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Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Newspaper Clipping
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0418
Overview
Fairmont Times (W.Va.) newspaper clipping where Frances Pierpont Pryor, Francis H. Pierpont's granddaughter, is thanking the newspaper for including historical information about Pierpont's life in their articles.
Dates:
undated
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0497
Overview
Correspondence, appointment, and notice. Correspondence includes a letter from Gideon D. Camden to Pierpont (1841); a letter from Frances Pierpont Pryor (F.H. Pierpont's granddaughter) to Professor Charles Ambler regarding documents of her grandfathers' which she is sending him and documents she will keep (1952); and a letter from Charles MacCarthy to W.H. Siviter, regarding Pierpont papers used by MacCarthy in writing his Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction...
Dates:
1841-1952
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Papers
Collection
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
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1353
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings on Neely's controversy as a law student at WVU, and his subsequent career as a lawyer, Mayor of Fairmont, Congressman, and United States Senator.
Dates:
1900-1924