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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1842
Overview Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers' certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner...
Dates: 1872-1905
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Abolition of slavery 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Alabama 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
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Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1904. 1
Elections 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Floods 1
Freemasons 1
Gas industry 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Lumber trade 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missionaries 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Philippines 1
Preston County (W. Va.) 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Teachers 1
Travel accounts. 1
Venezuela 1
Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
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Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
Cornell University 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Eaton, John. 1
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Hale, John P. 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Harvard University 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hobart College 1
Independent Order of Odd Fellows 1
Johns Hopkins University 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
Monongahela College 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
University of Virginia. 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Wayland, John W. 1
Wiley family 1
Wiley, Samuel T. 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
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