West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
Waitman T. Willey Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview
Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates:
1820-1917
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- Railroads 3
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 3
- Diaries 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Land. 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Secession 2
- Slavery 2
- Transportation 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Immigration. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Methodism 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Northwestern Turnpike. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Temperance 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
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