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The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil Sheridan; and his return to Orange County, Virginia, where following the passage of the Secession Ordinance he enlisted in the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry serving as chief musician. The memoir concludes with Mugler's military career during 1861-1862. The diary covers the remainder of his military service, 1862-1864, and his confinement as a war prisoner at Elmira, New York, 1864-1865. Following the war, Mugler returned to Washington, D.C., and eventually gained employment with the National Cemetery Corps, working at various Virginia battlefields. While in Virginia he served as a delegate to the Virginia Republican Convention of 1867. He worked at the National Cemetery at Grafton and for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, eventually becoming superintendent of painters on the Road Division in West Virginia. After 1874 he worked briefly as a self-employed painter, and then opened a paint and hardware store in Grafton which he managed until the end of his life. Subjects include the Battle of Mine Run, the retreat from Antietam, the Battle of the Wilderness, prison life at Elmira, New York; reconstruction in Virginia; railroading and the railroad towns of Keyser, Oakland (Maryland), Parkersburg, Fairmont, and Wheeling; the strikes of 1877; interviews with Generals Ord and Sheridan; the Murphy Temperance Movement and W.C.T.U. activities; the Liberal Republican movement of 1872; the Greenback Party; the Chicago World's Fair of 1893; political figures such as John S. Carlile, John G. Carlisle, John T. McGraw, John W. 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The diary covers the remainder of his military service, 1862-1864, and his confinement as a war prisoner at Elmira, New York, 1864-1865. Following the war, Mugler returned to Washington, D.C., and eventually gained employment with the National Cemetery Corps, working at various Virginia battlefields. While in Virginia he served as a delegate to the Virginia Republican Convention of 1867. He worked at the National Cemetery at Grafton and for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, eventually becoming superintendent of painters on the Road Division in West Virginia. After 1874 he worked briefly as a self-employed painter, and then opened a paint and hardware store in Grafton which he managed until the end of his life. 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He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.","He was born near Woodstock, Maryland on November 16, 1823, and was the second son of four children. He received a limited public-school education and left school at age 15 to support his family after his father's contracting business failed and left the family destitute. Davis first worked at a local quarry, as a water boy, and then as the caretaker of the Waverly Farm, the nearby farm owned by former Maryland Governor George Howard.","Davis began his railroading career in 1842 at age nineteen as a brakeman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, then still under construction. He eventually advanced to the position of freight conductor, and then passenger conductor. Reportedly at Davis's request, he was appointed station agent for the Piedmont Station at Piedmont, [West] Virginia, because he wanted to explore the timber and coal resources of the Upper Potomac River region. About this same time, Davis established a mercantile lumber and coal business with his younger brothers Thomas B. Davis and William R. Davis at Piedmont. This business was known as H.G. Davis and Company (later H.G. Davis and Brother). Davis left the B\u0026O in 1858 to focus on his business concerns. One of these concerns was the Piedmont Savings Bank, which he founded in 1858 and for which he served as president. Davis, like so many entrepreneurs, made extraordinary profits during the Civil War. Profits from the sale of horses to the federal government and timber and ties to the B\u0026O Railroad enabled H.G. Davis and Company to invest in several thousand acres of coal and timber lands in the Upper Potomac and Cheat rivers region, at a cost said to be as cheap as one dollar per acre.","Davis founded the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company to provide railroad access to his coal and timber lands. In 1866 the West Virginia State Legislature, by a special act, incorporated the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company, granting the incorporators the right to mine coal, build factories and sawmills, buy and sell real estate, and build a railroad. It would be several years before Davis acted on the charter. Construction of the railroad finally began in 1880 at Bloomington, Maryland, and by 1881 the line had reached his mines at Elk Garden, West Virginia. Davis shipped the first Elk Garden coal to Baltimore in October 1881. A new railroad charter was granted in 1881 and Davis renamed the line the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway (WVC). By 1884 the line had reached present-day Davis, then Parsons in 1888, and Elkins (then Leadville) in 1889. Meanwhile in 1886, Davis created a subsidiary railroad, the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company (P\u0026C). The P\u0026C connected the WVC with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cumberland. In 1902 Davis sold the WVC and P\u0026C to George J. Gould, a railroad magnate, who was purchasing and consolidating rail lines to create an intercontinental railroad.","Davis desired to expand his rail network and in 1899 decided to construct a rail line connecting the WVC at Elkins with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Durbin, West Virginia. This line became the Coal and Iron Railway (C\u0026I) and was completed in 1902. Davis used the profits of the sale of the WVC to fund construction of the C\u0026I. Not finished yet with railroad construction, Davis incorporated the Coal and Coke Railway Company (C\u0026C) in 1902 to exploit his Roaring Creek coal properties located in Randolph County. This new line ran from Elkins to Charleston via the Elk River through some of West Virginia's most difficult terrain. The C\u0026C connected the Western Maryland at Elkins with the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad at Charleston, providing new markets for West Virginia coal. Construction commenced in 1903 and was completed in 1905, requiring twelve tunnels and thirty steel bridges. The town Gassaway, in Braxton County, was located at the mid-point of the rail line and became the divisional headquarters of the line. Ultimately, the WVC, P\u0026C, and C\u0026I were acquired by the Western Maryland Railroad and the C\u0026C was absorbed by the B\u0026O.","Early on in his career, Davis recognized that being in politics would further his business. Consequently, Davis ran for office on the democratic platform and was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1865 representing Hampshire County. Davis was very influential in the creation of Mineral and Grant counties in 1866, an effort which advanced his business interests. He was elected to the West Virginia Senate in 1868 and served in that capacity until 1871, when he was elected to the United States Senate. Davis served as a West Virginia Senator from 1871 to 1883.","Davis retired from politics in 1883 and returned to West Virginia to oversee his coal and banking interests. He then formed the Davis Coal and Coke Company with his son-in-law Stephen B. Elkins in 1886. The company controlled 135,000 acres of coal and timber lands, employed 1600 workers, operated nine mines, and furnished coal to be coked in its more than 1000 coke ovens. By 1892 Davis Coal and Coke was one of the largest coal producers world-wide.","Reluctantly, Davis was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate in the 1904 presidential election with Alton B. Parker as his running mate and presidential candidate. They lost to the Roosevelt-Fairbanks ticket by a wide margin. In running for office at the age of 80 Davis had become, and remains, one of the oldest candidates to have ever run for vice president of the United States.","Although retired from public service, Davis was appointed to represent the United States at the Pan-American Conferences (1889-1902) and later was appointed permanent chairman of the Pan-American Railway Committee, which he served from 1901 to his death in 1916. (The Pan-American Railway was a failed intercontinental railroad scheme. Promoters wanted to connect the capitals and principle cities of South and Central America with North America by rail). Davis also served as Chairman of the West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission in 1913, the group tasked with planning the \"Golden Jubilee\" or 50th anniversary of West Virginia statehood.","Davis's philanthropic legacy was notable. His charitable activities included funding the Davis Children's Shelter in Charleston, West Virginia, a shelter for orphaned and neglected children (1896); the Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church, a church built in memory of his wife Katherine Bantz Davis; and the Davis Memorial Hospital in Davis, also constructed as a memorial to his deceased wife.  Perhaps most notably, he donated the land for Davis and Elkins College in 1904, a liberal arts college named in honor of H.G. Davis and Stephen B. Elkins.","Davis married Katherine Ann Salome Bantz on 22 February 1853. The couple had eight children, three of whom died in infancy. The oldest child, Mary Louise \"Hallie\" Davis, married US Senator Stephen B. Elkins on 14 April 1875, linking the names Davis and Elkins forever.","Daughter Grace Thomas Davis became the namesake of Graceland, Davis's country mansion in Davis, West Virginia, and after his wife died she became his hostess for events held at the mansion. His older son Henry Gassaway Davis was something of a troubled soul, and was lost at sea in 1896. His youngest son John Thomas Davis worked closely with his father, was later associated with Davis and Elkins College, and became a coal operator and banker.","Henry Gassaway Davis passed in Washington D.C. on 11 March 1916 at the age of 93. He is interred at Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, West Virginia.","Sources:","Clarke, Alan. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg: a Western Maryland Predecessor. Lynchburg: TLC Publishing. 2003.","Hicks, W. Raymond. \"The West Virginia Central \u0026 Pittsburgh Railway. The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43518154","Lewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University off North Carolina Press, 1998.","Rice, Donald L. \"Coal \u0026 Coke Railway.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337","Ross, Thomas Richard. \"Henry Gassaway Davis.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1711","13, 717, 1028","Correspondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia.  He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.  The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well.  His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads.  Types of documents include letters, reports, account books, and maps, among other material.  Much of the correspondence is arranged alphabetically.  The scope and content note of each record series provides substantial detail regarding content.","Series include:  \nSeries 1a. Business Papers, 1882-1909 (boxes 1-29)  \nSeries 1b. Banking Records, 1886-1916 (boxes 30-33)  \nSeries 2. Coal Company Operations, 1799-1915 (boxes 34-48)  \nSeries 3. Miscellaneous Papers, 1855-1916 (boxes 49-62)  \nSeries 4. Miscellaneous Letters, 1872-1915 (boxes 63-65)  \nSeries 5. Miscellaneous Bills and Receipts, 1872-1918 (boxes 66-82)  \nSeries 6. Miscellaneous, 1872-1916 (boxes 83-115)  \nSeries 7. Alexander Shaw Lawsuit, 1880-1894 (boxes 116-118)  \nSeries 8. Personal and Political Papers, 1870-1916 (boxes 119-145)  \nSeries 9. Railroads, 1862-1916 (boxes 146-189)  \nSeries 10. West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission, 1911 August 9–1913 July 26 (box 190)  \nSeries 11. T.B. Davis Papers, 1879-1915 (box 191)  \nSeries 12. Davis Memorial Hospital and Church, 1898-1916 (boxes 192-193)  \nSeries 13. H.G. Davis and Brother, 1868-1905 (boxes 194-197)  \nSeries 14. Real Estate and Timber, 1869-1915 (boxes 198-202)  \nSeries 15. H.G. Davis Letter Books, 1865-1916 (boxes 203-231)  \nSeries 16. West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company Letter Books, 1880-1903 (boxes 232-240)  \nSeries 17. Minute, Letter, and Other Books, 1881-1914 (boxes 241-247)  \nSeries 18. Oversized Ledgers, 1884-1913 (boxes 248-260)","Among Davis's correspondents are:  \nU.S. Representative John D. Alderson  \nWest Virginia Governor George W. Atkinson  \nU.S. Senator William Henry Barnum  \nU.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Thomas F. Bayard  \nU.S. Minister to the Netherlands August Belmont, Sr.  \nU.S. Senator James G. Blaine  \nU.S. Senator Calvin S. Brice  \nU.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan  \nU.S. Senator Johnson N. Camden  \nindustrialist Andrew Carnegie  \nPresident of Mexico General Porfirio Díaz  \nU.S. Secretary of War Stephen Benton Elkins  \nU.S. Minister to France Charles J. Faulkner, Sr.  \nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President John W. Garrett  \nOlympian Robert S. Garrett  \nJames Cardinal Gibbons (Cardinal, Archbishop of Baltimore)  \nU.S. Senator Arthur Pue Gorman  \nU.S. President Benjamin Harrison  \nConfederate cartographer Jedidiah (Jed) Hotchkiss  \nMaryland Governor Elihu Emory Jackson  \nU.S. Senator John E. Kenna  \nU.S. Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont  \nU.S. Congressman Adam Brown Littlepage  \nU.S. Representative James Tilghman Lloyd  \nPresident of the WV Supreme Court of Appeals Daniel Bedinger Lucas  \nConsul General of Wurttemberg Charles F. Mayer  \nWest Virginia Governor William A. McCorkle  \nU.S. Senator John R. McPherson  \nU.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph S. Miller  \nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President Oscar G. Murray  \nPennsylvania Railroad President George Brooke Roberts  \nSouthern Railway President Samuel Spencer  \nU.S. Senator Thomas Taggart  \nU.S. Senator Daniel W. Voorhees  \nU.S. Senator Thomas J. Walsh  \nU.S. Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney  \nMaryland Governor William Pinkney Whyte  \nU.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Windom","This series includes H.G. Davis's incoming business correspondence. It consists of daily communications from his managers related to the day-to-day operations of the Buxton and Landstreet Store (the company store), Coal and Coke Railroad, Davis Coal and Coke Company, Davis Colliery Company, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, and his other business concerns. There is also incoming correspondence from the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio railroads, and numerous manufacturers and vendors. In addition to the business correspondence, some of Davis's personal and family correspondence is filed in this series as well, including materials regarding charity, financial solicitations, and other topics.","This series includes bank account books, bank account balance sheets, and bank statements for various H.G. Davis enterprises, including Davis and Trout, H.G. Davis and Company, H.G. Davis and Brother, and T.B. Davis and Company. In addition, there are sawmill accounts and other inventories.","This series includes day-to-day correspondence relating to the operation and conditions of the Davis Coal and Coke and the Davis Colliery companies coal mines and coke ovens. Other correspondence includes coal car availability, coal quality issues, estimates and costs for coal town construction, miners' wages, and the price of coal.","These papers include construction estimates for railroad buildings and bridges, correspondence with the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, correspondence with railroad construction contractors, memoranda of agreement between H.G. Davis and other railroads, miscellaneous financial statements, and papers regarding the formation of Seaboard Steam Coal Association (a coal producer syndicate). Other materials include deeds, maps, newspaper clippings regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and newspaper clippings regarding the 1916 death of H.G. Davis.","This series includes miscellaneous correspondence and letters, as well as deeds, financial statements, and memoranda of agreement.","The majority of these papers are bank statements for several banks including the Davis National Bank, Davis National Bank-Piedmont, Davis Trust Company, Elkins National Bank, Piedmont National Bank, Trust Company of West Virginia, Tucker County Bank, and the 1st National Bank of Elkins, as well as statements from the Davis Electric Light Company and various coal and coke production statements. There are also bank account books, blank checks, check registers, and check stubs.","This series includes miscellaneous business correspondence related to land acquisitions and railroads; miscellaneous banking, financial, and tax statements; various lawsuits and other litigation records; and documents regarding the Gassaway, West Virginia reservoir and water works.","These documents are related to the Alexander Shaw v. H.G. Davis and the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company lawsuit, which concerned the construction of the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company. There are legal briefs, depositions, and testimony; financial statements for the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies; and other lawsuit related documents.","Personal papers include financial statements; correspondence regarding the Davis Children's Shelter; documents related to the design and construction of Graceland, including correspondence with Baldwin and Pennington (Graceland's architects); and obituary notices for the 1902 death of Katherine Bantz Davis, wife of H.G. Davis. Political papers include letters related to the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial celebration; correspondence and materials related to Davis's 1904 Vice Presidential nomination, such as congratulatory telegrams, and other Parker/Davis ticket papers; and other political letters.","This series includes day-to-day correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies. Other records regard the Coal and Coke Railway, the Coal and Iron Railway (surveys and related documents), the Cookerly Farm Railroad War, the Pan-American Railroad commission, and the Potomac and Piedmont Coal Railway Company (1866 charter and related materials). There is also correspondence with other railroad companies, Shaw lawsuit materials, financial statements, payrolls for various farm and railroad departments, and materials regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.","This series includes correspondence related to the \"Golden Jubilee,\" the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of West Virginia's