Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925
Person
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Blakeslee White (1856-1941) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0110
Scope and Contents
Business, political, and official correspondence of the eleventh governor, 1901-1905, of West Virginia. Owner and editor of the State Journal, Parkersburg, 1881-1899, White was associated with many banking and manufacturing enterprises, and was tax commissioner of West Virginia in 1907 and 1908, collector of internal revenues in 1889, 1897, and 1921, and a Republican member of the legislature in 1926. Among the correspondents are G.W. Atkinson, Waitman T. Barbe,...
Dates:
1888-1929
Betsy McCreight, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2961
Overview
Miscellaneous items, mainly dealing with the southern counties of West Virginia, particularly the Miller family of Logan County. These include one letter from B.F. Miller of Enterprise, Oregon to his brother, John S. Miller of Logan, two letters from Tollison Shumat of Raleigh County to his daughter, Clara Shumat Miller, and a letter from John L. Miller of Virginia to Mr. and Mrs. John S. Miller of Logan, describing President Harding's funeral. Also includes a letter from West Virginia...
Dates:
1887-1923
George W. Atkinson, Governor, Letter of Recommendation for W.G. Compher
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1872
Overview
Letter from George W. Atkinson, Governor of West Virginia, to the Board of Trustees, Ohio State University, Columbus, recommending Professor W.G. Compher for any chair that he will accept.
Dates:
1900
Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0013
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904. The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well. His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads. Types of documents include letters, reports, account...
Dates:
1799-1919
John J. Davis (1824-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1366
Overview
Papers of John J. Davis, a lawyer and politician from Clarksburg, West Virginia. This collection contains correspondence, account books, photographs, essays, speeches, and other material. Also included in this collection are writings of Davis' granddaughter, Julia McDonald Davis. There are also artifacts, including a school slate and three leather billfolds. Please see "Scope and Contents" for further detail.
Dates:
1824-1935
John W. Mason (1842-1917) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1888
Overview
Correspondence, legal papers, photographs, and printed materials of John W. Mason (1842-1917). Mason was a circuit court and state Supreme Court judge, member of the Virginia State Debt Commission, and commissioner of Internal Revenue. The general correspondence contains personal and business letters, as well as manuscript speeches, notebooks, and reports. The period while Mason was circuit judge is particularly sparse. Also includes Internal Revenue correspondence consisting of about 8,500...
Dates:
1831-1928
Lyman Stedman, Farmer and Politician, Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2042
Overview
Diary of Lyman Stedman (1824-1916), a farmer and former member of the House of Delegates, 1877, from Brown's Island, Hancock County. Entries concern farm operation, Republican political activities on the district and county level, comments on state and national organizations, floods on the Ohio River, steamboat and barge traffic, Hopedale School, Methodist Episcopal Church, railroad travel, circuses and fairs, taxes and land valuations, and Memorial Day.
Dates:
1880-1885
Robert L. Pemberton (1860-1944) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0278
Scope and Contents
Letters, mainly incoming correspondence, speeches, and printed materials of R.L. Pemberton, for many years editor of The St. Marys Oracle. Correspondents include A.I. Boreman, G.W. Atkinson, Robert A. Armstrong, Louis Bennett, John J. Cornwell, W.E. Glasscock, H.C. Greer, P.I. Reed, Louis Johnson, and Homer A. Holt. The correspondence concerns politics and Pemberton's activities with newspaper associations in West Virginia. Included are religious pamphlets,...
Dates:
1880-1944; Majority of material found within 1891-1944
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview
Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates:
1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960
Virgil Anson Lewis, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1507
Overview
Published and unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and speeches of Virgil A. Lewis (1848-1912), the first state historian and archivist and a former state superintendent of schools. Subjects include the exploration, Indian wars, and settlement of Western Virginia; the Tory insurrection in the Valley of Lost River, 1781; the West Virginia new state movement; Masonry in West Virginia; Andrew S. Rowan; and various West Virginia authors. Correspondents include: George W. Atkinson, Waitman...
Dates:
1895-1912
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- Politics and government. 6
- Banks and banking 3
- Politicians -- United States 3
- United States -- Politics and government 3
- West Virginia - Governors. 3
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Education 2
- Elections 2
- Genealogy 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Politicians 2
- Railroads 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Schools 2
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- Steamboats 2
- Taxation 2
- Transportation 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Academies 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Bourbon politics. 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 9th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Democratic Party 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Election of 1908. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Elk Garden Coal Field. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Floods 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Freemasons 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Hatfield-McCoy Feud 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Know-Nothingism. 1
- Land. 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Lexington, V.A. 1
- Lincoln-Douglas debates 1
- Logan County. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Memorial Day 1
- Mississippi 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Ohio River 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg State Journal 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Presidential Elections, 1896-1908 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Raleigh County (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
- Revolutionary War - Tory Insurrection. 1
- Revolutionary War. 1 + ∧ less
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