Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Berlin B. Chapman, Compiler, Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2229
Overview
Microfilmed copy of a scrapbook outlining the history of college debating in West Virginia, 1933-1941. The scrapbook was prepared by Dr. Chapman and the Fairmont State College debate teams. Original is in the Fairmont State College Library.
Dates:
1933-1941
Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0122
Scope and Contents
Collection includes original copies of correspondence relating to Virginia and West Virginia, as well as newspaper clippings, photographs, and research notes. Events pertaining to the Civil War and the formation of West Virginia are covered. Among the most important items are the private correspondence of Waitman T. Willey (1835-1861 and 1866-1868); data pertaining to education in Mason County, West Virginia (1861-1875); typescript copies of letters of Samuel Woods (see also A&M 1445);...
Dates:
1834-1945
Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1003
Scope and Contents
Collection includes typescripts drafts of unpublished works, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printer's picture plates. Unpublished typescript drafts are titled George Rodgers Clark Floyd of Logan County, West Virginia, and Huckleberry Ranger Lieutenant John Blue, Confederate. Also includes correspondence from Robert L. Floyd to Dr. Ambler regarding the Floyd family (1953-1957), and a manuscript titled...
Dates:
1913, 1940-1957
Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1010
Scope and Contents
Personal and professional correspondence (1914-1956), typescripts, research notes, clippings, photographs, maps, drafts and manuscripts of published and unpublished historical studies. The correspondence includes a number of letters from historians in the 1920s and 1930s. Other subjects covered in the papers include the McNeill Rangers, the Civil War, Moravian Missionaries, floods in the South Branch Valley, and secondary education in West Virginia.
Dates:
1914-1956
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
Lewis H. Chrisman Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2114
Overview
Correspondence between Dr. Chrisman, professor of English at West Virginia Wesleyan College, and Dr. Edgar Wesley, professor of education at the University of Minnesota. Subjects include education, religion, politics, Dr. C.H. Ambler, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and West Virginia University.
Dates:
1949-1964
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
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- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 5
- Universities and colleges 4
- Education 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 2
- Floods 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Bee culture 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Castanea 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Civil War -- McNeill's Rangers 1
- Civil War -- Songs 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- Education -- West Virginia -- Webster County 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Grafton (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Harvard. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Justices of the peace 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Land - Virginia land grant. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) 1
- Mason County W.Va. - education 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Moravian Missionaries 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pension (widow' s) - War of 1812. 1
- Philippines 1
- Politics - Webster County. 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Publications - Confederate States of America 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia -- Webster County 1
- Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools 1
- Schools - salaries. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Shepherdstown (W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- South Branch Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Teachers 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Venezuela 1
- Virginia land grant - land. 1
- War of 1812 - Widow's pension. 1
- Webster County (W. Va.) 1
- Webster County - Education. 1
- Webster County - Justices of the Peace. 1
- Webster County - Politics. 1
- Webster County - Railroads. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia University -- History 1
- West Virginia University -- Students 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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