Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872
Person
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Peter Godwin Van Winkle (1808-1872), Letter and Receipt for Stock
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0142
Overview
Four page letter, and receipt for stock, 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. The four page manuscript letter with envelope is from Van Winkle, Baltimore, Maryland, to George O....
Dates:
1854-1855
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
West Virginia Congressmen, Biographical Sketches
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2295
Overview
A collection of biographical sketches written by West Virginia Representatives and Senators for inclusion in the 1859 and 1869 editions of Charles Lanman's "Dictionary of the United States Congress", as well as correspondence and photographs. Congressmen represented in this collection include William Armstrong, Jacob Blair, Arthur I. Boreman, Alexander Boteler, William Gay Brown, John S. Carlile, Sherrard Clemens, Isaac Duval, C.D. Hubbard, A. G. Jenkins, Zedekiah Kidwell, B.M. Kitchen,...
Dates:
1835-1869, 1971
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- Politics and government. 11
- Politicians -- United States 7
- United States -- Politics and government 7
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 5
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 5
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 5
- Railroads 3
- Diaries 2
- Land. 2
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Secession 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Account books 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America. 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Economics 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Judges -- West Virginia 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Northwestern Turnpike. 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politicians 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Northwestern Virginia Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Steamboats 1
- Temperance 1
- Virginia - General Assembly. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 1
- Wheeling Intelligencer (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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