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George W. Miller Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2130
Overview Correspondence and financial records of a Gilmer County businessman, gas drilling contractor, schoolteacher, and elementary school principal who was involved also with coal, timber, real estate, and water well businesses. The correspondence concerns Miller's business affairs; dealings with government agencies, such as the Federal Power Commission and the Small Business Administration; applications for teaching positions and graduate schools; tax problems; campaign for a seat on the school...
Dates: 1948-1971
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
Browning, Chauncey Jr. 1
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Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Eaton, John. 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
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Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hobart College 1
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Kee, James, 1917-1989 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
McClung family - Genealogy 1
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Miller, George W. 1
Mollohan, Robert H. 1
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
Smith, Hulett C. (Hulett Carlson), 1918-2012 1
United States. Federal Power Commission 1
United States. Small Business Administration 1
University of Virginia. 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Wayland, John W. 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
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