Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 3 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
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
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview
Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates:
1845-1908
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- Coal mining. 2
- Land. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Petroleum industry and trade 2
- Railroads 2
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Maps. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics - Western Virginia. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- Western Virginia -- Politics 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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