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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891

 Person

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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  • Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 X
  • Subject: Virginia X

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Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
Politics and government. 3
Civil War -- War diaries 2
Civil War -- letters 2
Land. 2
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Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
Politicians -- United States 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
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
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
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 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
Lawyers - letters and papers. 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
Railroads 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Richmond (Va.) 1
Slavery 1
Surveyors and surveying. 1
Temperance 1
Transportation 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
Women's schools. 1
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