Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920
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
Lyman Stedman, Farmer and Politician, Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2042
Overview
Diary of Lyman Stedman (1824-1916), a farmer and former member of the House of Delegates, 1877, from Brown's Island, Hancock County. Entries concern farm operation, Republican political activities on the district and county level, comments on state and national organizations, floods on the Ohio River, steamboat and barge traffic, Hopedale School, Methodist Episcopal Church, railroad travel, circuses and fairs, taxes and land valuations, and Memorial Day.
Dates:
1880-1885
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- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Floods 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Memorial Day 1
- Ohio River 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Steamboats 1
- Taxation 1
- Transportation 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1 + ∧ less
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