West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1199
Overview
Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, and papers of his grandson Wilson Lee Camden (1870-1958). Gideon D. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). His papers include correspondence, legal and business papers, surveys and plats, and printed material. Subjects include Virginia, West Virginia, and national politics; the railroad, oil, timber, and...
Dates:
1784-1958, undated
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1221
Overview
Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). Includes business correspondence, financial records, legal papers, and court records. Materials include the early land papers of Camden's law partner, John J. Allen, and the legal papers of the firm Allen and Camden, which deal primarily with land suits and surveys...
Dates:
1816-1892, undated
Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0821
Scope and Contents
This collection includes manuscripts, printed and newspaper materials collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. This collection includes papers concerning many phases of West Virginia History, although centered on Preston, Taylor, and Monongalia counties. Includes marriage licenses from Preston County, 1881-1947; newspaper clippings from Morgantown newspapers; a meeting invitation from the Monongalia...
Dates:
1880-1947
Filtered By
- Subject: Harrison County (W. Va.) X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Immigration. 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Petroleum industry and trade 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Slavery 2
- Transportation 2
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Marriage records 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mound-builders 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Secession 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Webster Springs (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia -- History 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia - songs 1
- West Virginia -- Economic conditions 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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