Democratic Party (U.S.)
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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- 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
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Elections 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Europe 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Maps. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Missouri 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio 1
- Pennsylvania 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 - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Salt industry and trade 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- South America 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Women's schools. 1
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