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Granville Davisson Hall (1837-1934) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0042
Overview

Correspondence and writings of Granville Davisson Hall, reporter for the Wheeling Intelligencer during the Wheeling conventions, 1861-1863; secretary of state of West Virginia, 1865-1873; and author of numerous works of fiction and historical studies about West Virginia.

Dates: 1861-1947, undated; Majority of material found within 1861-1928

Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers

 Collection
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

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Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910 1
Baltimore United Oil Company 1
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 1
Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1