statehood. The correspondence regards the purchasing of American flags for each of West Virginia's fifty-five counties, the composition of a state poem and state song, and the appointment of West Virginia University Professor James Morton Callahan to author a semi-centennial history of West Virginia.","These papers are related to Thomas B. Davis's estate such as financial statements for his business concerns of H.G. Davis and Company and its successor H.G. Davis and Brother, as well as other estate related documents.","The Hospital and Church were both built in memory of H.G. Davis's wife Katherine Bantz Davis. The Hospital papers include financial reports, miscellaneous letters, and various pamphlets from other hospitals. The Church papers include correspondence from architects Harding and Upman, and various catalogs and documents relating to the church organ, seating, light fixtures, roofing, and ironwork.","These papers are related to the business concerns of H.G. Davis and his brother Thomas B. Davis. Materials include correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, deeds for their various railroads, railroad survey proposals and cost estimates, and real estate tax records. There are also employee rosters and payrolls for the Deer Park sawmill.","These materials include correspondence related to the acquisition and sale of real estate, including timber and coal lands.","This series contains letter books of outgoing correspondence.","These letters include correspondence from E.W.S. Moore (treasurer/secretary) and C.M. Headley (assistant to the president) regarding the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company. There is also outgoing correspondence from the President's Office regarding the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company.","These materials include H.G. Davis check stubs, 1896 Intercontinental Railway Commission Report, Hamilton Coal Company Stock Certificate Book, Hamilton Coal Company Minute Book, Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company letter books, Gassaway Development Company correspondence, and Gassaway Church correspondence. There are also C.M. Headley (assistant to the president) outgoing letters regarding Hamilton Coal Company, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company, the Coal and Iron Railroad, and the Coal and Coke Railway.","Oversized volumes include the Central Railway of Virginia (unrelated to the Virginia Central Railroad) Board of Directors ledger and route survey reports; Central Railroad of West Virginia (unrelated to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway) ledger and stockholders' minutes; newspaper clippings scrapbook (1884-1894); H.G. Davis's personal name and address books; C.M. Headley's (assistant to the president) outgoing correspondence (1893-1894); and West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission letter book (1911-1913).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHe was born near Woodstock, Maryland on November 16, 1823, and was the second son of four children. He received a limited public-school education and left school at age 15 to support his family after his father's contracting business failed and left the family destitute. Davis first worked at a local quarry, as a water boy, and then as the caretaker of the Waverly Farm, the nearby farm owned by former Maryland Governor George Howard.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis began his railroading career in 1842 at age nineteen as a brakeman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, then still under construction. He eventually advanced to the position of freight conductor, and then passenger conductor. Reportedly at Davis's request, he was appointed station agent for the Piedmont Station at Piedmont, [West] Virginia, because he wanted to explore the timber and coal resources of the Upper Potomac River region. About this same time, Davis established a mercantile lumber and coal business with his younger brothers Thomas B. Davis and William R. Davis at Piedmont. This business was known as H.G. Davis and Company (later H.G. Davis and Brother). Davis left the B\u0026amp;O in 1858 to focus on his business concerns. One of these concerns was the Piedmont Savings Bank, which he founded in 1858 and for which he served as president. Davis, like so many entrepreneurs, made extraordinary profits during the Civil War. Profits from the sale of horses to the federal government and timber and ties to the B\u0026amp;O Railroad enabled H.G. Davis and Company to invest in several thousand acres of coal and timber lands in the Upper Potomac and Cheat rivers region, at a cost said to be as cheap as one dollar per acre.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis founded the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company to provide railroad access to his coal and timber lands. In 1866 the West Virginia State Legislature, by a special act, incorporated the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company, granting the incorporators the right to mine coal, build factories and sawmills, buy and sell real estate, and build a railroad. It would be several years before Davis acted on the charter. Construction of the railroad finally began in 1880 at Bloomington, Maryland, and by 1881 the line had reached his mines at Elk Garden, West Virginia. Davis shipped the first Elk Garden coal to Baltimore in October 1881. A new railroad charter was granted in 1881 and Davis renamed the line the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway (WVC). By 1884 the line had reached present-day Davis, then Parsons in 1888, and Elkins (then Leadville) in 1889. Meanwhile in 1886, Davis created a subsidiary railroad, the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company (P\u0026amp;C). The P\u0026amp;C connected the WVC with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cumberland. In 1902 Davis sold the WVC and P\u0026amp;C to George J. Gould, a railroad magnate, who was purchasing and consolidating rail lines to create an intercontinental railroad.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis desired to expand his rail network and in 1899 decided to construct a rail line connecting the WVC at Elkins with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Durbin, West Virginia. This line became the Coal and Iron Railway (C\u0026amp;I) and was completed in 1902. Davis used the profits of the sale of the WVC to fund construction of the C\u0026amp;I. Not finished yet with railroad construction, Davis incorporated the Coal and Coke Railway Company (C\u0026amp;C) in 1902 to exploit his Roaring Creek coal properties located in Randolph County. This new line ran from Elkins to Charleston via the Elk River through some of West Virginia's most difficult terrain. The C\u0026amp;C connected the Western Maryland at Elkins with the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad at Charleston, providing new markets for West Virginia coal. Construction commenced in 1903 and was completed in 1905, requiring twelve tunnels and thirty steel bridges. The town Gassaway, in Braxton County, was located at the mid-point of the rail line and became the divisional headquarters of the line. Ultimately, the WVC, P\u0026amp;C, and C\u0026amp;I were acquired by the Western Maryland Railroad and the C\u0026amp;C was absorbed by the B\u0026amp;O.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEarly on in his career, Davis recognized that being in politics would further his business. Consequently, Davis ran for office on the democratic platform and was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1865 representing Hampshire County. Davis was very influential in the creation of Mineral and Grant counties in 1866, an effort which advanced his business interests. He was elected to the West Virginia Senate in 1868 and served in that capacity until 1871, when he was elected to the United States Senate. Davis served as a West Virginia Senator from 1871 to 1883.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis retired from politics in 1883 and returned to West Virginia to oversee his coal and banking interests. He then formed the Davis Coal and Coke Company with his son-in-law Stephen B. Elkins in 1886. The company controlled 135,000 acres of coal and timber lands, employed 1600 workers, operated nine mines, and furnished coal to be coked in its more than 1000 coke ovens. By 1892 Davis Coal and Coke was one of the largest coal producers world-wide.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReluctantly, Davis was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate in the 1904 presidential election with Alton B. Parker as his running mate and presidential candidate. They lost to the Roosevelt-Fairbanks ticket by a wide margin. In running for office at the age of 80 Davis had become, and remains, one of the oldest candidates to have ever run for vice president of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlthough retired from public service, Davis was appointed to represent the United States at the Pan-American Conferences (1889-1902) and later was appointed permanent chairman of the Pan-American Railway Committee, which he served from 1901 to his death in 1916. (The Pan-American Railway was a failed intercontinental railroad scheme. Promoters wanted to connect the capitals and principle cities of South and Central America with North America by rail). Davis also served as Chairman of the West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission in 1913, the group tasked with planning the \"Golden Jubilee\" or 50th anniversary of West Virginia statehood.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis's philanthropic legacy was notable. His charitable activities included funding the Davis Children's Shelter in Charleston, West Virginia, a shelter for orphaned and neglected children (1896); the Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church, a church built in memory of his wife Katherine Bantz Davis; and the Davis Memorial Hospital in Davis, also constructed as a memorial to his deceased wife.  Perhaps most notably, he donated the land for Davis and Elkins College in 1904, a liberal arts college named in honor of H.G. Davis and Stephen B. Elkins.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis married Katherine Ann Salome Bantz on 22 February 1853. The couple had eight children, three of whom died in infancy. The oldest child, Mary Louise \"Hallie\" Davis, married US Senator Stephen B. Elkins on 14 April 1875, linking the names Davis and Elkins forever.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDaughter Grace Thomas Davis became the namesake of Graceland, Davis's country mansion in Davis, West Virginia, and after his wife died she became his hostess for events held at the mansion. His older son Henry Gassaway Davis was something of a troubled soul, and was lost at sea in 1896. His youngest son John Thomas Davis worked closely with his father, was later associated with Davis and Elkins College, and became a coal operator and banker.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHenry Gassaway Davis passed in Washington D.C. on 11 March 1916 at the age of 93. He is interred at Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eClarke, Alan. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg: a Western Maryland Predecessor. Lynchburg: TLC Publishing. 2003.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHicks, W. Raymond. \"The West Virginia Central \u0026amp; Pittsburgh Railway. The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43518154\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University off North Carolina Press, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRice, Donald L. \"Coal \u0026amp; Coke Railway.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRoss, Thomas Richard. \"Henry Gassaway Davis.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1711\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Gassaway Davis","Henry Gassaway Davis (11/16/1823-03/11/1916) was a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia.  He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.","He was born near Woodstock, Maryland on November 16, 1823, and was the second son of four children. He received a limited public-school education and left school at age 15 to support his family after his father's contracting business failed and left the family destitute. Davis first worked at a local quarry, as a water boy, and then as the caretaker of the Waverly Farm, the nearby farm owned by former Maryland Governor George Howard.","Davis began his railroading career in 1842 at age nineteen as a brakeman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, then still under construction. He eventually advanced to the position of freight conductor, and then passenger conductor. Reportedly at Davis's request, he was appointed station agent for the Piedmont Station at Piedmont, [West] Virginia, because he wanted to explore the timber and coal resources of the Upper Potomac River region. About this same time, Davis established a mercantile lumber and coal business with his younger brothers Thomas B. Davis and William R. Davis at Piedmont. This business was known as H.G. Davis and Company (later H.G. Davis and Brother). Davis left the B\u0026O in 1858 to focus on his business concerns. One of these concerns was the Piedmont Savings Bank, which he founded in 1858 and for which he served as president. Davis, like so many entrepreneurs, made extraordinary profits during the Civil War. Profits from the sale of horses to the federal government and timber and ties to the B\u0026O Railroad enabled H.G. Davis and Company to invest in several thousand acres of coal and timber lands in the Upper Potomac and Cheat rivers region, at a cost said to be as cheap as one dollar per acre.","Davis founded the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company to provide railroad access to his coal and timber lands. In 1866 the West Virginia State Legislature, by a special act, incorporated the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company, granting the incorporators the right to mine coal, build factories and sawmills, buy and sell real estate, and build a railroad. It would be several years before Davis acted on the charter. Construction of the railroad finally began in 1880 at Bloomington, Maryland, and by 1881 the line had reached his mines at Elk Garden, West Virginia. Davis shipped the first Elk Garden coal to Baltimore in October 1881. A new railroad charter was granted in 1881 and Davis renamed the line the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway (WVC). By 1884 the line had reached present-day Davis, then Parsons in 1888, and Elkins (then Leadville) in 1889. Meanwhile in 1886, Davis created a subsidiary railroad, the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company (P\u0026C). The P\u0026C connected the WVC with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cumberland. In 1902 Davis sold the WVC and P\u0026C to George J. Gould, a railroad magnate, who was purchasing and consolidating rail lines to create an intercontinental railroad.","Davis desired to expand his rail network and in 1899 decided to construct a rail line connecting the WVC at Elkins with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Durbin, West Virginia. This line became the Coal and Iron Railway (C\u0026I) and was completed in 1902. Davis used the profits of the sale of the WVC to fund construction of the C\u0026I. Not finished yet with railroad construction, Davis incorporated the Coal and Coke Railway Company (C\u0026C) in 1902 to exploit his Roaring Creek coal properties located in Randolph County. This new line ran from Elkins to Charleston via the Elk River through some of West Virginia's most difficult terrain. The C\u0026C connected the Western Maryland at Elkins with the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad at Charleston, providing new markets for West Virginia coal. Construction commenced in 1903 and was completed in 1905, requiring twelve tunnels and thirty steel bridges. The town Gassaway, in Braxton County, was located at the mid-point of the rail line and became the divisional headquarters of the line. Ultimately, the WVC, P\u0026C, and C\u0026I were acquired by the Western Maryland Railroad and the C\u0026C was absorbed by the B\u0026O.","Early on in his career, Davis recognized that being in politics would further his business. Consequently, Davis ran for office on the democratic platform and was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1865 representing Hampshire County. Davis was very influential in the creation of Mineral and Grant counties in 1866, an effort which advanced his business interests. He was elected to the West Virginia Senate in 1868 and served in that capacity until 1871, when he was elected to the United States Senate. Davis served as a West Virginia Senator from 1871 to 1883.","Davis retired from politics in 1883 and returned to West Virginia to oversee his coal and banking interests. He then formed the Davis Coal and Coke Company with his son-in-law Stephen B. Elkins in 1886. The company controlled 135,000 acres of coal and timber lands, employed 1600 workers, operated nine mines, and furnished coal to be coked in its more than 1000 coke ovens. By 1892 Davis Coal and Coke was one of the largest coal producers world-wide.","Reluctantly, Davis was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate in the 1904 presidential election with Alton B. Parker as his running mate and presidential candidate. They lost to the Roosevelt-Fairbanks ticket by a wide margin. In running for office at the age of 80 Davis had become, and remains, one of the oldest candidates to have ever run for vice president of the United States.","Although retired from public service, Davis was appointed to represent the United States at the Pan-American Conferences (1889-1902) and later was appointed permanent chairman of the Pan-American Railway Committee, which he served from 1901 to his death in 1916. (The Pan-American Railway was a failed intercontinental railroad scheme. Promoters wanted to connect the capitals and principle cities of South and Central America with North America by rail). Davis also served as Chairman of the West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission in 1913, the group tasked with planning the \"Golden Jubilee\" or 50th anniversary of West Virginia statehood.","Davis's philanthropic legacy was notable. His charitable activities included funding the Davis Children's Shelter in Charleston, West Virginia, a shelter for orphaned and neglected children (1896); the Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church, a church built in memory of his wife Katherine Bantz Davis; and the Davis Memorial Hospital in Davis, also constructed as a memorial to his deceased wife.  