University of Virginia.
Organization
Found in 6 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
J.M. Mason Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1795
Overview
Two facsimiles of letters from J.M. Mason at the University of Virginia with reference to the management of the Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy, the nature of the Virginia claims, the history of the case, and recommendations for handling the matter for the best interest of West Virginia.
Dates:
1918
Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1791
Overview
Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond...
Dates:
1828-1890, 1901, 1935
Louis Watson Chappell (1890-1981), Folklorist, Research Papers, Sound Recordings, and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2480
Overview
Research papers and sound recordings compiled by Louis Watson Chappell, an English Professor and folklorist at West Virginia University who collected, documented, and preserved West Virginia's folk music and folk traditions. He was born in Belvidere, North Carolina and educated in English Language and Literature at Wake Forest University (B.A.), and the University of Virginia (M.A.). Receiving a faculty appointment at West Virginia University in 1922, Chappell embarked upon a career...
Dates:
1815-1980
Nathaniel V. Wilson Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0509
Overview
Letters to Wilson at Farmville, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia, from members of his family at: the University of Virginia; Lewisburg, West Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Clarksville, Virginia. Includes references to family business affairs, the Ruffner-Donnally salt works at Charleston, purchase of slaves, and medical education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1836 and 1844.
Dates:
1834-1850
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- Universities and colleges 5
- Slaves and slavery. 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Charleston. 2
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 2
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Genealogy 2
- Virginia 2
- Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Abolition of slavery 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
- Belvidere (N.C.) 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- General stores 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) 1
- Livestock 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- North Carolina 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philippines 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Salt industry and trade 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Venezuela 1
- Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia - Folk Music. 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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