Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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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- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Education 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Floods 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Memorial Day 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Ohio River 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Steamboats 1
- Taxation 1
- United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
- West Virginia - coal lands. 1 + ∧ less
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