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Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0104
Overview

Personal and business papers of lawyer, U.S. Senator, circuit court judge, and first Governor of West Virginia, Arthur I. Boreman. See scope and content note for more details.

Dates: 1861-1895, undated

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

Aten Family Civil War Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 3126
Overview The Aten Family Civil War letters chronicle the Union Army service of James, John, and Henry Aten. James Aten returned to his native Hancock County from Illinois in February 1861 and enlisted in the First WV Volunteer Infantry for a three-month tour in May 1861. He reenlisted in the Twelfth WV Volunteer Infantry and saw service along the B & O Railroad, the Shenandoah Valley, along the James River and at one point he was a prisoner of war. John and Henry Aten served in the 85th Illinois...
Dates: 1861-1865

Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2848
Overview Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S....
Dates: 1787-1895, undated; Majority of material found within 1822-1881

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

Harrison County Court Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1827
Overview

Records of the Harrison County court, including the first land entry book for the county (1784-1799), four court minute books (1797-1805).

Dates: 1784-1903

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

Isaac McNeel (b.1830) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1451
Overview Correspondence, legal and business papers, mercantile records and tax receipt books of Isaac McNeel, who operated a store at Edray and Mill Point, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, served as sheriff of the county, operated a gristmill, raised livestock, and was appointed provost marshal of the county in 1862 by the Confederate Army. The collection also includes letters and school reports of McNeel's sons, Winters and Summers, while students at Washington and Lee and the Medical and Law...
Dates: 1850-1908

Scott-Palmer Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1458
Scope and Contents Family papers of school master Theodore Scott (1805-1877); his daughter Saida Scott Palmer, a music teacher; her husband, Jewett Palmer, Civil War officer, local Republican official, and mayor of Marietta; and his daughters, Winifred and Muriel, a concert contralto. Includes correspondence, letter books, diaries, school registers and reports, scrapbooks, genealogical records, and theatre and opera programs.Topics include Scott's teaching career at Portsmouth, Ohio (1836);...
Dates: 1829-1916

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Politics and government. 12
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 9
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West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 5
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Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 4
Politicians -- United States 4
Railroads 4
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 4
United States -- Politics and government 4
Debts, Public -- Virginia 3
Debts, Public -- West Virginia 3
Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 3
Statehood politics -- West Virginia 3
Temperance 3
Transportation 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 3
Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 3
Coal mining. 2
Diaries and journals. 2
Election of 1848. 2
Election of 1868. 2
Judges -- West Virginia 2
Land. 2
Politicians 2
Politics - Secession of Virginia. 2
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
Richmond (Va.) 2
Slavery 2
Slaves and slavery. 2
West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 2
West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
Women's schools. 2
Academies (Private schools) 1
Account books 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Agriculture 1
Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1
American ginseng 1
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
Baltimore (Md.) 1
Bank of Berkeley Springs - Banks and Banking. 1
Banks and Banking - American Institute of Banking. 1
Banks and Banking - Bank of Berkeley Springs. 1
Banks and Banking - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. 1
Banks and Banking - Financial Public Relations Association. 1
Banks and Banking - First Virginia Corporation. 1
Banks and banking 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) -- History 1
Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
Berkeley Glass Sand Company -- Glass Sand Industry 1
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
Berkeley Springs Water Works and Improvement Co. -- Power Industry 1
Bibles 1
Blueprints 1
Bonds -- Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia 1
Boston (Mass.) 1
Bowling 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
Business correspondence 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) -- History 1
California 1
Canada 1
Cemeteries -- National Cemetery (Grafton, W. Va.) 1
Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
Chambless 1
Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 1
Church schools -- Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Churches -- Episcopal 1
Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry, Company G. 1
Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War - United States 3rd Artillery Regiment, Company B. 1
Civil War - Virginia 13th Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 12th Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. 1
Civil War - political factions. 1
Civil War - raids and raiders. 1
Civil War -- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Civil War -- Illinois 85th Infantry 1
Civil War battles - Mine Run. 1
Civil War battles - Murfreesboro. 1
Civil War battles - The Wilderness. 1
Civil War battles - Vicksburg. 1
Civil War raids - Jones & Imboden. 1
Civil service reform -- United States 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Coal mines and mining 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Compromise of 1850 1
Court records - Harrison County. 1
Diaries 1
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Names
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 4
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 3
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 3
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 3
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 3
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Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 3
United States. Congress. Senate 3
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 3
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 2
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 2
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 2
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 2
Johnson, Henry J. 2
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 2
Lang, Theodore F. 2
Rucker, William P. 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. Constitution. Flick Amendment 2
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 2
Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876 2
American Institute of Banking 1
American Party 1
American Red Cross 1
Armstrong, James D. 1
Armstrong, Ned. 1
Aten family 1
Averell, W.W. 1
Baltimore Trust Company 1
Basil, Ben. 1
Battelle, Gordon. 1
Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
Boreman and Bullocks 1
Boreman, Jacob S. (Jacob Smith), 1831-1913 1
Brown, James H. 1
Bull and Bear Club 1
Burdett, John S. 1
Camden, Wilson Lee. 1
Campbell family 1
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 1
Carlisle, John Griffin, 1835-1910 1
Castleman family - Genealogy 1
Castleman, Ann Rebecca Isler. 1
Castleman, Estelle. 1
Castleman, Frank A. 1
Castleman, Sarah Jane. 1
Chicago, Parkersburg, and Norfolk Railroad 1
Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia - Bonds. 1
Confederate States of America 1
Cranmer, Gibson L. (Gibson Lamb), 1826-1903 1
Cumberland Road 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Dayton, Spencer 1
Democratic National Convention of 1876. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Duvall, George W. 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Emerald Shillelagh Chowder and Marching Society, Inc. 1
Farnsworth, D.D.T. 1
Flesher, A. 1
Frost, Daniel Marsh, 1823-1900. 1
Grand Army of the Republic 1
Great Cacapon Silica Sand Company 1
Greenback Labor Party (U.S.) 1
Hagans, Harrison. 1
Hagans, John Marshall, 1838-1900 1
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Hammond and Siler General Store. 1
Hammond family - Genealogy 1
Hammond, Allen C. 1
Hammond, Cadet N. 1
Hardin, Moses 1
Harnsborough, Mayor. 1
Harrison County Court 1
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 1
Haymond, Alpheus F. 1
Haymond, Jonathan. 1
Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891 1
Hillsboro Male and Female Academy 1
Horton, W. 1
Hotee, John. 1
Humphries family - Genealogy 1
Isler family - Genealogy 1
Jackson, J.G. 1
Jackson, John J. 1
Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891 1
Kenna, John E. 1
Lamb, Daniel. 1
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewisburg Female Institute (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1
Logan, John A. 1
Marietta Universalist Society 1
Mason, John W. 1
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 1
McComas, Judge. 1
McGraw, John T. 1
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 1
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