Boone County Coal Corporation
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
J. Howard Pew papers
J. Howard Pew (1882-1971) was president of one of the largest wholesale distributor of motor petroleum companies, the Sun Oil Company (now Sunoco) from 1912 to 1947. He was a prominent philanthropist. In 1948, Pew and his siblings co-founded The Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-profit, non-governmental organization with the purpose of serving the public. The J. Howard Pew papers are primarily concerned with Pew's political activities and philanthropy. The collection is arranged into seven series: Alphabetical general correspondence; Subject files; Presbyterian Church; Christian Freedom Foundation; Glenmede Trust Co.; Pew Memorial Foundation; and Grove City College.
Penn Virginia Corporation records
Penn Virginia Corporation was an oil and gas company, incorporated as the Virginia Coal & Iron Company on January 6, 1882. It was one of many firms established by a group of interrelated entrepreneurs headed by John Leisenring (1819-1884), a Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, civil and mining engineer. The name changed to Penn Virigina Corporation in 1967. The records of Penn Virginia Corporation cover the development and operations of the Virginia Coal & Iron Company, a large southern Appalachian land company, with some information on its immediate neighbors and local support facilities.
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- Anti-communist movements 1
- Business and politics 1
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- Coal miners 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Safety measures 1
- Coal preparation 1
- Coal-handling machinery 1
- Coke industry 1
- Coke-ovens 1
- Communism and religion 1
- Company stores 1
- Company towns 1
- Conservatism 1
- Distilling, Illicit 1
- Drawings 1
- Field notes 1
- Fires 1
- Forest conservation 1
- Gas wells 1
- Industry and state 1
- Land companies 1
- Land surveys 1
- Logging 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps 1
- Natural gas 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Quarries and quarrying 1
- Railroads 1
- Reservoirs 1
- Sawmills 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Water-supply 1 + ∧ less