Washington and Lee University
Organization
Found in 3 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
Isaac McNeel (b.1830) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1451
Overview
Correspondence, legal and business papers, mercantile records and tax receipt books of Isaac McNeel, who operated a store at Edray and Mill Point, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, served as sheriff of the county, operated a gristmill, raised livestock, and was appointed provost marshal of the county in 1862 by the Confederate Army. The collection also includes letters and school reports of McNeel's sons, Winters and Summers, while students at Washington and Lee and the Medical and Law...
Dates:
1850-1908
William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1694
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, writings, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Wilson, a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), President of West Virginia University, 1882-1883, member of Congress, 1883-1895, Postmaster General, 1895-1897, author of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894, and President of Washington and Lee University, 1897-1900. The collection includes portions of the diaries covering the years 1862-1863, 1865, 1868-1870, 1877-1891, 1896-1899. Most of the...
Dates:
1862-1900
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- Elections 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alabama 1
- American ginseng 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Baltimore Sun 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- General stores 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harper's Weekly 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Livestock 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- New York Tribune 1
- Philippines 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Postal service 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Saint Louis Republican 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Taxation 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Venezuela 1
- Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 1
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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