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Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates: 1787-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates: 1787-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Festus P. Summers (1895-1971), Historian, Research Papers Regarding West Virginia History

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Collection Number: A&M 3946
Overview Research papers of Festus P. Summers (1895-1971), a historian who served on the faculty of West Virginia University from 1932 to 1965 and as chairman of the history department from 1946 to 1962. Collection includes photocopied correspondence, articles, and typescripts, as well as manuscript notes. Many of the photocopies appear to have been made from Archives and Manuscript collections at the West Virginia and Regional History Center, including A&M 873, A&M 1661, A&M 1824, and...
Dates: ca. 1900-1971
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Richard M. Hadsell, Collector, Records Regarding History of Coal Industry

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Collection Number: A&M 2122
Overview Correspondence, reports, petitions, agreements, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles relating to the soft coal industry and labor conditions, generally in southern West Virginia. Subjects covered include the eight-hour day; strikes; consolidation of coal operations; freight rates; government contracts for coal; Paint and Cabin creeks, 1912-1913; working conditions in the Polack Cigar Factory, Wheeling, 1914; investigation of the Gay Coal and Coke Company, Logan County, 1917;...
Dates: 1880-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates: 1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1658
Overview The West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO, which was formed in 1958, includes the records of those organizations which preceded it: the West Virginia Industrial Union Council (CIO) and the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, unofficially and more commonly known as the West Virginia Federation of Labor (AFL). There is from the AFL affiliate Congressional correspondence; officers' files (president and secretary-treasurer); delegate convention files; financial records; auditors' reports;...
Dates: 1897-1972
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0160
Overview

Executive council minutes and proceedings, correspondence, and printed material of the state organization of the American Federation of Labor founded in 1903. Papers include congressional correspondence, 1950-1957; correspondence of President E. A. Carter, 1949-1957; a few papers of H. M. Rogers, 1905-1959, and Frank W. Snyder, 1906-1911; records of the Parkersburg Central Trades and Labor Council, 1924-1942; and a typescript copy of the minutes of the Wheeling Typographical Union.

Dates: 1905-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia State Industrial Union Council, CIO, Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 1380
Scope and Contents The West Virginia State Industrial Union Council was formed in 1937 as the state labor federation for local unions affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In 1958, the WVIUC merged with the State Federation of Labor to form the West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Included in these two accessions are the correspondence, legal papers, reports, and printed materials of the Industrial Union Council’s president's office, between 1940 and 1951. Subjects include...
Dates: 1940-1951
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Elections 6
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Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
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Names
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 5
Green, William. 5
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 5
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 5
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 5
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Meadows, Clarence W. 5
Patteson, Okey L. 5
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 5
American Federation of Labor 4
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) 4
Edmiston, Andrew. 4
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 4
Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 3
Carey, James B. 3
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 3
Daniels, Jonathan. 3
Dawson, D. Boone. 3
Democratic Party (U.S.) 3
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 3
Funkhouser, Raymond J. 3
Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946 3
Johnson, George W. 3
Johnson, Louis. 3
Kee, John, 1874-1951 3
Kee, Maude Elizabeth, 1895-1975 3
Landis, James M. 3
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 3
MacDonald, David J. 3
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 3
Smith, Clarence Edwin, 1885-1959 3
United Mine Workers of America 3
United States. National Bituminous Coal Commission 3
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 3
AFL-CIO 2
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education 2
American Legion 2
Andrews, Volney. 2
Armstrong, Glenn. 2
Associated Press 2
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 2
Barns, Fleming and Company 2
Barns, James F. 2
Barns, John S. 2
Barns, John S. and Company 2
Barns, Thomas. 2
Barron, W. W. 2
Biaggi, Mario 2
Boyle, William M. 2
Boyle, William M. Jr. 2
Buckman, Cecil G. 2
Burnside, Maurice Gwinn, 1902-1991 2
Butler, Paul M. (Paul Mulholland), 1905-1961 2
Byrd, Robert C. 2
Cairnes, Tom. 2
Carter, E.A. 2
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
Eccles, Mariner S. 2
Ellis, Hubert S. 2
Fairmont Broadcasting Company. 2
Fairmont Newspaper Publishing Company 2
Fleming Association 2
Fleming, James R. 2
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 2
Haywood, Allan S., 1888-1953 2
Hedrick, Erland H. 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Hutchings, Paul R. 2
Jackson Coal Company 2
Johnson, Hugh S. (Hugh Samuel), 1882-1942 2
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
Mallison, Samuel T. 2
Marland, William C. 2
Maybank, Burnet R. 2
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 2
McGrath, J. Howard (James Howard), 1903-1966 2
Meany, George, 1894-1980 2
Mollohan, Robert H. 2
Monongah Mines Relief Committee 2
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 2
National Miners' Union (U.S.) 2
Parkersburg Central Trades & Labor Council 2
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 2
Preston, Rev. David. 2
Ramsay, Robert L. 2
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 2
Rohrbaugh, E.G. 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr. (Franklin Delano), 1914-1988 2
Rose, Herschel H. 2
Schiffler, A.C. 2
Skeen, Ben. 2
Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944 2
Smith, Clarence Edwin Jr. 2
Smith, Clarence L. 2
Smith, Earl H. 2
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