West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872)
Organization
Found in 4 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
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1221
Overview
Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). Includes business correspondence, financial records, legal papers, and court records. Materials include the early land papers of Camden's law partner, John J. Allen, and the legal papers of the firm Allen and Camden, which deal primarily with land suits and surveys...
Dates:
1816-1892, undated
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1188
Overview
Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). Includes correspondence, legal documents, photocopies of printed material, and land grants. Subjects of the correspondence include West Virginia politics; the elections of 1840, 1860, and 1861; Reconstruction; the Flick Amendment; Southern sentiment in Clarksburg;...
Dates:
1784-1899
Peter Godwin Van Winkle (1808-1872) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0136
Overview
Personal papers and scrapbooks of Peter G. Van Winkle (1808-1872), a Parkersburg attorney, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851, member of the Second Wheeling Convention of 1861, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861-1862, legislator from Wood County in 1863, U.S. Senator from 1863-1869, and participant in West Virginia railroad and business enterprises. Includes manuscripts speeches, essays, correspondence, and three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings....
Dates:
1827-1902, undated
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- Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
- Land. 3
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 3
- Transportation 3
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 3
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Election of 1848. 2
- Election of 1868. 2
- Immigration. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Petroleum industry and trade 2
- Secession 2
- Slavery 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- Coal mining. 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Diaries 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Methodism 1
- Northwestern Turnpike. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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