W.
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
George W. Johnson (1837-1902) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1655
Overview
Diaries, correspondence, notes, receipts, and newspaper clippings of a lumberman and stockman from Morgantown, West Virginia. Subjects include Johnson's agricultural activities, his extensive timber dealings in Monongalia County, and the rafting of logs to Pittsburgh and intermediate points on the Monongahela River.
Dates:
1860-1960
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
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1658
Overview
The West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO, which was formed in 1958, includes the records of those organizations which preceded it: the West Virginia Industrial Union Council (CIO) and the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, unofficially and more commonly known as the West Virginia Federation of Labor (AFL). There is from the AFL affiliate Congressional correspondence; officers' files (president and secretary-treasurer); delegate convention files; financial records; auditors' reports;...
Dates:
1897-1972
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0160
Overview
Executive council minutes and proceedings, correspondence, and printed material of the state organization of the American Federation of Labor founded in 1903. Papers include congressional correspondence, 1950-1957; correspondence of President E. A. Carter, 1949-1957; a few papers of H. M. Rogers, 1905-1959, and Frank W. Snyder, 1906-1911; records of the Parkersburg Central Trades and Labor Council, 1924-1942; and a typescript copy of the minutes of the Wheeling Typographical Union.
Dates:
1905-1959
West Virginia State Industrial Union Council, CIO, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1380
Scope and Contents
The West Virginia State Industrial Union Council was formed in 1937 as the state labor federation for local unions affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In 1958, the WVIUC merged with the State Federation of Labor to form the West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Included in these two accessions are the correspondence, legal papers, reports, and printed materials of the Industrial Union Council’s president's office, between 1940 and 1951. Subjects include...
Dates:
1940-1951
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 4
- New Deal, 1933-1939 4
- Politics and government. 4
- Union names. 4
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 4
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 3
- Account books 2
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Taxation 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Roles in society 2
- Agriculture 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Labor organization - Interracial Council. 1
- Labor organization - Labor's Non-Partisan League. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Livestock 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Transportation 1
- United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia - coal lands. 1
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