Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur I. Boreman Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview
Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates:
1830-1949
David Goff Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0975
Scope and Contents
Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). Includes letters, surveys, land grant, bonds, and receipts. The correspondence includes...
Dates:
1826-1878
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 (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview
Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates:
1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960
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
William Henry Harrison Flick (1841-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1349
Overview
Papers of a Pendleton County lawyer and prosecuting attorney who served in the state legislature, 1868-1870, where he introduced the Flick Amendment which removed voting restrictions on those who served in the Confederacy. Papers deal with Flick's legal practice; test oath cases; voting restrictions as a means of continuing Republican supremacy; state elections of 1868; Flick's campaign against Henry G. Davis for Congress in 1870; the West Virginia capital question; subscriptions to the...
Dates:
1867-1872
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Politics and government. 4
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
- Land. 3
- Coal mining. 2
- Genealogy 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Maps. 2
- Railroads 2
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 2
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Steamboats 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- 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 mines and mining 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1870. 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Judges -- West Virginia 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Schools 1
- Secession 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Valleys -- West Virginia 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Church history. 1
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 1
- West Virginia - Flick Amendment. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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