Thurmond, Walter R., 1881-1967
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Festus P. Summers (1895-1971), Historian, Research Papers Regarding West Virginia History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3946
Overview
Research papers of Festus P. Summers (1895-1971), a historian who served on the faculty of West Virginia University from 1932 to 1965 and as chairman of the history department from 1946 to 1962. Collection includes photocopied correspondence, articles, and typescripts, as well as manuscript notes. Many of the photocopies appear to have been made from Archives and Manuscript collections at the West Virginia and Regional History Center, including A&M 873, A&M 1661, A&M 1824, and...
Dates:
ca. 1900-1971
Howard Burton Lee (1879-1985) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2139
Overview
Correspondence and photographs used by Lee, who was a lawyer and attorney general of West Virginia, in the writing of his book, BLOODLETTING IN APPALACHIA, 1969, concerning the coalfields of West Virginia and the attempts by miners to unionize. The photographs show individuals, coal camps, mine guards, and scenes from the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek area in 1912-1913, Matewan, and Monongalia County during the 1925-1929 period. Correspondents include Gordon C. Felts, Coleman A. Hatfield, Henry D....
Dates:
1912-1964
Walter R. Thurmond (1881-1967) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2141
Overview
Operator in the Logan coalfield for many years, collector of Internal Revenue for West Virginia, and president of the state Board of Control, 1937-1941. Thurmond returned to the coal industry in 1941 and helped organize the Southern Coal Producers' Association, serving as its secretary until his retirement in 1958. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers, including Thurmond's diaries for 1938-1967. Subjects include labor relations, taxes, mine...
Dates:
1938-1967
West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview
Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates:
1909-1949
Additional filters:
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- Coal mining. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Coal - Logan County. 1
- Coal - Mine safety. 1
- Coal - company stores. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 1
- Coal - labor relations. 1
- Coal - problems. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Labor unions 1
- Logan County - coal. 1
- Logan County, W. Va. -- Public schools 1
- Logan County. 1
- Matewan (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Public institutions -- West Virginia 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Schools - Logan County. 1
- Taxation 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- West Virginia - public institutions. 1
- West Virginia Mine Wars, W. Va., 1897-1921 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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