Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911
Person
Found in 3 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
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview
Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates:
1845-1908
William Gordon Worley (1846-1928) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1547
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and financial papers of a lawyer and state senator from Kingwood, who was instrumental in the organization of the West Virginia Northern Railroad, and the Kingwood Coal and Coke Company. Subjects include state politics, 1888-1895, Virginia Debt Question, the tariff debate, land development, coal mining and railroads. Correspondents include J.M. Mason, W.E. Chilton, S.B. Elkins, and George C. Sturgiss.
Dates:
1853-1921
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- Coal mining. 2
- Land. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Academies 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Elections 1
- Grafton. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Northern Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Schools 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
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