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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

Luke Wilcox (1795-1854) Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 2015
Overview

Diary of Luke Wilcox, a Kanawha County farmer, merchant, salt well and furnace owner and operator, written in memorandum form except for scattered entries giving more information on specific subjects, such as the weather, churches and ministers, farm operation, travel, salt wells and furnaces, slaves, names of personal and business correspondents, coal, and land purchases. There is also an addendum regarding the Wilcox family bible. See "Scope and Contents" for additional information.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1843-1854; 1795-1879

Watson Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1949
Scope and Contents The collection includes manuscript materials (correspondence, land warrant, accounts, receipts, petition and will) and printed and typescript materials (invitations, broadside, newspaper and magazine clippings). Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and...
Dates: 1694; 1783-1878; 1926

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 4
Coal mining. 4
Education 4
Land. 4
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 4
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Travel accounts. 4
Europe 3
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 3
Missionaries 3
Politics and government. 3
Salt industry and trade 3
Account books 2
Diaries and journals. 2
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
Elections 2
Farms and farming. 2
Frontier and pioneer life 2
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 2
Kentucky 2
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
Lumber trade 2
Missouri 2
Rivers and river valleys. 2
Unions. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Universities and colleges 2
Abolition of slavery 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Agriculture 1
Alabama 1
American ginseng 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Baltimore (Md.) 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Barrackville Covered Bridge. 1
Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike. 1
Boone County (W. Va.) 1
California 1
California -- Gold discoveries 1
Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
Charleston. 1
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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
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Detroit (Mich.) 1
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Election of 1904. 1
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Fairmont. 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Floods 1
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Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
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Justices of the peace 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Kanawha. 1
Kansas 1
Lexington (Ky.) 1
Livestock 1
London (England) 1
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Marietta (Ohio) 1
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Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Michigan 1
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New York (State) 1
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Ohio 1
Ohio River Valley 1
Pennsylvania 1
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Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
Philippines 1
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Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Saint Louis (Mo.) 1
Scioto River (Ohio) 1
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Names
American Colonization Society 2
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 2
Ruffner family 2
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
Brody, John. 1
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Cass, Lewis. 1
Cornell University 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dickinson family 1
Eaton, John. 1
Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company 1
Greene, Daniel. 1
Greene, John. 1
Greene, Richard. 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Harvard University 1
Haymond, Creed, 1836-1893 1
Haymond, W.C. 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hobart College 1
Hughes, John, 1797-1864 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1
Lewis, John D. 1
Loomis, F.B. 1
Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary 1
Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company 1
McClung family - Genealogy 1
Meadville Seminary 1
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Morgan, George 1
Ohio Company. 1
Ohio University 1
Old Sweet Springs Company 1
Reeder, Benjamin. 1
Ruffner, Andrew. 1
Ruffner, Daniel. 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, Joel. 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
University of Virginia. 1
Washington County Colonization Society 1
Washington County Tract Society 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Watson family 1
Watson, Benjamin H. 1
Watson, Henry. 1
Watson, Thomas. 1
Wayland, John W. 1
Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company 1
Wilcox, Luke (1795-1854) 1
Willcox, Luke. 1
Wilson family 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
Woodbridge Mercantile Company 1
Woodbridge, Dudley, Sr. 1
Woodbridge, George M. 1
Woodbridge, William. 1
Woodbridge-Blennerhassett. 1
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