Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1188
Overview
Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). Includes correspondence, legal documents, photocopies of printed material, and land grants. Subjects of the correspondence include West Virginia politics; the elections of 1840, 1860, and 1861; Reconstruction; the Flick Amendment; Southern sentiment in Clarksburg;...
Dates:
1784-1899
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview
Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.
Dates:
1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866
Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3192
Overview
This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical...
Dates:
1732-1965
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- Civil War -- War diaries 2
- Civil War -- letters 2
- Land. 2
- Wood County (W. Va.) 2
- Account books 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Brooke County (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
- Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
- Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
- Civil War -- Kanawha Riflemen 1
- Civil War battles - Kernstown. 1
- Civil War battles - Piedmont. 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Diaries - Civil War. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Jefferson County. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County. 1
- Marshall County. 1
- Mason County. 1
- Methodism 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Secession 1
- Slavery 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Transportation 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Virginia 1
- Volcano (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Wetzel County (W. Va.) 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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