Silver, Gray.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gray Silver (1870-1935), Agriculturalist and Banker, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0164
Overview
Personal and business papers of the Martinsburg agriculturalist and banker who was a representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington and a member of the West Virginia Senate, 1907-1913. Much of the material relates to fruit growing and marketing and other business activities of Silver, as well as Democrat politics. Subjects covered include: requests and discussions of the merits of political appointments; lobbying within and through the Democrat Party for agricultural...
Dates:
1903-1935
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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- Subject: Politics and government. X
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- Agriculture 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Elections 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Martinsburg. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Transportation 1
- United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
- West Virginia - coal lands. 1 + ∧ less
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