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
Kemble White (1873-1965) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2209
Overview
Correspondence and other papers of Kemble White, one-time law partner of A.B. Fleming, specialist in oil and gas law, counsel for the West Virginia subsidiaries of Standard Oil (Hope Natural Gas, South Penn Oil, and Eureka Pipeline), charter member of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, veteran of the Spanish-American War, one-time president of the West Virginia Bar Association; and the West Virginia University Alumni Association. Additional items include: White's notebooks...
Dates:
1898-1965
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- Subject: Petroleum industry and trade X
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- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Immigration. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Railroads 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Transportation 2
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 2
- Agriculture 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Elections 1
- Gas industry 1
- Militia - West Virginia 2nd Volunteers, Company M. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Railroads - Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad. 1
- Secession 1
- Slavery 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia - politics. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1 + ∧ less
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