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Title:
Pierpont, Francis Harrison (1814-1899). Papers
Call number:
A&M No.: 9
Creator:
Pierpont, Francis Harrison (1814-1899)
Inclusive dates:
1811-1949, undated
Bulk dates:
1860-1899
Extent:
7 ft. (16 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case 2 1/2 in.); (1 large flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.)
Abstract:
Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. Please see Scope and Content Note for additional details and a link to digitized copies of Pierpont's telegrams.
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• ... Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. ...
• ...areer as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. ...
• ...pies of Pierpont's telegrams. West Virginia & Regional History Collection ...
Access and Use• ...Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879. P6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883. No number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary ...
• ...3. No number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886. ...
Historical Note• ...n Title Francis Harrison Pierpont was born in Monongalia County, (West) Virginia on January 25, 1814, the son of Francis and Catherine Weaver Pierpont. He married Ju ...
• ...raduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and began teaching in Mississippi and then (West) Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Fairmont, Marion County, (West) Virgi ...
• ... and then (West) Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Fairmont, Marion County, (West) Virginia, in 1842. One of the clients he represented was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. H ...
• ...nor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West ...
• ...the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a foun ...
• ... After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899. Juli ...
Collection Scope and Content Note• ... Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. ...
• ...areer as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. ...
• ... papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940. ...
• ...of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940. View a selection of telegrams from this ...
• ...ime of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and ...
• ..., slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics. A folder-level contents list of this series ca ...
• ...per clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the countr ...
• ... Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances ...
• ... 10-13. This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon. A folder-level contents l ...
• ...ierpont and Mrs. Pierpont, and an original appointment for Pierpont to the Board of Regents for the West Virginia Institution for the Deaf Dumb and Blind; correspondents include A.W. Campbell, William ...
• ... Copies of Letter (contains copies of a letter regarding the dates of conventions in the history of West Virginia statehood; the original letter is in box 3, folder 30); undated Box 3; Fo ...
• ... 5) A discussion of the convention immediately following Virginia's decision to secede and the West's desire to remain loyal, highlighting Pierpont's role in the process and his stifling of debat ...
• ...ion of the Restored State of Virginia, and Pierpont's activities as governor until the formation of West Virginia, especially the obtaining of monies for delegates and Weston Asylum; 6) No Transcript; ...
• ... 4) Complete; 5) Typescript of unknown original, copy of the act permitting the formation of West Virginia and certification thereof by Gibson L. Cranmer; 6) No Original; 7) Marks from metal pa ...
• ... 4) Complete; 5) Typescript of unknown original, copy of the act permitting the formation of West Virginia and certification thereof by Gibson L. Cranmer; 6) No Original; 7) Marks from metal pa ...
• ...tion of slaves, the expected reaction of slaves to emancipation, Reconstruction and the creation of West Virginia; 6) No Original; 7) Marks from metal paper clip; undated Box 4; Folder 22 ...
• ...tion of slaves, the expected reaction of slaves to emancipation, Reconstruction and the creation of West Virginia; 6) No Original; 7) Marks from metal paper clip; undated Box 4; Folder 23 ...
• ... 3) 3 leaves; 4) Complete; 5) Letter to "Editors Intelligencer" presenting a indictment of West Virginia soldiers' treatment in Pittsburg couched in sarcastic tones; 6) Transcript exists, see ...
• ...bing the suffering of Western Virginias during the Civil War and decrying the "guerilla" tactics of West and Floyd; 6) No Transcript; 7) Good condition; undated Box 4; Folder 25; War Year ...
• ...093: 1) Original; 2) No Title; 3) 1 leaf; 4) Complete; 5) Short anecdote concerning the ferocity of West Virginian troops, mainly concerning the 11th and 12th regiments; 6) No Transcript; 7) Ragged do ...
• ... 4) Fragment; 5) Edited manuscript describing the complexities of land laws, surveys, and titles in West Virginia and Virginia, blaming Virginia landowners for these problems and the lack of industria ...
