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Charles E. Krebs (1870-1954) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1792
Overview Scrapbooks, mainly of newspaper clippings, maintained by a mining engineer, geologist, and businessman from Charleston. The scrapbooks contain clippings, announcements, and a few letters relating to Krebs' business, Charleston civic affairs, and professional engineering organizations. Topics covered include: the oil boom at Blue Creek in 1912; oil field development in Kanawha and Clay counties; oil and coal shipments on the C.&O.; coal, oil, gas, and coke production figures; report on...
Dates: 1912, 1935, 1939

David R. Preston Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 2133
Overview Manuscript diary of David R. Preston, Presbyterian minister and missionary assigned to Pensacola, Florida, and St. Charles, Missouri, 1828-1829, containing information on the number of missionaries and regularly assigned ministers of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Episcopal churches in the areas, the number of church services held, attendance and interest of the congregations, organization of Bible classes, and Sunday schools. Preston also preached to black congregations and comments on...
Dates: 1828-1829

Felix G. Hansford Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1192
Scope and Contents The papers of the President of Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike, charted in 1837, consist of land grants, deeds, and indentures; legal papers; turnpike correspondence, stock, books, contracts, and reports to the Board of Public Works, the Virginia Legislature, and stockholders. Some of the correspondence deals with the Washington Temperance Society, church activities in the Kanawha Valley, the salt industry along the Kanawha Salines, the James River and Kanawha Turnpike...
Dates: 1796-1876

Felix G. Hansford Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1464
Scope and Contents Correspondence, business and legal papers, and Justice of the Peace documents of Felix G. Hansford, Kanawha County J.P., entrepreneur, and President of the Giles, Fayette, and Kanawha Turnpike. Subjects include the George Boxley slave plot, 1816; cholera in Louisville, 1833; Missouri and westward expansion, 1841; the Kansas struggle, 1858; Albert Gallatin's western lands; and the impact of John Brown's 1859 raids on the South. Correspondents include Albert Gallatin, J. M. Maury,...
Dates: 1790-1862

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

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

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

Lyman Stedman, Farmer and Politician, Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 2042
Overview

Diary of Lyman Stedman (1824-1916), a farmer and former member of the House of Delegates, 1877, from Brown's Island, Hancock County. Entries concern farm operation, Republican political activities on the district and county level, comments on state and national organizations, floods on the Ohio River, steamboat and barge traffic, Hopedale School, Methodist Episcopal Church, railroad travel, circuses and fairs, taxes and land valuations, and Memorial Day.

Dates: 1880-1885

Monroe County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0102
Overview

Court case papers, wills, deeds, surveys and plats, ca.1772-1879, along with bound volumes of court records, deeds, estrays, road and tax records, a register for free blacks, and private account books, 1783-1923. The account books include: records of a U.S. Army post hospital at Union, 1867-1869; oil well drilling, 1886-1890; Union and Fort Spring Stage Line, 1876-1877; newspapers, 1867-1903; taverns, 1815-1872; and Union Lyceum minutes, 1845-1847.

Dates: ca. 1772-1923

Ohio County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0031
Scope and Contents Court case papers, 1776-1930; court and county record books; birth and death records, 1887-1888; and account and minute books of individuals, companies, and organizations, 1772-1935. The bound volumes include records of brand registrations, deeds, estrays, land entries, marriages, military service, surveys, and wills. The private account books relate to general merchandising, coal sales, dental practice, a debating society, distilling, carriage manufacturing, hotels, steamboat freighting,...
Dates: 1772-1935

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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 3
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 3
Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike Company 2
Hansford, Felix G. 2
James River and Kanawha Turnpike Company 2
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Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) 2
West Virginia University 2
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Whig Party (U.S.) 2
American Colonization Society 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Beckley, Alfred, 1802-1888 1
Brody, John. 1
Bucklew, Leroy, Museum. 1
Camden, Wilson Lee. 1
Campbell, A.W. 1
Cass, Lewis. 1
Chicago, Parkersburg, and Norfolk Railroad 1
Colonial Timber and Coal Corporation 1
Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864 1
Deakins, Francis. 1
Deakins, William. 1
Democratic National Convention of 1876. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Duke, William, 1757-1840 1
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 1
Gatewood, William B. 1
Gatewood, William B. (1835-1908) 1
George Boxley 1
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 1
Green, Thomas (1798-1881) 1
Green, Thomas. 1
Greene, Daniel. 1
Greene, John. 1
Greene, Richard. 1
Herndon, Edward 1
Hopedale School 1
Jackson, Thomas E. 1
Krebs, C. E. (Charles E.) 1
Krebs, Charles E. (1870-1954) 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 1
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 1
Loomis, F.B. 1
Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary 1
Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company 1
Maury, J.M. 1
Meadville Collegiate Institute (Wellsburg, Va.) 1
Meadville Seminary 1
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) 1
Monroe County Court 1
Monroe, Julius Kemble. 1
Morgan, George 1
Mount de Chantal Academy (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
Ohio Company. 1
Ohio County Centennial Association 1
Ohio County Court 1
Ohio University 1
Ohio Valley Glass Company 1
Preston County 1
Preston, David R. 1
Reeder, Benjamin. 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 1
Sisler, Janice Cale, 1935- 1
Stedman, Lyman 1
Transylvania University 1
Union Lyceum (West Virginia) 1
Union and Fort Spring Stage Line. 1
United Fuel Gas Company. 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
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Virginia. Board of Public Works 1
Washington County Colonization Society 1
Washington County Tract Society 1
Washington Temperance Society 1
West Virginia. State Exposition and Fair Association 1
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Wheeling Masonic Hall Association 1
Woodbridge Mercantile Company 1
Woodbridge, Dudley, Sr. 1
Woodbridge, George M. 1
Woodbridge, William. 1
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Zane, Ebenezer, 1747-1812 1
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