Garrett, John W.
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0013
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904. The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well. His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads. Types of documents include letters, reports, account...
Dates:
1799-1919
J.B. Ford Legal Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1679
Overview
Suit papers and correspondence in the case of the BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD VS. J.B. FORD, general agent of the railroad at Cumberland and Wheeling. The papers include copies of documents relative to the building of the railroad from Cumberland westward to Parkersburg and Wheeling and the activities of Ford as general agent at Cumberland and Wheeling, 1852-1874. Most of Ford's evidence deals with the role of the railroad during the Civil War and its relations with the state of West...
Dates:
ca. 1877
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
Jonathan M. Bennett (1816-1887) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0032
Overview
Correspondence and papers of a major political figure dealing largely with politics in Virginia, West Virginia, and Virginia in the Confederacy. Bennett, a lawyer and legislator, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, 1852-1853; president of the Weston Branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia; auditor of Virginia, 1857-1865; member of the senate of West Virginia, 1872-1876; and a member of the commission appointed to adjust the Virginia debt question in 1871. Correspondents include...
Dates:
1785-1899
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- Railroads 4
- Politics and government. 3
- Coal mining. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Transportation 2
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Canals 1
- Confederate States of America. 1
- Cumberland (Md.) 1
- Democratic Party 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Elk Garden Coal Field. 1
- Land. 1
- Lumber industry and timber. 1
- Maps. 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia - General Assembly. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1 + ∧ less
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