Perhaps most notably, he donated the land for Davis and Elkins College in 1904, a liberal arts college named in honor of H.G. Davis and Stephen B. Elkins.","Davis married Katherine Ann Salome Bantz on 22 February 1853. The couple had eight children, three of whom died in infancy. The oldest child, Mary Louise \"Hallie\" Davis, married US Senator Stephen B. Elkins on 14 April 1875, linking the names Davis and Elkins forever.","Daughter Grace Thomas Davis became the namesake of Graceland, Davis's country mansion in Davis, West Virginia, and after his wife died she became his hostess for events held at the mansion. His older son Henry Gassaway Davis was something of a troubled soul, and was lost at sea in 1896. His youngest son John Thomas Davis worked closely with his father, was later associated with Davis and Elkins College, and became a coal operator and banker.","Henry Gassaway Davis passed in Washington D.C. on 11 March 1916 at the age of 93. He is interred at Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, West Virginia.","Sources:","Clarke, Alan. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg: a Western Maryland Predecessor. Lynchburg: TLC Publishing. 2003.","Hicks, W. Raymond. \"The West Virginia Central \u0026 Pittsburgh Railway. The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43518154","Lewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University off North Carolina Press, 1998.","Rice, Donald L. \"Coal \u0026 Coke Railway.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337","Ross, Thomas Richard. \"Henry Gassaway Davis.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1711"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers, A\u0026amp;M 0013, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers, A\u0026M 0013, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e13, 717, 1028\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related A\u0026M Collections"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["13, 717, 1028"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia.  He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.  The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well.  His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads.  Types of documents include letters, reports, account books, and maps, among other material.  Much of the correspondence is arranged alphabetically.  The scope and content note of each record series provides substantial detail regarding content.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1a. Business Papers, 1882-1909 (boxes 1-29) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1b. Banking Records, 1886-1916 (boxes 30-33) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Coal Company Operations, 1799-1915 (boxes 34-48) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Miscellaneous Papers, 1855-1916 (boxes 49-62) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Miscellaneous Letters, 1872-1915 (boxes 63-65) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous Bills and Receipts, 1872-1918 (boxes 66-82) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Miscellaneous, 1872-1916 (boxes 83-115) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Alexander Shaw Lawsuit, 1880-1894 (boxes 116-118) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Personal and Political Papers, 1870-1916 (boxes 119-145) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Railroads, 1862-1916 (boxes 146-189) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission, 1911 August 9–1913 July 26 (box 190) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. T.B. Davis Papers, 1879-1915 (box 191) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Davis Memorial Hospital and Church, 1898-1916 (boxes 192-193) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 13. H.G. Davis and Brother, 1868-1905 (boxes 194-197) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 14. Real Estate and Timber, 1869-1915 (boxes 198-202) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 15. H.G. Davis Letter Books, 1865-1916 (boxes 203-231) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 16. West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company Letter Books, 1880-1903 (boxes 232-240) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 17. Minute, Letter, and Other Books, 1881-1914 (boxes 241-247) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 18. Oversized Ledgers, 1884-1913 (boxes 248-260)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAmong Davis's correspondents are: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Representative John D. Alderson \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWest Virginia Governor George W. Atkinson \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator William Henry Barnum \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Thomas F. Bayard \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Minister to the Netherlands August Belmont, Sr. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator James G. Blaine \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Calvin S. Brice \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Johnson N. Camden \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nindustrialist Andrew Carnegie \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPresident of Mexico General Porfirio Díaz \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Secretary of War Stephen Benton Elkins \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Minister to France Charles J. Faulkner, Sr. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President John W. Garrett \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nOlympian Robert S. Garrett \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Cardinal Gibbons (Cardinal, Archbishop of Baltimore) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Arthur Pue Gorman \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. President Benjamin Harrison \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nConfederate cartographer Jedidiah (Jed) Hotchkiss \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMaryland Governor Elihu Emory Jackson \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator John E. Kenna \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Congressman Adam Brown Littlepage \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Representative James Tilghman Lloyd \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPresident of the WV Supreme Court of Appeals Daniel Bedinger Lucas \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nConsul General of Wurttemberg Charles F. Mayer \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWest Virginia Governor William A. McCorkle \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator John R. McPherson \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph S. Miller \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President Oscar G. Murray \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPennsylvania Railroad President George Brooke Roberts \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSouthern Railway President Samuel Spencer \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Thomas Taggart \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Daniel W. Voorhees \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Thomas J. Walsh \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMaryland Governor William Pinkney Whyte \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Windom\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes H.G. Davis's incoming business correspondence. It consists of daily communications from his managers related to the day-to-day operations of the Buxton and Landstreet Store (the company store), Coal and Coke Railroad, Davis Coal and Coke Company, Davis Colliery Company, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, and his other business concerns. There is also incoming correspondence from the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio railroads, and numerous manufacturers and vendors. In addition to the business correspondence, some of Davis's personal and family correspondence is filed in this series as well, including materials regarding charity, financial solicitations, and other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes bank account books, bank account balance sheets, and bank statements for various H.G. Davis enterprises, including Davis and Trout, H.G. Davis and Company, H.G. Davis and Brother, and T.B. Davis and Company. In addition, there are sawmill accounts and other inventories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes day-to-day correspondence relating to the operation and conditions of the Davis Coal and Coke and the Davis Colliery companies coal mines and coke ovens. Other correspondence includes coal car availability, coal quality issues, estimates and costs for coal town construction, miners' wages, and the price of coal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese papers include construction estimates for railroad buildings and bridges, correspondence with the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, correspondence with railroad construction contractors, memoranda of agreement between H.G. Davis and other railroads, miscellaneous financial statements, and papers regarding the formation of Seaboard Steam Coal Association (a coal producer syndicate). Other materials include deeds, maps, newspaper clippings regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and newspaper clippings regarding the 1916 death of H.G. Davis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes miscellaneous correspondence and letters, as well as deeds, financial statements, and memoranda of agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe majority of these papers are bank statements for several banks including the Davis National Bank, Davis National Bank-Piedmont, Davis Trust Company, Elkins National Bank, Piedmont National Bank, Trust Company of West Virginia, Tucker County Bank, and the 1st National Bank of Elkins, as well as statements from the Davis Electric Light Company and various coal and coke production statements. There are also bank account books, blank checks, check registers, and check stubs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes miscellaneous business correspondence related to land acquisitions and railroads; miscellaneous banking, financial, and tax statements; various lawsuits and other litigation records; and documents regarding the Gassaway, West Virginia reservoir and water works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese documents are related to the Alexander Shaw v. H.G. Davis and the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company lawsuit, which concerned the construction of the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company. There are legal briefs, depositions, and testimony; financial statements for the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies; and other lawsuit related documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal papers include financial statements; correspondence regarding the Davis Children's Shelter; documents related to the design and construction of Graceland, including correspondence with Baldwin and Pennington (Graceland's architects); and obituary notices for the 1902 death of Katherine Bantz Davis, wife of H.G. Davis. Political papers include letters related to the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial celebration; correspondence and materials related to Davis's 1904 Vice Presidential nomination, such as congratulatory telegrams, and other Parker/Davis ticket papers; and other political letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes day-to-day correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies. Other records regard the Coal and Coke Railway, the Coal and Iron Railway (surveys and related documents), the Cookerly Farm Railroad War, the Pan-American Railroad commission, and the Potomac and Piedmont Coal Railway Company (1866 charter and related materials). There is also correspondence with other railroad companies, Shaw lawsuit materials, financial statements, payrolls for various farm and railroad departments, and materials regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence related to the \"Golden Jubilee,\" the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of West Virginia's statehood. The correspondence regards the purchasing of American flags for each of West Virginia's fifty-five counties, the composition of a state poem and state song, and the appointment of West Virginia University Professor James Morton Callahan to author a semi-centennial history of West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese papers are related to Thomas B. Davis's estate such as financial statements for his business concerns of H.G. Davis and Company and its successor H.G. Davis and Brother, as well as other estate related documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Hospital and Church were both built in memory of H.G. Davis's wife Katherine Bantz Davis. The Hospital papers include financial reports, miscellaneous letters, and various pamphlets from other hospitals. The Church papers include correspondence from architects Harding and Upman, and various catalogs and documents relating to the church organ, seating, light fixtures, roofing, and ironwork.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese papers are related to the business concerns of H.G. Davis and his brother Thomas B. Davis. Materials include correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, deeds for their various railroads, railroad survey proposals and cost estimates, and real estate tax records. There are also employee rosters and payrolls for the Deer Park sawmill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese materials include correspondence related to the acquisition and sale of real estate, including timber and coal lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains letter books of outgoing correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters include correspondence from E.W.S. Moore (treasurer/secretary) and C.M. Headley (assistant to the president) regarding the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company. There is also outgoing correspondence from the President's Office regarding the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese materials include H.G. Davis check stubs, 1896 Intercontinental Railway Commission Report, Hamilton Coal Company Stock Certificate Book, Hamilton Coal Company Minute Book, Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company letter books, Gassaway Development Company correspondence, and Gassaway Church correspondence. There are also C.M. Headley (assistant to the president) outgoing letters regarding Hamilton Coal Company, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company, the Coal and Iron Railroad, and the Coal and Coke Railway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOversized volumes include the Central Railway of Virginia (unrelated to the Virginia Central Railroad) Board of Directors ledger and route survey reports; Central Railroad of West Virginia (unrelated to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway) ledger and stockholders' minutes; newspaper clippings scrapbook (1884-1894); H.G. Davis's personal name and address books; C.M. Headley's (assistant to the president) outgoing correspondence (1893-1894); and West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission letter book (1911-1913).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia.  He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.  The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well.  His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads.  Types of documents include letters, reports, account books, and maps, among other material.  Much of the correspondence is arranged alphabetically.  The scope and content note of each record series provides substantial detail regarding content.","Series include:  \nSeries 1a. Business Papers, 1882-1909 (boxes 1-29)  \nSeries 1b. Banking Records, 1886-1916 (boxes 30-33)  \nSeries 2. Coal Company Operations, 1799-1915 (boxes 34-48)  \nSeries 3. Miscellaneous Papers, 1855-1916 (boxes 49-62)  \nSeries 4. Miscellaneous Letters, 1872-1915 (boxes 63-65)  \nSeries 5. Miscellaneous Bills and Receipts, 1872-1918 (boxes 66-82)  \nSeries 6. Miscellaneous, 1872-1916 (boxes 83-115)  \nSeries 7. Alexander Shaw Lawsuit, 1880-1894 (boxes 116-118)  \nSeries 8. Personal and Political Papers, 1870-1916 (boxes 119-145)  \nSeries 9. Railroads, 1862-1916 (boxes 146-189)  \nSeries 10. West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission, 1911 August 9–1913 July 26 (box 190)  \nSeries 11. T.B. Davis Papers, 1879-1915 (box 191)  \nSeries 12. Davis Memorial Hospital and Church, 1898-1916 (boxes 192-193)  \nSeries 13. H.G. Davis and Brother, 1868-1905 (boxes 194-197)  \nSeries 14. Real Estate and Timber, 1869-1915 (boxes 198-202)  \nSeries 15. H.G. Davis Letter Books, 1865-1916 (boxes 203-231)  \nSeries 16. West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company Letter Books, 1880-1903 (boxes 232-240)  \nSeries 17. Minute, Letter, and Other Books, 1881-1914 (boxes 241-247)  \nSeries 18. Oversized Ledgers, 1884-1913 (boxes 248-260)","Among Davis's correspondents are:  \nU.S. Representative John D. Alderson  \nWest Virginia Governor George W. Atkinson  \nU.S. Senator William Henry Barnum  \nU.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Thomas F. Bayard  \nU.S. Minister to the Netherlands August Belmont, Sr.  \nU.S. Senator James G. Blaine  \nU.S. Senator Calvin S. Brice  \nU.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan  \nU.S. Senator Johnson N. Camden  \nindustrialist Andrew Carnegie  \nPresident of Mexico General Porfirio Díaz  \nU.S. Secretary of War Stephen Benton Elkins  \nU.S. Minister to France Charles J. Faulkner, Sr.  \nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President John W. Garrett  \nOlympian Robert S. Garrett  \nJames Cardinal Gibbons (Cardinal, Archbishop of Baltimore)  \nU.S. Senator Arthur Pue Gorman  \nU.S. President Benjamin Harrison  \nConfederate cartographer Jedidiah (Jed) Hotchkiss  \nMaryland Governor Elihu Emory Jackson  \nU.S. Senator John E. Kenna  \nU.S. Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont  \nU.S. Congressman Adam Brown Littlepage  \nU.S. Representative James Tilghman Lloyd  \nPresident of the WV Supreme Court of Appeals Daniel Bedinger Lucas  \nConsul General of Wurttemberg Charles F. Mayer  \nWest Virginia Governor William A. McCorkle  \nU.S. Senator John R. McPherson  \nU.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph S. Miller  \nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President Oscar G. Murray  \nPennsylvania Railroad President George Brooke Roberts  \nSouthern Railway President Samuel Spencer  \nU.S. Senator Thomas Taggart  \nU.S. Senator Daniel W. Voorhees  \nU.S. Senator Thomas J. Walsh  \nU.S. Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney  \nMaryland Governor William Pinkney Whyte  \nU.