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Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1281
Scope and Contents

Historical and genealogical notebooks, notes on census reports, cemetery readings, newspaper history, copies of church and school records, notes on slavery, newspaper clipping scrapbooks, and correspondence.

Dates: 1905-1959

Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers

 Collection
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

Nathaniel V. Wilson Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 0509
Overview

Letters to Wilson at Farmville, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia, from members of his family at: the University of Virginia; Lewisburg, West Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Clarksville, Virginia. Includes references to family business affairs, the Ruffner-Donnally salt works at Charleston, purchase of slaves, and medical education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1836 and 1844.

Dates: 1834-1850

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

 Collection
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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Philadelphia (Pa.) 2
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Rivers and river valleys. 2
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African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Alabama 1
American ginseng 1
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Baltimore (Md.) 1
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Barboursville (W. Va.) 1
Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
Church buildings 1
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Churches -- Methodist 1
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Cincinnati (Ohio) 1
Coal mining. 1
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Detroit (Mich.) 1
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Election of 1904. 1
Elections 1
England 1
Europe 1
Floods 1
France 1
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Gas industry 1
Genealogy 1
General stores 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Justices of the peace 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
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Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
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Lewisburg (W. Va.) 1
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Travel accounts. 1
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United States - Census returns. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
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Washington (D.C.) 1
West Virginia - genealogy. 1
Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
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Names
American Colonization Society 2
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 2
University of Virginia. 2
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
Brody, John. 1