• ... letter to the "Eas [Eds?] Intelligencer" discussing the futility of building tobacco warehouses in West Virginia, citing the corruption of those in Virginia and the lack of tobacco grown in West Virg ...
• ...ouses in West Virginia, citing the corruption of those in Virginia and the lack of tobacco grown in West Virginia; 6) No Transcript; 7) Faded and edges slightly torn; undated Box 5; Folde ...
• ... 5) Part of a document indicting the behavior of Governor Jacob and the Bourbon Democrats of West Virginia for corruption, and describing Pierpont's attitude towards the state in its early days ...
• ... 2) No Title; 3) 8 leaves; 4) Fragment; 5) Majority of a document decrying the governance of West Virginia by the Republicans and Bourbon Democrats, focusing especially on taxation; 6) No Trans ...
• ...ting much of the material from 05-053, and adding discussion of Grant's appointees in the South and West and their corrupt activities; 6) No Transcript; 7) In fairly rough shape, especially the last t ...
• ... undated Box 5; Folder 26; Misc.- Land Policy; Item 05-084: 1) Original; 2) "Editors West Va. Democrat"; 3) 7 leaves; 4) Fragment; 5) Parts of a letter to the Editors of the West Virgin ...
• ...) "Editors West Va. Democrat"; 3) 7 leaves; 4) Fragment; 5) Parts of a letter to the Editors of the West Virginia Democrat, calling on the state government to revise their Constitution to be better ab ...
• ... 4) Fragment; 5) Sections of a document arguing for the changing of the method by which lands in West Virginia are taxed, drawing heavily from material in 05-087 and 05-084; 6) No Transcript; 7) Fa ...
• ... 2) No Title; 3) 7 leaves; 4) Fragment; 5) Draft of a letter condemning Governor J. B. Jackson of West Virginia for the "usurpation" of the legislature's power in his tax policy; 6) No Transcript; 7 ...
• ...) Portion of a page discussing Pierpont's opinions on how wild land assessment should be changed in West Virginia; 6) No Transcript; 7) Good condition; undated Box 5; Folder 28; Misc.- La ...
• ... 3) 4 leaves; 4) Fragment; 5) Draft of a letter concerning problems with land taxation in West Virginia, suggesting smallholders should be able to claim undeveloped land from absentee landho ...
• ... 2) No Title; 3) 3 leaves; 4) Fragment; 5) Piece concerning the injustice of taxation in West Virginia, arguing that they drive manufacturers away from the state, and proposing changes to r ...
• ... 4) Fragment; 5) Collection of fragments concerning taxation, lotteries, land practices in the West, and the gubernatorial contest between Judge Maxwell and E. W. Wilson; 6) No Transcript; 7) Goo ...
• ...ling with taxation, party politics, and the appointment of Henry S. Walker as Secretary of State of West Virginia; 6) No Transcript; 7) Somewhat frayed edges; undated Box 6; Folder 1; Cur ...
• ...ditors of the Intelligencer discussing Ohio's call for the reunification of Virginia and describing West Virginia's contribution to the Union during the Civil War; 6) Transcript exists, see 06-010 and ...
• ... 5) Letter to an unnamed newspaper protesting points made in that paper concerning the origin of West Virginia, its value to Virginia, and the reasons for the division of the two states; 6) Transcr ...
• ... 4) Fragment; 5) Portion of a letter concerning "Bomb proof patriots", Virginia Bonds, and the West Virginia political parties; 6) No Transcript; 7) Good condition; undated Box 6; Fo ...
• ...) Transcript of 06-012; 2) "Letter by Gov. Peirpoint showing the consequences of Democratic rule in West Virginia"; 3) 6 leaves; 4) Fragment; 5) Typescript of 06-012, heavily corrected in red pencil; ...
