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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 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

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 L. Musgrave Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1238
Scope and Contents The papers of Clarence L. Musgrave, Fairmont mortician and editor, include family correspondence (1861-1936); photographs; account books of his father, Eli, and his grandfather Zebulon Musgrave; record books and correspondence pertaining to the operation of the Eli Musgrave & Sons funeral home and the "Fairmont Republican" (ca.1895-1898). Other materials include a ledger of the John Carlin Camp, No.8, Sons of Veterans, United States Army (1887-1894); a record book of the Ladies Aid...
Dates: 1839-1937

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

Henry Solomon White Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1732
Overview The manuscript diary of Henry Solomon White, a Corporal and Orderly Sergeant in Company N, Sixth Regiment, [West] Virginia Volunteer Infantry, covering the period of 24 September 1861 to 26 September 1864. Company N was organized at Camp White, in 1861 for a three-year tour of duty guarding the B.&O. and North Western railroads. The company was stationed at various times at Burton, Littleton, Barrackville, Fairmont, Clarksburg, Bridgeport, Grafton, and Webster. Squads of this company...
Dates: 1861-1865

Jolliff Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3241
Scope and Contents Collection consists of photographs, publications, letters, and newspaper clippings regarding the Jolliff and Watson families. Jolliff family history is highlighted in photocopies of the publication, Family Record and Genealogy of the Jolliff Family, From the Year 1760 to 1878 Inclusive by Oliver P. Jolliff and James S. Watson (1878). A photocopy of the Journal of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Encampment, Department of West Virginia, Grand Army of the...
Dates: 1878-1954

Joseph F. McNeely (b.1868) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0784
Scope and Contents

Two typescripts entitled "A Fascinating Journey Over U.S. Highway 250 From Moundsville to Fairmont, West Virginia." The material contains historical sketches of the cities and towns along the way, and the social, religious, economic, and educational life of the early settlers of this section.

Dates: 1936

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1414
Scope and Contents Papers of Matthew Neely, a politician who had a long career as senator, congressman, governor, and Democratic political boss. Collection includes speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, legal papers, photographs, and copies of the Congressional Record . There are also newspaper clipping scrapbooks covering the years 1928-1954 (on five reels of microfilm). Neely had a long career, including law student at West Virginia University, Marion County lawyer, mayor of Fairmont, congressman, 1913-1921,...
Dates: 1900-1954

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Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 4
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Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 3
Barns, Fleming and Company 3
Barns, John S. 3
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Barns, Thomas. 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
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 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
Watson family 3
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 3
Barns, James F. 2
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 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, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
Fairmont Normal School 2
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 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
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
United States. Congress 2
United States. Congress. Senate 2
Watson, C. W. 2
Watson, James O. 2
West, Rufus A. 2
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 2
Agricultural College of West Virginia 1
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Red Cross 1
Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland), 1900-1975 1
Armstrong, William O., 1887-1970 1
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 1
Chenoweth, Eli. 1
Chenoweth, Lemuel, 1811-1887 1
Devore, Leland Swarts 1
Dille, Thomas Ray 1
Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1
Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company 1
Fleming, Helen M. 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
Jacob, J.J. 1
Jacobs, John Marshall. 1
Jamison, Jessie Hickman. 1
Jolliff Family 1
Jolliffe family - Genealogy 1
Kingwood and West Union Turnpike Company 1
Ladies Aid Society. 1
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