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President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), Typescript Copies of Letters to Senator Stephen B. Elkins, 1886/1900 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Typescript copies of forty letters from U.S. President Benjamin Harrison to Senator Stephen B. Elkins from 1886 to 1900. Topics are primarily personal in nature and include trips, family news, weather, and social activities. Harrison also comments briefly on Elkins' election to the Senate in 1894, political appointments, and Indiana politics in the late 1890s.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Preston Family Papers, 1817/1945 7.7 Linear Feet Summary: 7 ft. 8 in. (18 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 oversize folder, 2 in.)

Preston family
Correspondence, legal papers, and business papers of John J.D. Preston, his ancestors, and his relatives. The correspondence is primarily between members of the Preston family with topics being discussed, such as living conditions, business conditions, military training camps, Civil War battles, politics and campaigns, political personalities, education, schools, and the World Wars. Correspondents include John Preston, Rev. David Preston, John J. Davis, and John W. Davis.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert G. Kelly Papers, 1932/1941 0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)

Kelly, Robert G.

Correspondence, telegrams, newspaper clippings, reports, and speeches of a Democratic Party official; correspondence and minutes of Democratic State Executive Committee meetings. Subjects include West Virginia gubernatorial campaign of 1932, political patronage, federal relief programs in West Virginia, Rush Holt's senatorial campaign of 1934, the Holt-Kelly feud, and the miners' strike of 1939 Correspondents include Robert G. Kelly, Herman Guy Kump, M.M. Neely, Joe L. Smith, Homer A. Holt, Gory Hogg, James R. Moreland, Charles R. Wilson, Charles E. Hodges, James A. Farley, and Aubrey Williams.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert L. Pemberton (1860-1944) Papers, 1880/1944, bulk 1891/1944 0.2 Linear Feet Summary: 1 1/2 in. (2 folders)

Pemberton, Robert Landon, 1860-1944

Letters, mainly incoming correspondence, speeches, and printed materials of R.L. Pemberton, for many years editor of The St. Marys Oracle. Correspondents include A.I. Boreman, G.W. Atkinson, Robert A. Armstrong, Louis Bennett, John J. Cornwell, W.E. Glasscock, H.C. Greer, P.I. Reed, Louis Johnson, and Homer A. Holt. The correspondence concerns politics and Pemberton's activities with newspaper associations in West Virginia. Included are religious pamphlets, newspapers, and a typescript, "Origin of The Wetzel Democrat" by D.L. Long.

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Robert L. Ramsay (1877-1956) Papers, 1932/1952 0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Ramsay, Robert L., 1877-1956
Bound volumes of speeches, bills, and correspondence, 1941-1952, of Robert L. Ramsay while a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the first congressional district of West Virginia.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts, 1847/1883 0.75 Linear Feet Summary: 9 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.)

Robinson family
Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Roy L. McCulty Papers, 1918/1961 0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)

McCulty, Roy L.
Papers of a Roane County businessman who served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1943 to 1956 and in the state senate from 1957 to 1961. The collection includes letters, photographs, a scrapbook, clippings pertaining to McCulty's career, and two notebooks containing digests of bills introduced during the 1960 session of the state legislature.
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Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers, 1840/2003, bulk 1918/1955 156.21 Linear Feet 156 ft. 2 1/2 in. (360 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 4 in.); (14 document cases, 2 1/2 in.); (1 flat storage box, 5 in.); (1 flat storage box, 3 1/2 in.); (2 flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (3 flat storage boxes, 2 1/2 in. each); (9 flat storage boxes, 1 1/2 in. each); ( 44 photos in photograph filing cabinets) 11.7 Gigabytes 131 TIFF files, 2 PDF files

Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955
Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative Files (1937-1940).
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