Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 8 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
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0497
Overview
Correspondence, appointment, and notice. Correspondence includes a letter from Gideon D. Camden to Pierpont (1841); a letter from Frances Pierpont Pryor (F.H. Pierpont's granddaughter) to Professor Charles Ambler regarding documents of her grandfathers' which she is sending him and documents she will keep (1952); and a letter from Charles MacCarthy to W.H. Siviter, regarding Pierpont papers used by MacCarthy in writing his Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction...
Dates:
1841-1952
George W. Smith, Papers of a Jackson County Resident
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0427
Overview
The papers of George W. Smith (1814-1860), a merchant, justice of the peace, land agent, and presidential elector in the town of Ripley, Jackson County, West Virginia. There are also papers regarding other family members. The collection serves as a narrative and record of business, local politics, and social conditions in West Virginia before and after statehood. It includes business and personal correspondence, financial and legal papers, business and political ledgers, and ephemera. The...
Dates:
1818-1908; Majority of material found within 1818-1885
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
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
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
Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3192
Overview
This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical...
Dates:
1732-1965
Waitman T. Willey Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview
Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates:
1820-1917
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- Land. 4
- Politics and government. 4
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Civil War -- War diaries 2
- Civil War -- letters 2
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Railroads 2
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
- Roane County (W. Va.) 2
- Secession 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Wood County (W. Va.) 2
- Account books 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Beverly (W. Va.) 1
- Brooke County (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Point Lookout Prison. 1
- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 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
- Civil War battles - Kernstown. 1
- Civil War battles - Piedmont. 1
- Clarksburg Conservative 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries - Civil War. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Jefferson County. 1
- Justices of the peace 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County. 1
- Marshall County. 1
- Mason County. 1
- Methodism 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Politics - Western Virginia. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Prisons -- Point Lookout Prison 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Slavery 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Temperance 1
- Transportation 1
- Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia - General Assembly. 1
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- Volcano (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Western Virginia -- Politics 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Wetzel County (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1 + ∧ less
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