Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 3 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
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
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
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
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- Land. 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Account books 1
- Agriculture 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Elections 1
- Gas industry 1
- General stores 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Maps. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Transportation 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1 + ∧ less
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