1.4 Linear Feet, 1 ft. 5 in. (3 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 ledger, 2 in.)
Creator
Woodyard, Harry C., 1867-1929
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 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
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Conditions Governing Access
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Harry C. Woodyard (1867-1929) Papers, A&M 2458, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Correspondence, legal, and financial, and miscellaneous papers of a businessman and politician from Roane County, West Virginia,
who was elected to the state Senate in 1898 and to the U.S. Congress as a Republican for several terms: 1902-11, 1916-23,
1925-27. His early business activity was in wholesale groceries and the lumber industry. He later engaged in newspaper publishing
and owned an estimated eighteen weekly papers. Woodyard's sons continued in their father's business after his death. The correspondence
consists of letters received by Woodyard during his later terms as congressman (1920s), as well as personal letters from his
family and friends.
Scrapbook #1: Newspaper clippings concerning political matters, taken from various West Virginia newspapers
1910
Mixed Materials unboxed
Scrapbook #2: Photostatic copies of letters from various U.S. newspaper publishers to Edward Woodyard Associates, New York
City concerning relations between big business and local, small-town populations