Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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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- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Methodism 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Slavery 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Transportation 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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