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Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers

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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

John Thomas McGraw (1856-1920) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0086
Scope and Contents Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and...
Dates: 1842-1927, 1948

Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers

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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

Lewis Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936

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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 2
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 2
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 2
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Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 2
McGraw, John T. 2
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 2
Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910 1
Baltimore United Oil Company 1
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Camden Consolidated Oil Company 1
Camden, Wilson Lee. 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Dayton, Alston Gordon 1
Democratic National Convention 1
Democratic National Convention of 1876. 1
Dickinson family 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 1
Frelinghuysen, Frederick T. (Frederick Theodore), 1817-1885 1
Garrett, John W. 1
Gibbens, Alvaro F. (Alvaro Franklin), 1837- 1
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 1
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 1
Harkness, C.W. 1
Harkness, E.S. 1
Harkness, N.W. 1
Hewitt, Abram S. 1
Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900 1
Jackson, J.B. 1
Jackson, J.J. 1
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 1
Kenna, John E. 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1
Lewis, John D. 1
Lewis, Virgil Anson, 1848-1912 1
Mason, James M. II. 1
McGraw, John Thomas, 1856-1920 1
McGraw, Rose. 1
Mount de Chantal Academy (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
Oglebay, Earl W., 1849-1926 1
Ohley, William A. 1
Old Sweet Springs Company 1
Rockefeller, John D. 1
Rockefeller, William. 1
Rogers, H.H. 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, Andrew. 1
Ruffner, Daniel. 1
Ruffner, Joel. 1
Stewart Brick Company 1
Sturgiss, George C. 1
Thompson, William P. 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) 1
Watson, C. W. 1
West Virginia University 1
West Virginia. Constitution. Flick Amendment 1
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 1
Whig Party (U.S.) 1
White, A.B. 1
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 1
Whitney, William C. 1
Willey, William P. (William Patrick) 1
Wilson family 1
Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876 1
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