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Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates: 1913-1958

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

Peterson Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2028
Overview Correspondence, speeches, essays, financial notes, certificates, an account book, a class attendance book for 1860, and a term paper prepared for a Glenville College, West Virginia, history class entitled, 'The Aaron D. Peterson Family.' The correspondence contains letters written by David T. Peterson to family and friends while serving with Federal forces in the Civil War. Subjects include schools, politics, farming, Civil War camps, units, troop movements, and battles at Droop Mountain,...
Dates: 1858-1913

Pittenger Family Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 3127
Overview

Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dates: 1841-1875

Robinson Family Manuscripts

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Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883

William B. Gatewood (1835-1908) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2061
Overview

Correspondence, memo books, legal and business papers of a farmer and deputy sheriff residing in the Cabin Creek District near Coalburg, Kanawha County. Subjects include farm prices, land, coal, politics, and the Paint Creek Railroad.

Dates: 1861-1909

William Price (1803-1881) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1809
Overview Papers of William Price (1803-1881), a Monongalia County, West Virginia, resident, member of the Wheeling Convention, and state legislator, 1869-1873. Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, legal documents, and pictures. The correspondence, 1858-1912, concerns farming, the cattle business, and observations on the Civil War. Land papers also relate to Greene County, Pennsylvania. There is a diary and memo book of William Price, 1861-1863, containing two references to his membership in...
Dates: 1787-1917, undated; Majority of material found within 1805-1885

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 5
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Diaries and journals. 2
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 2
Livestock 2
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Slaves and slavery. 2
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 2
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African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
Baltimore Infirmary -- Baltimore (Md.) 1
Batesville (Va.) 1
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Boone County (W. Va.) 1
Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
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New Deal, 1933-1939 1
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 2
Aten, William. 1
Bachman, Carl G. 1
Berkshire, R.L. 1
Blizzard, William. 1
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Bricker, John W. (John William), 1893-1986 1
Brooks, H.L. 1
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1893-1950 1
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 1
Dickinson family 1
Dirksen, Everett McKinley 1
Duddington, E.E. 1
Ellis, Hubert S. 1
Fairless, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1890-1962 1
Fitzpatrick, Herbert 1
Flynn, Mike J. 1
Gatewood, William B. 1
Gatewood, William B. (1835-1908) 1
George, Walter F. (Walter Franklin), 1878-1957 1
Gieshe, Herman 1
Glenville State College 1
Guyan Eagle Coal Company 1
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 1
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 1
Highland, Cecil B. 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Huntington Memorial Hospital 1
Huston, C.H. 1
Hyde, Arthur M. 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Jones, Mary. 1
Kessler-Hatfield Hospital 1
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 1
Kimball, Charles H. 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1
Lewis, John D. 1
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 1
Marland, William C. 1
Martin, Alexander. 1
Martin, Joseph W. (Joseph William), 1884-1968 1
McCormick, Robert R. 1
Meadows, Clarence W. 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
National Rifle Association 1
Neal, Will. 1
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 1
Ogden, H. C. 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Old Sweet Springs Company 1
Patteson, Okey L. 1
Peterson family 1
Peterson, Aaron D. 1
Peterson, David T. 1
Pittenger family 1
Price family 1
Price, William, 1803-1881 1
Price, William. 1
Reece, Carroll. 1
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 1
Robinson family 1
Robinson, Eleanor. 1
Robinson, Hannah P. 1
Robinson, Helen M. 1
Robinson, James M. 1
Robinson, John A. 1
Robinson, William Johnson. 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, Andrew. 1
Ruffner, Daniel. 1
Ruffner, Joel. 1
Sammons, Forest Charles 1
Sycamore Coal Company 1
Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953 1
Tidewater Coal and Coke Company 1
United Mine Workers of America 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Walsh, John J. 1
West Virginia. Fair Deal 1
West Virginia. Anti-Communist League 1
Wherry, Kenneth S. (Kenneth Spicer), 1892-1951 1
Wilson family 1
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