Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
Felix G. Hansford Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1192
Scope and Contents
The papers of the President of Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike, charted in 1837, consist of land grants, deeds, and indentures; legal papers; turnpike correspondence, stock, books, contracts, and reports to the Board of Public Works, the Virginia Legislature, and stockholders. Some of the correspondence deals with the Washington Temperance Society, church activities in the Kanawha Valley, the salt industry along the Kanawha Salines, the James River and Kanawha Turnpike...
Dates:
1796-1876
Felix G. Hansford Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1464
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, business and legal papers, and Justice of the Peace documents of Felix G. Hansford, Kanawha County J.P., entrepreneur, and President of the Giles, Fayette, and Kanawha Turnpike. Subjects include the George Boxley slave plot, 1816; cholera in Louisville, 1833; Missouri and westward expansion, 1841; the Kansas struggle, 1858; Albert Gallatin's western lands; and the impact of John Brown's 1859 raids on the South. Correspondents include Albert Gallatin, J. M. Maury,...
Dates:
1790-1862
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- Church buildings 2
- Clifton. 2
- Frontier and pioneer life 2
- Justices of the peace 2
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 2
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 2
- Kanawha Valley. 2
- Land. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Point Pleasant (Mason County, W. Va.) 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 2
- Canals 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Epidemics 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Louisville (Ky.) 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Missouri 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Railroads 1
- Salt industry and trade 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Temperance 1
- Western expansion 1 + ∧ less
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