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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891

 Person

Found in 12 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 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

Jonathan M. Bennett (1816-1887) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0032
Overview Correspondence and papers of a major political figure dealing largely with politics in Virginia, West Virginia, and Virginia in the Confederacy. Bennett, a lawyer and legislator, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, 1852-1853; president of the Weston Branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia; auditor of Virginia, 1857-1865; member of the senate of West Virginia, 1872-1876; and a member of the commission appointed to adjust the Virginia debt question in 1871. Correspondents include...
Dates: 1785-1899

Marion County Circuit Judges, Biographical Sketches

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2319
Overview

Brief biographical sketches of the sixteen men who served as circuit judges in Marion County, West Virginia, 1842-1965, compiled by Judge Frank C. Haymond.

Dates: 1842-1965

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

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  • Subject: Virginia X
  • Subject: Virginia X

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Subject
Politics and government. 8
Land. 6
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
Harrison County (W. Va.) 5
Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
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Railroads 4
Lumber trade 3
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 3
Petroleum industry and trade 3
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 3
Secession 3
Transportation 3
West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 3
West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 3
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
Civil War -- War diaries 2
Civil War -- letters 2
Coal mining. 2
Election of 1848. 2
Election of 1868. 2
Hampshire County (W. Va.) 2
Immigration. 2
Ohio County (W. Va.) 2
Politicians -- United States 2
Roane County (W. Va.) 2
Slavery 2
Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
United States -- Politics and government 2
Virginia 2
Virginia - General Assembly. 2
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
Wirt County (W. Va.) 2
Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
Wood County (W. Va.) 2
Account books 1
Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Birth, marriage, and death records. 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
Compromise of 1850 1
Confederate States of America. 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 1860. 1
Elmira (N.Y.) 1
Estate settlements. 1
Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Greenbrier 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
Judges -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
Justices of the peace 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
Logan County. 1
Maps. 1
Marion County - Judges. 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
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Pennsylvania 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 - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
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