Wayland, John W.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Davis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1946
Scope and Contents
One box of material including original and typescript copies of letters exchanged between Anna Kennedy and J.J. Davis for the period 1860-1862. Also included is material on the Chapin family, Davis and Steen family genealogy and Reed family Bible.
Correspondents are J.J. Davis, Anna Kennedy, J.W. Davis, Phineas Chapin, Rev. Asa Brooks, and J. W. Wayland.
John W. Davis' certificate of Admission to practice before the Supreme Court of West Virginia dated 1896. His sponsor was Melville...
Dates:
1800-1941
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Account books 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Harrison County 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Elections 1
- Floods 1
- Gas industry 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W.Va.) - history - Civil War 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Salt Works. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missionaries 1
- Philippines 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Supreme Court of West Virginia 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 + ∧ less
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