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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Cookman Sturgiss (1842-1925) Papers, A&amp;M 1671, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>1671, 1899</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>Correspondence and newspaper clippings of a Morgantown judge, railroad promoter, and U.S. Congressman. Papers deal with Sturgiss' political troubles in his bid for re-nomination in 1910 and the unveiling of the Francis H. Pierpont statue in Statuary Hall, Washington.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063919" source="lcsh">Morgantown (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Judges - letters and papers.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">West Virginia - politics.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85110904" source="lcsh">Railroads</subject>
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    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88041176" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Sturgiss, George C.</persname>
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