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Son Charles James Faulkner Jr. served West Virginia as a U.S. senator (1887-1899), while his great-nephew, U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, ruled Virginia politics for many years in the 20th century. Boydville, the Boyd-Faulkner home, a Martinsburg landmark, is on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["From the West Virginia Encyclopedia article on Charles James Faulkner (see link in External Documents):","Statesman Charles James Faulkner (July 6, 1806 - November 1, 1884) was born in Martinsburg, the son of an Irish immigrant. Faulkner attended Georgetown College (now Georgetown University) in Washington and studied law in Winchester, Virginia. He entered the Virginia General Assembly at age 22 in 1829, his first political race. In 1833, Faulkner married Mary W. Boyd, the youngest daughter of Gen. Elisha Boyd, and through her acquired the plantation of Boydville and other properties. Faulkner served also in the West Virginia legislature, U.S. Congress (1851-1859), and as U.S. minister to France.","In 1832, Faulkner spoke publicly for the gradual elimination of slavery. He advocated Western Virginia interests, such as voting rights for all white males regardless of property, when Virginia rewrote its constitution in 1850-1851.","Faulkner was U.S. minister to France for 14 months before the Civil War. In 1861, he delivered his last report to Secretary of State William Seward. As Faulkner headed home to Martinsburg, Seward had him arrested as a suspected Southern sympathizer. He was never formally charged. Seward offered to release Faulkner if he would swear an oath of allegiance. Faulkner refused and was eventually traded for another prisoner. During the Civil War, Faulkner served on Stonewall Jackson's staff.","After the war and the creation of West Virginia, Faulkner again refused an oath of allegiance to the United States and recovered his law license only with difficulty. Nonetheless, when Virginia sued to regain the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, West Virginia called on Faulkner to represent the new state's interests at the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a voice of restraint as a delegate to West Virginia's Constitutional Convention of 1872, in which ex-Confederates set out to undo much of the 1863 Constitution, which they considered too Northern.","Faulkner died in Martinsburg. Son Charles James Faulkner Jr. served West Virginia as a U.S. senator (1887-1899), while his great-nephew, U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, ruled Virginia politics for many years in the 20th century. Boydville, the Boyd-Faulkner home, a Martinsburg landmark, is on the National Register of Historic Places."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers, A\u0026amp;M 1681, 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], Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers, A\u0026M 1681, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e912, 934, 993, 1681\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related A\u0026M Collections"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["912, 934, 993, 1681"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles J. 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Archer; William Armstrong; Chester A. Arthur; Brisco G. Baldwin; George Bancroft; John W. Brockenbrough; John S. Barbour; William W. Belknap; Robert L. Berkshire; Orville H. Browning; James C. Cabell; John L. Cadwalader; William Clark; Sherrard Clemens; Philip St. George Cooke;\nSamuel S. Cox; Claudius W. Crozet; Thomas Davis; Henry A.S. Dearborn; W. S. Downer; Lyman C. Draper; John M. Dunbar; William H. Forney; William M. Evarts; Thomas C. Fletcher; John Floyd; John W. Forney; Gales \u0026amp; Seaton;\nJohn W. Garrett; John W. Geary; Thomas W. Gilmer; William Harper; Benjamin W. Harris; Thomas A. Hendrick; Abram S. Hewitt; George F. Hoar; John B. Hoge; Edmund P. Hunter; William Hunter; John J. Jackson, Jr.; John J. Jacobs; Reverdy Johnson; William Cost Johnson; J. Glancy Jones; Thomas L. Jones; J. L. Kemper; George W. Kendall; John Pendleton Kennedy; Michael C. Kerr; J. Proctor Knott; Daniel Lamb; Benjamin W. Leigh; Benson J. Lossing; James Lyons; Louis McLane; Alexander Martin; Benjamin F. Martin; James M. Mason; Henry M. Mathews; Charles F. Mercer; John S. Mosbey; Richard E. Parker; John S. Pendleton; Phillip C. Pendleton; Francis Peters; Henry M. Phillips; Edward Pierrepont; John Hambden Pleasants; William Preston; William Ballard Preston; Samuel Price; Thomas C. Reynolds; William H. Richardson; Thomas Ritchie; William C. Rives; Benjamin Rush; Kurd von Schlozer; Benjamin Silliman; John Slidell; Garrit Smith; William McK. Springer; Andrew Stevenson; William E. Stevenson; George W. Summers; John Swan; Isaac Toucey; William Welsh; Richard V. Whelan; Benjamin Wilson; Charles A. Wickliffe; Henry A. Wise; Waitman T. Willey; and Levi Woodbury.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration.","Major subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876; the Jackson-Calhoun schism; the Nullification controversy; the election of 1840; Whig politics, 1841-1850s; the election of 1860; the speakership contest in the 44th and 45th Congress; the West Virginia gubernatorial and national election of 1876; and foreign affairs, 1868-1876.","Other subjects include the French Colonization Society;\nthe Nat Turner insurrection; the slave controversy; the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute; Virginia Revolutionary debt claims; the Virginia State Agricultural Society;\nthe Tariff of 1857; disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory; the Saturday Club; German-American Naturalization Treaty, 1875; Belknap and the Indian ring scandals; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal;\nthe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad;\nnumerous internal improvement schemes in Virginia and Pennsylvania; and local history of the Martinsburg and Shenandoah Valley area.","Correspondents include William S. Archer; William Armstrong; Chester A. Arthur; Brisco G. Baldwin; George Bancroft; John W. Brockenbrough; John S. Barbour; William W. Belknap; Robert L. Berkshire; Orville H. Browning; James C. Cabell; John L. Cadwalader; William Clark; Sherrard Clemens; Philip St. George Cooke;\nSamuel S. Cox; Claudius W. Crozet; Thomas Davis; Henry A.S. Dearborn; W. S. Downer; Lyman C. Draper; John