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James Produce Company Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2336
Overview

Copies of correspondence and business records of Charles H. James, founder of the James Produce Company, one of the first totally black owned and managed businesses in West Virginia. Correspondents include: Governor J.J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Dates: ca. 1915-1929
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John Thomas McGraw (1856-1920) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0086
Scope and Contents Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and...
Dates: 1842-1927, 1948
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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American Expeditionary Forces in France. 1
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Davis, John W. (John Warren), 1888-1980 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
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Dayton, Alston Gordon 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 1
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 1
Gibbens, Alvaro F. (Alvaro Franklin), 1837- 1
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 1
Holsey, Albon L. 1
Jackson, J.B. 1
Jackson, J.J. 1
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 1
James Produce Company 1
James, Charles H. 1
Lewis, Virgil Anson, 1848-1912 1
McGraw, John T. 1
McGraw, John Thomas, 1856-1920 1
McGraw, Rose. 1
Morton, Ferdinand Q. 1
Mount de Chantal Academy (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
National Afro-American Democratic League 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Negro Business League (U.S.) 1
Negro Democratic Club of West Virginia 1
Oglebay, Earl W., 1849-1926 1
Ohley, William A. 1
Roosevelt, Theodore. 1
Spaulding, C. C. (Charles Clinton), 1874-1952 1
Sturgiss, George C. 1
West Virginia Collegiate Institute 1
White, A.B. 1
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 1
Willey, William P. (William Patrick) 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
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