American Colonization Society
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1942
Overview
Pamphlets include Henry Ruffner's antislavery pamphlet, 1847, and his Union speech, 1856. Subjects of the manuscripts and correspondence include family history; travel; Kanawha Salt Works; schools in Virginia and Kanawha County; Lane Seminary Library; Presbyterian Church; slavery, coal, gas, iron, and timber; Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee, Harvard, Hobart, Cornell, and Hampden-Sydney colleges; Greenbrier County; Alabama; election of 1904; University of Virginia; Kanawha Valley floods;...
Dates:
1829-1913
John M. McCalla, Jr. Journal
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1746
Scope and Contents
Journal of Dr. John Moore McCalla, documenting his trip to Liberia in a sailing vessel along with recaptured Africans, sponsored by the American Colonization Society. Includes a brief biography of McCalla by Helen Goldsborough and copies of the following photographs: Dr. McCalla; the sister ship to "The Star of the Union", on which he sailed; his passport; Kru houses and a Kru village in Liberia; and the American Colonization Society in Washington.The journal lists the crew and...
Dates:
1860
Peter Godwin Van Winkle (1808-1872) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0136
Overview
Personal papers and scrapbooks of Peter G. Van Winkle (1808-1872), a Parkersburg attorney, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851, member of the Second Wheeling Convention of 1861, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861-1862, legislator from Wood County in 1863, U.S. Senator from 1863-1869, and participant in West Virginia railroad and business enterprises. Includes manuscripts speeches, essays, correspondence, and three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings....
Dates:
1827-1902, undated
Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1455
Overview
Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...
Dates:
1743-1882
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- Education 2
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Missionaries 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Account books 1
- Africa 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- American ginseng 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic, American missions 1
- Cincinnati (Ohio) 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Detroit (Mich.) 1
- Diaries 1
- Drugs and druggists. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- England 1
- Europe 1
- Floods 1
- France 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Fur trade 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- General stores 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Justices of the peace 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kanawha. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Land. 1
- Lexington (Ky.) 1
- Liberia 1
- Livestock 1
- London (England) 1
- Louisville (Ky.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marietta (Ohio) 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Michigan 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- New Orleans (La.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- Northwestern Turnpike. 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philippines 1
- Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads 1
- Saint Louis (Mo.) 1
- Salt industry and trade 1
- Scioto River (Ohio) 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Transportation 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Unions. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Venezuela 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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