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Bessie Jane Reed Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1845
Overview

Correspondence, poems, and clippings of a secondary and normal school librarian in Fairmont and West Liberty, West Virginia. Subjects include the West Virginia Library Association. There is one letter each from Mary Meek Atkeson and Waitman Barbe.

Dates: 1918-1924

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

Virgil Anson Lewis, Historian, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1507
Overview Published and unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and speeches of Virgil A. Lewis (1848-1912), the first state historian and archivist and a former state superintendent of schools. Subjects include the exploration, Indian wars, and settlement of Western Virginia; the Tory insurrection in the Valley of Lost River, 1781; the West Virginia new state movement; Masonry in West Virginia; Andrew S. Rowan; and various West Virginia authors. Correspondents include: George W. Atkinson, Waitman...
Dates: 1895-1912

West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates: 1909-1949

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Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 2
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 2
Dawson, William M.O. 2
American Colonization Society 1
Armstrong, R.A. 1
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Arnold, Thurman Wesley, 1891-1969 1
Atkeson, Mary Meek 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Bailey, Cleveland Monroe, 1886-1965 1
Baker, Charles. 1
Barnes, J.W. 1
Berkeley Springs Sanitarium 1
Bluefield State College 1
Chambers, J.A. 1
Colored Insane Asylum 1
Colored Old Folks Home 1
Colored Orphans Home 1
Concord College (Athens, W. Va.) 1
Cornell University 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Cottle, Brooks. 1
Dandridge, Danske, 1858-1914 1
Darst, J.S. 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Denmar Sanitarium 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Eaton, John. 1
Fairmont Emergency Hospital 1
Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1
Fairmont State College and Fairmont Normal School. 1
Gainer, Denzil L. 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Glenville State College 1
Gore Hospital 1
Gore, Howard M. 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Hardesty, C. Howard. 1
Harvard University 1
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hobart College 1
Hodges, Thomas E. 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 1
Hopemont Sanitarium 1
Huntington State Hospital 1
Industrial Home for Colored Girls. 1
Industrial Home for Girls. 1
Industrial School for Boys. 1
Industrial School for Colored Boys. 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 1
Laidley, B.M. 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lakin State Hospital 1
Lakin, John S. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewis, Virgil Anson, 1848-1912 1
Marsh, J. Frank. 1
Marshall College (Huntington, W. Va.) 1
Marshall College and University 1
Maxwell, H. 1
McClung family - Genealogy 1
McCullough, F.W. 1
McKendree Hospital 1
Meadows, Clarence W. 1
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. 1
Mollohan, Robert H. 1
Morgan, E.F. 1
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 1
New River State School 1
Pinecrest Sanitarium. 1
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 1
Purinton, D.B. 1
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 1
Reed, Bessie Jane 1
Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore), 1872-1965 1
Reymann Memorial Farms 1
Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960 1
Rowan, Andrew Summers 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
Rutherford Sanitarium 1
Shepherd College 1
Skinner, B.M. 1
Spencer State Hospital 1
State Board of Control of West Virginia 1
Stewart, Edgar B. 1
Storer College 1
Terrell, J.Z. 1
Thurmond, Walter R., 1881-1967 1
Trotter, Frank B. 1
Turner, J.R. 1
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