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Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers

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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0576
Scope and Contents Manuscript and printed material, and pictures collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. There are also a small number of Mr. West’s personal papers, consisting of letters concerning West Virginia University College of Engineering, Oak Grove Cemetery Association, and the Wesley Methodist Church, all of Morgantown, and business records of the Town Hill Service Station, owned by Mr. West. The...
Dates: 1774; 1780; 1830-1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Agricultural College of West Virginia 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Chicago, Parkersburg, and Norfolk Railroad 1
Devore, Leland Swarts 1
Dille, Thomas Ray 1
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Greer, H.C. 1
Hagans and Frum 1
Hagans and Spahr 1
Hagans, George M. 1
Hagans, Lynch and Protzman 1
Huston, C.R. 1
Kingwood and West Union Turnpike Company 1
Lazier, Henry B. 1
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 1
Marion County Historical Society (W. Va.) 1
McGee, John. 1
Meadville Collegiate Institute (Wellsburg, Va.) 1
Moore, Elizabeth I. 1
Morgantown Female Academy 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
Morgantown Weekly Post 1
Mount de Chantal Academy (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
Oak Grove Cemetery Association 1
The Fairmont Vedette 1
The Morgantown Mirror 1
The West Virginia Standard 1
Town Hill Service Station 1
Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) 1
West Virginia University 1
West Virginia University. College of Engineering 1
West Virginia University. Corps of Cadets 1
West Virginia. Constitution. Flick Amendment 1
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 1
West, Rufus A. 1
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 1
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