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Albert Blakeslee White (1856-1941) Papers

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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

Appalachian Alliance Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2524
Overview

The Appalachian Alliance was formally organized in June 1977 to 'support individuals and communities which are working to gain democratic control over their lives, work places and natural resources.' This collection contains a list of Appalachian Alliance members and interested persons, minutes of meetings, circulars, and conference plans.

Dates: 1977
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), Newspaperman, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0014
Overview Papers of Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), editor of the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. A strong unionist and Republican Party member, he worked hard through his editorials and behind the scenes in order to support the formation of the new state of West Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing with the Civil War and political affairs in West Virginia's early statehood period. Some of the correspondence...
Dates: 1855-1899, 1907, 1941; Majority of material found within 1855-1899
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

Aristotle Smith Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 4531
Scope and Contents Scrapbook of Aristotle Smith (1863-1911), doctor, lawyer, teacher, and historian. The scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings (1897-1909) and other ephemera glued onto pages of a book, Report on Population and Resources of Alaska (1893) from the 11th census, published in 1890. The scrapbook also includes handwritten text on the book’s pages and regards the history of various West Virginia counties: Calhoun, Clay, Braxton, Roane; the genealogy of the...
Dates: 1880s-1987; Majority of material found within 1900-1910
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Armistead Abraham Lilly (1878-1956) Speeches

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Collection Number: A&M 1095
Overview

Three speeches of A.A. Lilly, including the welcome address delivered at the Lilly reunion, 1949; Lincoln Day dinner speech delivered at Sutton, 1936; a speech delivered before the Republican convention in Charleston, presenting Senator Guy D. Goff for nomination as a candidate for president of the United States; and a memorial of the Kanawha County circuit court on the death of A.A. Lilly in 1956.

Dates: 1928, 1936, 1949, 1956
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Arthur B. Koontz (1885-1963) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1912
Overview Photographs, correspondence, telegrams, and memorabilia of a corporation lawyer, banker, businessman, Democratic candidate for governor in 1920 and the U.S. Senate in 1934, a Democratic National Committeeman, 1940-1958, a member of West Virginia University's Board of Governors, and holder of the Order of Vandalia for service to West Virginia University. Subjects include the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Convention and campaign of 1956, and Koontz's bequests to colleges and...
Dates: 1907-1964
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

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Democratic Party (U.S.) 34
United States. Congress. Senate 33
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 31
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 23
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 21
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Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 21
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 21
West Virginia. Legislature 21
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 18
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 18
United States. Congress 17
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 16
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 15
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 14
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 13
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 13
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 12
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 12
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 12
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 12
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 11
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 11
West Virginia University 11
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 10
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 10
Byrd, Robert C. 9
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 9
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 9
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 9
Patteson, Okey L. 9
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 9
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 9
United Mine Workers of America 9
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 8
McGraw, John T. 8
Meadows, Clarence W. 8
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 7
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 7
Barron, W. W. 7
Dawson, William M.O. 7
Dayton, Spencer 7
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 7
Green, William. 7
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 7
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 7
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 7
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 7
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 7
Watson, James O. 7
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 7
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 6
Dayton, Alston Gordon 6
Johnson, Louis. 6
Marland, William C. 6
Smith, Hulett C. (Hulett Carlson), 1918-2012 6
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 6
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 5
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 5
Edmiston, Andrew. 5
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 5
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 5
Gore, Howard M. 5
Hechler, Ken 5
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 5
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 5
Underwood, Cecil H., 1922-2008 5
Watson, C. W. 5
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 5
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 4
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 4
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 4
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 4
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 4
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 4
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 4
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 4
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 4
Johnson, George W. 4
Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891 4
Kenna, John E. 4
Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884 4
Mollohan, Robert H. 4
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 4
Staggers, Harley O. 4
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 4
United States. Army 4
United States. Internal Revenue Service 4
United States. Works Progress Administration 4
West Virginia Wesleyan College 4
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 4
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 4
Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910 3
American Federation of Labor 3
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment 3
Bailey, Cleveland Monroe, 1886-1965 3
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 3
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 3
Blizzard, William. 3
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