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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

Mullen Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1465
Overview Correspondence, bills, receipts, and memoranda books of Gordon, Gordon, Jr., Jacob, George H., and Mrs. F.R. Mullen of Charleston. Subjects include farming operations; the management of a small store in Kanawha County, West Virginia; Barboursville College; and the State Free Silver Headquarters. The collection includes letterheads, business cards, and calendars of Charleston mercantile establishments, ca.1877-1914; and some Ku Klux Klan papers, 1928, of Dr. A.G. Mullen of Galesburg,...
Dates: 1841, 1865-1932

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates: 1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960

Wilson-Lewis Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2135
Overview Papers relating to the Wilson, Lewis, and Ruffner families of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Kanawha County, [West] Virginia, St. Charles County, Missouri, and Fairfield County, Ohio. Correspondence between Nathaniel V. Wilson and Dr. Goodridge Wilson, concerning land purchases, preparation for the settlement of the family, care of livestock, employment of slaves, salt making and marketing, and the market price of salt. Other members of the family migrated to St. Charles County, Missouri,...
Dates: circa 1693-1942 and undated

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Genealogy 2
Missionaries 2
Slaves and slavery. 2
Universities and colleges 2
Women's history -- Pre-1800 2
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Abolition of slavery 1
Academies and Institutes. 1
Accounting 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Agriculture 1
Alabama 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Bridges -- West Virginia 1
Charleston (W. Va.) 1
Charleston. 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
Coal mining. 1
Colombia 1
Country stores. 1
Diaries 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Education 1
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1904. 1
Elections 1
Farms and farming. 1
Floods 1
Fortification -- West Virginia 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Gas industry 1
General stores 1
Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Illinois 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Land. 1
Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
Livestock 1
Lumber trade 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Mexico 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missouri 1
Ohio 1
Ohio River Valley -- History 1
Pharmacy -- History 1
Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
Philippines 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Railroads 1
Railroads -- West Virginia 1
Rivers -- West Virginia 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Roads -- West Virginia 1
Salt industry and trade 1
Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
Schools 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Slavery -- West Virginia 1
Steamboats 1
Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
Travel accounts. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
Valleys -- West Virginia 1
Venezuela 1
West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
West Virginia - Church history. 1
West Virginia - State Free Silver Headquarters. 1
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
Women's history -- 1951-present 1
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Names
Ruffner family 3
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 2
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
American Pharmaceutical Association 1
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Arnold, Thomas Jackson. 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Barboursville College 1
Bennett family 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg. 1
Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. 1
Cooper, William P. 1
Cornell University 1
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 1
Crook, George, 1828-1890 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Eaton, John. 1
Ellis, James F. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953 1
Gallaher, D.C. 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Hall, John G. 1
Hall, Virgy Wilson. 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Harvard University 1
Hayes family 1
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 1
Hays, Peregrine. 1
Hays, Samuel L. 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889 1
Hobart College 1
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 1
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, George. 1
Jackson, J.J. 1
Jackson, Mary Anna, 1831-1915 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Kenna, John Edward, 1848-1893 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Levi, Mordecai. 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Col. Charles. 1
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 1
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 1
Mastin, John A. 1
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
McClung family - Genealogy 1
McFarland, James C. 1
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 1
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 1
Mullen family 1
Mullen, A.G. 1
Mullen, George H. 1
Mullen, Gordon Jr. 1
Mullen, Gordon. 1
Mullen, Jacob. 1
Mullen, Mrs. F.R. 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Quarrier family 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, Mrs. Daniel. 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 1
University of Virginia. 1
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Washington, George, 1732-1799 1
Wayland, John W. 1
West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association 1
Wilson family 1
Wilson, Dr. Goodridge. 1
Wilson, Elizabeth Ruffner. 1
Wilson, Nathaniel V. 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
Wilson-Lewis family 1
Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865 1
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