Ruffner-Donnally and Company

Overview Book manuscripts by John Edmund Stealey III, Distinguished Professor of History at Shepherd University. Born of a prominent Clarksburg family, Stealey is known generally for his work on West Virginia and Appalachia including industrial slavery, antebellum business and industry, nineteenth century United States legal history. He has extended his research and publication range to include early Porfirian Mexico and Civil War era constitutionalism, African American life, and political...

Scope and Contents

Records of Ruffner-Donnally and Co., Kanawha Saline, W.Va. Includes 4 general merchandise Account books 1833-1877 (in the account book for 1838 are pasted C. N. Coleman and Co. receipts for 1885); 2 quarterly statements of receipts and disposition of salt by the Cincinnati Agency of Ruffner-Donnally and Co. for 1851-1852; 3 letter books 1853-1868. Collection also includes 1 bill of lading book, 1836-1862 and papers on "Kanawha Salines."