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Capt. William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1750
Scope and Contents Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.Collection...
Dates: 1799-1888

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

George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers

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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

Lewis Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936

William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1694
Overview Correspondence, diaries, writings, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Wilson, a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), President of West Virginia University, 1882-1883, member of Congress, 1883-1895, Postmaster General, 1895-1897, author of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894, and President of Washington and Lee University, 1897-1900. The collection includes portions of the diaries covering the years 1862-1863, 1865, 1868-1870, 1877-1891, 1896-1899. Most of the...
Dates: 1862-1900

William Smith O'Brien (1862-1948) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1105
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, notebooks, speeches, historical essays, genealogical records, clippings, and printed material of a Buckhannon lawyer, state jurist, member of Congress (1927-1929), and West Virginia Secretary of State (1933-1948). The collection also includes papers of O'Brien's father, Emmett J., a member of the state's first Constitutional Convention; letters from O'Brien's brother, Lieutenant A.L. O'Brien, 1874-1887, a West Point graduate serving at forts...
Dates: ca. 1830-1950

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Names
Democratic Party (U.S.) 4
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 4
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 3
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 3
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 3
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Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 3
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 3
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 3
United States National Guard - West Virginia. 3
Watson, C. W. 3
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 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
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, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 2
Jackson Coal Company 2
Johnson, Hugh S. (Hugh Samuel), 1882-1942 2
Johnson, Louis. 2
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 2
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 2
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 2
Mallison, Samuel T. 2
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 2
McGrath, J. Howard (James Howard), 1903-1966 2
Meadows, Clarence W. 2
Monongah Mines Relief Committee 2
National Miners' Union (U.S.) 2
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 2
Patteson, Okey L. 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. Congress 2
United States. National Bituminous Coal Commission 2
Virginia Military Institute 2
Watson, James O. 2
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 2
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913 1
Atkinson, Edward. 1
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 1
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 1
Ben Lamond Company 1
Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company 1
Bowker, R.R. 1
Breckenridge, Clifton Rodes, 1846-1932 1
Breckenridge, William C.P. 1
Breckinridge, Henry, 1886-1960 1
Bryce, James. 1
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 1
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 1
Carlisle, John Griffin, 1835-1910 1
Carruth, H.S. 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Cockran, William Bourke, 1854-1923 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Daniel, John Warwick. 1
Davis, Innis C. 1
Davis, T.B. 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
Dickinson family 1
Dodge, W. E. (William Earl), 1832-1903 1
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941 1
Gibson, Philip P. 1
Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924 1
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 1
Hall, Joseph family. 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902 1
Harmon, Judson, 1846-1927 1
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