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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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Chicago (Ill.)
• Election of 1924.
• Elections
• Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933
• Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962
• Hogg, William R.
• Kelly, Clyde.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
• Land.
• Lee, H.B.
• Los Angeles (Calif.)
• Lumber trade
• Maps.
• Politics and government.
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
• Roane County (W. Va.)
• San Francisco (Calif.)
• Taxation
• United States. Congress
• Washington (D.C.)
• Woodyard, Harry C., 1867-1929