Watson, C. W.
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview
Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates:
1898-1963
H. Sutton Sharp Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2242
Overview
Letter from H. Sutton Sharp, editor of the Parkersburg SENTINEL, to his daughter and son-in-law. In the letter, dated Nov. 9, 1970, Sharp reminisces about West Virginia politics in the period from 1920-1940. He recalls the power and activities of the Flemings, the Watsons, and the Blizzards, and his own association with the WPA.
Dates:
1920-1940
Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1609
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal papers, speeches, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a Randolph County prosecuting attorney, mayor of Elkins, judge of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit, Democratic politician, and state governor, 1933-1937.Subjects include John T. McGraw's senate contest, 1911; Canadian Reciprocity Agreement, 1911; women suffrage; State Prohibition Amendment, 1911-1912; VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA; Joseph Brown lynch case; New Deal operations and agencies in the...
Dates:
1883-1960
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
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- Politics and government. 5
- Elections 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 4
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Judges - letters and papers. 3
- New Deal, 1933-1939 3
- Railroads 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Unions. 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Court records 1
- Depression. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Epidemics 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- France 1
- Genealogy 1
- Huntington. 1
- Land. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia - Five Year Plan. 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia - Prohibition Amendment. 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1 + ∧ less
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