Letcher, John, 1813-1884
Person
Found in 2 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
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- Subject: Slaves X
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- Abolition of slavery 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Canada 1
- Chambless 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 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
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Philippines 1
- Postal service 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Secession 1
- Slavery 1
- Slaves 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Tyler County (W. Va.) 1
- Uniontown (Fayette County, Pa.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Venezuela 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia. Convention (1861 : Wheeling) 1
- West Virginia. Convention (1863 : Wheeling) 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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