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David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0627
Scope and Contents Letters to David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). These sixteen letters cover topics including land in Randolph and Tucker counties,...
Dates: 1852-1868

David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0975
Scope and Contents Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). Includes letters, surveys, land grant, bonds, and receipts. The correspondence includes...
Dates: 1826-1878

David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1027
Scope and Contents Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). The papers include correspondence; land papers, particularly, for Randolph County; court...
Dates: 1840-1878

E.C. and H.B. Eagle Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0721
Overview

The letters and papers of E.C. & H.B. Eagle, a father and son legal firm of Hinton, Summers County. Subjects mentioned are election campaigns, women's suffrage, prohibition, World War II, Korean War, gun control, and the goals and strategies of the Republican Party. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, Walter S. Hallanan, Rush D. Holt, Arch A. Moore, Jennings Randolph, Hulett C. Smith, Cecil Underwood.

Dates: ca. 1910-1980

Edward C. Bunker (1830-1867) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1615
Overview

Legal papers of a Morgantown lawyer, partner of United States Senator Waitman T. Willey, prosecuting attorney of Monongalia County, state senator, and judge of the Eleventh Circuit Court. Included are papers which relate to Bunker's Civil War service and Willey's legal practice. There are a few items of correspondence on land speculation and immigration in post-Civil War West Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1850-1865, 1901

Elvin Lycurgus Judy Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0634
Scope and Contents The papers of Elvin Lycurgus [E.L.] Judy (1870-1954), a Petersburg attorney and author of History of Grant and Hardy Counties, West Virginia (Charleston, 1951). These papers, mainly research files used in the writing of the county history, consist of copies and originals of correspondence, land records, census and military records, and genealogical information for the eastern Panhandle counties, Monongalia County, and the border counties of Virginia and Maryland....
Dates: ca. 1949

Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Deed

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Collection Number: A&M 0526
Overview

Photocopies of correspondence relating to Francis H. Pierpont's law license in Mississippi and Virginia, and an early (1784) Virginia deed to John Pierpont (likely grandfather of Francis).

Dates: 1784-1842; Majority of material found within 1841-1842

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

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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 7
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 4
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 4
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 4
Bennett, J.M. 3
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Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 3
Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884 3
Price, Samuel, 1805-1884 3
West Virginia University 3
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 3
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 2
Democratic Party (U.S.) 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 2
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 2
Mount de Chantal Academy (Wheeling, W. Va.) 2
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 2
Sturgiss, George C. 2
Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) 2
West Virginia. Constitution. Flick Amendment 2
American Institute of Banking 1
American Red Cross 1
Anderson, Luther. 1
Angell and Jamison. 1
Armstrong, James D. 1
Bachman, Carl G. 1
Baltimore Trust Company 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Blue, Fred. 1
Boggess, J.R. 1
Bond, John C. 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Brannon, Henry, 1837-1914 1
Brannon, Linn. 1
Bull and Bear Club 1
Bunker, Edward C. 1
Bunker, Edward C. (1830-1867) 1
Burns, Brothers & Huffman 1
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 1
Byrd, Robert C. 1
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 1
Camden, Wilson Lee. 1
Campbell family 1
Castleman family - Genealogy 1
Castleman, Ann Rebecca Isler. 1
Castleman, Estelle. 1
Castleman, Frank A. 1
Castleman, Sarah Jane. 1
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Chicago, Parkersburg, and Norfolk Railroad 1
Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia - Bonds. 1
Darst, J.S. 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Dayton, Alston Gordon 1
Dayton, Spencer 1
Democratic National Convention 1
Democratic National Convention of 1876. 1
Eagle, E.C. (Edward Calvin) 1
Eagle, H.B. (Harold Bentley) 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
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Emerald Shillelagh Chowder and Marching Society, Inc. 1
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Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 1
Foulke, William Parker 1
Gibbens, Alvaro F. (Alvaro Franklin), 1837- 1
Goff family 1
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 1
Gore, Howard M. 1
Great Cacapon Silica Sand Company 1
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Hammond and Siler General Store. 1
Hammond family - Genealogy 1
Hammond, Allen C. 1
Hammond, Cadet N. 1
Hardin, Moses 1
Harman, John William, 1869- 1
Harrison, Mrs. Anna M. Robertson. 1
Harrison, William A. 1
Hatcher, John H. 1
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 1
Haymond, Alpheus F. 1
Haymond, Frank C. 1
Haymond-Fleming Law Firm 1
Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799 1
Hoffman, John Stringer (1821-1877) 1
Hope Natural Gas 1
Hotee, John. 1
Humphries family - Genealogy 1
Isler family - Genealogy 1
Jackson, J.B. 1
Jackson, J.J. 1
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