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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

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

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

J.N. Curry (b.1863) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2082
Overview Papers of oil and gas driller and producer in Tyler County and other places. The collection consists of three diaries, 1 January 1894 through 31 December 1896; a typescript; and clippings. The diaries contain daily comment on wells drilled, including hours worked, depth of well, difficulties encountered, geologic strata, number of barrels of oil produced per hour or pressure of gas flow. Diaries include personal affairs, wages received and paid, oil sold, rent on leased property, oil market...
Dates: 1894-1896, 1966

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

Pittenger Family Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 3127
Overview

Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dates: 1841-1875

Samuel T. Mallison Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1913
Overview Correspondence, speeches, reminiscences, and newspaper clippings of a West Virginia newspaperman, state auditor, 1927-1929, and businessman. Subjects covered include the West Virginia gubernatorial campaign of 1924, Rush D. Holt's decision to run for the U.S. Senate in 1934, oil wildcatting ventures of Michael Benedum and J.C. Trees, the economy, oil imports, depletion allowances on the production of oil and gas, and labor legislation. Correspondents include Holmes Alexander, Robert C. Byrd,...
Dates: 1915-1964 ca.

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Names
Dawson, William M.O. 2
Democratic Party (U.S.) 2
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 2
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Patteson, Okey L. 2
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 2
West Virginia. Legislature 2
Alexander, Holmes Moss, 1906- 1
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
Anderson, Luther. 1
Archer, Mather. 1
Aten, William. 1
Bachman, Carl G. 1
Benedum, Michael L. 1
Bennett, W.R. 1
Blizzard, William M. O. 1
Blizzard, William. 1
Blue, Fred. 1
Bond, John C. 1
Brannon, Linn. 1
Byrd, Robert C. 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Carroll, James Hawley, 1820-1890 1
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 1
Comstock, Jim (James Franklin), 1911-1996 1
Conley, Philip Mallory, 1887- 1
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Cornell University 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Curry, J. N. 1
Darst, J.S. 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Dixon, Samuel. 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Eaton, John. 1
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 1
Eureka Pipeline. 1
Fairmont Coal and Coke Company 1
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 1
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 1
Furbee, W.A. 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
Hechler, Ken 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hersey, Lewis B. 1
Hobart College 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Hope Natural Gas 1
Island Creek Coal Company 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Kerr, Robert S. (Robert Samuel), 1896-1963 1
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 1
Koontz, Arthur B. 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Laird, William R. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Lausche, Frank John, 1895-1990 1
Lee, Howard Burton, 1879-1985 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Logan Coal Operators Association 1
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964 1
Mallison, Samuel T. 1
Martin, Edward. 1
Maxwell, Robert E. 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
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Monongahela Valley Traction Company 1
Morgan, E.F. 1
Musmanno, Michael A. (Michael Angelo), 1897-1968 1
National Defense Board - World War I. 1
News-Mail Company 1
Patterson, Bob. 1
Pierce, Carleton Custer. 1
Pittenger family 1
Price, Oscar. 1
Proxmire, William 1
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 1
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 1
Ruffner family 1
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