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Ruffner family

 Family

Found in 4 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

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

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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  • Subject: Women's history -- 1850-1899 X

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Genealogy 3
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 3
Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
Missionaries 2
Slaves and slavery. 2
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Travel accounts. 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
Bridges -- West Virginia 1
Charleston (W. Va.) 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
Coal mining. 1
Colombia 1
Diaries 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Education 1
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1904. 1
Elections 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
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Salines. 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Land. 1
Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
Livestock 1
Lumber trade 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Mexico 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missouri 1
Ohio 1
Ohio River Valley -- History 1
Pharmacy -- History 1
Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
Philippines 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 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
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Slavery -- West Virginia 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
Universities and colleges 1
Valleys -- West Virginia 1
Venezuela 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
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