Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 7 of 7

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

James Morton Callahan, Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0839
Scope and Contents This is the second accesion of Dr. Callahan's papers and includes the correspondence of Dr. Callahan and various members of the Callahan and Fuloher families, 1869-1956; mauscripts, notes, documents and printed materials used in research, galley proofs, reprints and bibliographical lists of published writings of Dr. Callahan; class room materials, and various WVU. department reports; family diaries and genealogical information.The correspondence includes a letter from Theodore Roosevelt,...
Dates: 1864-1956

Joseph C. Jefferds, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1983
Overview Correspondence, sketches, records, charts, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and one West Virginia University cadet uniform of 1898. There are typescript carbon copies of county court records from Bath County, Virginia, and Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, West Virginia; list of scholars attending Lewisburg Academy 1883-1885; and genealogical material on Arbuckle, Beard, Bell, Boone, Bright, Burger, Burr, Cooley, Cunningham-Gudgell, Dickinson, Feamster, Gillilan, Gilmore,...
Dates: 1896-1965

Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1791
Overview Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond...
Dates: 1828-1890, 1901, 1935

Margaret B. Ballard, Compiler, Monroe County Historical Papers and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2537
Overview Papers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1991), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides,...
Dates: 1783-1991, 2021, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1910-1970

Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1842
Overview Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers' certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner...
Dates: 1872-1905

William A. Moreland, Political Papers, World War II Records, and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2032
Overview Papers of a Morgantown lawyer and state legislator. Includes political correspondence of William Moreland addressing issues ranging from abortion to coal mining with a majority of the papers regarding the operation of state bureaucracy and the importance of organized labor in West Virginia. Addendum of 2010/10/29 includes Moreland's World War II (WWII) service records, family genealogy, and family photographs. Addenda of 2011/03/21 and 2011/06/20 include papers of William Moreland, and...
Dates: 1824-2008

Filtered By

  • Subject: Universities and colleges X
  • Subject: Genealogy X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Authors -- Letters and papers 2
Broadsides. 2
Coal mining. 2
Education 2
Elections 2
∨ more
Family histories. 2
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
Slaves and slavery. 2
Abolition of slavery 1
Academies (Private schools) 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Alabama 1
Arnott (W.Va.) 1
Ballard (W.Va.) -- Monroe County 1
Baltimore (Md.) 1
Bath County (Va.) 1
Charleston. 1
Churches -- Morgantown First Presbyterian 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
Court records 1
Democratic National Convention of 1924. 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1904. 1
Estate settlements. 1
Estates and estate settlements. 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Floods 1
Freemasons 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Gas industry 1
Genealogists' letters and papers. 1
General stores 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Greenbrier County - Court records. 1
Greenville, Monroe County, WV. 1
Indiana 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Judges - letters and papers. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Labor 1
Land. 1
Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
Literature -- Societies, etc 1
Lumber trade 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missionaries 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
Morgantown - Newspapers. 1
Morgantown - schools. 1
Philippines 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Pocahontas County - court records. 1
Political campaigns 1
Politics - Western Virginia. 1
Politics and government. 1
Preston County (W. Va.) 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Scrapbooks 1
Teachers 1
Travel accounts. 1
Union (W. Va.) 1
Venezuela 1
Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851. 1
Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 1
West Virginia University. Presidency 1
Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
Women's letters and papers. 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World war, 1939-1945 -- Letters 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
West Virginia University 3
Johns Hopkins University 2
Ruffner family 2
University of Virginia. 2
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
∨ more
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
Arbuckle family 1
Ballard family 1
Ballard, Isaac Newton. 1
Ballard, Kate May Walkup. 1
Ballard, Margaret B. (1900-1976) 1
Ballard, Margaret Byrnside. 1
Bank of Greenville (Monroe County, W. Va.) 1
Beard family 1
Bell family 1
Boone family 1
Bright family 1
Brown family 1
Burger family 1
Burr family 1
Byrnside, Elizabeth Peters. 1
Byrnside, James Madison. 1
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 1
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 1
Carlisle, George, 1797-1863 1
Cass, Lewis. 1
Clark, Helen Houston Ballard. 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Cooley family 1
Cornell University 1
Craik, James. 1
Cunningham-Gudgell family. 1
Dew, Thomas R. (Thomas Roderick), 1802-1846 1
Dickinson family 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Donnally, Andrew. 1
Dulles, John Foster 1
Eaton, John. 1
Feemster family 1
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 1
Floyd, John. 1
Gilliland family 1
Gilmore family 1
Griffith family 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Hanley family 1
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841 1
Harvard University 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Henderson, Alexander. 1
Heppenstall family 1
Hobart College 1
Hodges, T.E. 1
Hunter family 1
Independent Order of Odd Fellows 1
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 1
Jefferds, Joseph C. 1
Kincaid family 1
Laidley, James M. 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewisburg Academy (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1
Lyle-Montgomery family. 1
Lyles family 1
Mann-McClintic family. 1
Matthews family 1
Mauzy family 1
McClung family - Genealogy 1
McCue family 1
McMillan family 1
McNeill family 1
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Monongahela College 1
Moreland family 1
Moreland, Ethel B. (Finnicum) 1
Moreland, James R., 1879-1955 1
Moreland, Joseph. 1
Moreland, William A., 1916-1986 1
Pogue family 1
Price family 1
Quarrier family 1
Rader family 1
Renick family 1
Roosevelt, Theodore. 1
Rubincam family 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
Shrewsbury family 1
Steele family 1
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 1
Summers, Lewis, 1777 or 1778-1843 1
Turner, John R. 1
United States. Congress 1
University of Maryland, College Park 1
Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 1
+ ∧ less