Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3192
Overview
This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical...
Dates:
1732-1965
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- 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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