Ruffner family
Family
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
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
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
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- Coal mining. 2
- Education 2
- Elections 2
- Genealogy 2
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Missionaries 2
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- Travel accounts. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 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
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Clay County (W. Va.) 1
- Colombia 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 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
- Gas industry 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Land. 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missouri 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio 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
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Salt industry and trade 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
- Universities and colleges 1
- Valleys -- West Virginia 1
- Venezuela 1
- Virginia 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
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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