Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1694
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, writings, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Wilson, a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), President of West Virginia University, 1882-1883, member of Congress, 1883-1895, Postmaster General, 1895-1897, author of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894, and President of Washington and Lee University, 1897-1900. The collection includes portions of the diaries covering the years 1862-1863, 1865, 1868-1870, 1877-1891, 1896-1899. Most of the...
Dates:
1862-1900
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- Subject: Elections X
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- Abolition of slavery 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Baltimore Sun 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harper's Weekly 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- New York Tribune 1
- Philippines 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Postal service 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Saint Louis Republican 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Taxation 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Venezuela 1
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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