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Windom","This series includes H.G. Davis's incoming business correspondence. It consists of daily communications from his managers related to the day-to-day operations of the Buxton and Landstreet Store (the company store), Coal and Coke Railroad, Davis Coal and Coke Company, Davis Colliery Company, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, and his other business concerns. There is also incoming correspondence from the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio railroads, and numerous manufacturers and vendors. In addition to the business correspondence, some of Davis's personal and family correspondence is filed in this series as well, including materials regarding charity, financial solicitations, and other topics.","This series includes bank account books, bank account balance sheets, and bank statements for various H.G. Davis enterprises, including Davis and Trout, H.G. Davis and Company, H.G. Davis and Brother, and T.B. Davis and Company. In addition, there are sawmill accounts and other inventories.","This series includes day-to-day correspondence relating to the operation and conditions of the Davis Coal and Coke and the Davis Colliery companies coal mines and coke ovens. Other correspondence includes coal car availability, coal quality issues, estimates and costs for coal town construction, miners' wages, and the price of coal.","These papers include construction estimates for railroad buildings and bridges, correspondence with the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, correspondence with railroad construction contractors, memoranda of agreement between H.G. Davis and other railroads, miscellaneous financial statements, and papers regarding the formation of Seaboard Steam Coal Association (a coal producer syndicate). Other materials include deeds, maps, newspaper clippings regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and newspaper clippings regarding the 1916 death of H.G. Davis.","This series includes miscellaneous correspondence and letters, as well as deeds, financial statements, and memoranda of agreement.","The majority of these papers are bank statements for several banks including the Davis National Bank, Davis National Bank-Piedmont, Davis Trust Company, Elkins National Bank, Piedmont National Bank, Trust Company of West Virginia, Tucker County Bank, and the 1st National Bank of Elkins, as well as statements from the Davis Electric Light Company and various coal and coke production statements. There are also bank account books, blank checks, check registers, and check stubs.","This series includes miscellaneous business correspondence related to land acquisitions and railroads; miscellaneous banking, financial, and tax statements; various lawsuits and other litigation records; and documents regarding the Gassaway, West Virginia reservoir and water works.","These documents are related to the Alexander Shaw v. H.G. Davis and the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company lawsuit, which concerned the construction of the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company. There are legal briefs, depositions, and testimony; financial statements for the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies; and other lawsuit related documents.","Personal papers include financial statements; correspondence regarding the Davis Children's Shelter; documents related to the design and construction of Graceland, including correspondence with Baldwin and Pennington (Graceland's architects); and obituary notices for the 1902 death of Katherine Bantz Davis, wife of H.G. Davis. Political papers include letters related to the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial celebration; correspondence and materials related to Davis's 1904 Vice Presidential nomination, such as congratulatory telegrams, and other Parker/Davis ticket papers; and other political letters.","This series includes day-to-day correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies. Other records regard the Coal and Coke Railway, the Coal and Iron Railway (surveys and related documents), the Cookerly Farm Railroad War, the Pan-American Railroad commission, and the Potomac and Piedmont Coal Railway Company (1866 charter and related materials). There is also correspondence with other railroad companies, Shaw lawsuit materials, financial statements, payrolls for various farm and railroad departments, and materials regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.","This series includes correspondence related to the \"Golden Jubilee,\" the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of West Virginia's statehood. The correspondence regards the purchasing of American flags for each of West Virginia's fifty-five counties, the composition of a state poem and state song, and the appointment of West Virginia University Professor James Morton Callahan to author a semi-centennial history of West Virginia.","These papers are related to Thomas B. Davis's estate such as financial statements for his business concerns of H.G. Davis and Company and its successor H.G. Davis and Brother, as well as other estate related documents.","The Hospital and Church were both built in memory of H.G. Davis's wife Katherine Bantz Davis. The Hospital papers include financial reports, miscellaneous letters, and various pamphlets from other hospitals. The Church papers include correspondence from architects Harding and Upman, and various catalogs and documents relating to the church organ, seating, light fixtures, roofing, and ironwork.","These papers are related to the business concerns of H.G. Davis and his brother Thomas B. Davis. Materials include correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, deeds for their various railroads, railroad survey proposals and cost estimates, and real estate tax records. There are also employee rosters and payrolls for the Deer Park sawmill.","These materials include correspondence related to the acquisition and sale of real estate, including timber and coal lands.","This series contains letter books of outgoing correspondence.","These letters include correspondence from E.W.S. Moore (treasurer/secretary) and C.M. Headley (assistant to the president) regarding the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company. There is also outgoing correspondence from the President's Office regarding the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company.","These materials include H.G. Davis check stubs, 1896 Intercontinental Railway Commission Report, Hamilton Coal Company Stock Certificate Book, Hamilton Coal Company Minute Book, Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company letter books, Gassaway Development Company correspondence, and Gassaway Church correspondence. There are also C.M. Headley (assistant to the president) outgoing letters regarding Hamilton Coal Company, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company, the Coal and Iron Railroad, and the Coal and Coke Railway.","Oversized volumes include the Central Railway of Virginia (unrelated to the Virginia Central Railroad) Board of Directors ledger and route survey reports; Central Railroad of West Virginia (unrelated to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway) ledger and stockholders' minutes; newspaper clippings scrapbook (1884-1894); H.G. Davis's personal name and address books; C.M. Headley's (assistant to the president) outgoing correspondence (1893-1894); and West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission letter book (1911-1913)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_bececc3958fd8321627340a6836c39d7\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916","Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910","Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925","Bayard, Thomas F.","Belmont, August.","Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893","Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925","Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908","Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919","Dayton, Spencer","Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915","Elkins, Stephen B.  (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884","Faulkner, Charles J. (Charles James), 1847-1929","Garrett, John W.","Gibbons, James, 1834-1921","Gorman, Arthur P. (Arthur Pue), 1839-1906","Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901","Kenna, John E.","Lamont, Daniel Scott, 1851-1905","Lucas, Daniel B.","MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930","Mason, James M. II.","Voorhees, Daniel W. 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He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.","He was born near Woodstock, Maryland on November 16, 1823, and was the second son of four children. He received a limited public-school education and left school at age 15 to support his family after his father's contracting business failed and left the family destitute. Davis first worked at a local quarry, as a water boy, and then as the caretaker of the Waverly Farm, the nearby farm owned by former Maryland Governor George Howard.","Davis began his railroading career in 1842 at age nineteen as a brakeman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, then still under construction. He eventually advanced to the position of freight conductor, and then passenger conductor. Reportedly at Davis's request, he was appointed station agent for the Piedmont Station at Piedmont, [West] Virginia, because he wanted to explore the timber and coal resources of the Upper Potomac River region. About this same time, Davis established a mercantile lumber and coal business with his younger brothers Thomas B. Davis and William R. Davis at Piedmont. This business was known as H.G. Davis and Company (later H.G. Davis and Brother). Davis left the B\u0026O in 1858 to focus on his business concerns. One of these concerns was the Piedmont Savings Bank, which he founded in 1858 and for which he served as president. Davis, like so many entrepreneurs, made extraordinary profits during the Civil War. Profits from the sale of horses to the federal government and timber and ties to the B\u0026O Railroad enabled H.G. Davis and Company to invest in several thousand acres of coal and timber lands in the Upper Potomac and Cheat rivers region, at a cost said to be as cheap as one dollar per acre.","Davis founded the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company to provide railroad access to his coal and timber lands. In 1866 the West Virginia State Legislature, by a special act, incorporated the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company, granting the incorporators the right to mine coal, build factories and sawmills, buy and sell real estate, and build a railroad. It would be several years before Davis acted on the charter. Construction of the railroad finally began in 1880 at Bloomington, Maryland, and by 1881 the line had reached his mines at Elk Garden, West Virginia. Davis shipped the first Elk Garden coal to Baltimore in October 1881. A new railroad charter was granted in 1881 and Davis renamed the line the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway (WVC). By 1884 the line had reached present-day Davis, then Parsons in 1888, and Elkins (then Leadville) in 1889. Meanwhile in 1886, Davis created a subsidiary railroad, the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company (P\u0026C). The P\u0026C connected the WVC with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cumberland. In 1902 Davis sold the WVC and P\u0026C to George J. Gould, a railroad magnate, who was purchasing and consolidating rail lines to create an intercontinental railroad.","Davis desired to expand his rail network and in 1899 decided to construct a rail line connecting the WVC at Elkins with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Durbin, West Virginia. This line became the Coal and Iron Railway (C\u0026I) and was completed in 1902. Davis used the profits of the sale of the WVC to fund construction of the C\u0026I. Not finished yet with railroad construction, Davis incorporated the Coal and Coke Railway Company (C\u0026C) in 1902 to exploit his Roaring Creek coal properties located in Randolph County. This new line ran from Elkins to Charleston via the Elk River through some of West Virginia's most difficult terrain. The C\u0026C connected the Western Maryland at Elkins with the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad at Charleston, providing new markets for West Virginia coal. Construction commenced in 1903 and was completed in 1905, requiring twelve tunnels and thirty steel bridges. The town Gassaway, in Braxton County, was located at the mid-point of the rail line and became the divisional headquarters of the line. Ultimately, the WVC, P\u0026C, and C\u0026I were acquired by the Western Maryland Railroad and the C\u0026C was absorbed by the B\u0026O.","Early on in his career, Davis recognized that being in politics would further his business. Consequently, Davis ran for office on the democratic platform and was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1865 representing Hampshire County. Davis was very influential in the creation of Mineral and Grant counties in 1866, an effort which advanced his business interests. He was elected to the West Virginia Senate in 1868 and served in that capacity until 1871, when he was elected to the United States Senate. Davis served as a West Virginia Senator from 1871 to 1883.","Davis retired from politics in 1883 and returned to West Virginia to oversee his coal and banking interests. He then formed the Davis Coal and Coke Company with his son-in-law Stephen B. Elkins in 1886. The company controlled 135,000 acres of coal and timber lands, employed 1600 workers, operated nine mines, and furnished coal to be coked in its more than 1000 coke ovens. By 1892 Davis Coal and Coke was one of the largest coal producers world-wide.","Reluctantly, Davis was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate in the 1904 presidential election with Alton B. Parker as his running mate and presidential candidate. They lost to the Roosevelt-Fairbanks ticket by a wide margin. In running for office at the age of 80 Davis had become, and remains, one of the oldest candidates to have ever run for vice president of the United States.","Although retired from public service, Davis was appointed to represent the United States at the Pan-American Conferences (1889-1902) and later was appointed permanent chairman of the Pan-American Railway Committee, which he served from 1901 to his death in 1916. (The Pan-American Railway was a failed intercontinental railroad scheme. Promoters wanted to connect the capitals and principle cities of South and Central America with North America by rail). Davis also served as Chairman of the West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission in 1913, the group tasked with planning the \"Golden Jubilee\" or 50th anniversary of West Virginia statehood.","Davis's philanthropic legacy was notable. His charitable activities included funding the Davis Children's Shelter in Charleston, West Virginia, a shelter for orphaned and neglected children (1896); the Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church, a church built in memory of his wife Katherine Bantz Davis; and the Davis Memorial Hospital in Davis, also constructed as a memorial to his deceased wife.  Perhaps most notably, he donated the land for Davis and Elkins College in 1904, a liberal arts college named in honor of H.G. Davis and Stephen B. Elkins.","Davis married Katherine Ann Salome Bantz on 22 February 1853. The couple had eight children, three of whom died in infancy. The oldest child, Mary Louise \"Hallie\" Davis, married US Senator Stephen B. Elkins on 14 April 1875, linking the names Davis and Elkins forever.","Daughter Grace Thomas Davis became the namesake of Graceland, Davis's country mansion in Davis, West Virginia, and after his wife died she became his hostess for events held at the mansion. His older son Henry Gassaway Davis was something of a troubled soul, and was lost at sea in 1896. His youngest son John Thomas Davis worked closely with his father, was later associated with Davis and Elkins College, and became a coal operator and banker.","Henry Gassaway Davis passed in Washington D.C. on 11 March 1916 at the age of 93. He is interred at Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, West Virginia.","Sources:","Clarke, Alan. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg: a Western Maryland Predecessor. Lynchburg: TLC Publishing. 2003.","Hicks, W. Raymond. \"The West Virginia Central \u0026 Pittsburgh Railway. The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43518154","Lewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University off North Carolina Press, 1998.","Rice, Donald L. \"Coal \u0026 Coke Railway.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337","Ross, Thomas Richard. \"Henry Gassaway Davis.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1711","13, 717, 1028","Correspondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia.  He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.  The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well.  His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads.  Types of documents include letters, reports, account books, and maps, among other material.  Much of the correspondence is arranged alphabetically.  The scope and content note of each record series provides substantial detail regarding content.","Series include:  \nSeries 1a. Business Papers, 1882-1909 (boxes 1-29)  \nSeries 1b. Banking Records, 1886-1916 (boxes 30-33)  \nSeries 2. Coal Company Operations, 1799-1915 (boxes 34-48)  \nSeries 3. Miscellaneous Papers, 1855-1916 (boxes 49-62)  \nSeries 4. Miscellaneous Letters, 1872-1915 (boxes 63-65)  \nSeries 5. Miscellaneous Bills and Receipts, 1872-1918 (boxes 66-82)  \nSeries 6. Miscellaneous, 1872-1916 (boxes 83-115)  \nSeries 7. Alexander Shaw Lawsuit, 1880-1894 (boxes 116-118)  \nSeries 8. Personal and Political Papers, 1870-1916 (boxes 119-145)  \nSeries 9. Railroads, 1862-1916 (boxes 146-189)  \nSeries 10. West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission, 1911 August 9–1913 July 26 (box 190)  \nSeries 11. T.B. Davis Papers, 1879-1915 (box 191)  \nSeries 12. Davis Memorial Hospital and Church, 1898-1916 (boxes 192-193)  \nSeries 13. H.G. Davis and Brother, 1868-1905 (boxes 194-197)  \nSeries 14. Real Estate and Timber, 1869-1915 (boxes 198-202)  \nSeries 15. H.G. Davis Letter Books, 1865-1916 (boxes 203-231)  \nSeries 16. West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company Letter Books, 1880-1903 (boxes 232-240)  \nSeries 17. Minute, Letter, and Other Books, 1881-1914 (boxes 241-247)  \nSeries 18. Oversized Ledgers, 1884-1913 (boxes 248-260)","Among Davis's correspondents are:  \nU.S. Representative John D. Alderson  \nWest Virginia Governor George W. Atkinson  \nU.S. Senator William Henry Barnum  \nU.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Thomas F. Bayard  \nU.S. Minister to the Netherlands August Belmont, Sr.  \nU.S. Senator James G. Blaine  \nU.S. Senator Calvin S. Brice  \nU.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan  \nU.S. Senator Johnson N. Camden  \nindustrialist Andrew Carnegie  \nPresident of Mexico General Porfirio Díaz  \nU.S. Secretary of War Stephen Benton Elkins  \nU.S. Minister to France Charles J. Faulkner, Sr.  \nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President John W. Garrett  \nOlympian Robert S. Garrett  \nJames Cardinal Gibbons (Cardinal, Archbishop of Baltimore)  \nU.S. Senator Arthur Pue Gorman  \nU.S. President Benjamin Harrison  \nConfederate cartographer Jedidiah (Jed) Hotchkiss  \nMaryland Governor Elihu Emory Jackson  \nU.S. Senator John E. Kenna  \nU.S. Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont  \nU.S. Congressman Adam Brown Littlepage  \nU.S. Representative James Tilghman Lloyd  \nPresident of the WV Supreme Court of Appeals Daniel Bedinger Lucas  \nConsul General of Wurttemberg Charles F. Mayer  \nWest Virginia Governor William A. McCorkle  \nU.S. Senator John R. McPherson  \nU.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph S. Miller  \nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President Oscar G. Murray  \nPennsylvania Railroad President George Brooke Roberts  \nSouthern Railway President Samuel Spencer  \nU.S. Senator Thomas Taggart  \nU.S. Senator Daniel W. Voorhees  \nU.S. Senator Thomas J. Walsh  \nU.S. Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney  \nMaryland Governor William Pinkney Whyte  \nU.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Windom","This series includes H.G. Davis's incoming business correspondence. It consists of daily communications from his managers related to the day-to-day operations of the Buxton and Landstreet Store (the company store), Coal and Coke Railroad, Davis Coal and Coke Company, Davis Colliery Company, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, and his other business concerns. There is also incoming correspondence from the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio railroads, and numerous manufacturers and vendors. In addition to the business correspondence, some of Davis's personal and family correspondence is filed in this series as well, including materials regarding charity, financial solicitations, and other topics.","This series includes bank account books, bank account balance sheets, and bank statements for various H.G. Davis enterprises, including Davis and Trout, H.G. Davis and Company, H.G. Davis and Brother, and T.B. Davis and Company. In addition, there are sawmill accounts and other inventories.","This series includes day-to-day correspondence relating to the operation and conditions of the Davis Coal and Coke and the Davis Colliery companies coal mines and coke ovens. Other correspondence includes coal car availability, coal quality issues, estimates and costs for coal town construction, miners' wages, and the price of coal.","These papers include construction estimates for railroad buildings and bridges, correspondence with the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, correspondence with railroad construction contractors, memoranda of agreement between H.G. Davis and other railroads, miscellaneous financial statements, and papers regarding the formation of Seaboard Steam Coal Association (a coal producer syndicate). Other materials include deeds, maps, newspaper clippings regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and newspaper clippings regarding the 1916 death of H.G. Davis.","This series includes miscellaneous correspondence and letters, as well as deeds, financial statements, and memoranda of agreement.","The majority of these papers are bank statements for several banks including the Davis National Bank, Davis National Bank-Piedmont, Davis Trust Company, Elkins National Bank, Piedmont National Bank, Trust Company of West Virginia, Tucker County Bank, and the 1st National Bank of Elkins, as well as statements from the Davis Electric Light Company and various coal and coke production statements. There are also bank account books, blank checks, check registers, and check stubs.","This series includes miscellaneous business correspondence related to land acquisitions and railroads; miscellaneous banking, financial, and tax statements; various lawsuits and other litigation records; and documents regarding the Gassaway, West Virginia reservoir and water works.","These documents are related to the Alexander Shaw v. H.G. Davis and the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company lawsuit, which concerned the construction of the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company. There are legal briefs, depositions, and testimony; financial statements for the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies; and other lawsuit related documents.","Personal papers include financial statements; correspondence regarding the Davis Children's Shelter; documents related to the design and construction of Graceland, including correspondence with Baldwin and Pennington (Graceland's architects); and obituary notices for the 1902 death of Katherine Bantz Davis, wife of H.G. Davis. Political papers include letters related to the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial celebration; correspondence and materials related to Davis's 1904 Vice Presidential nomination, such as congratulatory telegrams, and other Parker/Davis ticket papers; and other political letters.","This series includes day-to-day correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies. Other records regard the Coal and Coke Railway, the Coal and Iron Railway (surveys and related documents), the Cookerly Farm Railroad War, the Pan-American Railroad commission, and the Potomac and Piedmont Coal Railway Company (1866 charter and related materials). There is also correspondence with other railroad companies, Shaw lawsuit materials, financial statements, payrolls for various farm and railroad departments, and materials regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.","This series includes correspondence related to the \"Golden Jubilee,\" the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of West Virginia's statehood. The correspondence regards the purchasing of American flags for each of West Virginia's fifty-five counties, the composition of a state poem and state song, and the appointment of West Virginia University Professor James Morton Callahan to author a semi-centennial history of West Virginia.","These papers are related to Thomas B. Davis's estate such as financial statements for his business concerns of H.G. Davis and Company and its successor H.G. Davis and Brother, as well as other estate related documents.","The Hospital and Church were both built in memory of H.G. Davis's wife Katherine Bantz Davis. The Hospital papers include financial reports, miscellaneous letters, and various pamphlets from other hospitals. The Church papers include correspondence from architects Harding and Upman, and various catalogs and documents relating to the church organ, seating, light fixtures, roofing, and ironwork.","These papers are related to the business concerns of H.G. Davis and his brother Thomas B. Davis. Materials include correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, deeds for their various railroads, railroad survey proposals and cost estimates, and real estate tax records. There are also employee rosters and payrolls for the Deer Park sawmill.","These materials include correspondence related to the acquisition and sale of real estate, including timber and coal lands.","This series contains letter books of outgoing correspondence.","These letters include correspondence from E.W.S. Moore (treasurer/secretary) and C.M. Headley (assistant to the president) regarding the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company. There is also outgoing correspondence from the President's Office regarding the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company.","These materials include H.G. Davis check stubs, 1896 Intercontinental Railway Commission Report, Hamilton Coal Company Stock Certificate Book, Hamilton Coal Company Minute Book, Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company letter books, Gassaway Development Company correspondence, and Gassaway Church correspondence. There are also C.M. 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He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHe was born near Woodstock, Maryland on November 16, 1823, and was the second son of four children. He received a limited public-school education and left school at age 15 to support his family after his father's contracting business failed and left the family destitute. Davis first worked at a local quarry, as a water boy, and then as the caretaker of the Waverly Farm, the nearby farm owned by former Maryland Governor George Howard.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis began his railroading career in 1842 at age nineteen as a brakeman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, then still under construction. He eventually advanced to the position of freight conductor, and then passenger conductor. Reportedly at Davis's request, he was appointed station agent for the Piedmont Station at Piedmont, [West] Virginia, because he wanted to explore the timber and coal resources of the Upper Potomac River region. About this same time, Davis established a mercantile lumber and coal business with his younger brothers Thomas B. Davis and William R. Davis at Piedmont. This business was known as H.G. Davis and Company (later H.G. Davis and Brother). Davis left the B\u0026amp;O in 1858 to focus on his business concerns. One of these concerns was the Piedmont Savings Bank, which he founded in 1858 and for which he served as president. Davis, like so many entrepreneurs, made extraordinary profits during the Civil War. Profits from the sale of horses to the federal government and timber and ties to the B\u0026amp;O Railroad enabled H.G. Davis and Company to invest in several thousand acres of coal and timber lands in the Upper Potomac and Cheat rivers region, at a cost said to be as cheap as one dollar per acre.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis founded the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company to provide railroad access to his coal and timber lands. In 1866 the West Virginia State Legislature, by a special act, incorporated the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company, granting the incorporators the right to mine coal, build factories and sawmills, buy and sell real estate, and build a railroad. It would be several years before Davis acted on the charter. Construction of the railroad finally began in 1880 at Bloomington, Maryland, and by 1881 the line had reached his mines at Elk Garden, West Virginia. Davis shipped the first Elk Garden coal to Baltimore in October 1881. A new railroad charter was granted in 1881 and Davis renamed the line the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway (WVC). By 1884 the line had reached present-day Davis, then Parsons in 1888, and Elkins (then Leadville) in 1889. Meanwhile in 1886, Davis created a subsidiary railroad, the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company (P\u0026amp;C). The P\u0026amp;C connected the WVC with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cumberland. In 1902 Davis sold the WVC and P\u0026amp;C to George J. Gould, a railroad magnate, who was purchasing and consolidating rail lines to create an intercontinental railroad.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis desired to expand his rail network and in 1899 decided to construct a rail line connecting the WVC at Elkins with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Durbin, West Virginia. This line became the Coal and Iron Railway (C\u0026amp;I) and was completed in 1902. Davis used the profits of the sale of the WVC to fund construction of the C\u0026amp;I. Not finished yet with railroad construction, Davis incorporated the Coal and Coke Railway Company (C\u0026amp;C) in 1902 to exploit his Roaring Creek coal properties located in Randolph County. This new line ran from Elkins to Charleston via the Elk River through some of West Virginia's most difficult terrain. The C\u0026amp;C connected the Western Maryland at Elkins with the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad at Charleston, providing new markets for West Virginia coal. Construction commenced in 1903 and was completed in 1905, requiring twelve tunnels and thirty steel bridges. The town Gassaway, in Braxton County, was located at the mid-point of the rail line and became the divisional headquarters of the line. Ultimately, the WVC, P\u0026amp;C, and C\u0026amp;I were acquired by the Western Maryland Railroad and the C\u0026amp;C was absorbed by the B\u0026amp;O.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEarly on in his career, Davis recognized that being in politics would further his business. Consequently, Davis ran for office on the democratic platform and was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1865 representing Hampshire County. Davis was very influential in the creation of Mineral and Grant counties in 1866, an effort which advanced his business interests. He was elected to the West Virginia Senate in 1868 and served in that capacity until 1871, when he was elected to the United States Senate. Davis served as a West Virginia Senator from 1871 to 1883.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis retired from politics in 1883 and returned to West Virginia to oversee his coal and banking interests. He then formed the Davis Coal and Coke Company with his son-in-law Stephen B. Elkins in 1886. The company controlled 135,000 acres of coal and timber lands, employed 1600 workers, operated nine mines, and furnished coal to be coked in its more than 1000 coke ovens. By 1892 Davis Coal and Coke was one of the largest coal producers world-wide.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReluctantly, Davis was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate in the 1904 presidential election with Alton B. Parker as his running mate and presidential candidate. They lost to the Roosevelt-Fairbanks ticket by a wide margin. In running for office at the age of 80 Davis had become, and remains, one of the oldest candidates to have ever run for vice president of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlthough retired from public service, Davis was appointed to represent the United States at the Pan-American Conferences (1889-1902) and later was appointed permanent chairman of the Pan-American Railway Committee, which he served from 1901 to his death in 1916. (The Pan-American Railway was a failed intercontinental railroad scheme. Promoters wanted to connect the capitals and principle cities of South and Central America with North America by rail). Davis also served as Chairman of the West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission in 1913, the group tasked with planning the \"Golden Jubilee\" or 50th anniversary of West Virginia statehood.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis's philanthropic legacy was notable. His charitable activities included funding the Davis Children's Shelter in Charleston, West Virginia, a shelter for orphaned and neglected children (1896); the Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church, a church built in memory of his wife Katherine Bantz Davis; and the Davis Memorial Hospital in Davis, also constructed as a memorial to his deceased wife.  Perhaps most notably, he donated the land for Davis and Elkins College in 1904, a liberal arts college named in honor of H.G. Davis and Stephen B. Elkins.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavis married Katherine Ann Salome Bantz on 22 February 1853. The couple had eight children, three of whom died in infancy. The oldest child, Mary Louise \"Hallie\" Davis, married US Senator Stephen B. Elkins on 14 April 1875, linking the names Davis and Elkins forever.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDaughter Grace Thomas Davis became the namesake of Graceland, Davis's country mansion in Davis, West Virginia, and after his wife died she became his hostess for events held at the mansion. His older son Henry Gassaway Davis was something of a troubled soul, and was lost at sea in 1896. His youngest son John Thomas Davis worked closely with his father, was later associated with Davis and Elkins College, and became a coal operator and banker.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHenry Gassaway Davis passed in Washington D.C. on 11 March 1916 at the age of 93. He is interred at Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eClarke, Alan. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg: a Western Maryland Predecessor. Lynchburg: TLC Publishing. 2003.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHicks, W. Raymond. \"The West Virginia Central \u0026amp; Pittsburgh Railway. The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43518154\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University off North Carolina Press, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRice, Donald L. \"Coal \u0026amp; Coke Railway.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRoss, Thomas Richard. \"Henry Gassaway Davis.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1711\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Gassaway Davis","Henry Gassaway Davis (11/16/1823-03/11/1916) was a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia.  