Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Shetler, Curator and Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2835
Overview
Material written and collected by a former curator of the West Virginia and Regional History Collection that includes bibliographies, transcripts, photostats, papers and historical sketches on various aspects of West Virginia history. Items deal with prominent West Virginia University historians, the Civil War, early settlement, industrial growth, and West Virginia University. A number of letters and circulars discuss the West Virginia Historical Society in 1869.
Dates:
ca. 1700-1965
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Iron furnaces and iron industry. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Abolition of slavery 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Civil War - OH 32nd. Inf. , Co. A. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mining. 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
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Philippines 1
- Salt industry - Kanawha County. 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Venezuela 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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