West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1414
Scope and Contents
Papers of Matthew Neely, a politician who had a long career as senator, congressman, governor, and Democratic political boss. Collection includes speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, legal papers, photographs, and copies of the Congressional Record . There are also newspaper clipping scrapbooks covering the years 1928-1954 (on five reels of microfilm). Neely had a long career, including law student at West Virginia University, Marion County lawyer, mayor of Fairmont, congressman, 1913-1921,...
Dates:
1900-1954
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1353
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings on Neely's controversy as a law student at WVU, and his subsequent career as a lawyer, Mayor of Fairmont, Congressman, and United States Senator.
Dates:
1900-1924
Filtered By
- Subject: West Virginia -- Politics and government X
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- Elections 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Land. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Railroads 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Slavery 1
- Transportation 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1 + ∧ less
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