M. Dunbar; William H. Forney; William M. Evarts; Thomas C. Fletcher; John Floyd; John W. Forney; Gales \u0026 Seaton;\nJohn W. Garrett; John W. Geary; Thomas W. Gilmer; William Harper; Benjamin W. Harris; Thomas A. Hendrick; Abram S. Hewitt; George F. Hoar; John B. Hoge; Edmund P. Hunter; William Hunter; John J. Jackson, Jr.; John J. Jacobs; Reverdy Johnson; William Cost Johnson; J. Glancy Jones; Thomas L. Jones; J. L. Kemper; George W. Kendall; John Pendleton Kennedy; Michael C. Kerr; J. Proctor Knott; Daniel Lamb; Benjamin W. Leigh; Benson J. Lossing; James Lyons; Louis McLane; Alexander Martin; Benjamin F. Martin; James M. Mason; Henry M. Mathews; Charles F. Mercer; John S. Mosbey; Richard E. Parker; John S. Pendleton; Phillip C. Pendleton; Francis Peters; Henry M. Phillips; Edward Pierrepont; John Hambden Pleasants; William Preston; William Ballard Preston; Samuel Price; Thomas C. Reynolds; William H. Richardson; Thomas Ritchie; William C. Rives; Benjamin Rush; Kurd von Schlozer; Benjamin Silliman; John Slidell; Garrit Smith; William McK. Springer; Andrew Stevenson; William E. Stevenson; George W. Summers; John Swan; Isaac Toucey; William Welsh; Richard V. Whelan; Benjamin Wilson; Charles A. Wickliffe; Henry A. Wise; Waitman T. Willey; and Levi Woodbury."],"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_1a89090b1d7b2a94d209cd33438a2753\"\u003eCorrespondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, numerous internal improvement schemes in Virginia and Pennsylvania, and local history of the Martinsburg and Shenandoah Valley area. Correspondents include Sherrard Clemens; Lyman C. Draper; John J. Jackson, Jr.; Daniel Lamb; Alexander Martin; Samuel Price; George W. Summers; Henry A. Wise; and Waitman T. Willey. For a more complete list of subjects and correspondents, see Scope and Content Note. For a partial list of contents, see the control folder. For more information about Faulkner, see the Historical Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, numerous internal improvement schemes in Virginia and Pennsylvania, and local history of the Martinsburg and Shenandoah Valley area. Correspondents include Sherrard Clemens; Lyman C. Draper; John J. Jackson, Jr.; Daniel Lamb; Alexander Martin; Samuel Price; George W. Summers; Henry A. Wise; and Waitman T. Willey. For a more complete list of subjects and correspondents, see Scope and Content Note. For a partial list of contents, see the control folder. 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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. 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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.","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.","Ross, Thomas Richard. \"Henry Gassaway Davis.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia.","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. 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He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.\u003c/p\u003e","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClarke, Alan. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg: a Western Maryland Predecessor. Lynchburg: TLC Publishing. 2003.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHicks, W. Raymond. \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/43518154\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe West Virginia Central \u0026amp; Pittsburgh Railway.\u003c/a\u003e\" The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. JSTOR.\u003c/p\u003e","\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","\u003cp\u003eRice, Donald L. \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCoal \u0026amp; Coke Railway.\u003c/a\u003e\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoss, Thomas Richard. \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entries/1657\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHenry Gassaway Davis.\u003c/a\u003e\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia.\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.","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.","Ross, Thomas Richard. \"Henry Gassaway Davis.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia."],"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","\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","\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. 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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"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission 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.","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.","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.","Ross, Thomas Richard. \"Henry Gassaway Davis.\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia.","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. 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He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.\u003c/p\u003e","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\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","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClarke, Alan. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg: a Western Maryland Predecessor. Lynchburg: TLC Publishing. 2003.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHicks, W. Raymond. \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/43518154\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe West Virginia Central \u0026amp; Pittsburgh Railway.\u003c/a\u003e\" The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. JSTOR.\u003c/p\u003e","\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","\u003cp\u003eRice, Donald L. \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCoal \u0026amp; Coke Railway.\u003c/a\u003e\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoss, Thomas Richard. \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entries/1657\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHenry Gassaway Davis.\u003c/a\u003e\" The West Virginia Encyclopedia.\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.","Lewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. 