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Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers

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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

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

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

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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

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Church buildings 2
Coal mining. 2
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
Elections 2
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Iron furnaces and iron industry. 2
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 2
Land. 2
Lumber trade 2
Politics and government. 2
Rivers and river valleys. 2
Salt industry and trade 2
Travel accounts. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Universities and colleges 2
Abolition of slavery 1
Account books 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Alabama 1
American ginseng 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Baltimore (Md.) 1
Boone County (W. Va.) 1
Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
Charleston. 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 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
Colombia 1
Detroit (Mich.) 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Drugs and druggists. 1
Election of 1904. 1
England 1
Estate settlements. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Floods 1
France 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Fur trade 1
Gas industry 1
Genealogy 1
General stores 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Justices of the peace 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Kanawha. 1
Kansas 1
Kentucky 1
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
Lexington (Ky.) 1
Livestock 1
London (England) 1
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Marietta (Ohio) 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Michigan 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missouri 1
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New York (State) 1
Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
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Ohio River Valley 1
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Transportation 1
Unions. 1
United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
Venezuela 1
Virginia 1
Washington (D.C.) 1
Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
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American Colonization Society 2
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 2
Ruffner family 2
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
Brody, John. 1