He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.","He was born near Woodstock, Maryland on November 16, 1823, and was the second son of four children. He received a limited public-school education and left school at age 15 to support his family after his father's contracting business failed and left the family destitute. Davis first worked at a local quarry, as a water boy, and then as the caretaker of the Waverly Farm, the nearby farm owned by former Maryland Governor George Howard.","Davis began his railroading career in 1842 at age nineteen as a brakeman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, then still under construction. He eventually advanced to the position of freight conductor, and then passenger conductor. Reportedly at Davis's request, he was appointed station agent for the Piedmont Station at Piedmont, [West] Virginia, because he wanted to explore the timber and coal resources of the Upper Potomac River region. About this same time, Davis established a mercantile lumber and coal business with his younger brothers Thomas B. Davis and William R. Davis at Piedmont. This business was known as H.G. Davis and Company (later H.G. Davis and Brother). Davis left the B\u0026O in 1858 to focus on his business concerns. One of these concerns was the Piedmont Savings Bank, which he founded in 1858 and for which he served as president. Davis, like so many entrepreneurs, made extraordinary profits during the Civil War. Profits from the sale of horses to the federal government and timber and ties to the B\u0026O Railroad enabled H.G. Davis and Company to invest in several thousand acres of coal and timber lands in the Upper Potomac and Cheat rivers region, at a cost said to be as cheap as one dollar per acre.","Davis founded the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company to provide railroad access to his coal and timber lands. In 1866 the West Virginia State Legislature, by a special act, incorporated the Cumberland and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company, granting the incorporators the right to mine coal, build factories and sawmills, buy and sell real estate, and build a railroad. It would be several years before Davis acted on the charter. Construction of the railroad finally began in 1880 at Bloomington, Maryland, and by 1881 the line had reached his mines at Elk Garden, West Virginia. Davis shipped the first Elk Garden coal to Baltimore in October 1881. A new railroad charter was granted in 1881 and Davis renamed the line the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway (WVC). By 1884 the line had reached present-day Davis, then Parsons in 1888, and Elkins (then Leadville) in 1889. Meanwhile in 1886, Davis created a subsidiary railroad, the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company (P\u0026C). The P\u0026C connected the WVC with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cumberland. In 1902 Davis sold the WVC and P\u0026C to George J. Gould, a railroad magnate, who was purchasing and consolidating rail lines to create an intercontinental railroad.","Davis desired to expand his rail network and in 1899 decided to construct a rail line connecting the WVC at Elkins with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Durbin, West Virginia. This line became the Coal and Iron Railway (C\u0026I) and was completed in 1902. Davis used the profits of the sale of the WVC to fund construction of the C\u0026I. Not finished yet with railroad construction, Davis incorporated the Coal and Coke Railway Company (C\u0026C) in 1902 to exploit his Roaring Creek coal properties located in Randolph County. This new line ran from Elkins to Charleston via the Elk River through some of West Virginia's most difficult terrain. The C\u0026C connected the Western Maryland at Elkins with the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad at Charleston, providing new markets for West Virginia coal. Construction commenced in 1903 and was completed in 1905, requiring twelve tunnels and thirty steel bridges. The town Gassaway, in Braxton County, was located at the mid-point of the rail line and became the divisional headquarters of the line. Ultimately, the WVC, P\u0026C, and C\u0026I were acquired by the Western Maryland Railroad and the C\u0026C was absorbed by the B\u0026O.","Early on in his career, Davis recognized that being in politics would further his business. Consequently, Davis ran for office on the democratic platform and was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1865 representing Hampshire County. Davis was very influential in the creation of Mineral and Grant counties in 1866, an effort which advanced his business interests. He was elected to the West Virginia Senate in 1868 and served in that capacity until 1871, when he was elected to the United States Senate. Davis served as a West Virginia Senator from 1871 to 1883.","Davis retired from politics in 1883 and returned to West Virginia to oversee his coal and banking interests. He then formed the Davis Coal and Coke Company with his son-in-law Stephen B. Elkins in 1886. The company controlled 135,000 acres of coal and timber lands, employed 1600 workers, operated nine mines, and furnished coal to be coked in its more than 1000 coke ovens. By 1892 Davis Coal and Coke was one of the largest coal producers world-wide.","Reluctantly, Davis was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate in the 1904 presidential election with Alton B. Parker as his running mate and presidential candidate. They lost to the Roosevelt-Fairbanks ticket by a wide margin. In running for office at the age of 80 Davis had become, and remains, one of the oldest candidates to have ever run for vice president of the United States.","Although retired from public service, Davis was appointed to represent the United States at the Pan-American Conferences (1889-1902) and later was appointed permanent chairman of the Pan-American Railway Committee, which he served from 1901 to his death in 1916. (The Pan-American Railway was a failed intercontinental railroad scheme. Promoters wanted to connect the capitals and principle cities of South and Central America with North America by rail). Davis also served as Chairman of the West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission in 1913, the group tasked with planning the \"Golden Jubilee\" or 50th anniversary of West Virginia statehood.","Davis's philanthropic legacy was notable. His charitable activities included funding the Davis Children's Shelter in Charleston, West Virginia, a shelter for orphaned and neglected children (1896); the Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church, a church built in memory of his wife Katherine Bantz Davis; and the Davis Memorial Hospital in Davis, also constructed as a memorial to his deceased wife.  Perhaps most notably, he donated the land for Davis and Elkins College in 1904, a liberal arts college named in honor of H.G. Davis and Stephen B. Elkins.","Davis married Katherine Ann Salome Bantz on 22 February 1853. The couple had eight children, three of whom died in infancy. The oldest child, Mary Louise \"Hallie\" Davis, married US Senator Stephen B. Elkins on 14 April 1875, linking the names Davis and Elkins forever.","Daughter Grace Thomas Davis became the namesake of Graceland, Davis's country mansion in Davis, West Virginia, and after his wife died she became his hostess for events held at the mansion. His older son Henry Gassaway Davis was something of a troubled soul, and was lost at sea in 1896. His youngest son John Thomas Davis worked closely with his father, was later associated with Davis and Elkins College, and became a coal operator and banker.","Henry Gassaway Davis passed in Washington D.C. on 11 March 1916 at the age of 93. He is interred at Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, West Virginia.","Sources:","Clarke, Alan. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg: a Western Maryland Predecessor. Lynchburg: TLC Publishing. 2003.","Hicks, W. Raymond. \"The West Virginia Central \u0026 Pittsburgh Railway. The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43518154","Lewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University off North Carolina Press, 1998.","Rice, Donald L. \"Coal \u0026 Coke Railway.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337","Ross, Thomas Richard. \"Henry Gassaway Davis.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1711"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers, A\u0026amp;M 0013, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers, A\u0026M 0013, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e13, 717, 1028\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related A\u0026M Collections"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["13, 717, 1028"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia.  He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.  The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well.  His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads.  Types of documents include letters, reports, account books, and maps, among other material.  Much of the correspondence is arranged alphabetically.  The scope and content note of each record series provides substantial detail regarding content.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1a. Business Papers, 1882-1909 (boxes 1-29) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1b. Banking Records, 1886-1916 (boxes 30-33) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Coal Company Operations, 1799-1915 (boxes 34-48) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Miscellaneous Papers, 1855-1916 (boxes 49-62) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Miscellaneous Letters, 1872-1915 (boxes 63-65) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Miscellaneous Bills and Receipts, 1872-1918 (boxes 66-82) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Miscellaneous, 1872-1916 (boxes 83-115) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Alexander Shaw Lawsuit, 1880-1894 (boxes 116-118) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Personal and Political Papers, 1870-1916 (boxes 119-145) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Railroads, 1862-1916 (boxes 146-189) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission, 1911 August 9–1913 July 26 (box 190) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. T.B. Davis Papers, 1879-1915 (box 191) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Davis Memorial Hospital and Church, 1898-1916 (boxes 192-193) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 13. H.G. Davis and Brother, 1868-1905 (boxes 194-197) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 14. Real Estate and Timber, 1869-1915 (boxes 198-202) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 15. H.G. Davis Letter Books, 1865-1916 (boxes 203-231) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 16. West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company Letter Books, 1880-1903 (boxes 232-240) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 17. Minute, Letter, and Other Books, 1881-1914 (boxes 241-247) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 18. Oversized Ledgers, 1884-1913 (boxes 248-260)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAmong Davis's correspondents are: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Representative John D. Alderson \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWest Virginia Governor George W. Atkinson \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator William Henry Barnum \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Thomas F. Bayard \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Minister to the Netherlands August Belmont, Sr. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator James G. Blaine \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Calvin S. Brice \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Johnson N. Camden \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nindustrialist Andrew Carnegie \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPresident of Mexico General Porfirio Díaz \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Secretary of War Stephen Benton Elkins \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Minister to France Charles J. Faulkner, Sr. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President John W. Garrett \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nOlympian Robert S. Garrett \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJames Cardinal Gibbons (Cardinal, Archbishop of Baltimore) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Arthur Pue Gorman \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. President Benjamin Harrison \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nConfederate cartographer Jedidiah (Jed) Hotchkiss \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMaryland Governor Elihu Emory Jackson \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator John E. Kenna \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Congressman Adam Brown Littlepage \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Representative James Tilghman Lloyd \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPresident of the WV Supreme Court of Appeals Daniel Bedinger Lucas \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nConsul General of Wurttemberg Charles F. Mayer \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWest Virginia Governor William A. McCorkle \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator John R. McPherson \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph S. Miller \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President Oscar G. Murray \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nPennsylvania Railroad President George Brooke Roberts \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSouthern Railway President Samuel Spencer \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Thomas Taggart \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Daniel W. Voorhees \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Senator Thomas J. Walsh \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMaryland Governor William Pinkney Whyte \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nU.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Windom\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes H.G. Davis's incoming business correspondence. It consists of daily communications from his managers related to the day-to-day operations of the Buxton and Landstreet Store (the company store), Coal and Coke Railroad, Davis Coal and Coke Company, Davis Colliery Company, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, and his other business concerns. There is also incoming correspondence from the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio railroads, and numerous manufacturers and vendors. In addition to the business correspondence, some of Davis's personal and family correspondence is filed in this series as well, including materials regarding charity, financial solicitations, and other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes bank account books, bank account balance sheets, and bank statements for various H.G. Davis enterprises, including Davis and Trout, H.G. Davis and Company, H.G. Davis and Brother, and T.B. Davis and Company. In addition, there are sawmill accounts and other inventories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes day-to-day correspondence relating to the operation and conditions of the Davis Coal and Coke and the Davis Colliery companies coal mines and coke ovens. Other correspondence includes coal car availability, coal quality issues, estimates and costs for coal town construction, miners' wages, and the price of coal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese papers include construction estimates for railroad buildings and bridges, correspondence with the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, correspondence with railroad construction contractors, memoranda of agreement between H.G. Davis and other railroads, miscellaneous financial statements, and papers regarding the formation of Seaboard Steam Coal Association (a coal producer syndicate). Other materials include deeds, maps, newspaper clippings regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and newspaper clippings regarding the 1916 death of H.G. Davis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes miscellaneous correspondence and letters, as well as deeds, financial statements, and memoranda of agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe majority of these papers are bank statements for several banks including the Davis National Bank, Davis National Bank-Piedmont, Davis Trust Company, Elkins National Bank, Piedmont National Bank, Trust Company of West Virginia, Tucker County Bank, and the 1st National Bank of Elkins, as well as statements from the Davis Electric Light Company and various coal and coke production statements. There are also bank account books, blank checks, check registers, and check stubs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes miscellaneous business correspondence related to land acquisitions and railroads; miscellaneous banking, financial, and tax statements; various lawsuits and other litigation records; and documents regarding the Gassaway, West Virginia reservoir and water works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese documents are related to the Alexander Shaw v. H.G. Davis and the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company lawsuit, which concerned the construction of the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company. There are legal briefs, depositions, and testimony; financial statements for the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies; and other lawsuit related documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal papers include financial statements; correspondence regarding the Davis Children's Shelter; documents related to the design and construction of Graceland, including correspondence with Baldwin and Pennington (Graceland's architects); and obituary notices for the 1902 death of Katherine Bantz Davis, wife of H.G. Davis. Political papers include letters related to the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial celebration; correspondence and materials related to Davis's 1904 Vice Presidential nomination, such as congratulatory telegrams, and other Parker/Davis ticket papers; and other political letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes day-to-day correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies. Other records regard the Coal and Coke Railway, the Coal and Iron Railway (surveys and related documents), the Cookerly Farm Railroad War, the Pan-American Railroad commission, and the Potomac and Piedmont Coal Railway Company (1866 charter and related materials). There is also correspondence with other railroad companies, Shaw lawsuit materials, financial statements, payrolls for various farm and railroad departments, and materials regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence related to the \"Golden Jubilee,\" the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of West Virginia's statehood. The correspondence regards the purchasing of American flags for each of West Virginia's fifty-five counties, the composition of a state poem and state song, and the appointment of West Virginia University Professor James Morton Callahan to author a semi-centennial history of West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese papers are related to Thomas B. Davis's estate such as financial statements for his business concerns of H.G. Davis and Company and its successor H.G. Davis and Brother, as well as other estate related documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Hospital and Church were both built in memory of H.G. Davis's wife Katherine Bantz Davis. The Hospital papers include financial reports, miscellaneous letters, and various pamphlets from other hospitals. The Church papers include correspondence from architects Harding and Upman, and various catalogs and documents relating to the church organ, seating, light fixtures, roofing, and ironwork.