Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview
Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates:
ca. 1840-1955
David Goff Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1557
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of 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). Includes ten original letters, seven of which have been transcribed. Subjects...
Dates:
1846-1871
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 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 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
Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3082
Scope and Contents
The papers of a prominent Lewisburg, Greenbrier County lawyer and politician, Samuel Price, who served numerous terms in the Virginia state legislature and was Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851, the Secession Convention of 1861, and the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and he completed the U. S. Senate term of Allen Caperton in 1876. The papers include correspondence relating to local...
Dates:
circa 1788-1888
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- Politics and government. 5
- Land. 4
- Transportation 4
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
- Lumber trade 3
- Petroleum industry and trade 3
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 3
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 3
- Coal mining. 2
- Election of 1848. 2
- Election of 1868. 2
- Immigration. 2
- Secession 2
- Slavery 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Account books 1
- Agriculture 1
- Beverly (W. Va.) 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Elections 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Gas industry 1
- General stores 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Methodism 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Temperance 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Tygart Valley. 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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