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
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview
Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates:
1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899
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- Subject: Wheeling (W. Va.) X
Additional filters:
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- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Civil War - OH 32nd. Inf. , Co. A. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Salt industry - Kanawha County. 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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