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West Virginia and Regional History Center
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Preferred Citation
[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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Related Material
1671, 1899
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Judges - letters and papers.
- Morgantown (W. Va.)
- Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
- Railroads
- Sturgiss, George C.
- United States. Congress
- West Virginia - politics.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
- Sturgiss, George C.
- Sturgiss, George Cookman (1842-1925)