Ruffner family
Family
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
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
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- Abolition of slavery 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Colombia 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- Floods 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Land. 1
- Livestock 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mexico 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missouri 1
- Ohio 1
- Philippines 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Railroads 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Salt industry and trade 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Venezuela 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1 + ∧ less
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