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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Gordon B. Gibbens Papers, A&amp;M 2816, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Correspondence of Gordon B. Gibbens of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Subjects discussed include personal and family business, West Virginia Republican Party affairs, and Gibbens' political appointments. Correspondents include Senators Stephen B. Elkins, Nathan B. Scott, and James A. Hughes, as well as numerous Ohio Valley politicians. One letter (1896 December 21) is an endorsement by a group of "colored" voters of Wood County for Gibbens' appointment to political office, and another letter (1898 January 17) is a similar endorsement by a group of Wood County Union veterans.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80090028" source="lcsh">Wood County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans.</subject>
    <geogname source="local_LC">Wood County (W. Va.) -- Blacks</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Ohio Valley - Republican Party.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Rivers and river valleys.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Union veterans - Wood County.</subject>
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    <geogname source="local">Wood County (W. Va.) -- Union veterans</geogname>
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