Whig Party (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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- Church buildings 1
- Clifton. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Justices of the peace 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Point Pleasant (Mason County, W. Va.) 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Salt industry and trade 1
- Secession 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Temperance 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1 + ∧ less
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