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Braxton County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0789
Overview

Suit papers; record books of county officers; estate settlements; birth, marriage and death records; election returns; deeds and deed indexes; and land and tax records. There is also a volume of World War I records of Braxton County servicemen, and several account books of both the Holly River and Addison and the Midland railroads.

Dates: 1830-1953

Edward E. Meredith Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1814
Overview Clippings, letters, broadsides, and articles written or collected by E.E. Meredith, author of the newspaper column, "Do You Remember," which appeared in the Fairmont TIMES-WEST VIRGINIAN. There are: copies of theatre programs, 1917-1919; electoral tickets, 1860, 1864; a proclamation by George B. McClellan, commanding the Department of the Ohio, 1861; and an open letter, "Monongahela River Bridge Underwriting Syndicate Managers," concerning the construction of the million-dollar bridge in...
Dates: 1817-1954

George C. McIntosh (1868-1935) Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2599
Overview Memoirs of a retired newspaperman, editor, and Republican state house representative (1898-1901). McIntosh supported the Republican party and coal operator interests through his newspapers and periodicals, which included: HUNTINGTON GAZETTE, HUNTINGTON SUNDAY GAZETTE, HINTON FREE LANCE, FAYETTE JOURNAL, NEWS-MAIL CO., RALEIGH HERALD, and company magazines for the Island Creek Coal Company and Solvay Collieries. McIntosh discusses: his early employment on the railroads as census taker and...
Dates: 1895-1920

Henry Brannon, Lawyer, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3116
Overview Letters and tax papers deal with lawyer-client matters between Weston attorney Henry Brannon and Boston capitalist, Robert H. Waters. Subjects include Waters' suit against Equitable Oil and Mining Co. and purchase of 1,500 acres on Three Lick Run of Oil Creek in Lewis County, taxation of the property, redemption of the property from its sale for delinquent taxes, tenant relations, the sale of timber, illegal cutting of timber, and efforts to sell the land. Brannon also addresses his 1881...
Dates: 1867-1881

West Virginia, Secretary of State Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2142
Overview Official records on the appointment, resignation, and removal of state officers, railroad and special police, and corporate representatives. Archives include financial records of state agencies, executive meeting minutes, executive decrees, and documents relating to pardons, extraditions, and state convicts in county jails. Much information relates to charters and taxation of railroad companies. Also contains official state election returns and records concerning the reconstruction of the...
Dates: 1861-1939

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World War, 1914-1918 2
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Augusta County (Va.) 1
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Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Bridges 1
Broadsides. 1
Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
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Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal - coal operators. 1
Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Covered bridges 1
Editors - letters and papers. 1
Election of 1860. 1
Election of 1864. 1
Estate settlements. 1
Fairmont. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
Gas industry 1
Judges - letters and papers. 1
Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
Lumber industry and timber. 1
March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
Marion County (W. Va.) 1
Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
Newspaper publishing 1
Newspapers. 1
Police 1
Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
Railroads - Holly River and Addison Railway. 1
Railroads - Midland Railroad. 1
Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
Solvay Collieries. 1
Teachers 1
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
Union names. 1
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
United States - Census returns. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
Women's history -- 1951-present 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1
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Names
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
Angell and Jamison. 1
Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland), 1900-1975 1
Archer, Mather. 1
Bennett, W.R. 1