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Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2848
Overview Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S....
Dates: 1787-1895, undated; Majority of material found within 1822-1881

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

Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers

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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

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates: 1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960

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Slavery 3
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 3
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Kanawha County (W. Va.) 2
Land. 2
Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 2
Politics and government. 2
Railroads 2
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
Secession 2
West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 2
Academies and Institutes. 1
Accounting 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Bridges -- West Virginia 1
Canada 1
Chambless 1
Charleston (W. Va.) 1
Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
Diaries 1
Election of 1840. 1
Election of 1848. 1
Election of 1860. 1
Election of 1868. 1
Fortification -- West Virginia 1
Genealogy 1
Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
Immigration. 1
Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
Logan County (W. Va.) 1
Lumber trade 1
Mason County (W. Va.) 1
Methodism 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
Ohio River Valley -- History 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Pharmacy -- History 1
Postal service 1
Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
Railroads -- West Virginia 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Richmond (Va.) 1
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Roane County (W. Va.) 1
Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
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Slaves 1
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Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
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Uniontown (Fayette County, Pa.) 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
Valleys -- West Virginia 1
West Virginia 1
West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
West Virginia - Church history. 1
West Virginia. Convention (1861 : Wheeling) 1
West Virginia. Convention (1863 : Wheeling) 1
Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
Women's history -- 1951-present 1
Women's history -- Pre-1800 1
Women's schools. 1
Wood County (W. Va.) 1
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Names
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 2
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 2
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 2
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 2
American Pharmaceutical Association 1
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Armstrong, Ned. 1
Arnold, Thomas Jackson. 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Basil, Ben. 1
Bennett family 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Brown, James H. 1
Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Burdett, John S. 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg. 1
Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Chicago, Parkersburg, and Norfolk Railroad 1
Confederate States of America 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. 1
Cooper, William P. 1
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 1
Cranmer, Gibson L. (Gibson Lamb), 1826-1903 1
Crook, George, 1828-1890 1
Cumberland Road 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Duvall, George W. 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Ellis, James F. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Flesher, A. 1
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953 1
Frost, Daniel Marsh, 1823-1900. 1
Gallaher, D.C. 1
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Harnsborough, Mayor. 1
Hayes family 1
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 1
Haymond, Jonathan. 1
Hays, Peregrine. 1
Hays, Samuel L. 1
Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889 1
Horton, W. 1
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 1
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, George. 1
Jackson, J.J. 1
Jackson, Mary Anna, 1831-1915 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864 1
Kenna, John Edward, 1848-1893 1
Lamb, Daniel. 1
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 1
Levi, Mordecai. 1
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 1
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 1
Mastin, John A. 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
McComas, Judge. 1
McFarland, James C. 1
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 1
Meadville Collegiate Institute (Wellsburg, Va.) 1
Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 1
Mount de Chantal Academy (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
Park, J.A. 1
Patrick, Dr. 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Quarrier family 1
Roberts, L.A. 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, Lewis, 1797-1883. 1
Scott, J.F. 1
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 1
Smith, Col. B.H. 1
Smith, Joseph. 1
Summers, Judge. 1
Tompkins, Charles H., 1830- 1
Turner, F.P. 1
Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) 1
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912 1
Ward, Everett. 1
Washington, George, 1732-1799 1
West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association 1
West Virginia University 1
West Virginia. Constitution. Flick Amendment 1
Wilson, Benjamin, 1825-1901 1
Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876 1
Wise, O. Jennings. 1
Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865 1
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