Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2848
Overview
Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S....
Dates:
1787-1895, undated; Majority of material found within 1822-1881
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
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- Subject: West Virginia X
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- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Canada 1
- Chambless 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Enslaved persons 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Postal service 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Secession 1
- Slavery 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- Tyler County (W. Va.) 1
- Uniontown (Fayette County, Pa.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia. Convention (1861 : Wheeling) 1
- West Virginia. Convention (1863 : Wheeling) 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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