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Lewis Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0551

Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...

Dates: 1825-1936

Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

Collection

Collection Number: A&M 1455

Overview Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...

Dates: 1743-1882

Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Subject: Account books 1; American ginseng 1; Baltimore (Md.) 1; Boone County (W. Va.) 1; Camp Chase (Ohio) 1; Charleston. 1; Churches -- Roman Catholic 1; Churches -- Roman Catholic, American missions 1; Cincinnati (Ohio) 1; Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1; Clay County (W. Va.) 1; Coal mining. 1; Colombia 1; Detroit (Mich.) 1; Diaries and journals. 1; Drugs and druggists. 1; Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1; Elections 1; England 1; Estate settlements. 1; Farms and farming. 1; Fayette County (Pa.) 1; France 1; Frontier and pioneer life 1; Fur trade 1; General stores 1; Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1; Justices of the peace 1; Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1; Kanawha. 1; Kansas 1; Kentucky 1; Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1; Lexington (Ky.) 1; Livestock 1; London (England) 1; Louisville (Ky.) 1; Lumber trade 1; Marietta (Ohio) 1; Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1; Michigan 1; Missouri 1; New Orleans (La.) 1; New York (State) 1; Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1; Ohio 1; Ohio River Valley 1; Pennsylvania 1; Petroleum industry and trade 1; Philadelphia (Pa.) 1; Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1; Railroads 1; Rivers and river valleys. 1; Saint Louis (Mo.) 1; Scioto River (Ohio) 1; South America 1; Transportation 1; Travel accounts. 1; Unions. 1; United States -- History -- War of 1812 1; Universities and colleges 1; Virginia 1; Washington (D.C.) 1; World War, 1914-1918 1
Names: American Colonization Society 1; Brody, John. 1; Cass, Lewis. 1; Democratic Party (U.S.) 1; Dickinson family 1; Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1; Greene, Daniel. 1; Greene, John. 1; Greene, Richard. 1; Lewis family 1; Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1; Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1; Lewis, John D. 1; Loomis, F.B. 1; Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary 1; Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company 1; Meadville Seminary 1; Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) 1; Morgan, George 1; Ohio Company. 1; Ohio University 1; Old Sweet Springs Company 1; Reeder, Benjamin. 1; Ruffner family 1; Ruffner, Andrew. 1; Ruffner, Daniel. 1; Ruffner, Joel. 1; United States. Congress. Senate 1; Washington County Colonization Society 1; Washington County Tract Society 1; Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company 1; Wilson family 1; Woodbridge Mercantile Company 1; Woodbridge, Dudley, Sr. 1; Woodbridge, George M. 1; Woodbridge, William. 1; Woodbridge-Blennerhassett. 1