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Hulett C. Smith, Governor, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2170
Scope and Contents Official papers of Gov. Hulett C. Smith's administration covering budgetary, state agency and institutional matters, recommendations and proposed legislation. Prominent topics dealt with are crime, federal aid, locks and dams, mental health and pollution. There is correspondence with: Health, Education and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, Office of Economic Opportunity of the United States government; the Democratic party on the county and national level; the National Governors...
Dates: 1964-1969
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John J. Cornwell (1867-1953) Speech

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Collection Number: A&M 1813
Overview

Speech by governor John J. Cornwall on the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918. There is a brief report on demobilization orders.

Dates: 1918
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John Jacob Cornwell (1867-1953), Governor, Papers and Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0952
Scope and Contents Papers of the fifteenth governor of West Virginia who was a newspaper publisher in Romney, an orchardman, lawyer, and counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. There are a few papers of W.B. Cornwell. The collection includes: personal and business correspondence, 1896-1953; correspondence as governor, 1916-1922; legal papers, ca.1843-1916; and material relating to "Cornwell Day," 1931; Baltimore and Ohio and other railroads; Romney Orchard Company, ca. 1916-1919; South Branch Development...
Dates: ca. 1843, 1896-1953
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Journal of the Senate of the State of Virginia

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Collection Number: A&M 4094
Overview

Photocopy of the "Journal of the Senate of the State of Virginia for the Sessions of 1863,4, and 5", the official record of the proceedings of the Restored Government of Virginia, which was meeting in Alexandria, from 1863-1865.

Dates: 1863-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Historian, Research Papers Regarding Confederacy Supporters in Wheeling

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Collection Number: A&M 5179
Overview Research papers compiled by history professor Kenneth Fones-Wolf regarding his study of people who supported the Confederacy in Wheeling, (West) Virginia in 1861. Includes manuscript research notes and facsimiles of documents regarding prisoners of war; traitors; legislative petitions (topics include transportation, education, banking, temperance, and property); military service (including the Shriver Grays, a Confederate unit organized in Wheeling in 1861); religion; black newspapers and...
Dates: 1819-2004, undated; Majority of material found within 1850s-1860s; Majority of material found within 2000-2004
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Marmaduke Dent, Letter of a Monongalia County Resident

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Collection Number: A&M 4176
Overview

Letter written by Marmaduke Dent, 1863/03/11, from Granville, (West) Virginia to Dr. Frank. Dent was the grandfather of Marmaduke H. Dent, the first graduate of West Virginia University. Transcription of letter and photocopies are also included. Subjects of the letter include politics related to the possibility of West Virginia's statehood, including an upcoming vote, constitutionality, and race relations; Dent's patients and a local bout of smallpox; and family matters.

Dates: 1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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

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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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

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Collection Number: A&M 1384
Scope and Contents

The two volumes of newspaper clippings cover the years 1913-1916, and 1922-1927 and are concerned with Neely's activities as Congressman and Senator, including his abortive attempt to have Judge A. G. Dayton impeached. There are also two volumes of speeches (clippings from the Congressional Record) for years 1926-1928, and 1931-1932.

Dates: 1913-1932
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958) Vest

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Collection Number: A&M 3753
Overview

Vest owned by West Virginia politician Matthew M. Neely around the age of 22 years.

Dates: 1896
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Names
United States. Congress. Senate 22
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 16
Democratic Party (U.S.) 11
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 11
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 10
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 10
West Virginia. Legislature 10
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 8
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 8
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 7
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 7
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 6
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 6
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 6
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 5
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 5
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 5
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 5
Watson, James O. 5
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 5
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 4
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 4
Dawson, William M.O. 4
Dayton, Alston Gordon 4
Dayton, Spencer 4
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 4
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 4
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 4
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 4
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 4
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 4
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 4
United States. Congress 4
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 4
Brown, John, 1800-1859 3
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 3
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 3
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 3
Gore, Howard M. 3
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 3
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 3
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 3
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 3
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 3
McGraw, John T. 3
Morgan, Ephraim Franklin, 1869-1950 3
Siviter, Anna Pierpont, 1859-1932 3
Society of the Army of West Virginia 3
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 3
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 3
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 3
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 3
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary 3
West Virginia University 3
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 2
Battelle, Gordon. 2
Byrd, Robert C. 2
Caperton, Gaston 2
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 2
Confederate States of America 2
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 2
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 2
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 2
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 2
Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 2
Dirksen, Everett McKinley 2
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 2
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 2
Fleming family 2
Fleming, Benjamin. 2
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 2
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 2
Green, William. 2
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 2
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 2
Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906 2
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 2
Holt, Helen Louise Froelich, 1913-2015 2
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 2
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 2
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 2
Johnson, Henry J. 2
Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891 2
Kenna, John E. 2
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 2
Lang, Theodore F. 2
Latham, George Robert, 1832-1917. 2
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 2
McCormick, Robert R. 2
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 2
Ogden, H. C. 2
Patteson, Okey L. 2
Rucker, William P. 2
Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872 2
Siviter, William Henry, 1858-1939. 2
Smith, Hulett C. (Hulett Carlson), 1918-2012 2
Stevenson, W. E. (William Erskine), 1820-1883 2
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