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Abstract
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; and the location
of the capital. Other papers deal with Indian scouting between the West Fork and Buckhannon Rivers during the Revolution;
land speculation in Harrison and nearby counties; New York merchants and the Civil War; public schools in Shepherdstown, 1850;
the Meade Collegiate Institute; Mount de Chantal Academy; Wheeling Female Seminary; the Chicago, Parkersburg, and Norfolk
Railroad; and the Virginia Debt Question. There are several items of correspondence of the Reverend John S. Martin which relate
to Methodism in Virginia, Maryland, and D.C., particularly camp meetings, parish life and the slave question. There are also
original and photocopied land grants signed by James Monroe, Edmund Randolph, Patrick Henry, and Henry Lee (late 1700s to
early 1800s). Correspondents include Judge John J. Allen, Robert M.T. Hunter, Alexander Campbell, Judge E. J. Pitts, James
A. Hall, W.P. Cooper, George W. Thompson, Judge Hugh W. Shuffey, Thomas Maslin, William E. Arnold, J. M. Mason, and Samuel
D. Tompkins.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers, A&M 1188, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Land grant to George Arnold for 163 acres of land in Harrison County, issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia in May 1793,
signed by governor Henry Lee.