Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Vause W. Marshall Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1198
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Williamsport rare book and manuscripts dealer include correspondence relating to the book trade, dealer book lists and catalogues, and correspondence on West Virginia and national politics, 1880-1946; the Garner for President Committee; the Rush D. Holt campaign of 1940; the National Jeffersonian Democrats; and the state Democratic Executive Committee. There is one folder of John T. McGraw papers. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, Roy Bird Cook, W.E.B. Du Bois, P.S....
Dates:
1880-1948
West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview
Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates:
1909-1949
Filtered By
- Subject: African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Elections 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Philippines 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Venezuela 1
- Williamsport (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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