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

 Person

Found in 8 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

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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

Julia McDonald Davis (1900-1993) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1856
Scope and Contents Correspondence, manuscripts, class notes and other papers of Julia McDonald Davis (1900-1993), an author and daughter of lawyer and statesman John W. Davis. Includes correspondence of Julia Davis; manuscripts of her work; her notes; correspondence of John W. Davis; and additional newspaper clippings, postcards, photographs, ephemera, and other material. Subjects of Julia Davis's correspondence and notes include a biographical sketch of E.H. McDonald, Miss Davis's grandfather; business...
Dates: 1866-1963

Sallie Bennett Papers regarding World War I Flying Ace Louis Bennett, Jr.

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1590
Overview Personal correspondence, legal and financial papers, diary, and newspaper clippings of Mrs. Sallie Maxwell Bennett of Weston, wife of Louis Bennett, Sr., the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1908. The collection concerns the career of her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., particularly his student days at Yale, his pioneer efforts to organize the West Virginia Flying Corps, his service in the Royal Air Force [RAF], and his subsequent death in World War I. Additional topics include Mrs. Bennett's...
Dates: 1873-2009; Majority of material found within 1904-1926

Walter Stuart Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1884
Scope and Contents

Two scrapbooks of Walter Stuart, editor and publisher of the West Union Record. Clippings are from the Congressional Record and editorials from the newspaper. There are a few letters, including from John W. Davis (1942-1947), one from Henry D. Hatfield (1945), and one from Alben W. Barkley (1948).

Dates: 1924-1950

West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence

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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

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Politics and government. 6
Elections 5
Women's history -- 1850-1899 5
Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
Women's history -- 1929-1950 4
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World War, 1914-1918 4
Diaries and journals. 3
Editors - letters and papers. 3
Judges - letters and papers. 3
New Deal, 1933-1939 3
Academies (Private schools) 2
Account books 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
Railroads 2
Unions. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Universities and colleges 2
Women's history -- 1951-present 2
Aeronautics 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
Banks and banking 1
Berkeley Springs Park. 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Coal mining. 1
Court records 1
Depression. 1
Diaries 1
Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1912. 1
Epidemics 1
Fairmont Index. 1
Fairmont Times. 1
France 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Huntington. 1
Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
Politicians -- United States 1
Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
South America 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
United States -- Politics and government 1
West Union Record 1
West Union. 1
West Virginia - Five Year Plan. 1
West Virginia - Governors. 1
West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
West Virginia - Prohibition Amendment. 1
Westover (W. Va.) 1
Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
Women -- Suffrage 1
Women -- United States -- History 1
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