Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
Person
Found in 4 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
John Floyd (1783-1837), Research Papers of Charles H. Ambler
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0363
Overview
Charles Henry Ambler (1876-1957) was a professor of history at West Virginia University and the author of numerous books about American and West Virginia history, including The Life and Diary of John Floyd (1918). Collection contains some of Ambler's research materials for this biography of Floyd, who was a soldier and surgeon in the Virginia militia in the early nineteenth century and the governor of Virginia from 1830 to 1834. One folder contains letters...
Dates:
1775-1923
Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1791
Overview
Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond...
Dates:
1828-1890, 1901, 1935
William Reynolds Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0048
Overview
Extracts from a diary of a tour of the eastern states by a resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, with descriptions of travel through Greenbrier, Fayette, Kanawha, and Cabell counties, (West) Virginia. Subjects covered include descriptions of buildings, as well as musings about diversions and people of various U.S. cities, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. (where Reynolds attended a session of Congress and heard Clay, Calhoun and...
Dates:
May-July, 1841
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- Charleston. 2
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Canals 1
- Charlottesville (Va.) 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Devil's Bake Oven. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrisburg (Pa.) 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Falls. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Monticello (Va.) 1
- Natural Bridge (Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- New York (State) 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Railroads 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Transportation 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851. 1
- Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Weirs Cave. 1
- White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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