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese papers are related to the business concerns of H.G. Davis and his brother Thomas B. Davis. Materials include correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, deeds for their various railroads, railroad survey proposals and cost estimates, and real estate tax records. There are also employee rosters and payrolls for the Deer Park sawmill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese materials include correspondence related to the acquisition and sale of real estate, including timber and coal lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains letter books of outgoing correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters include correspondence from E.W.S. Moore (treasurer/secretary) and C.M. Headley (assistant to the president) regarding the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company. There is also outgoing correspondence from the President's Office regarding the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese materials include H.G. Davis check stubs, 1896 Intercontinental Railway Commission Report, Hamilton Coal Company Stock Certificate Book, Hamilton Coal Company Minute Book, Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company letter books, Gassaway Development Company correspondence, and Gassaway Church correspondence. There are also C.M. Headley (assistant to the president) outgoing letters regarding Hamilton Coal Company, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company, the Coal and Iron Railroad, and the Coal and Coke Railway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOversized volumes include the Central Railway of Virginia (unrelated to the Virginia Central Railroad) Board of Directors ledger and route survey reports; Central Railroad of West Virginia (unrelated to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway) ledger and stockholders' minutes; newspaper clippings scrapbook (1884-1894); H.G. Davis's personal name and address books; C.M. 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His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads.  Types of documents include letters, reports, account books, and maps, among other material.  Much of the correspondence is arranged alphabetically.  The scope and content note of each record series provides substantial detail regarding content.","Series include:  \nSeries 1a. Business Papers, 1882-1909 (boxes 1-29)  \nSeries 1b. Banking Records, 1886-1916 (boxes 30-33)  \nSeries 2. Coal Company Operations, 1799-1915 (boxes 34-48)  \nSeries 3. Miscellaneous Papers, 1855-1916 (boxes 49-62)  \nSeries 4. Miscellaneous Letters, 1872-1915 (boxes 63-65)  \nSeries 5. Miscellaneous Bills and Receipts, 1872-1918 (boxes 66-82)  \nSeries 6. Miscellaneous, 1872-1916 (boxes 83-115)  \nSeries 7. Alexander Shaw Lawsuit, 1880-1894 (boxes 116-118)  \nSeries 8. Personal and Political Papers, 1870-1916 (boxes 119-145)  \nSeries 9. Railroads, 1862-1916 (boxes 146-189)  \nSeries 10. West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission, 1911 August 9–1913 July 26 (box 190)  \nSeries 11. T.B. Davis Papers, 1879-1915 (box 191)  \nSeries 12. Davis Memorial Hospital and Church, 1898-1916 (boxes 192-193)  \nSeries 13. H.G. Davis and Brother, 1868-1905 (boxes 194-197)  \nSeries 14. Real Estate and Timber, 1869-1915 (boxes 198-202)  \nSeries 15. H.G. Davis Letter Books, 1865-1916 (boxes 203-231)  \nSeries 16. West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company Letter Books, 1880-1903 (boxes 232-240)  \nSeries 17. Minute, Letter, and Other Books, 1881-1914 (boxes 241-247)  \nSeries 18. Oversized Ledgers, 1884-1913 (boxes 248-260)","Among Davis's correspondents are:  \nU.S. Representative John D. Alderson  \nWest Virginia Governor George W. Atkinson  \nU.S. Senator William Henry Barnum  \nU.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Thomas F. Bayard  \nU.S. Minister to the Netherlands August Belmont, Sr.  \nU.S. Senator James G. Blaine  \nU.S. Senator Calvin S. Brice  \nU.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan  \nU.S. Senator Johnson N. Camden  \nindustrialist Andrew Carnegie  \nPresident of Mexico General Porfirio Díaz  \nU.S. Secretary of War Stephen Benton Elkins  \nU.S. Minister to France Charles J. Faulkner, Sr.  \nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President John W. Garrett  \nOlympian Robert S. Garrett  \nJames Cardinal Gibbons (Cardinal, Archbishop of Baltimore)  \nU.S. Senator Arthur Pue Gorman  \nU.S. President Benjamin Harrison  \nConfederate cartographer Jedidiah (Jed) Hotchkiss  \nMaryland Governor Elihu Emory Jackson  \nU.S. Senator John E. Kenna  \nU.S. Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont  \nU.S. Congressman Adam Brown Littlepage  \nU.S. Representative James Tilghman Lloyd  \nPresident of the WV Supreme Court of Appeals Daniel Bedinger Lucas  \nConsul General of Wurttemberg Charles F. Mayer  \nWest Virginia Governor William A. McCorkle  \nU.S. Senator John R. McPherson  \nU.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph S. Miller  \nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad President Oscar G. Murray  \nPennsylvania Railroad President George Brooke Roberts  \nSouthern Railway President Samuel Spencer  \nU.S. Senator Thomas Taggart  \nU.S. Senator Daniel W. Voorhees  \nU.S. Senator Thomas J. Walsh  \nU.S. Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney  \nMaryland Governor William Pinkney Whyte  \nU.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Windom","This series includes H.G. Davis's incoming business correspondence. It consists of daily communications from his managers related to the day-to-day operations of the Buxton and Landstreet Store (the company store), Coal and Coke Railroad, Davis Coal and Coke Company, Davis Colliery Company, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, and his other business concerns. There is also incoming correspondence from the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio railroads, and numerous manufacturers and vendors. In addition to the business correspondence, some of Davis's personal and family correspondence is filed in this series as well, including materials regarding charity, financial solicitations, and other topics.","This series includes bank account books, bank account balance sheets, and bank statements for various H.G. Davis enterprises, including Davis and Trout, H.G. Davis and Company, H.G. Davis and Brother, and T.B. Davis and Company. In addition, there are sawmill accounts and other inventories.","This series includes day-to-day correspondence relating to the operation and conditions of the Davis Coal and Coke and the Davis Colliery companies coal mines and coke ovens. Other correspondence includes coal car availability, coal quality issues, estimates and costs for coal town construction, miners' wages, and the price of coal.","These papers include construction estimates for railroad buildings and bridges, correspondence with the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, correspondence with railroad construction contractors, memoranda of agreement between H.G. Davis and other railroads, miscellaneous financial statements, and papers regarding the formation of Seaboard Steam Coal Association (a coal producer syndicate). Other materials include deeds, maps, newspaper clippings regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and newspaper clippings regarding the 1916 death of H.G. Davis.","This series includes miscellaneous correspondence and letters, as well as deeds, financial statements, and memoranda of agreement.","The majority of these papers are bank statements for several banks including the Davis National Bank, Davis National Bank-Piedmont, Davis Trust Company, Elkins National Bank, Piedmont National Bank, Trust Company of West Virginia, Tucker County Bank, and the 1st National Bank of Elkins, as well as statements from the Davis Electric Light Company and various coal and coke production statements. There are also bank account books, blank checks, check registers, and check stubs.","This series includes miscellaneous business correspondence related to land acquisitions and railroads; miscellaneous banking, financial, and tax statements; various lawsuits and other litigation records; and documents regarding the Gassaway, West Virginia reservoir and water works.","These documents are related to the Alexander Shaw v. H.G. Davis and the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Company lawsuit, which concerned the construction of the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company. There are legal briefs, depositions, and testimony; financial statements for the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies; and other lawsuit related documents.","Personal papers include financial statements; correspondence regarding the Davis Children's Shelter; documents related to the design and construction of Graceland, including correspondence with Baldwin and Pennington (Graceland's architects); and obituary notices for the 1902 death of Katherine Bantz Davis, wife of H.G. Davis. Political papers include letters related to the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial celebration; correspondence and materials related to Davis's 1904 Vice Presidential nomination, such as congratulatory telegrams, and other Parker/Davis ticket papers; and other political letters.","This series includes day-to-day correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway and the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway companies. Other records regard the Coal and Coke Railway, the Coal and Iron Railway (surveys and related documents), the Cookerly Farm Railroad War, the Pan-American Railroad commission, and the Potomac and Piedmont Coal Railway Company (1866 charter and related materials). There is also correspondence with other railroad companies, Shaw lawsuit materials, financial statements, payrolls for various farm and railroad departments, and materials regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.","This series includes correspondence related to the \"Golden Jubilee,\" the 1913 West Virginia Semi-Centennial, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of West Virginia's statehood. The correspondence regards the purchasing of American flags for each of West Virginia's fifty-five counties, the composition of a state poem and state song, and the appointment of West Virginia University Professor James Morton Callahan to author a semi-centennial history of West Virginia.","These papers are related to Thomas B. Davis's estate such as financial statements for his business concerns of H.G. Davis and Company and its successor H.G. Davis and Brother, as well as other estate related documents.","The Hospital and Church were both built in memory of H.G. Davis's wife Katherine Bantz Davis. The Hospital papers include financial reports, miscellaneous letters, and various pamphlets from other hospitals. The Church papers include correspondence from architects Harding and Upman, and various catalogs and documents relating to the church organ, seating, light fixtures, roofing, and ironwork.","These papers are related to the business concerns of H.G. Davis and his brother Thomas B. Davis. Materials include correspondence related to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, deeds for their various railroads, railroad survey proposals and cost estimates, and real estate tax records. There are also employee rosters and payrolls for the Deer Park sawmill.","These materials include correspondence related to the acquisition and sale of real estate, including timber and coal lands.","This series contains letter books of outgoing correspondence.","These letters include correspondence from E.W.S. Moore (treasurer/secretary) and C.M. 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For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his development of railroads, including the Ohio River Railroad, the West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad, and Monongahela River Railroad, 1879-1892. See the \"Scope and Content Note\" for more information.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Alderson, Jonathan M. Bennett, Gideon D. Camden, John S. Carlile, William E. Chilton, John J. Cornwell, Grover Cleveland, Henry G. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., A.B. Fleming, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, Arthur I. Boreman, C.W. Harkness, E.S. Harkness, N.W. Harkness, Abram S. Hewitt, C.P. Huntington, John E. Kenna, James M. Mason II, John T. McGraw, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, H.H. Rogers, William P. Thompson, Clarence W. Watson, William C. Whitney, William L. Wilson, and Henry A. 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General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; 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Railroads; 1889\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 42; Railroads: A-K; 1890\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 43; Railroads: L-Z; 1890\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 43; Railroads; 1891\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 44; Railroads: A-L; 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 45; Railroads: M-Z; 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 45; Railroads: A-L; 1893\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 46; Railroads: M-Z; 1893\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 46; Railroads; 1894\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 46; Railroads: A-J; 1895\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 47; Railroads: K-Z; 1895\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 47; Railroads; 1896 - 1897\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 48; Railroads; 1898\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 48; Railroads: A-M; 1899\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 49; Railroads: N-Z; 1899\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 49; Railroads; 1900 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 50; Street Railway; 1899 - 1903\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 51; 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WV Improvements; 1888/03/03 - 190/07/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 60; WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1891\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 60; WV Improvement Company: A-B; 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 61; WV Improvement Company: C-Z; 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 61; WV Improvement Company; 1893\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 61; Parkersburg Improvement Company; 1889/05/10 - 1890/04/02\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 62; Land; 1882 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 63; Land A-M; 1891, 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 64; Land N-Z, A-H; 1892, 1893 - 1894, 1895 - 1898\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 65; Land I-Z; 1895 - 1898, 1899\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 66; Land; 1900 - 1905\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 67; Real Estate; 1853/09/30 - 1904/01/08\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 68; Real Estate; 1893/11/27 - 1908/02/29\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 69; Real Estate--Ore ; 1886 - 1896\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 70; Standard Oil Company Correspondence ; 1888/05/11 - 1891/07/27\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 70; Law; 1860/06/17 - 1907/10/30\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 71; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 72; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 73; Business Papers; 1876/02/12 - 1885/12/19\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 74; Business Papers; 1868/10/28 - 1890/11/06\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 75; Business Papers; 1891/01/01 - 1895/12/22\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 76; Business Papers; 1896/02/22 - 1899/02/22\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 77; Business Papers; 1891 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 78; Business Papers; 1900 - 1904\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 79; Business Papers; 1789 - 1899\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 80; Business Papers; 1859/09/28 - 1904/03/09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 81; Business Papers; 1873 - 1880\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 82; 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Alderson, Jonathan M. Bennett, Gideon D. Camden, John S. Carlile, William E. Chilton, John J. Cornwell, Grover Cleveland, Henry G. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., A.B. Fleming, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, Arthur I. Boreman, C.W. Harkness, E.S. Harkness, N.W. Harkness, Abram S. Hewitt, C.P. Huntington, John E. Kenna, James M. Mason II, John T. McGraw, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, H.H. Rogers, William P. Thompson, Clarence W. Watson, William C. Whitney, William L. Wilson, and Henry A. Wise.","Contents List:","Box 1; General Correspondence; 1840 - 1884/04","Box 2; General Correspondence; 1884/05 - 1885/10","Box 3; General Correspondence; 1885/11 - 1886","Box 4; General Correspondence; 1887/ - 1888/05","Box 5; General Correspondence; 1888/06 - 1889/07","Box 6; General Correspondence; 1889/08 - 1890/12","Box 7; General Correspondence; 1890/07 - 1890/12","Box 8; General Correspondence; 1891/01 - 1891/10/15","Box 9; General Correspondence; 1891/10/17 - 1892/10/20","Box 10; General Correspondence; 1892/10/21 - 1893/04","Box 11; General Correspondence; 1893/05 - 1894/07","Box 12; General Correspondence; 1894/08 - 1895/09","Box 13; General Correspondence; 1895/10 - 1897","Box 14; General Correspondence; 1898 - 1899/06","Box 15; General Correspondence; 1899/07 - 1900/02","Box 16; General Correspondence; 1900/03 - 1900/11","Box 17; General Correspondence; 1900/12 - 1901/06","Box 18; General Correspondence; 1901/07 - 1901/12","Box 19; General Correspondence; 1902/01 - 1902/09","Box 20; General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04","Box 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09","Box 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05","Box 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02","Box 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09","Box 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04","Box 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11","Box 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11","Box 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated","Box 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885","Box 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892","Box 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893","Box 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894","Box 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894","Box 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902","Box 33; Political Applications; undated","Box 33; Miscellaneous; undated","Box 33; Politics; 1888/03/04 - 1908/03/04","Box 34; Politics: A-R; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: S-Z; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: A-Z (contains Kenna letter, 1888); 1887 - 1890","Box 35; Politics: A-E; 1891 - 1893","Box 36; Politics: F-Z; 1891 - 1892","Box 36; Politics; 1893","Box 36; Politics: A-B; 1894","Box 37; Politics: C-N; 1894","Box 38; Politics: O-Z; 1894","Box 38; Politics; 1895 - 1902","Box 39; Railroads; 1883 - 1888","Box 40; Railroads; 1886 - 1901","Box 41; Railroads; 1879/08/19 - 1906/11/12","Box 42; Railroads; 1889","Box 42; Railroads: A-K; 1890","Box 43; Railroads: L-Z; 1890","Box 43; Railroads; 1891","Box 44; Railroads: