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General Education Board Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3193
Overview Correspondence, reports, statistics, maps, photographs and pamphlets related to the efforts in West Virginia of the early southern program of the General Education Board (GEB). The GEB, founded by John D. Rockefeller, is one of the most significant philanthropic efforts in the history of U.S. education particularly noted for its aid to African-American schools, teachers and students. In West Virginia it aided the African-American colleges of West Virginia State, a public institution and...
Dates: 1901-1967

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

Marshall County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 1672
Overview County and circuit clerks records, arranged chronologically. Records for the years 1835-1857, include bonds of ministers, tavern operators, ordinaries, ferries, and county officials; estate settlements; records pertaining to road, bridge, and public building; records of the overseer of the poor; school commissioners' and surveyors' appointments; and lists of county officials. Records for 1863-1874 include county supervisors' records; records of the Fairmont and Wheeling Turnpike; and muster...
Dates: 1831-1948

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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Education 3
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
Ministers - letters and papers. 2
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
Universities and colleges 2
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Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
Abolition of slavery 1
Alabama 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Berkeley Springs Park. 1
Bridges 1
Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
Civil War - United States 45th Regiment Colored Troops. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 10th Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 15th Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 17th Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 18th Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 1st Cavalry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 1st Light Artillery Regiment. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 1st Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 2nd Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 3rd Cavalry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 5th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 6th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 6th Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 7th Volunteer Infantry. 1
Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
Coal mining. 1
Court records 1
Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
Election of 1904. 1
Elections 1
Estate settlements. 1
Fairmont and Wheeling Turnpike. 1
Floods 1
Gas industry 1
Genealogy 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
Justices of the peace 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Lumber trade 1
Marshall County - archives. 1
Missionaries 1
Philippines 1
Politics and government. 1
Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
Schools 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
Surveyors and surveying. 1
Taverns (Inns) 1
Travel accounts. 1
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
Venezuela 1
Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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Names
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 2
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 2
Storer College 2
West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.) 2
West Virginia University 2
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American Colonization Society 1
Armstrong, R.A. 1
Arnold, Thurman Wesley, 1891-1969 1
Bailey, Cleveland Monroe, 1886-1965 1
Baker, Charles. 1
Barnes, J.W. 1
Berkeley Springs Sanitarium 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 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
Darst, J.S. 1
Davis and Elkins College 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
Deahl, J. N. 1
Denmar Sanitarium 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Eaton, John. 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Fairmont Emergency Hospital 1
Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1
Fairmont State College and Fairmont Normal School. 1
Fleming, Wallace Bruce, 1872-1952 1
Frame, Nat T. (Nat Terry), 1877- 1
Friend, L. L. 1
Gainer, Denzil L. 1
General Education Board 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Glenville State College 1
Goodnight, Cloyd 1
Gore Hospital 1
Gore, Howard M. 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Hardesty, C. Howard. 1
Harvard University 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hobart College 1
Hodges, Thomas E. 1
Hodges, W. E. 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 1
Hopemont Sanitarium 1
Hovey, George Rice. 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
Marsh, J. Frank. 1
Marshall College (Huntington, W. Va.) 1
Marshall College and University 1
Marshall County Court 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
Mollohan, Robert H. 1
Morgan, E.F. 1
Morris Harvey College 1
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 1
New River State School 1
Pinecrest Sanitarium. 1
Purinton, D.B. 1
Purinton, Daniel B. 1
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 1
Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore), 1872-1965 1
Reymann Memorial Farms 1
Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
Rutherford Sanitarium 1
Salem College (Salem, W. Va.) 1
Shawkey, M. P. 1
Shepherd College 1
Spencer State Hospital 1
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