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Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955

 Person

Found in 14 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

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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

Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers

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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

Homer Adams Holt (1898-1975) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1450
Scope and Contents Correspondence, messages, and state papers of West Virginia's twentieth governor, 1937-1941, and manuscript drafts of "West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State (1941)," the Works Project Administration's Federal Writer's Project's work on West Virginia. Also included are assorted speeches and addresses given by Holt, newspaper clippings and articles regarding Holt's successor as Governor of West Virginia, Matthew Neely, and other political figures, and correspondence with governors from...
Dates: 1937-1944

Izetta Jewel Brown Miller (b.1883), Clippings and Photographs

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Collection Number: A&M 2316
Overview Originals and copies of clippings and photographs concerning the life and career of Izetta Jewel Kenny Brown Miller. Her career included work in the theater, Women's Suffrage Movement, radio, agriculture, television, and politics. Her first husband was William Gay Brown, Sr., West Virginia Congressman from Kingwood, and her second marriage was to Dr. Hugh Miller of the faculties of George Washington University and Union College. In 1922 and 1924, Mrs. Brown ran for the nomination as the...
Dates: ca. 1908-1973

James Produce Company Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2336
Overview

Copies of correspondence and business records of Charles H. James, founder of the James Produce Company, one of the first totally black owned and managed businesses in West Virginia. Correspondents include: Governor J.J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Dates: ca. 1915-1929

John J. Davis (1824-1916) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1366
Overview

Papers of John J. Davis, a lawyer and politician from Clarksburg, West Virginia. This collection contains correspondence, account books, photographs, essays, speeches, and other material. Also included in this collection are writings of Davis' granddaughter, Julia McDonald Davis. There are also artifacts, including a school slate and three leather billfolds. Please see "Scope and Contents" for further detail.

Dates: 1824-1935

Political Campaigns and Elections Material

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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

Preston Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2201
Overview

Correspondence, legal papers, and business papers of John J.D. Preston, his ancestors, and his relatives. The correspondence is primarily between members of the Preston family with topics being discussed, such as living conditions, business conditions, military training camps, Civil War battles, politics and campaigns, political personalities, education, schools, and the World Wars. Correspondents include John Preston, Rev. David Preston, John J. Davis, and John W. Davis.

Dates: 1817-1945

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Elections 13
Politics and government. 12
Lawyers - letters and papers. 5
Women's history -- 1900-1929 5
Account books 4
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Editors - letters and papers. 4
World War, 1914-1918 4
Diaries and journals. 3
Judges - letters and papers. 3
New Deal, 1933-1939 3
Politicians -- United States 3
United States -- Politics and government 3
Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
Women's history -- 1929-1950 3
Academies (Private schools) 2
Coal mining - coal companies. 2
Fairmont. 2
Genealogy 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
Petroleum industry and trade 2
Railroads 2
Unions. 2
West Union Record 2
West Union. 2
West Virginia - Governors. 2
West Virginia - Politics and government. 2
Women -- Suffrage 2
African Americans -- Business enterprises 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Agriculture 1
Armistice -- 1918 1
Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
Banks and banking 1
Baptists 1
Bourbon politics. 1
Boy Scouts of America - Colored Boy Scouts of Charleston. 1
Business - African American. 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
Civil War -- Norfolk (Va.) 1
Civil War battles. 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike. 1
Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Coal mining. 1
Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
Court records 1
Democratic National Convention 1
Depression. 1
Education 1
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1912. 1
Elections - 1920. 1
Elections - 1924. 1
Epidemics 1
Fairmont Index. 1
Fairmont Times. 1
France 1
Gas industry 1
Gubernatorial election campaigns - 1968. 1
Huntington. 1
Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
Know-Nothingism. 1
Lexington, V.A. 1
Lincoln-Douglas debates 1
Mississippi 1
Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
Norfolk, Va. - Civil War. 1
Presidential Elections, 1896-1908 1
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1920 1
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1924 1
Radio 1
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Republican National Convention - 1952. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Secession 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
Sweeney, Tom - Senate campaign. 1
Television 1
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
Union names. 1
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Universities and colleges 1
Virginia Springs 1
West Virginia - Five Year Plan. 1
West Virginia - Prohibition Amendment. 1
West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
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