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Charles V. Wehner, Attorney, West Virginia Court of Appeals Booklets and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4140
Overview
Publications from the Kingwood law office of attorney Charles V. Wehner (12 November 1921 to 11 September 2009). Includes mostly booklets regarding cases before the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, or the Supreme Court of Appeals of the United States. There are personal and corporate litigants. Corporate litigants include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Carleton Mining and Power Company, Franklin Coal and Coke Company, Freeport Coal Company, Preston County Power Company, Standard...
Dates:
1907-1965, 1992-2013; Majority of material found within 1907-1965
Charles W. Hawley, Compiler, Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1114
Overview
Includes "Our Trumbull Heritage" by Charles W. Hawley. There is documentation of the Davis, Dyer, Feathers, Hawley, Keister, Peck, Propst, and Trembly families.
Dates:
1981
Charles W. Osenton (b.1865) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1215
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other papers, of a state senate minority leader, 1899-1901, prominent Fayette County lawyer, and Democratic committeeman. Subjects include Osenton's early life; his law training at Georgetown University; his election to the state senate as a "silver" Democrat; William Jennings Bryan's tour of West Virginia, 1908; the presidential election of 1908; and Champ Clark's battle for the Democratic nomination, 1912. The papers also include a collection of...
Dates:
ca. 1847-1920
Charleston Business Invoices
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1998
Overview
Two business invoices for Charleston, West Virginia: 1) P.H. Noyes and Company, wholesale grocers, 27 August 1886; Arnold, Abney and Company, wholesale dealers in dry goods, notions, boots, shoes, and hats, 22 October 1886.
Dates:
1886
Charleston City Council Records
Collection
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
Charleston Gazette Publishing Company Records and Chilton Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3020
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks, correspondence, business papers, and memorabilia of a prominent Charleston family that were long time owners of the Charleston Gazette. There are papers of W. E. Chilton, Sr., and for his son and grandson, W. E. Chilton, Jr. and W. E. Chilton, III. The papers of Chilton senior include some correspondence, but mostly land papers documenting the coal mining district in Webster and Braxton Counties. There are also scrapbooks, and contracts pertaining to the family newspaper...
Dates:
1884-2018
Charleston Insurance Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3440
Overview
Charleston, West Virginia Insurance Records, Four Items: 1) insurance register, 7.25 x 11.25", 223pp., accounts for Aug. 1884 through June 1888, includes identification of Chas. F. Littlepage with offices in the Kanawha Valley Bank Building; 2) ledger, 8 x 13", approx. 155pp. of manuscript, first part has account pages for July 1, 1876 through Oct. 1880, pages 125-141 have policy expirations, pages 191-195 and 209-219 have "Kanawha Valley Bank" headings with listing of deposits, account...
Dates:
1876-1888
Charleston Newspapers Final Issue Printing Plates
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4346
Content Description
Two printing plates for the front pages of the Charleston Gazette and Charleston Daily Mail on the date of the final editions of those newspapers. The final issues of each newspaper were published 15 July 2015. Starting 20 July 2015, the two newspapers were merged into a single publication, the Charleston Gazette-Mail. The printing plates are thin sheets of metal measuring 12 1/2 in. x 23 1/2 in.
Dates:
2015
Charleston Survey of Youth
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1826
Overview
Questionnaires, interviews, surveys and summaries from a study of Charleston youth conducted by the Charleston Youth Community in 1963. collection includes a summary of the results of each inquiry and a few typed transcripts of tape recorded interviews with selected Charleston youth. Subjects of the study were divided into "Drop-outs (DO)," "Juvenile Delinquents (JD)," and " Selected non-troubled (NT)," and in each category the survey papers are divided accordingly. Those questioned include...
Dates:
1963
Charlotte Adams, Civil War Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2871
Overview
A letter from Charlotte Adams to Colonel Campbell, September 1, 1863, requesting Campbell to look after Adams' son, James Adams.
Dates:
1863