Lawyers - letters and papers.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview
Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates:
ca. 1840-1955
Charles W. Osenton (b.1865) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1215
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other papers, of a state senate minority leader, 1899-1901, prominent Fayette County lawyer, and Democratic committeeman. Subjects include Osenton's early life; his law training at Georgetown University; his election to the state senate as a "silver" Democrat; William Jennings Bryan's tour of West Virginia, 1908; the presidential election of 1908; and Champ Clark's battle for the Democratic nomination, 1912. The papers also include a collection of...
Dates:
ca. 1847-1920