Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1868
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). All four items relate to Camden's legal work. Contains his Oath of Attorney At Law (1831); appointment to prosecute on behalf of the Commonwealth (1834); record of judgeship of the 21st judicial circuit and the circuit court of Randolph County, noting that Camden...
Dates:
1831-1870
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
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 Draper Camden Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2167
Overview
Correspondence to 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). The letters discuss antebellum Virginia politics, legal cases, land deals, banking, river improvement, personal business, and family relations. Correspondents include George W. Berlin, Johnson Newlon Camden, R.P. Camden, John S. Carlile, John A. Dille, John...
Dates:
1836-1855
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
John Stringer Hoffman (1821-1877) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1703
Overview
Legal correspondence and papers of a Clarksburg lawyer who specialized in land title litigation and served as associate judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, 1862-1876. Papers pertain to lands in the central counties of West Virginia. Subjects include: the James Swan lands; European immigration to West Virginia following the Civil War; New York Southern Land Company; Philadelphia International Land Association; state economic development during Reconstruction; and...
Dates:
ca. 1856-1883
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
Louis Bennett Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0035
Overview
The business papers and legal correspondence of Louis Bennett (1849-1918) of Weston, a wealthy landowner and lawyer. Also included are papers of his father Jonathan M. Bennett and the latter's associate Gideon D. Camden.
Dates:
1841-1916
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- Politics and government. 12
- Land. 11
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 11
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 8
- Railroads 7
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 5
- Lumber trade 5
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 5
- Transportation 5
- Petroleum industry and trade 4
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
- Coal mining. 3
- Immigration. 3
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 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
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 3
- Account books 2
- Beverly (W. Va.) 2
- Civil War -- War diaries 2
- Civil War -- letters 2
- Election of 1848. 2
- Election of 1868. 2
- Estate settlements. 2
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 2
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 2
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Preston County (W. Va.) 2
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
- Roane County (W. Va.) 2
- Slavery 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- Temperance 2
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- Virginia 2
- Virginia - General Assembly. 2
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
- Weston (W. Va.) 2
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 2
- Wood County (W. Va.) 2
- Agriculture 1
- Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Banks and banking 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
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Clarksburg Conservative 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
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Elections 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Gas industry 1
- General stores 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 - letters and papers. 1
- Judges -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Justices of the peace 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County. 1 + ∧ less
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