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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891

 Person

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1199
Overview Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, and papers of his grandson Wilson Lee Camden (1870-1958). Gideon D. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). His papers include correspondence, legal and business papers, surveys and plats, and printed material. Subjects include Virginia, West Virginia, and national politics; the railroad, oil, timber, and...
Dates: 1784-1958, undated

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

Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1221
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 business correspondence, financial records, legal papers, and court records. Materials include the early land papers of Camden's law partner, John J. Allen, and the legal papers of the firm Allen and Camden, which deal primarily with land suits and surveys...
Dates: 1816-1892, undated

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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  • Subject: Harrison County (W. Va.) X
  • Subject: Virginia X

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Subject
Land. 4
Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
Politics and government. 3
Railroads 3
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 3
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Transportation 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 3
Civil War -- War diaries 2
Civil War -- letters 2
Election of 1848. 2
Election of 1868. 2
Immigration. 2
Lumber trade 2
Petroleum industry and trade 2
Secession 2
Slavery 2
West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 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
Coal mining. 1
Compromise of 1850 1
Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
Diaries - Civil War. 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Election of 1840. 1
Election of 1860. 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
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
Pennsylvania 1
Poets and poetry. 1
Preston County (W. Va.) 1
Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
Richmond (Va.) 1
Roane County (W. Va.) 1
Surveyors and surveying. 1
Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
Virginia 1
Volcano (W. Va.) 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
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