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Gideon Draper Camden, Esq.
Facts and Events
Additional Links
- Camden, Gideon D. (1805-1891). Papers 1816-1892, undated in West Virginia & Regional History Collection. Correspondents include Henry G. Davis, John J. Davis, J.H. Diss Debar, Johnson N. Camden, John J. Allen, Spencer Dayton, John S. Carlile, John Bassel, James M. Bennett, David Goff, Lot M. Morrill, James S. Wheat, Alpheus J. Haymond, John Jay Jackson, Jr. and Sr., George R. Latham, Nimrod Dent, Benjamin F. Martin, Okey Johnson, J. Marshall Hagans, J.W. Arbogast, and W.J. Bland.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Will of John S. Hoffman, in Cases and Points of the Supreme Court of the United States
p 13. - ↑ Gideon Draper Camden, in Atkinson, George Wesley, and Alvaro F. (Alvaro Franklin) Gibbens. Prominent men of West Virginia: biographical sketches, including politics, the law, theology, medicine, education, finance, journalism, trade, commerce and agriculture; a compendium of returns of every election, national, state, and congressional; a record of every state officer; executive, legislative and judicial. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972)
p 945.
JUDGE GIDEON DRAPER CAMDEN is the fourth son of Henry Camden, of Anne Arundel county, Md., and Mary B. Sprigg, a daughter of Col. Fredric Sprigg, of Montgomery county, of the same States. Henry Camden was a local Methodist preacher, and about the year 1804 freed his slaves, and with his wife and small children, moved to Harrison county, Virginia, and settled in what was called "Collins' Settlement," on the West Fork river, about fifteen miles above Weston, near Jacksonville, Lewis county, where he lived until the time of his death, some thirty years ago. ...
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- ↑ Gideon Draper Camden, in Miller, Thomas Condit, and Hu Maxwell. West Virginia and its people. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1913)
Vol 2, p 631.
... 6. Gideon Draper, born August 31, 1805. ... born in Montgomery county, Maryland ...
- ↑ Judge Gideon E. [sic] Camden, in Callahan, James Morton. Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley
Vol 3, p 1365.
(II) Judge Gideon E. [sic] Camden, son of Rev. Henry and Mary Belt (Sprigg) Camden, was born in Lewis county, August 5, 1804, died at Hot Springs, Arkansas, April 22, 1891. At the time of his death Judge Camden was one of the largest landholders in West Virginia, leaving an estate of sixty thousand acres. He located in Clarksburg in 1834, and became associated in the practice of law with Judge John Allen, becoming one of the most prominent men in the county. He was appointed judge of the circuit court not long after his first entrance upon practice. In 1850 he was a member of the constitutional convention of Virginia. He served several terms in the legislature of West Virginia, both as a delegate and as senator, coming within one vote of being elected United States senator. He married Sally Arnold Hoffman, whose father owned a large estate in Culpeper county, Virginia. Their children were: Eliza, James, Martha M., married Samuel M. Sommers (see Sommers II); Mary, Draper, John, Dora. ...
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[Note of Caution: Incorrectly identifies Gideon's middle initial as "E".]
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