Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957
Person
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Daisy Chapman Dorsey, Business Owner, Essays and Other Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2605
Overview
An essay concerning the beginning of education by travel at West Virginia University, by Daisy Chapman Dorsey, President of Dorsey Tours, Inc., (1977) 6 leaves. Also includes photocopies of journal articles, newspaper articles, and other material concerning the life of Daisy Chapman Dorsey and the development of Dorsey Tours, Inc. (11 items).
Dates:
1904-1978
Dr. J.C. Easton, History Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2324
Overview
Lecture notes, clippings, notes, and drafts for A History of European Civilization, Volume 1, and other miscellaneous papers of Jason C. Easton, former professor of history at West Virginia University (WVU). The collection also contains Dr. Easton's correspondence with several former students serving in the military during World War II dating from ca. 1942-1946. Other WWII items include ration books for food, gasoline, and liquor; and two unpublished sound recordings on disc of a radio...
Dates:
1860-1890, 1935-1960; Majority of material found within 1935-1960
Edward E. Meredith Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1814
Overview
Clippings, letters, broadsides, and articles written or collected by E.E. Meredith, author of the newspaper column, "Do You Remember," which appeared in the Fairmont TIMES-WEST VIRGINIAN. There are: copies of theatre programs, 1917-1919; electoral tickets, 1860, 1864; a proclamation by George B. McClellan, commanding the Department of the Ohio, 1861; and an open letter, "Monongahela River Bridge Underwriting Syndicate Managers," concerning the construction of the million-dollar bridge in...
Dates:
1817-1954
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0497
Overview
Correspondence, appointment, and notice. Correspondence includes a letter from Gideon D. Camden to Pierpont (1841); a letter from Frances Pierpont Pryor (F.H. Pierpont's granddaughter) to Professor Charles Ambler regarding documents of her grandfathers' which she is sending him and documents she will keep (1952); and a letter from Charles MacCarthy to W.H. Siviter, regarding Pierpont papers used by MacCarthy in writing his Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction...
Dates:
1841-1952
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
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
H.K. Ambler Account Books
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2075
Overview
Ambler's accounts with the heirs of S.W. Ambler and S.M. Keys of Jefferson County, West Virginia. Other heirs are Letty C., Lucy J. and C.E. Ambler. There are also entries concerning the estates of H. Keys, S.W. Washington, and Jacob Zinn. There is information on management of farms and residences, business firms in the area of Charles Town, tenant and owner shares, U.S. Treasury crop allotments, and labor shortages during World War II.
Dates:
1915-1952
John Floyd (1783-1837), Research Papers of Charles H. Ambler
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0363
Overview
Charles Henry Ambler (1876-1957) was a professor of history at West Virginia University and the author of numerous books about American and West Virginia history, including The Life and Diary of John Floyd (1918). Collection contains some of Ambler's research materials for this biography of Floyd, who was a soldier and surgeon in the Virginia militia in the early nineteenth century and the governor of Virginia from 1830 to 1834. One folder contains letters...
Dates:
1775-1923
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
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
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 5
- Politics and government. 5
- Universities and colleges 4
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 4
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 3
- Coal mining. 3
- Education 3
- Elections 3
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- Account books 2
- Authors -- Letters and papers 2
- Broadsides. 2
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 2
- Farms and farming. 2
- Floods 2
- Genealogy 2
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Teachers 2
- Travel accounts. 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alabama 1
- Alaska 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Augusta County (Va.) 1
- Authors, American -- West Virginia 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Bee culture 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Book collecting 1
- Bridges 1
- Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Canada 1
- Castanea 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Charles Town (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Civil War - OH 32nd. Inf. , Co. A. 1
- Civil War -- McNeill's Rangers 1
- Civil War -- Songs 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- Education -- West Virginia -- Webster County 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1864. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Grafton (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Harvard. 1
- History -- Societies, etc. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Jefferson County. 1
- Justices of the peace 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Labrador 1
- Land - Virginia land grant. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) 1
- Mason County W.Va. - education 1
- Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Moravian Missionaries 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pension (widow' s) - War of 1812. 1
- Philippines 1
- Photography 1
- Politics - Webster County. 1
- Politics - Western Virginia. 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Publications - Confederate States of America 1
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia -- Webster County 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1 + ∧ less
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