Democratic Party (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview
Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates:
ca. 1840-1955
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
William A. Jackson Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0660
Overview
Papers and records of William A. Jackson (1865-1957), W.W. Smith, and J.G. Jackson, and of various businesses established by these men in Jane Lew. There are many papers of the firm of Jackson and Burnside, cattle dealers, relating to the shipping and sale of livestock to commission merchants in New Jersey, Baltimore, Maryland, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also included are accounts and correspondence of: the West Virginia Christian Endeavor Society and papers commenting on Democratic...
Dates:
1892-1930
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- Coal mining. 5
- Politics and government. 5
- Railroads 5
- Land. 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Elections 2
- Pennsylvania 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Account books 1
- Agriculture 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
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Europe 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Gas industry 1
- General stores 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Jane Lew (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Livestock 1
- Maps. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Missouri 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 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 - Morgantown and Kingwood 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
- 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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