Box 4
Container
Contains 13 Results:
Item Nos. 983-1002, 1869–1870
File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Topics include:
Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on "disabilities;” Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government)
Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 ("disabilities;" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)
Dates:
1869–1870
Item Nos. 1003-1022, 1870
File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1004-1020 ("disabilities" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a "colony of men" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) Family...
Dates:
1870
Item Nos. 1023-1042, 1870
File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more "disabilities;” requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the "coal fight;” and WTW [item 1040]) Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to "worthless...
Dates:
1870
Item Nos. 1043-1062, 1870–1871
File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by "rebels" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more "disabilities;” a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060...
Dates:
1870–1871
Item Nos. 1063-1082, 1871–1873
File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's...
Dates:
1871–1873
Item Nos. 1083-1102, 1873–1876
File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) ...
Dates:
1873–1876
Item Nos. 1103-1122, 1876–1877
File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall...
Dates:
1876–1877
Item Nos. 1123-1142, 1878–1880
File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern,...
Dates:
1878–1880
Item Nos. 1143-1160, 1880–1886
File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in...
Dates:
1880–1886
Item Nos. 1161-1181, 1887–1898
File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an...
Dates:
1887–1898