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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

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

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959), Barns Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1604
Overview

Correspondence, business, and legal papers, and photographs of Thomas Barns (1750-1836) and his son John S. Barns, who operated a grist and saw mill at Polsleys Mill (now Fairmont). Papers deal with a river trip to Indiana, 1837; coal mining in 1839; the money question, 1838; land transactions, farming, and mercantile operations of the Barns family; Rosecrans in Middle Tennessee, 1863; and the poor economic conditions, 1878.

Dates: 1795-1908

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

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

Consolidation Coal Company, Consultant Report and Clippings

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Collection Number: A&M 1159
Overview

The collection consists of a typescript report by J.C. Gaskill, assistant consulting engineer, on accidents, fires, and explosions at the mines of the Consolidation Coal Company and other companies, 1886-1926; and newspaper clippings concerning Consolidation's operations around Fairmont, West Virginia.

Dates: 1915-1956

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

Helen M. Fleming Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0852
Overview

Typescripts relating to Marion County, including "In Memory of John Marshall Jacobs, a Good Churchman," "Early Days of Mining in Marion County," and "In Memory of Jessie Hickman Jamison," all written by Helen M. Fleming. There are a number of photographs of Fairmont and Marion County, family photo albums, and seven scrapbooks of clippings of U.S. and West Virginia history, with emphasis on Marion and Monongalia counties.

Dates: ca. 1812-1951

Huett Nestor, Compiler, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1885
Overview

Archives of the Fairmont Labor Temple, 1921-1940, including certificate of incorporation, bylaws, financial records, minutes, and correspondence. There are also notes on the labor movement in Marion County, compiled by Huett Nestor, concerning the membership and officers of local unions, and a list of "Prominent Members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. from Marion County."

Dates: 1921-1940, 1963

J.N. Wilkinson Surveyor's Field Book

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Collection Number: A&M 2549
Overview

Wilkinson, a resident of Bridgeport, recorded in this book the record of surveys which he did for private individuals, county courts, and mining companies in Doddridge, Harrison, and Marion counties.

Dates: 1885-1886

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Coal mining. 8
Account books 6
Fairmont. 6
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 5
Politics and government. 5
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Judges - letters and papers. 4
Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
Railroads 4
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 4
Unions. 4
Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
Academies (Private schools) 3
Coal mining - coal companies. 3
Covered bridges 3
Elections 3
Genealogy 3
Land. 3
Mills and mill-work 3
Morgantown (W. Va.) 3
Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 3
Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
Agriculture 2
Banks and banking 2
Barrackville Covered Bridge. 2
Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike. 2
Church buildings 2
Coal mining - disasters. 2
Diaries and journals. 2
Editors - letters and papers. 2
Education 2
Europe 2
Fairmont (W. Va.) 2
Frontier and pioneer life 2
General stores 2
Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 2
Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
New Deal, 1933-1939 2
Politicians -- United States 2
Rivers and river valleys. 2
Transportation 2
Travel accounts. 2
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West Virginia - Governors. 2
West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Augusta County (Va.) 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Barrackville Mine Disaster. 1
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Builders and contractors. 1
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Cemeteries -- Oak Grove Cemetery 1
Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
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Churches -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
Coal mining - coal industry. 1
Court records 1
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Fairmont Index. 1
Fairmont Times. 1
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Kingwood and West Union Turnpike. 1
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Preston County (W. Va.) 1
Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
South Carolina 1
Surveyors and surveying. 1
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Names
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 5
Monongah Mines Relief Committee 4
Watson, James O. 4
American Legion 3
Associated Press 3
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Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 3
Barns, Fleming and Company 3
Barns, John S. 3
Barns, John S. and Company 3
Barns, Thomas. 3
Democratic Party (U.S.) 3
Fairmont Broadcasting Company. 3
Fairmont Newspaper Publishing Company 3
Fleming Association 3
Jackson Coal Company 3
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 3
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 3
National Miners' Union (U.S.) 3
Smith, Clarence Edwin, 1885-1959 3
United Mine Workers of America 3
United States - Railway Administration. 3
United States National Guard - West Virginia. 3
United States. National Bituminous Coal Commission 3
Virginia Military Institute 3
West Virginia. Legislature 3
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 3
Barns, James F. 2
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 2
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 2
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 2
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Dayton, Alston Gordon 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 2
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 2
Fleming family 2
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 2
Fleming, Benjamin. 2
Fleming, James R. 2
Green, William. 2
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 2
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Johnson, Hugh S. (Hugh Samuel), 1882-1942 2
Johnson, Louis. 2
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
Mallison, Samuel T. 2
Marion County Historical Society (W. Va.) 2
McGrath, J. Howard (James Howard), 1903-1966 2
Meadows, Clarence W. 2
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 2
Patteson, Okey L. 2
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 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 L. 2
Smith, Earl H. 2
Smith, Mary Fleming. 2
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 2
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 2
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 2
Watson family 2
Watson, C. W. 2
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 2
AFL-CIO 1
Agricultural College of West Virginia 1
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Red Cross 1
Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland), 1900-1975 1
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 1
Chenoweth, Eli. 1
Chenoweth, Lemuel, 1811-1887 1
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) 1
Consolidation Coal Company 1
Devore, Leland Swarts 1
Dille, Thomas Ray 1
Fairmont Labor Temple 1
Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company 1
Fleming, Helen M. 1
Gaskill, J.C. 1
Greer, H.C. 1
Hagans and Frum 1
Hagans and Spahr 1
Hagans, George M. 1
Hagans, Lynch and Protzman 1
Hayman family 1
Haymond, Creed, 1836-1893 1
Haymond, W.C. 1
Haymond, William. 1
Hughes, John, 1797-1864 1
Huston, C.R. 1
Jacobs, John Marshall. 1
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