Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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- Authors -- Letters and papers 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Elections 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Account books 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Augusta County (Va.) 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Bridges 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 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
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 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
- Politics and government. 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
- Universities and colleges 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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