A-L; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: M-Z; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: A-L; 1893","Box 46; Railroads: M-Z; 1893","Box 46; Railroads; 1894","Box 46; Railroads: A-J; 1895","Box 47; Railroads: K-Z; 1895","Box 47; Railroads; 1896 - 1897","Box 48; Railroads; 1898","Box 48; Railroads: A-M; 1899","Box 49; Railroads: N-Z; 1899","Box 49; Railroads; 1900 - 1902","Box 50; Street Railway; 1899 - 1903","Box 51; Electronic Railways; 1890/09/01 - 1890/10/04","Box 52; Coal and Coke; 1883 - 1889","Box 52; Coal and Coke: A-L; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke: M-Z; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke; 1891","Box 54; Coal and Coke; 1892 - 1894","Box 55; Coal and Coke; 1895 - 1896","Box 56; Coal and Coke; 1898","Box 56; Coal and Coke: A-D; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke: E-Z; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke; 1900 - 1908","Box 58; Coal and Coke; 1881/11/11 - 1906/07/13","Box 59; Coal and Coke; 1890/04/28 - 1908/02/20","Box 59; Oil; 1861/07/17 - 1905/07/27","Box 59; Electronic Railways; 1905/06/28 - 1906/12/15","Box 59; WV Improvements; 1888/03/03 - 190/07/11","Box 60; WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1891","Box 60; WV Improvement Company: A-B; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company: C-Z; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company; 1893","Box 61; Parkersburg Improvement Company; 1889/05/10 - 1890/04/02","Box 62; Land; 1882 - 1890","Box 63; Land A-M; 1891, 1892","Box 64; Land N-Z, A-H; 1892, 1893 - 1894, 1895 - 1898","Box 65; Land I-Z; 1895 - 1898, 1899","Box 66; Land; 1900 - 1905","Box 67; Real Estate; 1853/09/30 - 1904/01/08","Box 68; Real Estate; 1893/11/27 - 1908/02/29","Box 69; Real Estate--Ore ; 1886 - 1896","Box 70; Standard Oil Company Correspondence ; 1888/05/11 - 1891/07/27","Box 70; Law; 1860/06/17 - 1907/10/30","Box 71; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 72; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 73; Business Papers; 1876/02/12 - 1885/12/19","Box 74; Business Papers; 1868/10/28 - 1890/11/06","Box 75; Business Papers; 1891/01/01 - 1895/12/22","Box 76; Business Papers; 1896/02/22 - 1899/02/22","Box 77; Business Papers; 1891 - 1902","Box 78; Business Papers; 1900 - 1904","Box 79; Business Papers; 1789 - 1899","Box 80; Business Papers; 1859/09/28 - 1904/03/09","Box 81; Business Papers; 1873 - 1880","Box 82; Bills and Receipts; 1888 - 1899","Box 83; Bills and Receipts; 1899 - 1902","Box 84; Bills and Receipts; 1899/11/01 - 1906/11/17","Box 85; Bills and Receipts; 1906/01/01 - 1909/05/23","Box 86; Checks; 1863 - 1900","Box 87; Checks; 1877 - 1900","Box 88; Checks; 1886 - 1904","Box 89; Printed Reports and Bank Books; ca. 1860 - 1900","Box 90; Charters, Printed Forms, Advertisements, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1890 - 1900","Box 91; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900","Box 92; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900","Box 93; Maps, Printed Material, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1870 - 1900","Box 94; F.P. Summers Addendum; 1952/12/24","Box 95; Burned Papers; ca. 1870s","Box 96; Letter Book; 1887/01/07 - 1890/01/11","Box 97; Letter Book; 1889/05/13 - 1890/08/20","Box 98; Letter Book; 1890/05/14 - 1890/10/17","Box 99; Letter Book; 1890/10/17 - 1891/07/02","Box 100; Letter Book; 1891/07/02 - 1892/01/08","Box 101; Letter Book; 1892/01/08 - 1892/07/14","Box 102; Letter Book; 1892/07/14 - 1892/11/30","Box 103; Letter Book; 1892/12/01 - 1893/11/15","Box 104; Letter Book; 1893/12/05 - 1894/03/23","Box 105; Letter Book; 1894/03/24 - 1894/06/08","Box 106; Letter Book; 1894/06/09 - 1894/10/20","Box 107; Letter Book; 1894/10/25 - 1895/01/03","Box 108; Letter Book; 1895/01/03 - 1895/11/14","Box 109; Letter Book; 1895/11/15 - 1897/04/06","Box 110; Letter Book; 1897/04/06 - 1898/07/22","Box 111; Letter Book; 1898/07/22 - 1898/10/22","Box 112; Letter Book; 1898/10/22 - 1898/12/29","Box 113; Letter Book; 1898/12/29 - 1899/08/19","Box 114; Letter Book; 1899/08/19 - 1899/10/31","Box 115; Letter Book; 1899/11/01 - 1900/10/01","Box 116; Letter Book; 1900/10/01 - 1901/07/23","Box 117; Letter Book; 1901/07/27 - 1902/10/11","Box 118; Letter Book; 1902/10/11 - 1903/11/18","Box 119; Letter Book; 1903/11/18 - 1905/05/16","Box 120; Letter Book; 1905/05/07 - 1906/06/13","Box 121; Letter Book; 1906/05 - 1908/08","Box 122; Letter Book -- Private; 1858 - 1861, 1863","Box 123; Letter Book -- Private; 1875/05/18 - 1878/10/07","Box 124; Letter Book -- Private; 1877/05/07 - 1880/11/23","Box 125; Letter Book -- Private; 1880/11/25 - 1884/09/06","Box 126; Letter Book -- Private; 1883/06/07 - 1885/05/02","Box 127; Letter Book -- Private; 1884/09/11 - 1884/12/03","Box 128; Letter Book -- C.C. and O. Company; 1887/05/08 - 1880/02/25","Box 129; Letter Book -- WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1892","Box 130; Account Books -- Cash Book; 1879 - 1887","Box 131; Account Books -- Stock Account Book -- Gauley Company; 1892 - 1894","Box 132; Account Books -- Coal Account Book; 1895 - 1898","Box 133; Account Books -- Electric Railway Company, Ashland, Kentucky (mostly blank); 1900 - 1901","Box 134; Account Books; 1838 - 1839","Box 135; Account Books; 1826 - 1834","Box 136; Account Books; 1833 - 1838","Box 137; Account Books; 1832 - 1836","Box 138; Account Books; 1836 - 1838","Box 139; Account Books; 1841 - 1847","Box 140; Account Books; 1850 - 1853","Box 141; Minute Book -- Pickens Company; 1893 - 1906","Box 141; Minute Books -- Webster Springs and Railroad; 1894 - 1895","Box 142; Minute Books -- Executive Committee of the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company; 1900","Box 143; Miscellaneous Books (includes bills, miscellaneous papers, letters); 1890 - 1898","Box 144; Miscellaneous Books; 1893 - 1895","Box 144; Miscellaneous Books -- Land Notes; 1895","Box 144; Miscellaneous Books -- Coal Tariff -- Newspaper Clippings; 1890s","Box 145; Ledger Book -- Store Ledger; 1825 - 1834","Box 146; Unbound Book -- Great Coal Fields of Southwestern Kentucky -- Reports; 1903"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_4aa2db80c6b95b2bc6f3b09ac9b58340\"\u003eCorrespondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his development of railroads, including the Ohio River Railroad, the West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad, and Monongahela River Railroad, 1879-1892. See the \"Scope and Content Note\" for more information.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his development of railroads, including the Ohio River Railroad, the West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad, and Monongahela River Railroad, 1879-1892. See the \"Scope and Content Note\" for more information."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_2a2614288f74e91500f9c264322b9e78\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Alderson, Jonathan M. Bennett, Gideon D. Camden, John S. Carlile, William E. Chilton, John J. Cornwell, Grover Cleveland, Henry G. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., A.B. Fleming, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, Arthur I. Boreman, C.W. Harkness, E.S. Harkness, N.W. Harkness, Abram S. Hewitt, C.P. Huntington, John E. Kenna, James M. Mason II, John T. McGraw, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, H.H. Rogers, William P. Thompson, Clarence W. Watson, William C. Whitney, William L. Wilson, and Henry A. 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General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04","Box 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09","Box 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05","Box 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02","Box 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09","Box 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04","Box 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11","Box 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11","Box 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated","Box 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885","Box 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892","Box 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893","Box 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894","Box 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894","Box 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902","Box 33; Political Applications; undated","Box 33; Miscellaneous; undated","Box 33; Politics; 1888/03/04 - 1908/03/04","Box 34; Politics: A-R; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: S-Z; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: A-Z (contains Kenna letter, 1888); 1887 - 1890","Box 35; Politics: A-E; 1891 - 1893","Box 36; Politics: F-Z; 1891 - 1892","Box 36; Politics; 1893","Box 36; Politics: A-B; 1894","Box 37; Politics: C-N; 1894","Box 38; Politics: O-Z; 1894","Box 38; Politics; 1895 - 1902","Box 39; Railroads; 1883 - 1888","Box 40; Railroads; 1886 - 1901","Box 41; Railroads; 1879/08/19 - 1906/11/12","Box 42; Railroads; 1889","Box 42; Railroads: A-K; 1890","Box 43; Railroads: L-Z; 1890","Box 43; Railroads; 1891","Box 44; Railroads: A-L; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: M-Z; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: A-L; 1893","Box 46; Railroads: M-Z; 1893","Box 46; Railroads; 1894","Box 46; Railroads: A-J; 1895","Box 47; Railroads: K-Z; 1895","Box 47; Railroads; 1896 - 1897","Box 48; Railroads; 1898","Box 48; Railroads: A-M; 1899","Box 49; Railroads: N-Z; 1899","Box 49; Railroads; 1900 - 1902","Box 50; Street Railway; 1899 - 1903","Box 51; Electronic Railways; 1890/09/01 - 1890/10/04","Box 52; Coal and Coke; 1883 - 1889","Box 52; Coal and Coke: A-L; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke: M-Z; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke; 1891","Box 54; Coal and Coke; 1892 - 1894","Box 55; Coal and Coke; 1895 - 1896","Box 56; Coal and Coke; 1898","Box 56; Coal and Coke: A-D; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke: E-Z; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke; 1900 - 1908","Box 58; Coal and Coke; 1881/11/11 - 1906/07/13","Box 59; Coal and Coke; 1890/04/28 - 1908/02/20","Box 59; Oil; 1861/07/17 - 1905/07/27","Box 59; Electronic Railways; 1905/06/28 - 1906/12/15","Box 59; WV Improvements; 1888/03/03 - 190/07/11","Box 60; WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1891","Box 60; WV Improvement Company: A-B; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company: C-Z; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company; 1893","Box 61; Parkersburg Improvement Company; 1889/05/10 - 1890/04/02","Box 62; Land; 1882 - 1890","Box 63; Land A-M; 1891, 1892","Box 64; Land N-Z, A-H; 1892, 1893 - 1894, 1895 - 1898","Box 65; Land I-Z; 1895 - 1898, 1899","Box 66; Land; 1900 - 1905","Box 67; Real Estate; 1853/09/30 - 1904/01/08","Box 68; Real Estate; 1893/11/27 - 1908/02/29","Box 69; Real Estate--Ore ; 1886 - 1896","Box 70; Standard Oil Company Correspondence ; 1888/05/11 - 1891/07/27","Box 70; Law; 1860/06/17 - 1907/10/30","Box 71; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 72; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 73; Business Papers; 1876/02/12 - 1885/12/19","Box 74; Business Papers; 1868/10/28 - 1890/11/06","Box 75; Business Papers; 1891/01/01 - 1895/12/22","Box 76; Business Papers; 1896/02/22 - 1899/02/22","Box 77; Business Papers; 1891 - 1902","Box 78; Business Papers; 1900 - 1904","Box 79; Business Papers; 1789 - 1899","Box 80; Business Papers; 1859/09/28 - 1904/03/09","Box 81; Business Papers; 1873 - 1880","Box 82; Bills and Receipts; 1888 - 1899","Box 83; Bills and Receipts; 1899 - 1902","Box 84; Bills and Receipts; 1899/11/01 - 1906/11/17","Box 85; Bills and Receipts; 1906/01/01 - 1909/05/23","Box 86; Checks; 1863 - 1900","Box 87; 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General Correspondence; 1894/08 - 1895/09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13; General Correspondence; 1895/10 - 1897\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 14; General Correspondence; 1898 - 1899/06\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 15; General Correspondence; 1899/07 - 1900/02\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 16; General Correspondence; 1900/03 - 1900/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 17; General Correspondence; 1900/12 - 1901/06\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 18; General Correspondence; 1901/07 - 1901/12\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 19; General Correspondence; 1902/01 - 1902/09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 20; General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; 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Alderson, Jonathan M. Bennett, Gideon D. Camden, John S. Carlile, William E. Chilton, John J. Cornwell, Grover Cleveland, Henry G. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., A.B. Fleming, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John W. Garrett, Nathan Goff, Arthur I. Boreman, C.W. Harkness, E.S. Harkness, N.W. Harkness, Abram S. Hewitt, C.P. Huntington, John E. Kenna, James M. Mason II, John T. McGraw, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, H.H. Rogers, William P. Thompson, Clarence W. Watson, William C. Whitney, William L. Wilson, and Henry A. Wise.","Contents List:","Box 1; General Correspondence; 1840 - 1884/04","Box 2; General Correspondence; 1884/05 - 1885/10","Box 3; General Correspondence; 1885/11 - 1886","Box 4; General Correspondence; 1887/ - 1888/05","Box 5; General Correspondence; 1888/06 - 1889/07","Box 6; General Correspondence; 1889/08 - 1890/12","Box 7; General Correspondence; 1890/07 - 1890/12","Box 8; General Correspondence; 1891/01 - 1891/10/15","Box 9; General Correspondence; 1891/10/17 - 1892/10/20","Box 10; General Correspondence; 1892/10/21 - 1893/04","Box 11; General Correspondence; 1893/05 - 1894/07","Box 12; General Correspondence; 1894/08 - 1895/09","Box 13; General Correspondence; 1895/10 - 1897","Box 14; General Correspondence; 1898 - 1899/06","Box 15; General Correspondence; 1899/07 - 1900/02","Box 16; General Correspondence; 1900/03 - 1900/11","Box 17; General Correspondence; 1900/12 - 1901/06","Box 18; General Correspondence; 1901/07 - 1901/12","Box 19; General Correspondence; 1902/01 - 1902/09","Box 20; General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04","Box 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09","Box 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05","Box 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02","Box 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09","Box 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04","Box 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11","Box 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11","Box 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated","Box 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885","Box 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889","Box 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892","Box 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893","Box 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894","Box 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894","Box 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902","Box 33; Political Applications; undated","Box 33; Miscellaneous; undated","Box 33; Politics; 1888/03/04 - 1908/03/04","Box 34; Politics: A-R; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: S-Z; 1883 - 1886","Box 35; Politics: A-Z (contains Kenna letter, 1888); 1887 - 1890","Box 35; Politics: A-E; 1891 - 1893","Box 36; Politics: F-Z; 1891 - 1892","Box 36; Politics; 1893","Box 36; Politics: A-B; 1894","Box 37; Politics: C-N; 1894","Box 38; Politics: O-Z; 1894","Box 38; Politics; 1895 - 1902","Box 39; Railroads; 1883 - 1888","Box 40; Railroads; 1886 - 1901","Box 41; Railroads; 1879/08/19 - 1906/11/12","Box 42; Railroads; 1889","Box 42; Railroads: A-K; 1890","Box 43; Railroads: L-Z; 1890","Box 43; Railroads; 1891","Box 44; Railroads: A-L; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: M-Z; 1892","Box 45; Railroads: A-L; 1893","Box 46; Railroads: M-Z; 1893","Box 46; Railroads; 1894","Box 46; Railroads: A-J; 1895","Box 47; Railroads: K-Z; 1895","Box 47; Railroads; 1896 - 1897","Box 48; Railroads; 1898","Box 48; Railroads: A-M; 1899","Box 49; Railroads: N-Z; 1899","Box 49; Railroads; 1900 - 1902","Box 50; Street Railway; 1899 - 1903","Box 51; Electronic Railways; 1890/09/01 - 1890/10/04","Box 52; Coal and Coke; 1883 - 1889","Box 52; Coal and Coke: A-L; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke: M-Z; 1890","Box 53; Coal and Coke; 1891","Box 54; Coal and Coke; 1892 - 1894","Box 55; Coal and Coke; 1895 - 1896","Box 56; Coal and Coke; 1898","Box 56; Coal and Coke: A-D; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke: E-Z; 1899","Box 57; Coal and Coke; 1900 - 1908","Box 58; Coal and Coke; 1881/11/11 - 1906/07/13","Box 59; Coal and Coke; 1890/04/28 - 1908/02/20","Box 59; Oil; 1861/07/17 - 1905/07/27","Box 59; Electronic Railways; 1905/06/28 - 1906/12/15","Box 59; WV Improvements; 1888/03/03 - 190/07/11","Box 60; WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1891","Box 60; WV Improvement Company: A-B; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company: C-Z; 1892","Box 61; WV Improvement Company; 1893","Box 61; Parkersburg Improvement Company; 1889/05/10 - 1890/04/02","Box 62; Land; 1882 - 1890","Box 63; Land A-M; 1891, 1892","Box 64; Land N-Z, A-H; 1892, 1893 - 1894, 1895 - 1898","Box 65; Land I-Z; 1895 - 1898, 1899","Box 66; Land; 1900 - 1905","Box 67; Real Estate; 1853/09/30 - 1904/01/08","Box 68; Real Estate; 1893/11/27 - 1908/02/29","Box 69; Real Estate--Ore ; 1886 - 1896","Box 70; Standard Oil Company Correspondence ; 1888/05/11 - 1891/07/27","Box 70; Law; 1860/06/17 - 1907/10/30","Box 71; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 72; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890","Box 73; Business Papers; 1876/02/12 - 1885/12/19","Box 74; Business Papers; 1868/10/28 - 1890/11/06","Box 75; Business Papers; 1891/01/01 - 1895/12/22","Box 76; Business Papers; 1896/02/22 - 1899/02/22","Box 77; Business Papers; 1891 - 1902","Box 78; Business Papers; 1900 - 1904","Box 79; Business Papers; 1789 - 1899","Box 80; Business Papers; 1859/09/28 - 1904/03/09","Box 81; Business Papers; 1873 - 1880","Box 82; Bills and Receipts; 1888 - 1899","Box 83; Bills and Receipts; 1899 - 1902","Box 84; Bills and Receipts; 1899/11/01 - 1906/11/17","Box 85; Bills and Receipts; 1906/01/01 - 1909/05/23","Box 86; Checks; 1863 - 1900","Box 87; Checks; 1877 - 1900","Box 88; Checks; 1886 - 1904","Box 89; Printed Reports and Bank Books; ca. 1860 - 1900","Box 90; Charters, Printed Forms, Advertisements, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1890 - 1900","Box 91; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900","Box 92; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900","Box 93; Maps, Printed Material, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1870 - 1900","Box 94; F.P. 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