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John Stringer Hoffman (1821-1877) Papers

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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910 1
Baltimore United Oil Company 1
Bennett, J.M. 1
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 1
Boggess, J.R. 1
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Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Camden Consolidated Oil Company 1
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 1
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Edwards, William Henry. 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 1
Frelinghuysen, Frederick T. (Frederick Theodore), 1817-1885 1
Garrett, John W. 1
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 1
Harkness, C.W. 1
Harkness, E.S. 1
Harkness, N.W. 1
Hewitt, Abram S. 1
Hoffman, John Stringer (1821-1877) 1
Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900 1
Kenna, John E. 1
Mason, James M. II. 1
McGraw, John T. 1
New York Southern Land Company 1
Philadelphia International Land Association 1
Rockefeller, John D. 1
Rockefeller, William. 1
Rogers, H.H. 1
Stewart Brick Company 1
Swan, James. 1
Thompson, William P. 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Watson, C. W. 1
West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals 1
Whitney, William C. 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876 1
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