0.8 Linear Feet, Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)
Creator
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
Personal papers and scrapbooks of Peter G. Van Winkle (1808-1872), a Parkersburg attorney, delegate to the Constitutional
Convention of 1850-1851, member of the Second Wheeling Convention of 1861, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861-1862,
legislator from Wood County in 1863, U.S. Senator from 1863-1869, and participant in West Virginia railroad and business enterprises.
Includes manuscripts speeches, essays, correspondence, and three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. Highlights include a manuscript
speech on the American Colonization Society, which helped found the colony of Liberia (undated); a letter to the president
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company (March 18, 1836); a draft of "Address of the Delegates composing the New State Constitutional
Convention to their Constituents" (1863). Other subjects of Van Winkle's writings include the U.S. Constitution, philosophical
and religious writings (including the rights and nature of mankind), and Virginia and West Virginia politics. The scrapbooks
are mostly full of clippings, with subjects including the Northwestern Turnpike, politics, and the development of Parkersburg
(1827-1902, undated). One of the scrapbooks also includes journal entries (1834-1844).
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Conditions Governing Access
No special access restriction applies.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Peter Godwin Van Winkle (1808-1872) Papers, A&M 0136, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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