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Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940

 Person

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates: ca. 1840-1955

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

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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

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

Clark Family Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0680
Overview The correspondence of Clark family members, mainly that of Frank Wells Clark and Friend E. Clark. Frank Wells Clark was a student at West Virginia University and Harvard Law School and later established a law practice at New Martinsville. Friend E. Clark was a student at West Virginia University and Johns Hopkins University and later taught chemistry at State College, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia University. Included are the letters of Friend Clark when he traveled to Europe where in 1908...
Dates: 1885-1939

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

Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates: 1913-1958

West Virginia Governors' Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1977
Scope and Contents General correspondence and papers, ca. 1929-1964, of Governors William G. Conley (18th Governor, in office 1929-1933), Herman G. Kump (19th Governor, in office 1933-1937), Homer A. Holt (20th Governor, in office 1937-1941), Matthew M. Neely (21st Governor, in office 1941-1945), Clarence W. Meadows (22nd Governor, in office 1945-1949), Okey Patteson (23rd Governor, in office 1949-1953), William C. Marland (24th Governor, in office 1953-1957), Cecil H. Underwood (25th Governor, in office...
Dates: ca. 1929-1964

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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Politics and government. 6
Elections 5
Lawyers - letters and papers. 5
Editors - letters and papers. 4
New Deal, 1933-1939 4
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Account books 3
Coal mining - coal companies. 3
Coal mining. 3
Diaries and journals. 3
General stores 3
Railroads 3
Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
Academies (Private schools) 2
Fairmont. 2
Judges - letters and papers. 2
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
Marion County (W. Va.) 2
Mills and mill-work 2
Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
Politicians -- United States 2
Unions. 2
United States -- Politics and government 2
West Virginia - Governors. 2
Agriculture 1
Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
Banks and banking 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Charleston Gazette 1
Charleston. 1
Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
Coal mining - Medical care. 1
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Court records 1
Depression. 1
Election of 1856. 1
Election of 1884. 1
Election of 1912. 1
Epidemics 1
Europe 1
Fairmont Index. 1
Fairmont Times. 1
Farms and farming. 1
France 1
Gas industry 1
Genealogy 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Huntington. 1
Kentucky - coal lands. 1
Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
London Naval Conference 1
Lumber trade 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
New Martinsville (W. Va.) 1
New River coalfields. 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
Preston County (W. Va.) 1
Preston County Herald. 1
Preston County Journal. 1
Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Transportation 1
Union names. 1
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Universities and colleges 1
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
West Virginia - coal lands. 1
Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
Women's history -- 1951-present 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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