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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Cookman Sturgiss (1842-1925) Papers, A&M 1671, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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.