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Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates: ca. 1840-1955

Charles Mortimer Bishop (1827-1896) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0008
Overview Papers of a Preston County farmer, merchant, and licensed exhorter of the Methodist Episcopal Church who served in the state legislature in the years 1870-1876. There are letters of H. Davis and William Ewin regarding land and coal properties in Preston County. Also included are minutes of the incorporators' meeting of the Iron Valley and Pennsylvania Railroad, 1873, as well as scattered items relating to the Methodist Episcopal Church, Kingwood; the Northwestern Turnpike at St. George; the...
Dates: 1857-1897

Courtney Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1629
Overview Papers of a Monongalia County, West Virginia, farm family residing near Maidsville include: the farm account books of John and John J. Courtney, 1831-1877; family Bible records and photographs; college essays of Alpheus Courtney, a West Virginia University student; manuscript ciphering book, 1817; diary of Ulysses J. Courtney, 1878-1883 (7 vols.) pertaining to lumbering, farming, and livestock operations, and community religious and social life; correspondence; steamboat bills of lading,...
Dates: 1804-1920

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

Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0013
Scope and Contents Correspondence and business papers of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916), a successful businessman and politician from West Virginia. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904. The collection largely documents his business and political career, although there are personal papers in the collection as well. His business interests were largely concerned with coal mining, timber, and railroads. Types of documents include letters, reports, account...
Dates: 1799-1919

Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2503
Overview A collection of 400 letters, cards, petitions, telegrams, printed, and other similar items received and sent by U.S. Senator and Representatives Howard Sutherland (1865-1950) of West Virginia. The papers are part of Sutherland's constituent mail and are all concerned with the question of women's suffrage. The period covered is 1914-1919, and correspondence regarding both the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919,...
Dates: 1914-1919

Jacob Williamson Marshall (b.1830) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0054
Overview Papers of a livestock broker, farmer, and merchant of Mingo Flats, Randolph County, who was associated with John T. McGraw in the development of Marlinton and the purchase and sale of land, coal, and timber in neighboring Pocahontas County. There are some items of Civil War interest, while the bulk of the correspondence relates to the marketing of ginseng, beeswax, wool, venison, animal pelts, and farm machinery. There is significant correspondence relating to state politics and railroads....
Dates: ca. 1840-1900

John Thomas McGraw (1856-1920) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0086
Scope and Contents Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and...
Dates: 1842-1927, 1948

Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers

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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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Names
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 6
Democratic Party (U.S.) 5
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 4
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 4
West Virginia University 4
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Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 3
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 3
McGraw, John T. 3
Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910 2
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 2
Dayton, Alston Gordon 2
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 2
Garrett, John W. 2
Kenna, John E. 2
Mason, James M. II. 2
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 2
United States. Congress. Senate 2
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 2
West Virginia. Legislature 2
White, A.B. 2
Whitney, William C. 2
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 2
American Constitutional League 1
American Victory Union 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Babcock Boom and Lumber Company 1
Baltimore United Oil Company 1
Bayard, Thomas F. 1
Belmont, August. 1
Bennett, J.M. 1
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 1
Bishop, Charles Mortimer (1827-1896) 1
Blackwater Lumber Company 1
Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 1
Camden Consolidated Oil Company 1
Camden, Wilson Lee. 1
Canaan Valley Development Company 1
Canaan Valley Produce, Inc. 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1
Carroll, James Hawley, 1820-1890 1
Cass, Joseph K. 1
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
Cherry Run Mill 1
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Condon-Lane Boom and Lumber Company 1
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (U.S.) 1
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Core, Earl Lemley, 1902-1984 1
Courtney family 1
Courtney, Alpheus. 1
Courtney, John J. 1
Courtney, John. 1
Courtney, Ulysses J. 1
Crogan, Patrick J., 1856-1949 1
Daughters of the American Revolution. West Virginia Chapters 1
Davis, T.B. 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
Dayton, Spencer 1
Democratic National Convention 1
Democratic National Convention of 1876. 1
Dickinson family 1
Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915 1
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 1
Ewin, William, 1806-1886 1
Faulkner, Charles J. (Charles James), 1847-1929 1
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 1
Fred Killingworth. 1
Frelinghuysen, Frederick T. (Frederick Theodore), 1817-1885 1
Gibbens, Alvaro F. (Alvaro Franklin), 1837- 1
Gibbons, James, 1834-1921 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 1
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 1
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 1
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 1
Gorman, Arthur P. (Arthur Pue), 1839-1906 1
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Harkness, C.W. 1
Harkness, E.S. 1
Harkness, N.W. 1
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 1
Hersey, Lewis B. 1
Hewitt, Abram S. 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900 1
J.L. Rumbarger Lumber Company. 1
Jackson, J.B. 1
Jackson, J.J. 1
Jackson, John J. 1
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 1
Keystone Manufacturing Company. 1
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 1
Lamont, Daniel Scott, 1851-1905 1
Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission 1
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