Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Parkersburg X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Land. 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Transportation 2
- Account books 1
- Beverly (W. Va.) 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
- Coal mining. 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Immigration. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Secession 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Temperance 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Tygart Valley. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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