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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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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; 1894/08 - 1895/09\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 13; General Correspondence; 1895/10 - 1897\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 14; General Correspondence; 1898 - 1899/06\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 15; General Correspondence; 1899/07 - 1900/02\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 16; General Correspondence; 1900/03 - 1900/11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 17; General Correspondence; 1900/12 - 1901/06\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 18; General Correspondence; 1901/07 - 1901/12\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 19; General Correspondence; 1902/01 - 1902/09\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 20; General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; undated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Miscellaneous; undated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Politics; 1888/03/04 - 1908/03/04\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 34; Politics: A-R; 1883 - 1886\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 35; Politics: S-Z; 1883 - 1886\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 35; Politics: A-Z (contains Kenna letter, 1888); 1887 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 35; Politics: A-E; 1891 - 1893\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 36; Politics: F-Z; 1891 - 1892\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 36; Politics; 1893\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 36; Politics: A-B; 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 37; Politics: C-N; 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 38; Politics: O-Z; 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 38; Politics; 1895 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 39; Railroads; 1883 - 1888\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 40; Railroads; 1886 - 1901\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 41; Railroads; 1879/08/19 - 1906/11/12\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 42; Railroads; 1889\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 42; 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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. 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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\n    "],"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. 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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; 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. 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Wise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eContents List:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 1; General Correspondence; 1840 - 1884/04\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 2; General Correspondence; 1884/05 - 1885/10\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 3; General Correspondence; 1885/11 - 1886\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 4; General Correspondence; 1887/ - 1888/05\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 5; General Correspondence; 1888/06 - 1889/07\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 6; General Correspondence; 1889/08 - 1890/12\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 7; General Correspondence; 1890/07 - 1890/12\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 8; General Correspondence; 1891/01 - 1891/10/15\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 9; General Correspondence; 1891/10/17 - 1892/10/20\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 10; General Correspondence; 1892/10/21 - 1893/04\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 11; General Correspondence; 1893/05 - 1894/07\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 12; General Correspondence; 1894/08 - 1895/09\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 13; General Correspondence; 1895/10 - 1897\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 14; General Correspondence; 1898 - 1899/06\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 15; General Correspondence; 1899/07 - 1900/02\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 16; General Correspondence; 1900/03 - 1900/11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 17; General Correspondence; 1900/12 - 1901/06\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 18; General Correspondence; 1901/07 - 1901/12\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 19; General Correspondence; 1902/01 - 1902/09\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 20; General Correspondence; 1902/10 - 1903/04\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 21; General Correspondence; 1903/05 - 1903/09\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 22; General Correspondence; 1903/10 - 1904/05\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 23; General Correspondence; 1904/06 - 1905/02\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 24; General Correspondence; 1905/03 - 1905/09\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 25; General Correspondence; 1905/10 - 1906/04\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 26; General Correspondence; 1906/05 - 1906/11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 27; General Correspondence; 1906/12 - 1907/11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 28; General Correspondence; 1907/12 - 1908/08, undated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 29; Political Applications: A-N; 1883 - 1885\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 30; Political Applications: O-Z, A-R; 1883 - 1885, 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: S-Z; 1886 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-Z; 1890 - 1892\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 31; Political Applications: A-L; 1893\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 32; Political Applications: M-Z, A-P; 1893, 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications: R-Z; 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; 1895 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Political Applications; undated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Miscellaneous; undated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 33; Politics; 1888/03/04 - 1908/03/04\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 34; Politics: A-R; 1883 - 1886\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 35; Politics: