Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Gideon D. Camden, (1805-1891), Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1276
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). Includes letter from Richard P. Camden describing visitors to Coopers Well in Wood County (1847); letter from E.B. Hall, Fairmont, on local political affairs (3 May 1860); and letter from H. David Auville, Mouth of Seneca, WV on Reconstruction and Camden's...
Dates:
1847-1876, 1902-1903
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
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
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- Subject: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) X
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- Land. 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Politics and government. 4
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
- Immigration. 3
- Lumber trade 3
- Railroads 3
- Transportation 3
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 3
- Election of 1848. 2
- Election of 1868. 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
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Methodism 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Shavers Mountain (W. Va.) 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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