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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers, A&M 3082, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

The papers of a prominent Lewisburg, Greenbrier County lawyer and politician, Samuel Price, who served numerous terms in the Virginia state legislature and was Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851, the Secession Convention of 1861, and the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and he completed the U. S. Senate term of Allen Caperton in 1876. The papers include correspondence relating to local and state politics, Price's law practice, slavery, the Civil War, land speculation, and railroads. Also included are files and ledgers documenting Price's legal and political activities as well as personal financial records. Among the prominent correspondents are the Civil War generals John Echols and Jubal Early (1872) as well as the following: G. D. Camden, Allen T. Caperton, Charles J. Faulkner, William Parker Foulke, David Goff, Henry M. Mathews, and H. O. Middleton.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
• Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894
• Echols, John, 1823-1896
• Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884
• Foulke, William Parker
• Goff, David, 1804?-1878
• Greenbrier County (W. Va.)
• Land.
• Lawyers - letters and papers.
• Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884
• Middleton, H.O.
• Politics and government.
• Railroads
• Slaves and slavery.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865