S-Z; 1883 - 1886\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 35; Politics: A-Z (contains Kenna letter, 1888); 1887 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 35; Politics: A-E; 1891 - 1893\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 36; Politics: F-Z; 1891 - 1892\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 36; Politics; 1893\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 36; Politics: A-B; 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 37; Politics: C-N; 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 38; Politics: O-Z; 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 38; Politics; 1895 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 39; Railroads; 1883 - 1888\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 40; Railroads; 1886 - 1901\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 41; Railroads; 1879/08/19 - 1906/11/12\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 42; Railroads; 1889\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 42; Railroads: A-K; 1890\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 43; Railroads: L-Z; 1890\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 43; Railroads; 1891\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 44; Railroads: A-L; 1892\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 45; Railroads: M-Z; 1892\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 45; Railroads: A-L; 1893\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 46; Railroads: M-Z; 1893\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 46; Railroads; 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 46; Railroads: A-J; 1895\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 47; Railroads: K-Z; 1895\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 47; Railroads; 1896 - 1897\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 48; Railroads; 1898\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 48; Railroads: A-M; 1899\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 49; Railroads: N-Z; 1899\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 49; Railroads; 1900 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 50; Street Railway; 1899 - 1903\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 51; Electronic Railways; 1890/09/01 - 1890/10/04\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 52; Coal and Coke; 1883 - 1889\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 52; Coal and Coke: A-L; 1890\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 53; Coal and Coke: M-Z; 1890\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 53; Coal and Coke; 1891\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 54; Coal and Coke; 1892 - 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 55; Coal and Coke; 1895 - 1896\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 56; Coal and Coke; 1898\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 56; Coal and Coke: A-D; 1899\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 57; Coal and Coke: E-Z; 1899\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 57; Coal and Coke; 1900 - 1908\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 58; Coal and Coke; 1881/11/11 - 1906/07/13\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 59; Coal and Coke; 1890/04/28 - 1908/02/20\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 59; Oil; 1861/07/17 - 1905/07/27\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 59; Electronic Railways; 1905/06/28 - 1906/12/15\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 59; WV Improvements; 1888/03/03 - 190/07/11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 60; WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1891\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 60; WV Improvement Company: A-B; 1892\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 61; WV Improvement Company: C-Z; 1892\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 61; WV Improvement Company; 1893\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 61; Parkersburg Improvement Company; 1889/05/10 - 1890/04/02\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 62; Land; 1882 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 63; Land A-M; 1891, 1892\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 64; Land N-Z, A-H; 1892, 1893 - 1894, 1895 - 1898\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 65; Land I-Z; 1895 - 1898, 1899\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 66; Land; 1900 - 1905\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 67; Real Estate; 1853/09/30 - 1904/01/08\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 68; Real Estate; 1893/11/27 - 1908/02/29\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 69; Real Estate--Ore ; 1886 - 1896\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 70; Standard Oil Company Correspondence ; 1888/05/11 - 1891/07/27\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 70; Law; 1860/06/17 - 1907/10/30\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 71; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 72; Business and Legal Papers ; ca. 1870 - 1890\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 73; Business Papers; 1876/02/12 - 1885/12/19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 74; Business Papers; 1868/10/28 - 1890/11/06\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 75; Business Papers; 1891/01/01 - 1895/12/22\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 76; Business Papers; 1896/02/22 - 1899/02/22\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 77; Business Papers; 1891 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 78; Business Papers; 1900 - 1904\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 79; Business Papers; 1789 - 1899\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 80; Business Papers; 1859/09/28 - 1904/03/09\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 81; Business Papers; 1873 - 1880\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 82; Bills and Receipts; 1888 - 1899\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 83; Bills and Receipts; 1899 - 1902\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 84; Bills and Receipts; 1899/11/01 - 1906/11/17\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 85; Bills and Receipts; 1906/01/01 - 1909/05/23\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 86; Checks; 1863 - 