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Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0040
Overview Papers of the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of...
Dates: 1784-1924

Aretas Brooks Fleming Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0568
Overview Papers of Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923), the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of...
Dates: 1784-1924

Hardy County Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1745
Overview A travel journal, ca. 1857; a diary, 1941; survey records, 1894-1896; account books, 1788-1811 - 1891-1894; county and parish tax levies, 1800; a book of geographic terms and facts kept by Susan I. Branson in 1836; and a Branson family record book. People mentioned include Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Places mentioned include: Cincinnati, Ohio; and, in West Virginia, Romney, Evansville, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Coolville, Athens, Branch Mountain, Moorefield, Front Run Valley, Camp Branch Run,...
Dates: 1788-1941

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

Smith-Riffe Collection, History and Genealogy of Lower New River Valley

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Collection Number: A&M 3033
Overview A local history and genealogies of the lower New River valley compiled by Aubrey O. Smith and Judge Winton A. Riffe of Beckley. The collection contains a section on local history covering 29 counties in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. The section on local history is comprised of church records, community histories, county court records and cemetery transcriptions. The collection mostly consists of the genealogies of 207 family names and their sources such as personal memoirs,...
Dates: 1930-1980

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Coal mining. 3
Judges - letters and papers. 2
Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
Marion County (W. Va.) 2
Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
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Politicians -- United States 2
Politics and government. 2
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Travel accounts. 2
United States -- Politics and government 2
West Virginia - Governors. 2
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Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
Abolition of slavery 1
Account books 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Alabama 1
Athens (W. Va.) 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Baltimore (Md.) 1
Cacapon River (W. Va.) 1
Camp Branch Run 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
Cincinnati (Ohio) 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Coolville (W. Va.) 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Education 1
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1904. 1
Elections 1
Evansville (W. Va.) 1
Floods 1
Front Run Valley. 1
Gas industry 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Hanging Rock Ridge. 1
Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
Hardy County - Papers. 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Kentucky 1
Kim's Run. 1
Little Ridge. 1
Livestock 1
Lost River. 1
Lumber trade 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missionaries 1
Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
New River Genealogy. 1
Parkersburg. 1
Philippines 1
Politicians 1
Romney (W. Va.) 1
Sapling Lick Ridge. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
South Branch Mountain (W. Va.) 1
South Branch Valley (W. Va.) 1
Surveyors and surveying. 1
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Women -- United States -- History 1
Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
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Names
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 2
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 2
Dayton, Alston Gordon 2
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 2
Fleming family 2