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    <abstract id="aspace_3515e9fa5b1f9a887334e9221eb1d5c9">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 senatorial prospects (25 December 1876). Also includes printed advertisements from the Grand Opera House, Clarksburg, WV (1902-1903).</abstract>
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    <subject source="ingest">Politics and government.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111862" source="lcsh">Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891</persname>
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