9.4 Linear Feet, Summary: 9 ft. 4 3/4 in. (22 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 photograph album, 2 in.); (1 cased photograph
in composite box, 3/4 in.); 1 reel of microfilm
Creator
Wallace, George Selden, 1871-1963
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/
Language
English
Abstract
Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company,
president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry,
Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908,
chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace served in the
Spanish-American War and as judge advocate general in West Virginia during the coal strike in 1912-1913. During World War
I he was a state draft executive, a major in the judge advocate general corps in Washington, and a lieutenant colonel in France.
Subjects include the influenza epidemic of 1918, the depression of 1929-1932, state and national politics, and genealogy of
the Wallace and allied families. The collection also includes three typescripts, "Runnymede Receipts,"Train Running for the
Confederacy," and "Norborne Parish and St. George's Chapel," by Philip P. Gibson; Civil War data; an account of the taking
of San Juan Hill in 1898; a military diary; a scrapbook of Cabell County court records; a speech against the League of Nations;
and notes on a trip to Nice, circa 1919.
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Conditions Governing Access
No special access restriction applies.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers, A&M 1710, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.