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E.C. and H.B. Eagle Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0721
Overview

The letters and papers of E.C. & H.B. Eagle, a father and son legal firm of Hinton, Summers County. Subjects mentioned are election campaigns, women's suffrage, prohibition, World War II, Korean War, gun control, and the goals and strategies of the Republican Party. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, Walter S. Hallanan, Rush D. Holt, Arch A. Moore, Jennings Randolph, Hulett C. Smith, Cecil Underwood.

Dates: ca. 1910-1980

F.A. Simpson Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0647
Overview

Records of F.A. Simpson, a justice of the peace in Barbour County. Also included, dating between 1914-1942, are a few papers and speeches of J.A. Viquesney, West Virginia Game and Fish Warden (1909-1916) and justice of the peace; 1930 election campaign material relating to Henry D. Hatfield, James Ellwood Jones, and Carl B. Harvey; and references to politics, game laws, cost of medical service, and prohibition.

Dates: 1909-1942

Harvey W. Harmer (1865-1961) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1686
Scope and Contents Correspondence, speeches, essays, clippings, and account books of a Clarksburg lawyer, Republican state senator, and Harrison County local historian. Subjects include the history of Clarksburg and Shinnston; the Progressive Movement, women's suffrage, and prohibition in West Virginia; West Virginia Wesleyan College; West Virginia Historical Society; Methodism in Harrison County and the state; Methodist missions in Korea, China, India, the Philippines, and the United States; gristmills and...
Dates: 1842-1961

Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2503
Overview A collection of 400 letters, cards, petitions, telegrams, printed, and other similar items received and sent by U.S. Senator and Representatives Howard Sutherland (1865-1950) of West Virginia. The papers are part of Sutherland's constituent mail and are all concerned with the question of women's suffrage. The period covered is 1914-1919, and correspondence regarding both the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919,...
Dates: 1914-1919

Hugh Ike Shott Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0908
Scope and Contents The papers of Hugh Ike Shott of Bluefield, W.Va. Mr. Shott was owner and publisher of The Blue Field Telegraph and the Sunset News. He was also owner of radio stations WHIS of Bluefield, and served as postmaster in Bluefield by appointments of Presidents T. Roosevelt and Taft. He was twice elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1928 and 1930, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. Senate for the unexpired term of M. M. Neely. Mr. Shott was also a member of the W.Va. Semi-Centennial...
Dates: 1858-1954

John Lewis Sheldon (1865-1947) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1895
Overview

Correspondence, mainly concerning family news and business. There is comment on prohibition, President Woodrow Wilson's reelection, World War I speculation, the Food Administration under Herbert Hoover, and the influenza outbreak of 1919-1920.

Dates: 1905-1951

Osborne Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0930
Overview

A genealogy of the Osborne family of Greenbrier County. Originally from New Jersey, the family settled in Greenbrier and Hampshire counties.

Dates: 1987

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

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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 5
Clarksburg 50-Year Club 2
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 2
Harmer family 2
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 2
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Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 2
Smith, Edward Grandison 2
United States. Congress 2
United States. Congress. Senate 2
West Virginia Historical Society 2
West Virginia Wesleyan College 2
American Constitutional League 1
American Protective League 1
American Victory Union 1
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 1
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 1
Blease, Coleman Livingston, 1868-1942 1
Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940 1
Brisbane, Arthur. 1
Byrd, Robert C. 1
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
Charleston Naval Ordnance Plant 1
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 1
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1893-1950 1
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (U.S.) 1
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Daniels, Josephus. 1
Daughters of the American Revolution. West Virginia Chapters 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Eagle, E.C. (Edward Calvin) 1
Eagle, H.B. (Harold Bentley) 1
Edison, Charles A., 1890-1969 1
Edmiston, Andrew. 1
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 1
Fred Killingworth. 1
Garner, John Nance, 1868-1967 1
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 1
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 1
Green, William. 1
Harvey, Carl B. 1
Henderson, Leon. 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Howe, Louis M. (Louis McHenry), 1871-1936 1
International Court of Justice 1
Jessup, Philip C. 1
Johnson, George W. 1
Johnson, Louis. 1
Jones, James Ellwood. 1
Kanawha Coal Operators Association 1
Kee, John, 1874-1951 1
Kenna, John N. 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 1
La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1855-1925 1
Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission 1
Linthicum family - Genealogy 1
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 1
McAdoo, William G. 1
McCormick, Robert R. 1
Meadows, Clarence W. 1
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 1
Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931 1
National American Woman Suffrage Association 1
National Woman's Party 1
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 1
Norris, George W. (George William), 1861-1944 1
Ogden, H. C. 1
Osenton, Charles W. 1
Owen, Robert L. 1
Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955 1
Penrose, Boies, 1860-1921 1
Public Ownership League of America 1
Republican Party (W. Va.) 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
Roper, Daniel C. (Daniel Calhoun), 1867-1943 1
Shaw, Anna Howard. 1
Sheldon, John Lewis (1865-1947) 1
Sheldon, John Lewis. 1
Shott, Hugh Ike, 1866-1953 1
Shott, Hugh Ike. 1
Shouse, Jouett, 1879-1968 1
Silver, Gray. 1
Simpson, F. A. (Frederick Arthur), 1883-1974 1
Smith, Clarence Edwin, 1885-1959 1
Smith, Hulett C. (Hulett Carlson), 1918-2012 1
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 1
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 1
United States Food Administration 1
United States. Works Progress Administration 1
Vinson, Carl, 1883-1981 1
Viquesney, J.A. 1
Walsh, Thomas J. 1
Watson, James E. (James Eli), 1863-1948 1
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