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Statehood politics -- West Virginia

 Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Virgil Anson Lewis, Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1507
Overview Published and unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and speeches of Virgil A. Lewis (1848-1912), the first state historian and archivist and a former state superintendent of schools. Subjects include the exploration, Indian wars, and settlement of Western Virginia; the Tory insurrection in the Valley of Lost River, 1781; the West Virginia new state movement; Masonry in West Virginia; Andrew S. Rowan; and various West Virginia authors. Correspondents include: George W. Atkinson, Waitman...
Dates: 1895-1912
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1361
Overview

Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), one of the founders of West Virginia. This collection includes letters to Harrison Hagans outlining the varied nature of opposition to the New State in Congress and Willey's position on slavery; letter from the Quartermaster General requesting support of a reorganization bill; cards and social invitations; and obituary clippings.

Dates: 1862-1900
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Waitman T. Willey Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates: 1820-1917
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation, Records regarding Statehood

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0931
Overview

Copies of broadsides, certificates, photographs, and letters pertaining to the formation of the state of West Virginia, its predecessor the Restored Government of Virginia, and the Civil War, featuring the impact of the latter upon Wheeling. There are 41 letters written to civilian prisoner-of-war Dr. Alfred Hughes by his wife and other relatives when he was interned at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio in 1862. (A more detailed inventory of the collection is included in the control folder).

Dates: 1855-1910
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Statehood Documents, Facsimiles of Congressional Act and Monongalia County Petition

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3583
Overview

Facsimiles of two West Virginia statehood documents, including Congressional Act of 1862 and a petition from citizens of Monongalia County for statehood.

Dates: 1862
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Statehood Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1435
Overview Selected correspondence from the Salmon P. Chase and Orlando M. Poe papers include two letters from John S. Carlile of Clarksburg requesting the removal of General William S. Rosecrans and the western Virginia theater; a letter from Governor Francis H. Pierpont concerning a loan of $200,000 for the Reorganized Government of Virginia; a letter from K.V. Whaley concerning the effectiveness of Northern arms shipped to the Ceredo area; and letters from Poe, an aide to McClellan, to his wife...
Dates: 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Johnson, Virginia Delegate, Letter regarding Secession Convention

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4274
Scope and Contents Letter from William Johnson, who at the time represented Barbour County in the Virginia House of Delegates. The letter may be addressed to Colonel Jesse Teter, Esq.; it was sent from Richmond, VA, and dated 1861 March 25. It includes a recounting of recent events in the House, and mentions "the Hamilton Draft", a bill transferring the James River and Kanawha Canal to "the French Company", the activities of the Virginia Secession Convention and the author's concerns about its effectiveness....
Dates: 1861 March 25
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Price (1803-1881), Letter Regarding Wheeling Convention

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3004
Overview

Letter from the Monongalia Co. State Senator and representative to the Wheeling Convention of 1861. Describes the Convention and his anti-secession, but pro-slavery sentiments.

Dates: 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center