Rockefeller, John D.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Railroads and Government Regulation Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4365
Content Description
Miscellaneous items relating to railroads and to laws and regulations regarding railroads. Includes photostat copies of Supreme Court arguments in the case of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company vs. Supervisors of Marshall County et al. (1869-1870). Also includes miscellaneous correspondence consisting of a copy of a letter regarding rates of service approved by Edwin Stanton, who was Secretary of War under Lincoln. There are also photocopies of correspondence addressed to J.D....
Dates:
1862-1870, undated
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- Subject
- Coal mining. 1
- Land. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Supreme Court of West Virginia 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1 + ∧ less
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