Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872
Person
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
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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- Subject: Politics and government X
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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
- 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
- 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
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 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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