Ruffner family
Family
Found in 5 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
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
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
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- Women's history -- 1800-1849 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 2
- Travel accounts. 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Diaries 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- Floods 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Gas industry 1
- General stores 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salines. 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Philippines 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
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Steamboats 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 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 - 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
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1 + ∧ less
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