University of Virginia.
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
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: Slaves and slavery. X
Additional filters:
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- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 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
- Charleston. 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- General stores 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
- Livestock 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 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 1
- Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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