Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900
Person
Found in 3 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
John Thomas McGraw (1856-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0086
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and...
Dates:
1842-1927, 1948
Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0831
Overview
Papers of the managing editor of the Parkersburg DAILY STATE JOURNAL, 1889-1895, editor of the WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL JOURNAL, and member of the English faculty of West Virginia University, 1895-1925. The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to Barbe's book, GOING TO COLLEGE,...
Dates:
1884-1930
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- Authors -- Letters and papers 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County - schools. 1
- Monongalia County, Clinton District. 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Philippines 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Iron Valley Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown Railroad. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Venezuela 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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