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Arthur I. Boreman Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates: 1830-1949

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates: 1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899

Gideon D. Camden, (1805-1891), Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 1276
Overview Letters to 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 letter from Richard P. Camden describing visitors to Coopers Well in Wood County (1847); letter from E.B. Hall, Fairmont, on local political affairs (3 May 1860); and letter from H. David Auville, Mouth of Seneca, WV on Reconstruction and Camden's...
Dates: 1847-1876, 1902-1903

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 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

Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir

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Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates: 1838-1899

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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 4
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 3
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 2
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 2
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 2
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 2
Society of the Army of West Virginia 2
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 2
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 2
Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) 2
West Virginia University 2
West Virginia. Constitution. Flick Amendment 2
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
Battelle, Gordon. 1
Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
Boreman and Bullocks 1
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 1
Camden, Wilson Lee. 1
Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889 1
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 1
Carlisle, John Griffin, 1835-1910 1
Chicago, Parkersburg, and Norfolk Railroad 1
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 1
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 1
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Dayton, Spencer 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Democratic National Convention of 1876. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Farnsworth, D.D.T. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 1
Grand Army of the Republic 1
Greenback Labor Party (U.S.) 1
Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906 1
Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891 1
Jackson, J.G. 1
Johnson, Henry J. 1
Kenna, John E. 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lang, Theodore F. 1
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 1
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Logan, John A. 1
Mason, John W. 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
McGraw, John T. 1
Meadville Collegiate Institute (Wellsburg, Va.) 1
Mount de Chantal Academy (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
Mugler, Henri Jean 1
National Cemetery Corps 1
Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883 1
Rathbone, John Castelli 1
Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912 1
Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898 1
Rucker, William P. 1
Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906 1
Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872 1
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888 1
Simpson, 1
Siviter, Anna Pierpont, 1859-1932 1
Siviter, William Henry, 1858-1939. 1
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 1
Stevenson, W. E. (William Erskine), 1820-1883 1
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878 1
Watson, James O. 1
Whig Party (U.S.) 1
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 1
Wilson, E.W. 1
Women's Christian Temperance Union 1
Zane, Ebenezer, 1747-1812 1
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