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
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
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- Coal mining. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1870. 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Transportation 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia - Flick Amendment. 1 + ∧ less
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