Ruffner family
Family
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Conaway Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0308
Overview
Sketch of the Conaway Family, compiled by Orrin Bryte Conaway in 1951. Including the Fleming line of Marion County, Thomas Inghram, and the Ankrom, Dew, Ruffner, William Morris, and Robert Morris families. Material covers the years 1612-1951.
Dates:
1951
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
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
Lewis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview
Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates:
1825-1936
Minnie McWhorter, Compiler, Genealogies
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0928
Overview
Family genealogies in this collection include: Alderson, Alkire, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ball, Barnes, Barnet, Bartlett, Bassel, Benedum, Bennett, Blake, Bonnett, Boughman, Brake, Burr, Bush, Carber, Carpenter, Carroll, Casto, Champe, Cheuvront, Chrislip, Cookman, Coplin, Corder, Couch, Cummins, Cunningham, Curry, Custis, Cutright, Davidson, Davis, Donnally, Douglass, Dyer, Eagan, Eastwood, Fairbank, Farnsworth, Fell, Flesher, Gaston, Gates, Girty, Goff, Goodloe, Hacker, Hagerman, Hall,...
Dates:
undated
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview
Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates:
1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960
Ruffner Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1744
Scope and Contents
Letters and copies of eight letters, 1813-1841; pages 5-10 from Kanawha Salines general merchandise account book, 6-9 March 1827; three manuscript volumes by Henry Ruffner: "Notes on a Tour to the West" and "An Expedition to the North," 1815, and "An Account of Amounts Paid to Rev. Nath'l W. Calhoon," 1826-1834; and "Subscription for Church, 1836-1842," by David Ruffner. There is also a printed brief involving Ruffner-Donnally estates, 1875, and information on the Shackelford family.
Dates:
1813-1848, 1866-1886
Ruffner R. Payne, Collector, Genealogical Materials
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1914
Overview
Collection is chiefly composed of genealogical materials compiled by Ruffner R. Payne. It contains various types of genealogical information for different West Virginia families from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Documents include charts, notes, letters, certificates, pamphlets, narrative histories, and legal documents, and date from 1805 to 1943. Materials are loosely arranged in alphabetical order by family name and vary in number and format for each family. Families for whom...
Dates:
1805-1943
Wilson-Lewis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2135
Overview
Papers relating to the Wilson, Lewis, and Ruffner families of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Kanawha County, [West] Virginia, St. Charles County, Missouri, and Fairfield County, Ohio. Correspondence between Nathaniel V. Wilson and Dr. Goodridge Wilson, concerning land purchases, preparation for the settlement of the family, care of livestock, employment of slaves, salt making and marketing, and the market price of salt. Other members of the family migrated to St. Charles County, Missouri,...
Dates:
circa 1693-1942 and undated
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Genealogy 5
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 4
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 4
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
- Missionaries 3
- Slaves and slavery. 3
- Travel accounts. 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- Coal mining. 2
- Colombia 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Education 2
- Elections 2
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 2
- Land. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Missouri 2
- Ohio 2
- Railroads 2
- Salt industry and trade 2
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Boone County (W. Va.) 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Clay County (W. Va.) 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Diaries 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Europe 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Floods 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Gas industry 1
- General stores 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salines. 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Livestock 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mexico 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Philippines 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Schools 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- South America 1
- Steamboats 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Valleys -- West Virginia 1
- Venezuela 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851. 1
- Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Church history. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1 + ∧ less
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