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 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
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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- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
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- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Diaries 1
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- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Methodism 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Politics - Western Virginia. 1
- Railroads 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
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- Temperance 1
- Transportation 1
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
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- Western Virginia -- Politics 1
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