Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
Person
Found in 13 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
Fred Mooney Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1428
Scope and Contents
Typescript and manuscript drafts of “The Life of Fred Mooney,” by himself, and a manuscript copy of "Shootin Straight" by J. F. Pennington. Mooney, one-time Secretary-Treasurer of the West Virginia United Mine Workers, relates his experience in the West Virginia labor movement, He covers the disturbances at Cabin and Paint Creek, 1912-1913; the abortive Miners March of 1919; the Matawan massacre of the Baldwin Felts detectives; the Miners Treason Trials in 1922; and a later dispute with John...
Dates:
circa 1935
Fred Mooney Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1956
Scope and Contents
Fred Mooney papers, ca.1935. 1 ms. Box and 1 bundle. Original manuscripts on "The Life of Fred Mooney, By Himself" and a scrapbook and newspaper clippings collected by Mooney. Mooney was a former secretary-treasurer of United Mine Workers District 31. A microfilm copy of the papers was made in 1961 and is filed under A&M 1428.Additional: One folder of correspondence by or to Fred Mooney, 1938-1941. Includes typescript pages of Mooney's early life and family. Correspondents...
Dates:
ca. 1935
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
Joseph Ozanic, Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2482
Overview
Joe Ozanic went to work in the coal mines of Mt. Olive, joining in 1909, UMW Local 728. After serving briefly in the army during World War I, Ozanic returned to work in the mines at Mt. Olive. In 1932, Ozanic joined the Progressive Mine Workers of America, a rival organization to the United Mine Workers, serving both as president of PMWA District 1 and as national president. During the 1940s, Ozanic was an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. These papers reflect Ozanic's...
Dates:
1932-1974
Major W. P. Tams, Jr. Transcript of an Interview
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2584
Overview
Transcript of an interview by Richard Hadsell with Major W.P. Tams, Jr., former mine operator in the Winding Gulf coal mining region. Tams discusses his early days in coal mining, the opening of the Kanawha coal region, and coal operators and union officials such as: E.J. Berwind, Joe Beury, George Collins, Jarius Collins, Justus Collins, John J. Cornwell, Samuel Dixon, Elias Hatfield, Troy Hatfield, Isaac Mann, S.T. Patterson, J.A. Renahan, James O. Watts, and George Wolfe. Other...
Dates:
1825-1934
Matewan Massacre Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2962
Overview
Correspondence between Harold Houston, chief attorney for UMWA District 17 and Floyd Evans of the legal firm of Evans and Sampselle concerning trials after the "Matewan Massacre." Legal affidavits pertaining to the miners' trials of 1922 in Charles Town, West Virginia and to the Red Jacket Coal and Coke Co. and Hitchman Coal and Coke Company's suits against John L. Lewis and John Mitchell of the UMWA. Proclamations of Governor E.F. Morgan concerning the 1921 Mingo County mine strikes. An...
Dates:
1914-1934
Miscellaneous Records Regarding History of the Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3836
Overview
This collection contains miscellaneous records regarding history of the coal industry. Types of records include correspondence. See "Scope and Content Note" for additional information regarding material within the collection.
Dates:
1934-1937
Pocahontas Operators Association, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2796
Overview
The minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Pocahontas Operators Association and of its successors, the Smokeless Operators Association and the Southern Virginias Operators Association. Topics mentioned are foreign competition, environmental legislation, labor strife and union negotiations, and lobbying efforts in Congress and with state legislatures. Special mention is made of the conditions in the coal industry during World War II, the impact of the Taft-Hartley Act on...
Dates:
1941-1973
Filtered By
- Subject: Labor organization. X
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 8
- Union names. 7
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 7
- Elections 5
- New Deal, 1933-1939 5
- Politics and government. 5
- Coal mining - coal companies. 4
- Unions. 4
- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- Coal mining. 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Fairmont. 3
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 3
- Railroads 3
- Unions - UMWA. 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Coal industry. 2
- Coal mining - Miners' March of 1919. 2
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Strikes and lockouts 2
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 2
- Unions -- Coal 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Atwater. 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 1
- Coal companies - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners' trials. 1
- Coal mining - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal operators associations. 1
- Coal trade 1
- Education 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Labor unions 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- Matawan Massacre 1
- Matewan (W. Va.) 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Montana 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Public utilities 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Taxation 1 + ∧ less
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