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Berlin B. Chapman, Compiler, Scrapbook, 1933/1941 0.45 Linear Feet Summary: 5 1/4 in. (1 oversize folder, 1 item); (3 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Chapman, Berlin B., 1900-1995
Microfilmed copy of a scrapbook outlining the history of college debating in West Virginia, 1933-1941. The scrapbook was prepared by Dr. Chapman and the Fairmont State College debate teams.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

E.C. and H.B. Eagle Papers, 1910/1980 1.25 Linear Feet Summary: 1 ft. 3 in. (3 document cases, 5 in. each)

The letters and papers of E.C. & H.B. Eagle, a father and son legal firm of Hinton, Summers County. Subjects mentioned are election campaigns, women's suffrage, prohibition, World War II, Korean War, gun control, and the goals and strategies of the Republican Party. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, Walter S. Hallanan, Rush D. Holt, Arch A. Moore, Jennings Randolph, Hulett C. Smith, Cecil Underwood.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

F.A. Simpson Records, 1909/1942 3.3 Linear Feet Summary: 3 ft. 4 in. (8 document cases, 5 in. each)

Simpson, F. A. (Frederick Arthur), 1883-1974
Records of F.A. Simpson, a justice of the peace in Barbour County. Also included, dating between 1914-1942, are a few papers and speeches of J.A. Viquesney, West Virginia Game and Fish Warden (1909-1916) and justice of the peace; 1930 election campaign material relating to Henry D. Hatfield, James Ellwood Jones, and Carl B. Harvey; and references to politics, game laws, cost of medical service, and prohibition.
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Harvey W. Harmer (1865-1961) Papers, 1842/1961 1.7 Linear Feet Summary: 1 ft. 8 in. (4 document cases, 5 in. each)

Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961

Correspondence, speeches, essays, clippings, and account books of a Clarksburg lawyer, Republican state senator, and Harrison County local historian. Subjects include the history of Clarksburg and Shinnston; the Progressive Movement, women's suffrage, and prohibition in West Virginia; West Virginia Wesleyan College; West Virginia Historical Society; Methodism in Harrison County and the state; Methodist missions in Korea, China, India, the Philippines, and the United States; gristmills and covered bridges in West Virginia; America First Day [1922]; Edward Grandison Smith; Parkersburg Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; family and personal history; history of the Mason-Dixon Line; the (Clarksburg) 50-Year Club; Nutter Fort Methodist Church; and the Harrison County Fair. Also, tape recordings of an interview relating to Mr. Harmer's career as an attorney in Clarksburg.

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Howard Sutherland, Senator, Correspondence regarding Appointments, 1916/1923, bulk 1920/1922 1.25 Linear Feet 1 ft. 3 in. (3 document cases, 5 in. each)

Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950

Correspondence of West Virginia Senator Howard Sutherland mainly regarding recommendations for appointments of West Virginian district attorneys, district attorney assistants, district federal judges, and U.S. Marshalls. There are both incoming and outgoing letters. One predominant recommendation is for Republican James French Strother for Federal District Judge of the Southern District of West Virginia. Strother went on to serve in the sixty-ninth and seventieth congresses from 1925 to 1929.

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Howard Sutherland, U.S. Senator for West Virginia, Correspondence, 1914/2022 4.79 Linear Feet 10 document cases, 5 in. each; 3 document cases, 2.5 in. each

Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950

Includes letters, postcards, and other correspondence retained from Sutherland's daily activities as U.S. Senator. This includes constituent mail and correspondence with other politicians. Much of the correspondence deals with appointments and patronage. Other subjects mentioned are federal and West Virginia legislation, state Republican Party affairs, the West Virginia coal miners' march on Logan County, prohibition, disarmament, bonus claims, immigration, West Virginia primary election law, the Armenian Genocide, the prosecution of World War I deserters from West Virginia, the potential sale of Monticello to the federal government, and more. The letters are organized alphabetically by the name of correspondents.

A 1980 addendum to the collection includes correspondence from individuals and organizations regarding women's suffrage. There is a mix of pro- and anti-suffrage sentiment. Primary topics of discussion include the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919. This material is located in box 10.

A more thorough inventory of the collection is available upon request.

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Hugh Ike Shott Papers, 1858/1954 27.1 Linear Feet Summary: 25 ft. 1 in. (65 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 oversize folder, 1/2 in.)

Shott, Hugh Ike, 1866-1953

The papers of Hugh Ike Shott of Bluefield, W.Va. Mr. Shott was owner and publisher of The Blue Field Telegraph and the Sunset News. He was also owner of radio stations WHIS of Bluefield, and served as postmaster in Bluefield by appointments of Presidents T. Roosevelt and Taft. He was twice elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1928 and 1930, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. Senate for the unexpired term of M. M. Neely. Mr. Shott was also a member of the W.Va. Semi-Centennial Commission, and the Republican State Committee.

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John Lewis Sheldon (1865-1947) Papers, 1905/1951 1.25 Linear Feet Summary: 1 ft. 3 in. (3 document cases, 5 in. each)

Sheldon, John Lewis (1865-1947)
Correspondence, mainly concerning family news and business. There is comment on prohibition, President Woodrow Wilson's reelection, World War I speculation, the Food Administration under Herbert Hoover, and the influenza outbreak of 1919-1920.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mother Jones Typescript Memoir, 1938 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 3 in. (1 small flat storage box)

Burgess, Lillie May (Fowler)
Typescript memoir of the life of Mother Jones, entitled "Mother Jones: the Life Story of the Irish Immigrant Girl Who Became the Most Unique Character in the American Labor Movement, Living Past 100 Years," written by Lillie May Burgess of Hyattsville, Maryland, and copyrighted 8 February 1938. The manuscript is in two parts, several pages of which are missing. The first part (241pp.) is entitled "The Life Story of Mother Jones: American Labor's Joan of Arc," and is a narration of events in Mother Jones' life. It includes a description of her early years, before she became a labor activist, and some of the highlights of her labor career. Her activities in organizing miners in West Virginia and Colorado receive most emphasis, but also included are her activities among women brewery workers, her participation in the 1919 steel strike at Homestead, Pennsylvania, her interest in the Mexican Revolution of 1911, her views on woman suffrage and prohibition, her meetings with various presidents and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and her friendship with Terence V. Powderly, fellow labor activist. The narration follows closely that of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MOTHER JONES, published in 1925 by Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, Ill., with the addition of some chapters on her life after 1925. The second part (106pp.) is entitled "The Last Years of Mother Jones (Personal Reminiscences)." It is a narration of the later years of Mother Jones' life, ca.1927-1930, most of which she spent under the care of the author, Lillie May Burgess, at the Burgess home in Hyattsville, Maryland. Mrs. Burgess relates the circumstances under which Mother Jones and she became friends, how Mother Jones came to live with the Burgess family in 1927, and what these years of her life were like.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Osborne Family Papers, 1987 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961
A genealogy of the Osborne family of Greenbrier County. Originally from New Jersey, the family settled in Greenbrier and Hampshire counties.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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