Democratic Party (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 5 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 Thomas McGraw (1856-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0086
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and...
Dates:
1842-1927, 1948
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview
Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates:
1845-1908
Lewis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview
Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates:
1825-1936
Talbott-Tolbert Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1026
Overview
Mainly papers of Samuel T. Tolbert, a onetime constable of Lewis County and postmaster at Frenchton, who operated a general store and acted as agent and surveyor for out-of-state landowners. Included are the papers of Zadock Lanham, J.S. Wilson, John L. Jacob, and W.C. Tolbert. There are surveys, legal papers, correspondence, and lottery certificates from Ohio and Delaware, and Democratic state and county election tickets. Correspondents include Lewis Maxwell, J.M. Bennett, and F.H....
Dates:
1784-1914 1931
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- Pennsylvania 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Boone County (W. Va.) 1
- Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
- Church buildings 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Clay County (W. Va.) 1
- Colombia 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Country stores. 1
- Delaware 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Europe 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- General stores 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Maps. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Missouri 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Postal service 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Iron Valley Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Salt industry and trade 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Secession 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- South America 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- Women's schools. 1
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