Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
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- Coal mining - Miners' March of 1919. 2
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining. 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Atwater. 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal companies - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mining - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal trade 1
- Elections 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Matawan Massacre 1
- Matewan (W. Va.) 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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