Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

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Location of collection:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers, A&M 1606, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
19.4 Linear Feet Summary: 19 ft. 5 in. (44 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.); (8 ledgers, 8 1/2 in.); (2 wrapped packages, 1 1/2 in.); (1 oversize folder, 1 item.)
Creator:
Smith, Clarence Edwin, 1885-1959
Abstract:
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; Eighteenth Amendment; presidential elections and national and state politics, 1916-1956; John W. Davis; Alfred E. Smith; post-World War I radicalism and reaction; Ku Klux Klan; United Mine Workers; National Miners' Union; labor conflict, 1920s; U.S. Railway Administration; New Deal agencies; and Mountain Lake Park, Maryland. Correspondents include Van A. Bittner, William E. Chilton, William G. Conley, John J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, Eugene V. Debs, James A. Farley, William Green, Averell Harriman, Homer Adams Holt, Rush Dew Holt, Hugh S. Johnson, Louis Johnson, Harley M. Kilgore, H.G. Kump, John L. Lewis, William A. MacCorkle, J. Howard McGrath, Clarence W. Meadows, M.M. Neely, Okey L. Patteson, Jennings Randolph, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adlai E. Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, Clarence W. Watson, and James O. Watson. There are also papers of Clarence L. Smith (1850-1905), editor of the Fairmont INDEX (1889) and founder of the Fairmont TIMES (1900), which include a domestic diary of his wife, 1876-1910; minute book of the Fleming Association, 1890-1894; papers of Clarence Edwin Smith, Jr., 1940-1941; papers of Thomas Barns (1750-1836), and his sons, John S. and James F.; Marion County millers and manufacturers, 1795-1908. There are also papers of Waitman T. Willey and a taped interview with C.E. Smith, 1956. Correspondents include John L. Lewis, George B. McClellan, Matthew M. Neely, Francis H. Pierpont, John J. Cornwell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. There are also papers, 1917-1950, of Smith's brother, Earl H. (1880-1941), co-founder and editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1900-1925), state legislator, officer in the National Guard, and state commander of the American Legion. Subjects include World War I; Woodrow Wilson; American Legion; and state and national politics, 1918-1940. Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, Sam T. Mallison, M.M. Neely, Jennings Randolph, and Howard Sutherland. The collection also includes papers, 1908-1940, of Herschel H. Rose, Smith's son-in-law, Fairmont attorney, Democrat politician, and circuit court judge. M.M. Neely is a correspondent. Financial records include account books, 1826-1893, of Thomas Barns, John S. Barns and Company, Barns, Fleming and Company (1857), James R. Fleming, woolen and flour milling, shoe manufacturing, and general merchandise operations in Marion County; account book of Mary Fleming Smith, 1888-1912; Fairmont Newspaper Publishing Company, 1919-1949; Fairmont Broadcasting Company, 1932, 1947-1949; and Jackson Coal Company, 1917-1924.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers, A&M 1606, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Background

Physical location:
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Academies (Private schools)
Account books
Coal mining - coal companies.
Diaries and journals.
Editors - letters and papers.
Elections
General stores
Judges - letters and papers.
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor
Lawyers - letters and papers.
Mills and mill-work
Politics and government.
Railroads
Unions.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Women's history -- 1850-1899
Women's history -- 1900-1929
World War, 1914-1918
Names:
American Legion
Associated Press
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Barns, Fleming and Company
Barns, John S. and Company
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Fairmont Broadcasting Company.
Fairmont Newspaper Publishing Company
Fleming Association
Jackson Coal Company
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Monongah Mines Relief Committee
United States. National Bituminous Coal Commission
National Miners' Union (U.S.)
United Mine Workers of America
United States - Railway Administration.
United States National Guard - West Virginia.
Virginia Military Institute
Barns, James F.
Barns, John S.
Barns, Thomas.
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976
Fleming, James R.
Green, William.
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955
Johnson, Hugh S. (Hugh Samuel), 1882-1942
Johnson, Louis.
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930
Mallison, Samuel T.
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885
McGrath, J. Howard (James Howard), 1903-1966
Meadows, Clarence W.
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958
Patteson, Okey L.
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Rose, Herschel H.
Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944
Smith, Clarence Edwin Jr.
Smith, Clarence Edwin, 1885-1959
Smith, Clarence L.
Smith, Earl H.
Smith, Mary Fleming.
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Watson, C. W.
Watson, James O.
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Places:
Fairmont.
Marion County (W. Va.)
Mountain Lake Park (Md.)