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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

Reverend William Duke (1757-1840) Travel Journal

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Collection Number: A&M 2931
Overview Written by Reverend William Duke (1757-1840), a Protestant Episcopal minister, as a record of his journey from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to Randolph County, (West) Virginia, to inspect a parcel of land that he had acquired. Documents early West Virginia travel, accommodations, and religious practices. Specifically mentioned are Georgetown, Frederick Town, Harpers Ferry, Potomac River, Old Town, Fort Cumberland, Allegheny River, Morgantown, and Bath. Subjects include: Methodism, Baptists, the...
Dates: 1789
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
Alabama 1
Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) 1
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Baptists 1
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
Broadsides. 1
Churches -- Episcopal 1
Churches -- Methodist 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
Churches -- Protestant Episcopal 1
Coal mining. 1
Cumberland (Md.) 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Education 1
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1904. 1
Elections 1
Episcopalians 1
Floods 1
Folklore 1
Fort Cumberland. 1
Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
Frederick Town. 1
Gas industry 1
Genealogy 1
Georgetown. 1
German immigrants - Pennsylvania Germans. 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Land. 1
Lumber trade 1
Maryland 1
Methodism 1
Missionaries 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
Old Town. 1
Pennsylvania Dutch 1
Philippines 1
Potomac River 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
Transportation 1
Universities and colleges 1
Venezuela 1
Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
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Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
Cornell University 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Duke, William, 1757-1840 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
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
University of Virginia. 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Wayland, John W. 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
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