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Albert Blakeslee White (1856-1941) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0110
Scope and Contents Business, political, and official correspondence of the eleventh governor, 1901-1905, of West Virginia. Owner and editor of the State Journal, Parkersburg, 1881-1899, White was associated with many banking and manufacturing enterprises, and was tax commissioner of West Virginia in 1907 and 1908, collector of internal revenues in 1889, 1897, and 1921, and a Republican member of the legislature in 1926. Among the correspondents are G.W. Atkinson, Waitman T. Barbe,...
Dates: 1888-1929
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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 (1839-1923) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2265
Overview

One common pleas book, and two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of A.B. Fleming, plus a genealogical record of the Fleming family.

Dates: ca. 1880-1905
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 (1823-1896) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0104
Overview

Personal and business papers of lawyer, U.S. Senator, circuit court judge, and first Governor of West Virginia, Arthur I. Boreman. See scope and content note for more details.

Dates: 1861-1895, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ephraim F. Morgan (1869-1950), Governor, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1660
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings concerning the administration of the 16th Governor of West Virginia, the launching of the U.S.S. West Virginia, and the building of present Executive Mansion

Dates: 1921-1938
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ephraim F. Morgan (1869-1950), Governor, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0203
Scope and Contents

The papers of West Virginia’s 16th Governor, Ephraim F. Morgan, largely contain official correspondence originating in or received by the governor’s office, 1920-1925. Records types include newspaper clippings, reports, maps, proclamations, speeches, and other items. Topics include the State Police, prohibition, industrial unrest, the Mine Wars in southern West Virginia, public works and roadbuilding, and West Virginia University.

Dates: 1920-1925
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ephraim F. Morgan (1869-1950), Governor, Photograph

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Collection Number: A&M 0173
Overview

Photograph of Ephraim Franklin Morgan (1869-1950), 16th Governor of West Virginia (1921-1925). He was preceded in office by John J. Cornwell and succeeded by Howard M. Gore. Morgan entered office at a time of conflict between coal miners and their employers, culminating in 1921 in the armed miners' march and the Battle of Blair Mountain.

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Governor Gaston Caperton Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 3106
Overview

Routine correspondence from the thirty-first governor of West Virginia, Gaston Caperton, about suggestions for government reorganization and changes in finance.

Dates: 1989-1991
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates: 1913-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
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Braxton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) -- History 1
Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
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Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hostages 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
United States Navy - USS WEST VIRGINIA. 1
United States. Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 1
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Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
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West Virginia governor's papers - speeches. 1
White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) 1
Women -- United States -- History 1
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Names
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 6
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 5
Democratic Party (U.S.) 5
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 5
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 5
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 5
United States. Congress. Senate 5
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 4
Dayton, Alston Gordon 4
Dawson, William M.O. 3
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 3
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 3
Gore, Howard M. 3
Morgan, Ephraim Franklin, 1869-1950 3
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 3
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 3
United States. Congress 3
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 2
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Dirksen, Everett McKinley 2
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 2
Fleming family 2
Fleming, Benjamin. 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 2
McCormick, Robert R. 2
McGraw, John T. 2
Ogden, H. C. 2
Patteson, Okey L. 2
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 2
Smith, Hulett C. (Hulett Carlson), 1918-2012 2
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 2
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 2
United States. Department of Agriculture 2
Watson, James O. 2
West Virginia University 2
West Virginia. Legislature 2
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 2
4-H clubs 1
Ackerman, Ernest Robinson, 1863-1931 1
Adee, Alvey A. 1
Andrews, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1899-1983 1
Bachman, Carl G. 1
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 1
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 1
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Blizzard, William. 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Boreman, Jacob S. (Jacob Smith), 1831-1913 1
Bourne Jr., Jonathan 1
Bricker, John W. (John William), 1893-1986 1
Brooks, H.L. 1
Brown, Joseph. 1
Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966 1
Byrd, Richard E. 1
Caperton, Gaston 1
Carone, Patrick 1
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1893-1950 1
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Cornwell, W.B. 1
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 1
Davis, Thomas B. 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 1
Duddington, E.E. 1
Edwards, William E. 1
Ellis, Hubert S. 1
Fairless, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1890-1962 1
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 1
Fitzpatrick, Herbert 1
Fleming family - Genealogy 1
Flynn, Mike J. 1
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
Garner, John Nance, 1868-1967 1
George, Walter F. (Walter Franklin), 1878-1957 1
Gieshe, Herman 1
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 1
Green, William. 1
Guyan Eagle Coal Company 1
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Hanna, M.A. 1
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 1
Heermans, Edward M. 1
Highland, Cecil B. 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972 1
Hughes, James A. 1
Huntington Memorial Hospital 1
Huston, C.H. 1
Hyde, Arthur M. 1
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
Johnson, George W. 1
Johnson, Henry J. 1
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