Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
R.S. Rudd (b.1846) Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1162
Overview
Diaries, accounts, and statistical records of a schoolteacher from Montgomery and Campbell counties, Virginia, and Monroe County, West Virginia. These records list the schools in which Rudd taught, the homes where he boarded, and his friends and acquaintances. The records also cover his employment with the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad at Central Depot, Virginia, and with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Allegheny Station. The third volume is a guest register of the White Sulphur...
Dates:
1839-1912
William Reynolds Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0048
Overview
Extracts from a diary of a tour of the eastern states by a resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, with descriptions of travel through Greenbrier, Fayette, Kanawha, and Cabell counties, (West) Virginia. Subjects covered include descriptions of buildings, as well as musings about diversions and people of various U.S. cities, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. (where Reynolds attended a session of Congress and heard Clay, Calhoun and...
Dates:
May-July, 1841
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- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Campbell County (Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Charlottesville (Va.) 1
- Devil's Bake Oven. 1
- Education 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrisburg (Pa.) 1
- Hotels 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Falls. 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Montgomery County (Va.) 1
- Monticello (Va.) 1
- Natural Bridge (Va.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Teachers 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Weirs Cave. 1
- White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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