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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891

 Person

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

David Goff Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0627
Scope and Contents Letters to David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). These sixteen letters cover topics including land in Randolph and Tucker counties,...
Dates: 1852-1868

Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1495
Overview

Letters to 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). Contains two letters from Thomas E. Hamilton, Baltimore, Maryland (1851) and one letter from M.F. Averbeck, Harmar, Ohio (1861) on land business in West Virginia.

Dates: 1851-1866

Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers

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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

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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

Gideon Draper Camden Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 2167
Overview Correspondence to 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). The letters discuss antebellum Virginia politics, legal cases, land deals, banking, river improvement, personal business, and family relations. Correspondents include George W. Berlin, Johnson Newlon Camden, R.P. Camden, John S. Carlile, John A. Dille, John...
Dates: 1836-1855

Haymond-Fleming Law Firm Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0544
Overview Correspondence of A.F. Haymond and A. Brooks Fleming, Fairmont attorneys. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, G.D. Camden, J. Carlile, Henry Mathews, and F.H. Pierpont mentioning politics, separation from Virginia, the Arthurdale community development, and routine legal business. Included are land and legal papers, 1760-1797, from Hampshire, Monongalia, and Ohio counties, mentioning Patrick Henry and Henry Lee. Also in the collection are: a leather billfold; estate papers and marriage...
Dates: 1760-1936

John Stringer Hoffman (1821-1877) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1703
Overview Legal correspondence and papers of a Clarksburg lawyer who specialized in land title litigation and served as associate judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, 1862-1876. Papers pertain to lands in the central counties of West Virginia. Subjects include: the James Swan lands; European immigration to West Virginia following the Civil War; New York Southern Land Company; Philadelphia International Land Association; state economic development during Reconstruction; and...
Dates: ca. 1856-1883

Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers

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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

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

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Lawyers - letters and papers. 7
Politics and government. 7
Railroads 5
Harrison County (W. Va.) 4
Lumber trade 4
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
Immigration. 3
Petroleum industry and trade 3
Transportation 3
West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 3
Coal mining. 2
Election of 1848. 2
Election of 1868. 2
Estate settlements. 2
Secession 2
Slavery 2
West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Account books 1
Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
Banks and banking 1
Beverly (W. Va.) 1
Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
Civil War -- War diaries 1
Civil War -- letters 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
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Clarksburg Conservative 1
Compromise of 1850 1
Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Election of 1840. 1
Election of 1860. 1
Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
Judges - letters and papers. 1
Maps. 1
Methodism 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Newspapers. 1
Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Pennsylvania 1
Poets and poetry. 1
Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
Richmond (Va.) 1
Shavers Mountain (W. Va.) 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
Surveyors and surveying. 1
Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
Virginia 1
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
Weston (W. Va.) 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
Women's schools. 1
Wood County (W. Va.) 1
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