Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
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Published and unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and speeches of Virgil A. Lewis (1848-1912), the first state historian and archivist and a former state superintendent of schools.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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- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
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- Academies 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 9th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Elections 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Floods 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Freemasons 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Memorial Day 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Revolutionary War - Tory Insurrection. 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Taxation 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Valley of Lost River. 1
- Valleys -- West Virginia 1
- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Church history. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
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