Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
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
William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1694
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, writings, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Wilson, a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), President of West Virginia University, 1882-1883, member of Congress, 1883-1895, Postmaster General, 1895-1897, author of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894, and President of Washington and Lee University, 1897-1900. The collection includes portions of the diaries covering the years 1862-1863, 1865, 1868-1870, 1877-1891, 1896-1899. Most of the...
Dates:
1862-1900
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- Baltimore Sun 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elections 1
- Harper's Weekly 1
- Land. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- New York Tribune 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Postal service 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Saint Louis Republican 1
- Taxation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1 + ∧ less
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