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Armistead Abraham Lilly (1878-1956) Speeches

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Collection Number: A&M 1095
Overview

Three speeches of A.A. Lilly, including the welcome address delivered at the Lilly reunion, 1949; Lincoln Day dinner speech delivered at Sutton, 1936; a speech delivered before the Republican convention in Charleston, presenting Senator Guy D. Goff for nomination as a candidate for president of the United States; and a memorial of the Kanawha County circuit court on the death of A.A. Lilly in 1956.

Dates: 1928, 1936, 1949, 1956

Charleston City Council Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2758
Overview The minutes of the Charleston City Council meetings. Major topics dealt with are zoning revisions, urban renewal, traffic control, street and pipeline repairs, ward re-districting, and appointment of officials. There are finance committee hearings mainly pertaining to construction and repair bids, requests for property purchases and requisition of supplies for city departments such as police and traffic engineering. Noteworthy is a list of rules to conduct committee meetings in compliance...
Dates: 1973-1983

Ephraim F. Morgan (1869-1950), Governor, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1660
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings concerning the administration of the 16th Governor of West Virginia, the launching of the U.S.S. West Virginia, and the building of present Executive Mansion

Dates: 1921-1938

Henry Dans Ward Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 0441
Overview

A journal kept by Henry Dans Ward while rector of the St. John's and St. Luke's Episcopal churches in Charleston and Malden and as proprietor of a school in New York. From 1843 through 1857 there are notes on churches and social, economic, and political affairs in the Kanawha Valley. Accounts for school and household expenses in New York cover the years, 1858-1862.

Dates: 1843-1862

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates: 1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960

West Virginia Human Rights Commission Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 1887
Overview Papers of Thomas W. Gavett, Chairman of the Commission. Subjects covered include: surveys of equal employment opportunities, newspaper clippings, material from the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, correspondence regarding non-discriminatory college applications for West Virginia institutions of higher learning, memoranda from the executive director to commission members, minutes of meetings, hearings, West Virginia Interracial Commission created by Governor M.M. Neely, West Virginia...
Dates: 1961-1966

William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1652
Scope and Content Papers of William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939), a lawyer, Democratic politician, publisher of the Charleston Gazette, and U.S. Senator (1911-1917); also includes correspondence of his son William E. Chilton, Jr., editor of the Gazette. The Chiltons were a prominent Charleston family who were long-time owners of the Gazette. There are series of correspondence, legal papers, speeches and writings, and other...
Dates: 1917, 1928-1939

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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Barron, W. W. 1
Bennett family 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Blease, Coleman Livingston, 1868-1942 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Brawley, Harry M. 1
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Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
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Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B 1
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Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. 1
Cooper, Rabbi Samuel. 1
Cooper, William P. 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 1
Crabtree, Paul. 1
Crook, George, 1828-1890 1
Daniels, Josephus. 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Davis, Rev. C. Anderson. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Edison, Charles A., 1890-1969 1
Edmiston, Andrew. 1
Ellis, James F. 1
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953 1
Gallaher, D.C. 1
Garner, John Nance, 1868-1967 1
Gavett, Thomas W. 1
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 1
Green, William. 1
Greene, Daniel. 1
Greene, John. 1
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Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 1
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Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 1
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Lakin State Hospital 1
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Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
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