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Box 33

 Container

Contains 144 Results:

West Virginia Sketch Book III (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes table of contents in front of volume), 1757-1938, undated

 File — Box: 33, Volume: Notebook 47
Dates: 1757-1938, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks

Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book (includes materials on Lewis Ruffner; salt production in the Kanawha Valley, mercantile activities in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisville, and Charleston, WV 1823-1825; and social and religious life in the Kanawha Valley before the Civil War; among other topics), 1831-1952, undated

 File — Box: 33, Volume: Notebook 48
Dates: 1831-1952, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks

Romance of the Kanawha (scrapbook contains maps, newspaper clippings, letters, pictures, etc.; topics include the Kanawha Valley, Teays Valley, New River, Ohio River, Kanawha and Ohio River Valleys, and extinct Teays River and Lake; includes materials on the history of the Ohio River flood of 1773, and printed verse about Gauley Mountain published in 1837), 1837-1959, undated

 File — Box: 33, Volume: Notebook 49
Dates: 1837-1959, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks

[other; copy?] image of General Lewis Ruffner, with explanatory typescript notecard; Ruffner was a salt manufacturer from Kanawha County, and served as a delegate at the Wheeling Convention in 1863, undated

 Item — Box: 33, Volume: Notebook 48, Page: A1
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book (includes materials on Lewis Ruffner; salt production in the Kanawha Valley, mercantile activities in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisville, and Charleston, WV 1823-1825; and social and religious life in the Kanawha Valley before the Civil War; among other topics)

[typescript; copy?] regarding General Lewis Ruffner's life and genealogy by Robert S. Franklin, 1938, undated

 Item — Box: 33, Volume: Notebook 48, Page: A2
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book (includes materials on Lewis Ruffner; salt production in the Kanawha Valley, mercantile activities in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisville, and Charleston, WV 1823-1825; and social and religious life in the Kanawha Valley before the Civil War; among other topics)

[typescript; transcription] "Records from the Family Bible of David Ruffner (1767-1843) …", 1936?

 Item — Box: 33, Volume: Notebook 48, Page: 1-4
Dates: 1936?
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book (includes materials on Lewis Ruffner; salt production in the Kanawha Valley, mercantile activities in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisville, and Charleston, WV 1823-1825; and social and religious life in the Kanawha Valley before the Civil War; among other topics)

[typescript; transcription] "Ruffner Family Notes: Records Made by Daniel Ruffner (1779-1865) in 'Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge'", 1936?

 Item — Box: 33, Volume: Notebook 48, Page: 5-12
Dates: 1936?
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book (includes materials on Lewis Ruffner; salt production in the Kanawha Valley, mercantile activities in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisville, and Charleston, WV 1823-1825; and social and religious life in the Kanawha Valley before the Civil War; among other topics)

[typescript; transcription] "Kanawha Pieces," by Reverend Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) of Kanawha Salines, Virginia (Malden, West Virginia), copied from original manuscript written in 1856; includes Kanawha-related short stories; dated May 1936, 1936

 Item — Box: 33, Volume: Notebook 48, Page: 13-52
Dates: 1936
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book (includes materials on Lewis Ruffner; salt production in the Kanawha Valley, mercantile activities in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisville, and Charleston, WV 1823-1825; and social and religious life in the Kanawha Valley before the Civil War; among other topics)

[typescript; transcription?] Ruffner genealogies, undated

 Item — Box: 33, Volume: Notebook 48, Page: 53-54, 56-58
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book (includes materials on Lewis Ruffner; salt production in the Kanawha Valley, mercantile activities in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisville, and Charleston, WV 1823-1825; and social and religious life in the Kanawha Valley before the Civil War; among other topics)

[typescript; transcription] from Ruffner family Bible; includes genealogical information on David and Joseph Ruffner, undated

 Item — Box: 33, Volume: Notebook 48, Page: 55
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book (includes materials on Lewis Ruffner; salt production in the Kanawha Valley, mercantile activities in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisville, and Charleston, WV 1823-1825; and social and religious life in the Kanawha Valley before the Civil War; among other topics)