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Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates: ca. 1840-1955

Charles E. Krebs (1870-1954) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1792
Overview Scrapbooks, mainly of newspaper clippings, maintained by a mining engineer, geologist, and businessman from Charleston. The scrapbooks contain clippings, announcements, and a few letters relating to Krebs' business, Charleston civic affairs, and professional engineering organizations. Topics covered include: the oil boom at Blue Creek in 1912; oil field development in Kanawha and Clay counties; oil and coal shipments on the C.&O.; coal, oil, gas, and coke production figures; report on...
Dates: 1912, 1935, 1939

Clark and Krebs, Civil and Mining Engineers, Miscellaneous Letters and Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2565
Overview Letter book from the office of Clark & Krebs, Civil and Mining Engineers, the partnership of Charles E. Krebs, James M. Clark, George R. Krebs, and J. Walter Morgan, of Charleston, WV. Included in the letterbox are land deeds, property inventories, lists of unpaid accounts and land leases, land and mine surveys, equipment bills, reports on the working costs of coal mines and oil production, instructions for the construction of bungalows and a water plant, business contracts, and a letter...
Dates: 1912-1914

George C. McIntosh (1868-1935) Typed Document

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Collection Number: A&M 2599
Overview Memoirs of a retired newspaperman, editor, and Republican state house representative (1898-1901). McIntosh supported the Republican party and coal operator interests through his newspapers and periodicals, which included: HUNTINGTON GAZETTE, HUNTINGTON SUNDAY GAZETTE, HINTON FREE LANCE, FAYETTE JOURNAL, NEWS-MAIL CO., RALEIGH HERALD, and company magazines for the Island Creek Coal Company and Solvay Collieries. McIntosh discusses: his early employment on the railroads as census taker and...
Dates: 1895-1920

George W. Miller Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2130
Overview Correspondence and financial records of a Gilmer County businessman, gas drilling contractor, schoolteacher, and elementary school principal who was involved also with coal, timber, real estate, and water well businesses. The correspondence concerns Miller's business affairs; dealings with government agencies, such as the Federal Power Commission and the Small Business Administration; applications for teaching positions and graduate schools; tax problems; campaign for a seat on the school...
Dates: 1948-1971

Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1942
Overview Pamphlets include Henry Ruffner's antislavery pamphlet, 1847, and his Union speech, 1856. Subjects of the manuscripts and correspondence include family history; travel; Kanawha Salt Works; schools in Virginia and Kanawha County; Lane Seminary Library; Presbyterian Church; slavery, coal, gas, iron, and timber; Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee, Harvard, Hobart, Cornell, and Hampden-Sydney colleges; Greenbrier County; Alabama; election of 1904; University of Virginia; Kanawha Valley floods;...
Dates: 1829-1913

Holt-Keyes Families Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0631
Overview Business and personal correspondence of several members of the Holt and Keyes families of Barbour County, West Virginia, including Ben M., Charles, Samuel T.H., and Stephen Holt, and W.G. and Bertha Holt Keyes. The collection includes records of firms operated by these families, mainly the Keyes Lumber Company, the Holt Ice Company, and Holt's Mill; genealogical material on the Holt family; records relating to foundries, coal, coke, building supplies, general merchandise, farm and...
Dates: 1878-1944

James R. Moreland (1879-1955) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1146
Scope and Contents Family papers of Alexander Smith, Charles Edgar Brown, and Joseph Moreland; correspondence; materials relating to local history and Moreland's civic, social, religious, and professional activities. Typescript on the Union in West Virginia Coal Fields; a bound typescript on the History of the Various Courts of Monongalia County; and abstracts and legal papers of the Connellsville Basin Coke Company. Material also includes plats and maps relating to the residential and...
Dates: 1809-1948

Kemble White (1873-1965) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2209
Overview Correspondence and other papers of Kemble White, one-time law partner of A.B. Fleming, specialist in oil and gas law, counsel for the West Virginia subsidiaries of Standard Oil (Hope Natural Gas, South Penn Oil, and Eureka Pipeline), charter member of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, veteran of the Spanish-American War, one-time president of the West Virginia Bar Association; and the West Virginia University Alumni Association. Additional items include: White's notebooks...
Dates: 1898-1965

Lloyd B. Ganoe, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1229
Overview The collection consists of correspondence, business and legal papers, family photographs, clippings, and account books of Zebulon and Eli Musgrave and Daniel and William L. Turney of Fairmont, West Virginia. Aside from family and business affairs and estate settlements, subjects include Missouri frontier life and society in 1836; strife at Lecompton, Kansas School Territory, in 1857; local history of the Fairmont area; and Fairmont Normal School. About 2 ins. of material concerns coal...
Dates: ca. 1836-1925

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Names
Dawson, William M.O. 2
Democratic Party (U.S.) 2
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 2
Krebs, C. E. (Charles E.) 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
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Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 2
Patteson, Okey L. 2
United Fuel Gas Company. 2
United Mine Workers of America 2
West Virginia. Legislature 2
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
Anderson, Luther. 1
Archer, Mather. 1
Bachman, Carl G. 1
Bennett, W.R. 1
Blizzard, William M. O. 1
Blizzard, William. 1
Blue, Fred. 1
Bond, John C. 1
Brannon, Linn. 1
Brown, Charles Edgar 1
Browning, Chauncey Jr. 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Carroll, James Hawley, 1820-1890 1
Charles E. Krebs, Inc. 1
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 1
Clark and Krebs 1
Clark and Krebs (Mine Engineering Firm) 1
Clark, James M. 1
Colonial Timber and Coal Corporation 1
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Connellsville Basin Coke Company 1
Consolidated Gas Company 1
Cornell University 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Darst, J.S. 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Dixon, Samuel. 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Eaton, John. 1
Elk Creek Oil and Gas Company 1
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 1
Eureka Pipeline. 1
Fairmont Coal and Coke Company 1
Fairmont Normal School 1
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 1
Ganoe, Lloyd B. 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Goddard, Charles A. 1
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 1
Gore, Howard M. 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Harman, John William, 1869- 1
Harvard University 1
Hatcher, John H. 1
Haymond, Frank C. 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hersey, Lewis B. 1
Hobart College 1
Holt Ice Company 1
Holt family 1
Holt, Ben M. 1
Holt, Charles. 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 1
Holt, Samuel T.H. 1
Holt, Stephen. 1
Holt-Keyes Families 1
Hope Natural Gas 1
Island Creek Coal Company 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Kee, James, 1917-1989 1
Keyes Lumber Company 1
Keyes, Bertha Holt. 1
Keyes, W.G. 1
Keys family 1
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 1
Krebs, Charles E. (1870-1954) 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Lee, Howard Burton, 1879-1985 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Logan Coal Operators Association 1
Martin, Edward. 1
McClung family - Genealogy 1
McGrath, J. Howard (James Howard), 1903-1966 1
McIntosh family 1
McIntosh family - Genealogy 1
McIntosh, George C. 1
McIntosh, George C., 1868-1935 1
Meadows, Clarence W. 1
Meadows, Rush 1
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Miller, George W. 1
Mollohan, Robert H. 1
Monongahela Gas and Coal Company 1
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