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Bradford Noyes (b.1860) Typed Document

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Collection Number: A&M 1906
Overview

Various subjects discussed include Indian attacks, turnpikes and taverns, the first telegraph system, natural gas illumination, Civil War manufacture of saltpeter, schools and economy in post-Civil War Charleston, salt and chemical industries, carrier pigeons, steamboats on the Kanawha River, and the coming of the railroad to Charleston. Persons mentioned include M.F. Maury, Jr., J.P. Hale, and J.Q. Dickinson.

Dates: 1948
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

Kanawha County Book Protest, Miscellaneous Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2624
Overview

Articles, broadsides, and other materials concerning selection of textbooks for the public schools of Kanawha County, West Virginia. The controversy involved confrontation between Christian fundamentalists and liberals over educational policy.

Dates: 1975
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Mary Woodson, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2211
Overview

Receipts for land, school, personal property, and road taxes in Kanawha and Putnam counties, 1863-1886 and 1898-1899; grade reports from the Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, Virginia, 1882, and from the Putnam County schools, 1904-1906; a printed souvenir list of the students and teacher at the intermediate school, Poca; two manuscript poems concerning the medical profession, 1879-1880; and other items. Index and table of contents are available in the 17th volume.

Dates: 1863-1906
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Eaton, John. 1
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Hampden-Sydney College 1
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Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hobart College 1
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Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
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Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1849-1886 1
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Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
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Old Sweet Springs Company 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
University of Virginia. 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Wayland, John W. 1
Wesleyan Female Institute (Staunton, Va.) 1
Wilson family 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
Woodson, Mrs. Mary. 1
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