Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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
Haymond-Fleming Law Firm Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0544
Overview
Correspondence of A.F. Haymond and A. Brooks Fleming, Fairmont attorneys. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, G.D. Camden, J. Carlile, Henry Mathews, and F.H. Pierpont mentioning politics, separation from Virginia, the Arthurdale community development, and routine legal business. Included are land and legal papers, 1760-1797, from Hampshire, Monongalia, and Ohio counties, mentioning Patrick Henry and Henry Lee. Also in the collection are: a leather billfold; estate papers and marriage...
Dates:
1760-1936
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
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Politics and government. 5
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 4
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- Railroads 4
- Lumber trade 3
- Petroleum industry and trade 3
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 3
- Transportation 3
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 3
- Coal mining. 2
- Election of 1848. 2
- Election of 1868. 2
- Immigration. 2
- Secession 2
- Slavery 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Account books 1
- Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
- Civil War -- War diaries 1
- Civil War -- letters 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
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Maps. 1
- Methodism 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's schools. 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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