West Virginia University
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Found in 2 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
John Rogers Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3156
Overview
The collection consists largely of correspondence to Morgantown businessman John Rogers from relatives in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also includes two letters from Sgt. William A. Widney, who was assigned to the U.S. War Department during the Civil War, to a Morgantown friend (possibly William Hennen). One letter was written by an unidentified woman to her grandson, a West Virginia University student.
Dates:
1788-1870
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- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Infantry. 1
- Civil War battles - Warm Sulphur Springs. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Maryland 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Transportation 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Weather 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1 + ∧ less
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