Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955
Person
Found in 5 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
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
John J. Davis (1824-1916) Papers
Collection
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
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- Politics and government. 4
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 4
- Account books 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Judges - letters and papers. 3
- New Deal, 1933-1939 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 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
- Railroads 2
- Unions. 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Bourbon politics. 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Court records 1
- Depression. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Epidemics 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- France 1
- Huntington. 1
- Know-Nothingism. 1
- Lexington, V.A. 1
- Lincoln-Douglas debates 1
- Mississippi 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Presidential Elections, 1896-1908 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia Springs 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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