Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916
Person
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
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
Oscar Doane Lambert, Historian, Papers regarding Historical Research
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0552
Scope and Contents
Contains photograph copies of land plat signed by George Washington for 400 acres of land in Frederick County, Virginia; Photostat copy of a letter written by Benjamin Franklin from France; Photostat copies of map of northern neck of West Virginians; newspaper clippings on West Virginia University and state politics. Contains copies of maps and photographs relating to land in the Northern Neck of Virginia, Joist Hite, Jesse Hughes, Henry G. Davis, Alexander L. Wade, and Lord Fairfax.
Dates:
1770-1929
Political Campaigns and Elections Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2818
Overview
Buttons, pins, and stickers for West Virginia political campaigns, including Gubernatorial and Senatorial races. Politicians represented include William Barron, Robert Byrd, Darrell McGraw, Mollohan, Arch Moore, Okey Patteson, Charlotte Pritt, Jennings Randolph, Jay Rockefeller, Jim Spouse, and Cecil Underwood.
Dates:
1948-2002
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
Stephen B. Elkins Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0053
Overview
Stephen Benton Elkins (b. 1841) represented West Virginia in the United States Senate as a Republican from 1895-1911. Prior to his Senate service, Elkins served in the Union Army during the Civil War as a captain in the Kansas Militia. He practiced law in the Territory of New Mexico in 1864 and served as a member of the Territorial House of Representatives, 1864-1865. He was the district attorney for the Territory from 1866-1867, and the United States district attorney for the Territory from...
Dates:
1841-1955
Thomas Beall Davis, Businessman and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3197
Overview
Correspondence of businessman and politician Thomas Beall Davis (1828-1911), brother of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916). Most of the letters and telegrams concern the lobbying efforts of individuals and organizations to influence Davis when he filled an unexpired term in the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress (June 6, 1905-March 3, 1907). There are many requests for appointments, discharges, and pensions. Also lobbying requests for interstate commerce requiring subsidies or...
Dates:
1896-1913
Thomas Richard Ross, Collector, Papers Regarding Henry G. Davis
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3196
Overview
Elkins College history professor and administrator who has collected material about the West Virginia politician and businessman, Henry G. Davis (1823-1916). Ross has composed genealogical material and notes on news articles as well as collecting photocopies of political cartoons and newspaper articles about H. G. Davis. Also included is an original copy, containing an article on Davis, of the 1912 industrial and business edition of the Wheeling Register. .
Dates:
1902-1912
Union Carbide Corporation, Hawk's Nest Project Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1916
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda, drafts, briefs, exhibits, reports, and newspaper clippings on the Federal Power Commission's licensing of Union Carbide Corporation's Hawk's Nest and Glenn Ferris power dam projects. Subjects include FPC hearings, history of navigability of the Kanawha River, efforts to dam the Kanawha River, the navigability of the New River, and the New-Kanawha Power Company. Correspondents include H.G. Davis, Russell A. Alger, Homer Adams Holt, Robert C. Byrd, and Jennings...
Dates:
1873-1966
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2134
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and business records while the company was operating near the present site of Cass. Subjects and topics covered are the Blackwater Lumber Company, Condon-Lane Boom and Lumber Company, Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, Greenbrier River, logging, lumber agents, Martin-Lane and Company, railroads, J.L. Rumbarger Lumber Company, R.M. Sutton Company, Stearns Manufacturing Company, Saint Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company, S.E. Slaymaker and Company, timberlands, West Spruce Lumber...
Dates:
1892-1939
William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), Governor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0006
Scope and Contents
Papers documenting the governorship of William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), who served West Virginia in the period 1909-1913. These papers include series of general correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets. General correspondence includes many letters regarding employee unrest in the mining regions of the Great Kanawha Valley in 1912-1913, commonly known as the Cabin Creek-Paint Creek strike. Subject files include telegrams, photographs, etc. Newspaper...
Dates:
1905-1913
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- Politics and government. 12
- Politicians -- United States 9
- United States -- Politics and government 9
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 7
- Coal mining. 6
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 6
- Lumber trade 6
- Politicians 6
- Railroads 6
- Rivers and river valleys. 4
- Transportation 4
- West Virginia - Governors. 4
- Elections 3
- Genealogy 3
- Judges - letters and papers. 3
- Maps. 3
- Petroleum industry and trade 3
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 3
- Account books 2
- Banks and banking 2
- Democratic Party 2
- Land. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Preston County (W. Va.) 2
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 2
- West Virginia - politics. 2
- West Virginia Geological Survey 2
- Women's schools. 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Agriculture 1
- Bank books 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Cass (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Civil War - veterans - Union. 1
- Civil War -- Bounty claims 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Diaries 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1870. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Election of 1908. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Elk Garden Coal Field. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Frederick County (Va.) 1
- Gas industry 1
- General stores 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Glenn Ferris (W. Va.) 1
- Green Bank (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier River (W. Va.) 1
- Gubernatorial election campaigns - 1968. 1
- Horton. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Mineral County (W. Va.) 1
- New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Northwestern Turnpike. 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg State Journal 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Piedmont. 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Iron Valley Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Iron Valley and Pennsylvania Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown Railroad. 1
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