Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962
Person
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Charles E. Krebs (1870-1954) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1792
Overview
Scrapbooks, mainly of newspaper clippings, maintained by a mining engineer, geologist, and businessman from Charleston. The scrapbooks contain clippings, announcements, and a few letters relating to Krebs' business, Charleston civic affairs, and professional engineering organizations. Topics covered include: the oil boom at Blue Creek in 1912; oil field development in Kanawha and Clay counties; oil and coal shipments on the C.&O.; coal, oil, gas, and coke production figures; report on...
Dates:
1912, 1935, 1939
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
Clark Family Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0680
Overview
The correspondence of Clark family members, mainly that of Frank Wells Clark and Friend E. Clark. Frank Wells Clark was a student at West Virginia University and Harvard Law School and later established a law practice at New Martinsville. Friend E. Clark was a student at West Virginia University and Johns Hopkins University and later taught chemistry at State College, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia University. Included are the letters of Friend Clark when he traveled to Europe where in 1908...
Dates:
1885-1939
George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview
Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates:
1898-1963
Heister Guie Rhawn, Clarksburg Exponent Editor, Incoming Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3225
Overview
Correspondence, mostly letters of thanks, from national journalists and prominent West Virginia politicians to the editor of the Clarksburg Exponent, Heister Guie Rhawn, and to his daughter Harriette Rhawn Behringer. Noteworthy is a Jennings Randolph 1945 letter confiding his political ambitions. Also there is an Oct. 15, 1932 issue of the 'West Virginia Legionnaire' about the election of Louis A. Johnson of Clarksburg, West Virginia as American Legion national commander.
Dates:
1932-1975
Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1609
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal papers, speeches, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a Randolph County prosecuting attorney, mayor of Elkins, judge of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit, Democratic politician, and state governor, 1933-1937.Subjects include John T. McGraw's senate contest, 1911; Canadian Reciprocity Agreement, 1911; women suffrage; State Prohibition Amendment, 1911-1912; VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA; Joseph Brown lynch case; New Deal operations and agencies in the...
Dates:
1883-1960
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
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
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- Politics and government. 14
- Elections 12
- New Deal, 1933-1939 8
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 6
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 5
- Account books 4
- Coal mining - coal companies. 4
- Editors - letters and papers. 4
- Politicians -- United States 4
- United States -- Politics and government 4
- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 3
- Judges - letters and papers. 3
- Taxation 3
- Union names. 3
- Unions. 3
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 3
- West Virginia - Governors. 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Charleston. 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Gas industry 2
- General stores 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Land. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Petroleum industry and trade 2
- Railroads 2
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Spanish-American War, 1898 2
- Transportation 2
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Roles in society 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Blue Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Clay County (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining - Mechanization. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Court records 1
- Depression. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Election of 1932. 1
- Election of 1944. 1
- Engineering 1
- Epidemics 1
- Europe 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- France 1
- Genealogy 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Hawks Nest Tunnel (W. Va.) 1
- Hinton Dam. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Huntington. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Militia - West Virginia 2nd Volunteers, Company M. 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- New Martinsville (W. Va.) 1
- New River Gorge (W. Va.) 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Poetry. 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Public utilities 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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