University of Virginia.
Organization
Found in 2 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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Education. SEE ALSO Schools. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Abolition of slavery 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Charleston. 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philippines 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Salt industry and trade 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Venezuela 1
- Virginia 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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