Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1791
Overview
Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond...
Dates:
1828-1890, 1901, 1935
White Sulphur Springs Company Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1656
Overview
Microfilm of records of the Old White Sulphur Springs Hotel (now the Greenbrier Hotel), including ledgers for 1816 and 1827, an account book for 1830-1831, and guest registers for 1896-1898, 1910, 1911, and 1913-1914. These records have entries for many prominent nineteenth century Americans including Henry Clay, Stephen Decatur, John Tyler, John Floyd, and General John Preston.
Dates:
1816-1914
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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- Charleston. 2
- Account books 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Charlottesville (Va.) 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Devil's Bake Oven. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrisburg (Pa.) 1
- Hotels 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Falls. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Monticello (Va.) 1
- Natural Bridge (Va.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851. 1
- Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Weirs Cave. 1
- White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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