Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955
Person
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur I. Boreman Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview
Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates:
1830-1949
Cane Gifted by John W. Davis to his Father John J. Davis
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4480
Scope and Contents
One artifact, consisting of a wooden walking stick owned by John J. Davis (1835-1916) gifted to him by his son John W. Davis (1873-1955). The top of the stick is capped with metal with the inscription "John J. Davis from J.W.D." John James Davis was an attorney and politician who helped found West Virginia and later served as a United States Representative in Congress from that state. His son John William Davis was an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served under President...
Dates:
undated
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
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
Davis & Davis Law Firm Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3046
Scope and Contents
The printed and bound legal briefs and law reports of the Clarksburg firm of Davis & Davis. The firm was composed of father, John J. Davis, and son, John W. Davis. Both men were prominent in politics. The elder was a member of the second statehood convention and a U. S. Congressman during Reconstruction. The younger became ambassador to Great Britain during World War I and the 1924 Democratic presidential contender. These volumes, which are numbered and labelled with the name of the...
Dates:
1895-1913
Davis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1946
Scope and Contents
One box of material including original and typescript copies of letters exchanged between Anna Kennedy and J.J. Davis for the period 1860-1862. Also included is material on the Chapin family, Davis and Steen family genealogy and Reed family Bible.
Correspondents are J.J. Davis, Anna Kennedy, J.W. Davis, Phineas Chapin, Rev. Asa Brooks, and J. W. Wayland.
John W. Davis' certificate of Admission to practice before the Supreme Court of West Virginia dated 1896. His sponsor was Melville...
Dates:
1800-1941
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
Homer Adams Holt (1898-1975) Papers
Collection
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
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- Politics and government. 18
- Elections 13
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 9
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 8
- Account books 6
- World War, 1914-1918 6
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 5
- Editors - letters and papers. 5
- Politicians -- United States 5
- Universities and colleges 5
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 5
- Diaries and journals. 4
- Genealogy 4
- New Deal, 1933-1939 4
- United States -- Politics and government 4
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 4
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 3
- Judges - letters and papers. 3
- Railroads 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 2
- Churches -- Presbyterian 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 2
- Democratic National Convention 2
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Huntington. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Petroleum industry and trade 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Secession 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- Unions. 2
- West Union Record 2
- West Union. 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 2
- Women -- Suffrage 2
- Women's history -- 1951-present 2
- Aeronautics 1
- African Americans -- Business enterprises 1
- Agriculture 1
- Armistice -- 1918 1
- Art and artists 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Baptists 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 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
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Cheat Lake (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Harrison County 1
- Civil War -- Norfolk (Va.) 1
- Civil War battles. 1
- Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Court records 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Depression. 1
- Diaries 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Election of 1924. 1
- Elections - 1920. 1
- Elections - 1924. 1
- England 1
- Epidemics 1
- Europe 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- France 1
- Gas industry 1
- Great Britain 1
- Gubernatorial election campaigns - 1968. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W.Va.) - history - Civil War 1
- Hymns. 1 + ∧ less
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