Ruffner family
Family
Found in 2 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
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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- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
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- Lumber trade 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mexico 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- South America 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
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