Whig Party (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
Charles James Faulkner, Attorney and Politician, Facsimiles of Printed Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0912
Overview
Facsimiles of printed material of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Also includes some facsimiles of manuscript material. Materials relate to Faulkner and the eastern Panhandle. Topics include Virginia-West Virginia politics; the Strother Hotel in Berkeley Springs, (West) Virginia; Berkeley County Court of Appeals; Berkeley and Jefferson County Whig mass...
Dates:
ca. 1802, 1834-1853
Felix G. Hansford Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1192
Scope and Contents
The papers of the President of Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike, charted in 1837, consist of land grants, deeds, and indentures; legal papers; turnpike correspondence, stock, books, contracts, and reports to the Board of Public Works, the Virginia Legislature, and stockholders. Some of the correspondence deals with the Washington Temperance Society, church activities in the Kanawha Valley, the salt industry along the Kanawha Salines, the James River and Kanawha Turnpike...
Dates:
1796-1876
Felix G. Hansford Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1089
Scope and Contents
These are the land and mercantile papers of Felix Hansford, a large land owner along the banks of Pain[t] Creek and the Great Kanawha River, near the town of Clifton in [Kanawha] County. The collection is primarily account statements, receipts and buisness notes.There are a few land surveys, entries and deeds dating back to the 1790. Some of the papers shed light on the Hansford's activities as a falt boat builder, sawmill and grist mill operator, and justice of the peace. A few letters and...
Dates:
1790-1875
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
Peter Garnall, Letter regarding Election
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2543
Overview
ALS from Peter Garnall of Wheeling to his nephew Mordecai Garnall of Pensacola, FL. Garnall writes extensively about the upcoming election of 1840 in which Gen. Harrison and the Whigs are expected to sweep to victory with a majority that "will exceed that of Gen. Jackson in his palmiest days." He is even expected to carry the home state, New York, of his opponent, Van Buren, with 15,000 votes. Mentions that the Wheeling area is strong in its support of Harrison and that there have been mass...
Dates:
1840 June 9
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Transportation 4
- Politics and government. 3
- Rivers and river valleys. 3
- Clifton. 2
- Election of 1840. 2
- Frontier and pioneer life 2
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 2
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 2
- Kanawha Valley. 2
- Land. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Railroads 2
- Salt industry and trade 2
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 2
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Canals 1
- Church buildings 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Justices of the peace 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Point Pleasant (Mason County, W. Va.) 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Temperance 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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