• ...) Transcript of 06-012; 2) "Letter by Gov. Peirpoint showing the consequences of Democratic rule in West Virginia"; 3) 6 leaves; 4) Fragment; 5) Typescript of 06-012; 6) Original exists, see 06-012; 7 ...
• ... 3) 3 leaves; 4) Complete; 5) Transcript of unknown original discussing the relative weakness of West Virginia's Congressional Representatives, and the way in which they are selected; 6) No Origina ...
• ... 3) 3 leaves; 4) Complete; 5) Transcript of unknown original discussing the relative weakness of West Virginia's Congressional Representatives, and the way in which they are selected; 6) No Origina ...
• ...Constitutional process for gubernatorial elections, whether Wilson or Goff was the real governor of West Virginia; 6) No Transcript; 7) Some fading and staining; undated Box 6; Folder 18; ...
• ... 4) Complete; 5) A list of resolutions, bills, and petitions introduced by Pierpont into the West Virginia Legislature during 1870, covering topics from internal improvements to the incorporati ...
• ... 2) No Title; 3) 3 leaves; 4) Fragment; 5) Collection of notes concerning the creation of West Virginia and the slave trade, with many abbreviations; 6) No Transcript; 7) Pages fading and be ...
• ...t brought to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the inclusion of Jefferson and Berkeley counties in West Virginia, and how the judges ruled thereupon; 6) No Transcript; 7) Somewhat faded; undated ...
• ... 5) Discussion of the reasons that some of the border counties were included in the state of West Virginia; 6) No Transcript; 7) A little faded; undated Box 6; Folder 22; Miscellan ...
• ...es and course of the war, and defending the Constitutionality of his government and the creation of West Virginia, marked up in pencil; 6) Original; 7) Cover missing, slightly faded on the outside; 18 ...
• ... 4) Complete; 5) A letter to the Houses of Congress of Virginia justifying the creation of West Virginia and exhorting them to remove slavery from the law books, suspend assessment of propert ...
• ...Bound Vol. 1 - 1847-1865; Item 07-003: 1) Pamphlet; 2) "Correspondence." ["Address to the People of West Virginia"] (3 of 10); 3) 19 leaves; 4) Fragment - missing cover page; 5) Pamphlet by the Revere ...
• ...d Business Papers, folder 1 of 2 (includes manuscript deeds, indentures, and land grants regarding [West] Virginia land and debt; not all pertain directly to Pierpont; for additional deeds and busines ...
• ... F.H. Pierpont Deeds and Business Papers, folder 2 of 2 (includes manuscript deeds regarding West Virginia land, a cemetery plot, and coal rights; also includes two typescript copies of one of ...
• ...Stores Sent by Mrs. Pierpont During the War (contains a manuscript list of items sent from various [West] Virginia cities, the date, and their quantity and/or value); ca. 1860s Box 8; Fol ...
• ...ries 12, Oversized, box 18, folder 1); 1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated Box 8; Folder 16; West Virginia Statehood Proclamation (contains three photocopies of the manuscript proclamation); 18 ...
• ...Proclamation. Whereas, by the Act of Congress approved the 31st day of December, last, the State of West Virginia was declared to be one of the United States of America, and was admitted into the Unio ...
• ... and Lynchburg road to the E858Farquiville and Lynchburg road I am at this writing about four miles west of Walters Church and will push forward to the front of the purpose of meeting - notice sent t ...
• ...1861. By Telegraph from Clarksburg 1861. Before Leaving Mannington I dispatched an order to Capt West[?] to assemble his company tomorrow & report to Fontain Smith at Farmington I met a force s ...
• ... Peirpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] Wheeling Sept 3 1861. By Telegraph from Mannington 1861. Capt West has sixty two 62 men F. Smith 1N 30Coll; 1861/09/03 Box 9; Folder 13; 09-186 to 09 ...
