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Ruffner family

 Family

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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Diaries and journals. 2
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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
Women's history -- Pre-1800 2
Academies and Institutes. 1
Accounting 1
Agriculture 1
Boone County (W. Va.) 1
Bridges -- West Virginia 1
Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
Charleston (W. Va.) 1
Church buildings 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
Clay County (W. Va.) 1
Coal mining. 1
Diaries 1
Education 1
Elections 1
Estate settlements. 1
Europe 1
Farms and farming. 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Fortification -- West Virginia 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Genealogy 1
Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
Kansas 1
Kentucky 1
Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
Livestock 1
Lumber trade 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Mexico 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
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Politics and government. 1
Railroads -- West Virginia 1
Rivers -- West Virginia 1
Roads -- West Virginia 1
Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
Schools 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Slavery -- West Virginia 1
South America 1
Steamboats 1
Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
Travel accounts. 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
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
World War, 1914-1918 1
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