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Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates: ca. 1840-1955

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

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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

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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

Dana Brothers Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2063
Overview Partnership of George H. and Stephen F. Dana of Kanawha County, West Virginia, engaged in coal mining and general merchandise. The collection includes production records, inventory, shipping book, payroll sheets, a daybook, and a letter book. S.F. Dana was also one of the organizers of the Campbell's Creek Coal Co. There is also a letter book of George H. Dana created while he served as agent, 1871-1875, in England for Jos. Hall Manufacturing Company, holder of the English patent on James...
Dates: 1871-1889

Holt-Keyes Families Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0631
Overview Business and personal correspondence of several members of the Holt and Keyes families of Barbour County, West Virginia, including Ben M., Charles, Samuel T.H., and Stephen Holt, and W.G. and Bertha Holt Keyes. The collection includes records of firms operated by these families, mainly the Keyes Lumber Company, the Holt Ice Company, and Holt's Mill; genealogical material on the Holt family; records relating to foundries, coal, coke, building supplies, general merchandise, farm and...
Dates: 1878-1944

Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1535
Overview

Daybooks and ledgers of a company store operated by the Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company, an early producer of coal and salt in the Mason County, West Virginia, area.

Dates: 1876-1906

Monongalia County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0026
Scope and Contents The collection contains record books and papers covering a period from the formation of the county of Monongalia in 1776 to 1933. The collection is broken prior to 1796. There are approximately six hundred thousand pieces including papers on civil and criminal cases, bonds, deeds, wills, licenses, settlements of public offices, school reports, and other papers commonly filled or recorded at county courthouses in the Virginias.There are two hundred and seventy-five volumes...
Dates: 1774-1933

Ohio County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0031
Scope and Contents Court case papers, 1776-1930; court and county record books; birth and death records, 1887-1888; and account and minute books of individuals, companies, and organizations, 1772-1935. The bound volumes include records of brand registrations, deeds, estrays, land entries, marriages, military service, surveys, and wills. The private account books relate to general merchandising, coal sales, dental practice, a debating society, distilling, carriage manufacturing, hotels, steamboat freighting,...
Dates: 1772-1935

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1455
Overview Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...
Dates: 1743-1882

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Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 3
Democratic Party (U.S.) 3
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 3
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 3
McGrath, J. Howard (James Howard), 1903-1966 3
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Meadows, Clarence W. 3
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 3
Patteson, Okey L. 3
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 3
United States National Guard - West Virginia. 3
American Legion 2
Associated Press 2
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 2
Barns, Fleming and Company 2
Barns, James F. 2
Barns, John S. 2
Barns, John S. and Company 2
Barns, Thomas. 2
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 2
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
Fairmont Broadcasting Company. 2
Fairmont Newspaper Publishing Company 2
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 2
Fleming Association 2
Fleming, James R. 2
Green, William. 2
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Jackson Coal Company 2
Johnson, Hugh S. (Hugh Samuel), 1882-1942 2
Johnson, Louis. 2
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
Mallison, Samuel T. 2
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 2
Monongah Mines Relief Committee 2
National Miners' Union (U.S.) 2
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 2
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 2
Rose, Herschel H. 2
Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944 2
Smith, Clarence Edwin Jr. 2
Smith, Clarence Edwin, 1885-1959 2
Smith, Clarence L. 2
Smith, Earl H. 2
Smith, Mary Fleming. 2
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 2
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 2
United Mine Workers of America 2
United States - Railway Administration. 2
United States. National Bituminous Coal Commission 2
Virginia Military Institute 2
Watson, C. W. 2
Watson, James O. 2
West Virginia. Legislature 2
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 2
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 2
American Colonization Society 1
Brody, John. 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Campbell's Creek Coal Company 1
Carroll, James Hawley, 1820-1890 1
Cass, Lewis. 1
Dana Brothers 1
Dana, George H. 1
Dana, Stephen F. 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Elk Creek Oil and Gas Company 1
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Greene, Daniel. 1
Greene, John. 1
Greene, Richard. 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Hersey, Lewis B. 1
Holt Ice Company 1
Holt family 1
Holt, Ben M. 1
Holt, Charles. 1
Holt, Samuel T.H. 1
Holt, Stephen. 1
Holt-Keyes Families 1
Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company 1
Joseph Hall Manufacturing Company 1
Keyes Lumber Company 1
Keyes, Bertha Holt. 1
Keyes, W.G. 1
Keys family 1
Loomis, F.B. 1
Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary 1
Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company 1
Martin, Edward. 1
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