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Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884

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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0934
Overview Papers of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884) and family. Charles J. Faulkner was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Includes business and land papers of James Faulkner of Baltimore, 1804-1811; letters to and papers of Charles J. Faulkner; a colored plat of a survey made for William McMurtrie [1786, Harrison, now Upshur County] along French Creek; and a Thomas Haymond survey plat in Harrison County,...
Dates: 1786-1892

David Goff Papers

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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

John Thomas McGraw (1856-1920) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0086
Scope and Contents Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and...
Dates: 1842-1927, 1948

Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers

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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

Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3082
Scope and Contents The papers of a prominent Lewisburg, Greenbrier County lawyer and politician, Samuel Price, who served numerous terms in the Virginia state legislature and was Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851, the Secession Convention of 1861, and the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and he completed the U. S. Senate term of Allen Caperton in 1876. The papers include correspondence relating to local...
Dates: circa 1788-1888

Siler Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2200
Scope and Contents This is a collection of letters and documents tracing the personal and business life of an eastern panhandle West Virginia family. The papers concern a broad range of political, social, financial, and legal topics, particularly focusing on J. Hammond Siler, Jr., his parents, J. Hammond Siler, Sr. and Jessie Castleman Siler (residents of the Town of Bath better known as Berkeley Springs). Also includes correspondence and other papers from related families. Subjects include banking, the Civil...
Dates: 1848-1968

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Politics and government. 5
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Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
Railroads 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
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Coal mining. 2
Lumber trade 2
Petroleum industry and trade 2
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
Academies (Private schools) 1
Bank of Berkeley Springs - Banks and Banking. 1
Banks and Banking - American Institute of Banking. 1
Banks and Banking - Bank of Berkeley Springs. 1
Banks and Banking - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. 1
Banks and Banking - Financial Public Relations Association. 1
Banks and Banking - First Virginia Corporation. 1
Banks and banking 1
Berkeley Glass Sand Company -- Glass Sand Industry 1
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
Berkeley Springs Water Works and Improvement Co. -- Power Industry 1
Bibles 1
Blueprints 1
Bonds -- Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia 1
Bowling 1
Business correspondence 1
Church schools -- Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Churches -- Episcopal 1
Civil War - political factions. 1
Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Education -- West Virginia 1
Episcopal Church - Churches. 1
Estates and estate settlements. 1
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - Banks and Banking. 1
Financial Public Relations Association - Banks and Banking. 1
First Virginia Corporation - Banks and Banking. 1
Freemasons 1
General stores - Hammond and Siler. 1
Glass Sand Industry - Berkeley Glass Sand Company. 1
Glass Sand Industry - Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation. 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Hancock Steel Company - Steel. 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
Insurance - V. E. Johnson Insurance Agency. 1
Labor disputes -- West Virginia -- 20th century -- History 1
Land - Plats and surveys. 1
Land - deeds and grants. 1
Land Plat. 1
Land records - surveys. 1
Ledgers. 1
Libraries - Morgan County Library. 1
Magazines. 1
Maps. 1
Morgan County - Circuit Court. 1
Morgan County Library - Libraries. 1
Music - Sheet music. 1
Northern Virginia Power Company - Power Industry. 1
Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation - Glass Sand Industry. 1
Poetry -- Nannie S. Castleman 1
Political factions - Civil War. 1
Politics - Secession of Virginia. 1
Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
Railroads - Iron Valley Railroad. 1
Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
Railroads - Morgantown Railroad. 1
Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
Railroads - Western Maryland Railroad Company. 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Rhodes scholarships 1
Rock Gap Coal and Mining Company - Stocks. 1
Scrapbooks 1
Secession of Virginia - Politics. 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
Town of Bath, West Virginia - Berkeley Springs. 1
Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 1
Women's schools. 1
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