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      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95110554" role="aut" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Elkins, Stephen B.  (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911</persname>
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    <physloc id="aspace_1080a665acdb5014e7043c408a9a7df2">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: <a href="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/">West Virginia &amp; Regional History Center</a></physloc>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Gift of Virgie Harris, Associate Librarian, Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, WV., 1953 February 11</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>[Description and date of item], Stephen B. Elkins Political Letter File Book regarding West Virginia Republican Party, A&amp;M 0548, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Letter file book containing thirty-seven letters to Stephen B. Elkins from various West Virginia counties concerning political outlook for the Republican Party in 1900. It lists leading Republicans for each voting district in each county and includes one letter from Elkins to A. Howard Fleming, Fairmont, WV, outlining information he would like to have about Marion County.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146237" source="lcsh">West Virginia -- Politics and government</geogname>
    <persname role="dnr" source="ingest">Harris, Virgie</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95110554" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Elkins, Stephen B.  (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911</persname>
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