Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887
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
Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0858
Overview
Papers of the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. One member of the family, William Cabell Tavenner, served in the Confederate army; his letters are part of the collection. This collection also contains material related to families allied to the Tavenner family by marriage, particularly the...
Dates:
1778-1953; Majority of material found within 1819-1884
Filtered By
- Subject: Land. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 19th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
- Civil War -- Indiana 15th Regiment, Company I 1
- Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Genealogy 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
∨ more