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

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Collection Number: A&M 0173
Overview

Photograph of Ephraim Franklin Morgan (1869-1950), 16th Governor of West Virginia (1921-1925). He was preceded in office by John J. Cornwell and succeeded by Howard M. Gore. Morgan entered office at a time of conflict between coal miners and their employers, culminating in 1921 in the armed miners' march and the Battle of Blair Mountain.

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Correspondence (photocopies)

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Collection Number: A&M 0420
Overview Photostat negatives of correspondence to Francis H. Pierpont concerning statehood and secession. Also includes a petition of Harrison County, (West) Virginia citizens to Brigadier General Kelly protesting the return and admittance to the county of former members of the Confederate Army (undated); a petition of Gilmer County, (West) Virginia citizens denouncing secession and pledging action to suppress rebellion (1861); and the act by which the Restored Government of Virginia gave permission...
Dates: 1861-1865, 1916; Majority of material found within 1861-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899), Letters to President Lincoln

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Collection Number: A&M 1034
Overview Approximately twenty letters sent to President Abraham Lincoln from Francis H. Pierpont, the governor of the Reorganized Government of Virginia, between 1861 and 1864. Topics include the need for muskets in western Virginia in 1861; restoring the government of Virginia according to the Wheeling Convention after the war; using slaves from Virginia to do manual labor for the Union army; difficulty recruiting soldiers in western Virginia in 1862; the creation of the state of West Virginia; and...
Dates: 1861-1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Newspaper Clipping

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Collection Number: A&M 0418
Overview

Fairmont Times (W.Va.) newspaper clipping where Frances Pierpont Pryor, Francis H. Pierpont's granddaughter, is thanking the newspaper for including historical information about Pierpont's life in their articles.

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Newspaper Clippings

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Collection Number: A&M 0419
Overview

Photostat copies of newspaper clippings from the Daily Enquirer and Examiner (Richmond, Virginia). Includes the order appointing Henry H. Wells to succeed Francis H. Pierpont as Governor of Virginia, and two editorials about Pierpont (April 6 and 27, 1868). The articles suggest that Pierpont was unpopular in Richmond at this time.

Dates: 1868
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates: 1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0497
Overview Correspondence, appointment, and notice. Correspondence includes a letter from Gideon D. Camden to Pierpont (1841); a letter from Frances Pierpont Pryor (F.H. Pierpont's granddaughter) to Professor Charles Ambler regarding documents of her grandfathers' which she is sending him and documents she will keep (1952); and a letter from Charles MacCarthy to W.H. Siviter, regarding Pierpont papers used by MacCarthy in writing his Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction...
Dates: 1841-1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899), Siviter Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0113
Overview

Anna Pierpont Siviter's notes and typescript draft with holograph notes of Recollections on Civil War (Recollections of War and Peace, 1861-1868). Also includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, unpublished poems, and genealogy of the Pierpont, Siviter, and Pryor families.

Dates: 1883-1936; Majority of material found within 1905-1930
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899), Two Autobiographies

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Collection Number: A&M 4171
Overview Two autobiographies written by Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. This booklet includes photocopies of two original autobiographies, which were written in 1883 for Robert Alonzo (or P.W.) Brock (21 pages and accompanying letter) and John McAllister Schofield (5 pages). The booklet also includes typescript transcriptions of both autobiographies, made by...
Dates: 2015
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Deed

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Collection Number: A&M 0526
Overview

Photocopies of correspondence relating to Francis H. Pierpont's law license in Mississippi and Virginia, and an early (1784) Virginia deed to John Pierpont (likely grandfather of Francis).

Dates: 1784-1842; Majority of material found within 1841-1842
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 10
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 9
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Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 8
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 8
West Virginia. Legislature 8
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 7
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 6
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 6
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 5
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 5
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 5
Watson, James O. 5
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 4
Dayton, Alston Gordon 4
Dayton, Spencer 4
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 4
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 4
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 4
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 4
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 3
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 3
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 3
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 3
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 3
Dawson, William M.O. 3
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 3
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 3
Gore, Howard M. 3
McGraw, John T. 3
Morgan, Ephraim Franklin, 1869-1950 3
Patteson, Okey L. 3
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 3
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 3
Society of the Army of West Virginia 3
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 3
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 3
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 3
United States. Congress 3
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary 3
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 3
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 2
Barron, W. W. 2
Battelle, Gordon. 2
Byrd, Robert C. 2
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 2
Caperton, Gaston 2
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 2
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 2
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 2
Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 2
Dirksen, Everett McKinley 2
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 2
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 2
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Fleming, Benjamin. 2
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 2
Green, William. 2
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 2
Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906 2
Holt, Helen Louise Froelich, 1913-2015 2
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 2
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 2
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 2
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Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 2
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Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
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McCormick, Robert R. 2
Meadows, Clarence W. 2
Ogden, H. C. 2
Rucker, William P. 2
Siviter, Anna Pierpont, 1859-1932 2
Siviter, William Henry, 1858-1939. 2
Smith, Hulett C. (Hulett Carlson), 1918-2012 2
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 2
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 2
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 2
Underwood, Cecil H., 1922-2008 2
United Mine Workers of America 2
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs. Subcommittee on War Mobilization. 2
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program 2
United States. Department of Agriculture 2
United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development 2
United States. Works Progress Administration 2
West Virginia University 2
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 2
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 2
4-H clubs 1
Ackerman, Ernest Robinson, 1863-1931 1
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Adee, Alvey A. 1
Alderson, George 1
Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910 1
Allen, Si. 1
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