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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891

 Person

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3082
Scope and Contents The papers of a prominent Lewisburg, Greenbrier County lawyer and politician, Samuel Price, who served numerous terms in the Virginia state legislature and was Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851, the Secession Convention of 1861, and the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and he completed the U. S. Senate term of Allen Caperton in 1876. The papers include correspondence relating to local...
Dates: circa 1788-1888

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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Land. 7
Lawyers - letters and papers. 6
Railroads 6
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 4
Transportation 4
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
Lumber trade 3
Petroleum industry and trade 3
Secession 3
West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 3
West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 3
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Coal mining. 2
Election of 1848. 2
Election of 1868. 2
Immigration. 2
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
Politicians -- United States 2
Slavery 2
Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
Temperance 2
United States -- Politics and government 2
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
Banks and banking 1
Beverly (W. Va.) 1
Birth, marriage, and death records. 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
Election of 1840. 1
Election of 1860. 1
Estate settlements. 1
Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
Fairmont. 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
Maps. 1
Methodism 1
Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
Parkersburg. 1
Pennsylvania 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
Slaves and slavery. 1
Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
Tygart Valley. 1
Virginia 1
Virginia - General Assembly. 1
Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 1
Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
Western Virginia -- Politics 1
Women's history -- Pre-1800 1
Women's schools. 1
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