Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Coal Company Records Survey
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2554
Overview
Twenty letters from various coal interests responding to an inquiry pertaining to the history of early coal development in West Virginia. The survey was conducted by J.S. McWhorter, Attorney for Gauley Coal Land Company, for the Business Historical Society. Respondents include: C.H. Ambler, W.W. Chilton, Brooks Fleming, Jr. B. Laing, and George T. Watson.
Dates:
1933
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
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
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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- Coal mining. 3
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 2
- Authors -- Letters and papers 2
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Elections 2
- Politics and government. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Account books 1
- Alabama 1
- Augusta County (Va.) 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Bridges 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1864. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Fairmont, WV - Coal mining. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- History -- Societies, etc. 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
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Philippines 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics - Western Virginia. 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Taxation 1
- Teachers 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Venezuela 1
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 1
- Western Virginia -- Politics 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1 + ∧ less
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