1900\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 87; Checks; 1877 - 1900\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 88; Checks; 1886 - 1904\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 89; Printed Reports and Bank Books; ca. 1860 - 1900\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 90; Charters, Printed Forms, Advertisements, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1890 - 1900\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 92; Maps; ca. 1850 - 1900\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 93; Maps, Printed Material, Memoranda, Etc.; ca. 1870 - 1900\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 94; F.P. Summers Addendum; 1952/12/24\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 95; Burned Papers; ca. 1870s\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 96; Letter Book; 1887/01/07 - 1890/01/11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 97; Letter Book; 1889/05/13 - 1890/08/20\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 98; Letter Book; 1890/05/14 - 1890/10/17\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 99; Letter Book; 1890/10/17 - 1891/07/02\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 100; Letter Book; 1891/07/02 - 1892/01/08\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 101; Letter Book; 1892/01/08 - 1892/07/14\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 102; Letter Book; 1892/07/14 - 1892/11/30\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 103; Letter Book; 1892/12/01 - 1893/11/15\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 104; Letter Book; 1893/12/05 - 1894/03/23\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 105; Letter Book; 1894/03/24 - 1894/06/08\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 106; Letter Book; 1894/06/09 - 1894/10/20\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 107; Letter Book; 1894/10/25 - 1895/01/03\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 108; Letter Book; 1895/01/03 - 1895/11/14\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 109; Letter Book; 1895/11/15 - 1897/04/06\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 110; Letter Book; 1897/04/06 - 1898/07/22\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 111; Letter Book; 1898/07/22 - 1898/10/22\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 112; Letter Book; 1898/10/22 - 1898/12/29\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 113; Letter Book; 1898/12/29 - 1899/08/19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 114; Letter Book; 1899/08/19 - 1899/10/31\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 115; Letter Book; 1899/11/01 - 1900/10/01\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 116; Letter Book; 1900/10/01 - 1901/07/23\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 117; Letter Book; 1901/07/27 - 1902/10/11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 118; Letter Book; 1902/10/11 - 1903/11/18\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 119; Letter Book; 1903/11/18 - 1905/05/16\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 120; Letter Book; 1905/05/07 - 1906/06/13\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 121; Letter Book; 1906/05 - 1908/08\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 122; Letter Book -- Private; 1858 - 1861, 1863\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 123; Letter Book -- Private; 1875/05/18 - 1878/10/07\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 124; Letter Book -- Private; 1877/05/07 - 1880/11/23\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 125; Letter Book -- Private; 1880/11/25 - 1884/09/06\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 126; Letter Book -- Private; 1883/06/07 - 1885/05/02\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 127; Letter Book -- Private; 1884/09/11 - 1884/12/03\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 128; Letter Book -- C.C. and O. Company; 1887/05/08 - 1880/02/25\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 129; Letter Book -- WV Improvement Company; 1890 - 1892\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 130; Account Books -- Cash Book; 1879 - 1887\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 131; Account Books -- Stock Account Book -- Gauley Company; 1892 - 1894\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 132; Account Books -- Coal Account Book; 1895 - 1898\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 133; Account Books -- Electric Railway Company, Ashland, Kentucky (mostly blank); 1900 - 1901\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 134; Account Books; 1838 - 1839\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 135; Account Books; 1826 - 1834\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 136; Account Books; 1833 - 1838\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 137; Account Books; 1832 - 1836\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 138; Account Books; 1836 - 1838\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 139; Account Books; 1841 - 1847\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 140; Account Books; 1850 - 1853\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 141; Minute Book -- Pickens Company; 1893 - 1906\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 141; Minute Books -- Webster Springs and Railroad; 1894 - 1895\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 142; Minute Books -- Executive Committee of the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company; 1900\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 143; Miscellaneous Books (includes bills, miscellaneous papers, letters); 1890 - 1898\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 144; Miscellaneous Books; 1893 - 1895\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 144; Miscellaneous Books -- Land Notes; 1895\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 144; Miscellaneous Books -- Coal Tariff -- Newspaper Clippings; 1890s\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 145; Ledger Book -- Store Ledger; 1825 - 1834\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 146; Unbound Book -- Great Coal Fields of Southwestern Kentucky -- Reports; 1903\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_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.","Correspondents include John D. 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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