Harvard University
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
George H. McGrew Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1622
Overview
Correspondence, sermons, religious writings, and accounts of a graduate of Wesleyan University and Harvard Law School, Methodist missionary to India (ca.1876-1885), and son of Representative James Clark McGrew of Kingwood. Subjects include West Virginia politics; social activities in Kingwood; conditions in the Indian mission field; nautical improvements tested at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1879; Northwestern University; and the Republican National Convention of 1880.
Dates:
1865-1885
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
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- Subject: Missionaries X
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- Abolition of slavery 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- India 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Philippines 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Republican National Convention - 1880. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Venezuela 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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