West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
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
William A. Moreland, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1973
Overview
Papers of Alexander Smith and George W. Brown. The Smith papers are letters and receipts, 1794-1814, and include a letter from N. Suter commenting on a naval battle of the War of 1812, current prices, government, and business conditions and receipts for the payment for slaves. The Brown letters, 1870-1886, concern a gift to West Virginia University, marriage, and payment of land taxes. Correspondents or persons mentioned include Alexander Martin and John W. Mason. Receipts, 1881-1894, are...
Dates:
1794-1958
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- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Land. 2
- Railroads 2
- Slavery 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- Transportation 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Canals 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Immigration. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Marriage records 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Militia 1
- Militia - Virginia - Quartermaster General. 1
- Militia - Virginia. 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mound-builders 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Taxation 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Veterans - Society of the Army of West Virginia. 1
- Webster Springs (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia -- History 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia - songs 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- West Virginia -- Economic conditions 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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