United Mine Workers Leaders and Lawyers at Jefferson County Courthouse, Charles Town, W. Va.
Date:
1922
Description:
Group portrait of United Mine Workers leaders and lawyers at Jefferson County Courthouse, W. Va. Front Row, Left to Right; James M. Mason, C. J. Van Fleet, Samuel B. Montgomery, Harold Wilkins Houston, William Blizzard, John L. Lewis, Charles Franklin Keeney.
Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, Jefferson County, W. Va.
Description:
Built in 1836, the courthouse was twice the scene of treason trials- abolitionist John Brown in 1859 and leaders of the coal miners' 1921 armed march in Southern West Virginia.