Letcher, John, 1813-1884
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2848
Overview
Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S....
Dates:
1787-1895, undated; Majority of material found within 1822-1881
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
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- Subject: Slavery X
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- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 2
- Genealogy 2
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia -- 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
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Canada 1
- Chambless 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Diaries 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- Floods 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Gas industry 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippines 1
- Postal service 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Schools 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Secession 1
- Slavery 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- Slaves 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Steamboats 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- Transportation 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Tyler County (W. Va.) 1
- Uniontown (Fayette County, Pa.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 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
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Valleys -- West Virginia 1
- Venezuela 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Church history. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia. Convention (1861 : Wheeling) 1
- West Virginia. Convention (1863 : Wheeling) 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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