• ...eirpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] Wheeling Sept 3 1861. By Telegraph from Mannington 3 1861. Capt West's Company has been here since yesterday noon awaiting orders. All is quiet. Answer F Smith 13 ...
• ... 1861/09/04 Box 9; Folder 14; 09-201 to 09-215; Item 09-203a: From Perry G. West, Captain, Mannington, to Pierpont, Wheeling. "Gov F.H. Peirpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] Wheelin ...
• ...rs as we have just received news that the enemy is in our rear & no union men to defend us P.G. West, Capt 48W101Col"; 1861/09/04 Box 9; Folder 14; 09-201 to 09-215; Item 09-203b: Fro ...
• ... Item 09-220: From C. W. McHenry, Pittsburgh, to Weston Rowand, Captain, Wheeling. "Capt West Rowand with J.W. Vance Wheeling Sept 9 1861. By Telegraph from Pittsburgh . 9 1861. Nothing ...
• ...ells Mills to this place to be mustered in also a company of fifty three 53 men from Harrisville to West Union to finish recruiting Can this be paid by my quartermaster upon my order out of the fund f ...
• ...manding this Dept your immediate action is respectfully desired for the good of the company Capt WA West and first Lieut Macey have been relieved by court martial witness second Lieut D Delancy Compan ...
• ...cted W Angelo Powell formerly Engineer attached to Genl Rosecrans staff for their Captain Vice Wm A West dismissed. I have no official notice of Capt West's dismissal & my information of the acti ...
• ...Genl Rosecrans staff for their Captain Vice Wm A West dismissed. I have no official notice of Capt West's dismissal & my information of the action of the company is also irregular. their action o ...
• ...l Shall retain command of Cavalry Company of First Va mounted men known as Company G late Capt W.A. West I wish to send them on important duty. J.A.J. Lightburn Col Comdg 3 Brigade 38.D.119pd"; 1862/ ...
• ...ston 14 1862. I am much pleased with the arrangement Lieut col Richmond has made in reference to West Cavalry = Should be pleased to have the company official at once as I wish to use it this man S ...
• ... Service please appoint W Angelo Powell as first Lieut think he is a good man for the place if Capt West cannot be reinstated please appoint Josiah Steel as Captain Steel is first Lieut of Co. C first ...
• ...5 1862. By Telegraph from Charleston 15 1862. Please urge the commanding Genl to reinstate Capt West he is a good officer & I think has been harshly dealt with. the Company is badly in need o ...
• ... 22 1862. By Telegraph from Charleston 21 1862. Will you Appoint W Angelo Powell first Lieut of West's Cavalry Company please answer I am I need of help. NP Richmond Lieut Col Comdg 20Hw90pd"; 18 ...
• ...ov Pierpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] Wheeling Dec 12 1862. By Telegraph from New Creek, 12 1862. Is West Virginia Received A.S. Core Col Comdg Post 4Bn40pd"; 1862/12/12 Box 9; Folder 48; ...
• ...& they will be forwarded to him as soon as received A.R. Buffington Lt. & Chf. of Ordnance West. Va, Jn J Mabhett Brown Chf. Clk. Ord Off. Wheeling Va Dec. 18/62"; 1862/12/17 B ...
• ... force at Morgantown & am not certain whether they are there yet or now down near the Rail Road west of Grafton or crossed over to Join the others near Clarksburg. The wild panic at Wheeling & ...
• ...d go out or send out & look along the Rail Road to help stop the mischief ir any still going on west of Grafton besides about forty five hundred" Sixth Sheet: "(6) troops of all arms with Robert ...
• ...e condition. I have three 3 companies here one 1 four 4 miles east of Mannington one 1 two 2 miles west two 2 at churchs & one 1 at Littleton in all Eight companies numbering in all about two hun ...
• ...ling May 4 1863. By Telegraph from Washington 4 1863. How many Virginia Infantry are there now in West Virginia will you undertake to provide horses to mount them if the US Government will pay for t ...
