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Charles E. Krebs (1870-1954) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1792
Overview Scrapbooks, mainly of newspaper clippings, maintained by a mining engineer, geologist, and businessman from Charleston. The scrapbooks contain clippings, announcements, and a few letters relating to Krebs' business, Charleston civic affairs, and professional engineering organizations. Topics covered include: the oil boom at Blue Creek in 1912; oil field development in Kanawha and Clay counties; oil and coal shipments on the C.&O.; coal, oil, gas, and coke production figures; report on...
Dates: 1912, 1935, 1939
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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

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Abolition of slavery 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
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Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1904. 1
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Engineering 1
Floods 1
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Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Hawks Nest Tunnel (W. Va.) 1
Hinton Dam. 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Land. 1
Lumber trade 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missionaries 1
Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
New River Gorge (W. Va.) 1
Pennsylvania 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Philippines 1
Poetry. 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
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Travel accounts. 1
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Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
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Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
Colonial Timber and Coal Corporation 1
Cornell University 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
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Eaton, John. 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Harvard University 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hobart College 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Krebs, C. E. (Charles E.) 1
Krebs, Charles E. (1870-1954) 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 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
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
United Fuel Gas Company. 1
University of Virginia. 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Wayland, John W. 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
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