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Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0040
Overview Papers of the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of...
Dates: 1784-1924
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Aretas Brooks Fleming Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0568
Overview Papers of Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923), the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of...
Dates: 1784-1924
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Arthur I. Boreman Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates: 1830-1949
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2119
Scope and Contents This collection includes court case papers and exhibits from Taylor & Harrison Counties; deeds; title abstracts; one land grant; a coal lease for mining & stripping; one letter; and a genealogy chart for the Morgan family. The names of persons and organizations in this collection include Powell, Reuben, Henry, Benjamin, Burr & Grandison; Bayley, Charlotte; Baley, William, Newton, Payton & James; Roe, James & Jane; Cather, John...
Dates: 1813-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Edward E. Meredith Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1814
Overview Clippings, letters, broadsides, and articles written or collected by E.E. Meredith, author of the newspaper column, "Do You Remember," which appeared in the Fairmont TIMES-WEST VIRGINIAN. There are: copies of theatre programs, 1917-1919; electoral tickets, 1860, 1864; a proclamation by George B. McClellan, commanding the Department of the Ohio, 1861; and an open letter, "Monongahela River Bridge Underwriting Syndicate Managers," concerning the construction of the million-dollar bridge in...
Dates: 1817-1954
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Democratic Party (U.S.) 10
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 7
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 6
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 6
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 6
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Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 6
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 5
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 5
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 5
Patteson, Okey L. 5
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 5
United Mine Workers of America 5
United States National Guard - West Virginia. 5
West Virginia. Legislature 5
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 4
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 4
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 4
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 4
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 4
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 4
Meadows, Clarence W. 4
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 4
Watson, C. W. 4
Watson, James O. 4
West Virginia University 4
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 3
Dayton, Alston Gordon 3
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 3
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 3
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 3
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 3
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 3
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 3
McGrath, J. Howard (James Howard), 1903-1966 3
McGraw, John T. 3
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 3
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 3
United States - Railway Administration. 3
United States. Congress. Senate 3
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 3
Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910 2
American Legion 2
Associated Press 2
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 2
Baldwin-Felts Detective Inc. 2
Barns, Fleming and Company 2
Barns, James F. 2
Barns, John S. 2
Barns, John S. and Company 2
Barns, Thomas. 2
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 2
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 2
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 2
Collins, Jarius. 2
Collins, Justus, 1857-1934 2
Dawson, William M.O. 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
Dixon, Samuel. 2
Fairmont Broadcasting Company. 2
Fairmont Newspaper Publishing Company 2
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 2
Fleming Association 2
Fleming family 2
Fleming, Benjamin. 2
Fleming, James R. 2
Garrett, John W. 2
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 2
Green, William. 2
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 2
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 2
Hewitt, Abram S. 2
Island Creek Coal Company 2
Jackson Coal Company 2
Johnson, Hugh S. (Hugh Samuel), 1882-1942 2
Johnson, Louis. 2
Kenna, John E. 2
Krebs, C. E. (Charles E.) 2
Mallison, Samuel T. 2
Mann, Isaac T. (Isaac Thomas), 1864-1932 2
Mason, James M. II. 2
Monongah Mines Relief Committee 2
National Miners' Union (U.S.) 2
Patterson, Bob. 2
Robinson, Ira E. 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 2
Rose, Herschel H. 2
Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944 2
Smith, Clarence Edwin Jr. 2
Smith, Clarence Edwin, 1885-1959 2
Smith, Clarence L. 2
Smith, Earl H. 2
Smith, Mary Fleming. 2
Smokeless Coal Operators Association 2
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 2
Sturgiss, George C. 2
Tams, W. P., Jr. (William Purviance), 1883-1977 2
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 2
United Fuel Gas Company. 2
United States. National Bituminous Coal Commission 2
Virginia Military Institute 2
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