• ...fteen hundred militia at Fairmont for forces of cavalry" On reverse: "moving from Jane Lieu toward West Union may again strike across to Fairmont It may be Imboden's intention to break up your conven ...
• ...legraph from Parkersburg 5 1863. Genl Roberts has taken all troops from here except two hundred to West Union. We are without defense except a gunboat Can't you get aid through Gov Tod we have no ar ...
• ...H. Pierpont] Wheeling May 6 1863. By Telegraph from Parkersburg 6 1863. Col Latham is attacked at West Union by two 2 cavalry regts bridges destroyed between that place & Clarksburg & Ware's ...
• ...erpont] Wheeling May 7 1863. By Telegraph from Clarksburg 7 1863. Have just recd information from West Union that the enemy destroyed two bridges east of West Union & then struck south & wes ...
• ...rg 7 1863. Have just recd information from West Union that the enemy destroyed two bridges east of West Union & then struck south & west to Harrisville or Ellenboro. BS Roberts Brig Genl 25 ...
• ...om West Union that the enemy destroyed two bridges east of West Union & then struck south & west to Harrisville or Ellenboro. BS Roberts Brig Genl 25De80pd"; 1863/05/07 Box 9; F ...
• ...ington 8. 1863. Scouts just returned no enemy this side of Railroad they came on railroads East of West Union burned two 2 bridges and Captured twenty 20 guards and left there next morning towards Hu ...
• ...r of Ohio troops which he had spared to go only to the border had been brought into the interior of West Virginia. I directed" Second Page: "Capt Dod therefore to return to Wheeling but have got Gov ...
• ... Knights of the Golden Circle; 1862 Box 10; Folder 9; Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia -- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad vs. Jeremiah Beaty; 1864 Box 10; Folder ...
• ...ial Matters (3 items); 1866-1878 Box 10; Folder 17; Supreme Court Case of Virginia vs. West Virginia; 1867 Box 10; Folder 18; State Debts and Finances of Virginia and West Vi ...
• ...ia vs. West Virginia; 1867 Box 10; Folder 18; State Debts and Finances of Virginia and West Virginia (3 items); 1867-1872 Box 10; Folder 19; Governor's Terms (contains three ...
• ...smo-Political Party; 1871 Box 10; Folder 22; Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia (includes a speech by Pierpont; 2 items); 1880-1881 Box 10; Folder 23; Pr ...
• ... 2 items); 1880-1881 Box 10; Folder 23; Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia (2 items); 1885 Box 10; Folder 24; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Material (3 i ...
• ...; Folder 24; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Material (3 items); 1899-1949 Box 10; Folder 25; West Virginia Semi-Centennial; 1913 Box 10; Folder 26; Miscellaneous (3 items); 1867-18 ...
• ...ace of Windham County, Vermont and Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia); 1859-1872 Box 17; Folder 2; WVU Commencement Invitations (2 invitations ...
• ... Miscellaneous (includes a photo, possibly of a young Anna Pierpont; a cut out letterhead of the West Virginia Executive Department [1879]; 8 items) ; 1868-1880, undated ...
• ... national encampment in St. Louis, MO); 1887 Box 17; Folder 11; Society of the Army of West Virginia Ribbon; undated Box 17; Folder 12; Card from Colored Citizens and Schools ...
• ... of The New Regime (Norfolk, Va.); and May 25, 1913 issue of The Pittsburgh Dispatch, with article "West Virginia's Great Golden Jubilee"; for additional clippings, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings S ...
Subject Terms• ... Grand Army of the Republic. Society of the Army of West Virginia. Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957. ...
• ... Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. West Virginia - History - Civil War, 1861-1865. West Vi ...
• ...West Virginia - History - Civil War, 1861-1865. West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. Wh ...
• ... Wheeling (W. Va.) Coal mines and mining - West Virginia - Marion County. Reconstruction (U.S. histo ...
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