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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

Storer College, Administrative and Operational Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1322
Scope and Contents Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. This collection contains mainly administrative and operational records of the college. Types of records include annual reports, publications, memorabilia, artifacts, and other material. This collection includes material regarding John Brown's Fort.The collection is organized into eighteen series, including:Series 1. Correspondence; 1865-1953; boxes...
Dates: 1865-1960; Majority of material found within 1930s-1950s

Storer College Correspondence, Business Papers and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2621
Overview Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. Types of records include correspondence, business papers, photographs, memorabilia, issues of the Storer Record (the Storer College newspaper), financial records, scrapbooks, bulletins, minute books, newspaper and magazine clippings, diaries, motion pictures, and miscellaneous material. Includes records regarding the early years of the...
Dates: 1854-1964

Wilson-Lewis Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2135
Overview Papers relating to the Wilson, Lewis, and Ruffner families of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Kanawha County, [West] Virginia, St. Charles County, Missouri, and Fairfield County, Ohio. Correspondence between Nathaniel V. Wilson and Dr. Goodridge Wilson, concerning land purchases, preparation for the settlement of the family, care of livestock, employment of slaves, salt making and marketing, and the market price of salt. Other members of the family migrated to St. Charles County, Missouri,...
Dates: circa 1693-1942 and undated

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Education 3
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African Americans - Schools for Freedmen. 2
Diaries and journals. 2
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 2
Jefferson County (W. Va.) 2
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 2
Newspapers. 2
Photographs. 2
Schools - Jefferson County. 2
Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 2
Slaves and slavery. 2
Teachers' letters and papers. 2
West Virginia -- Race relations 2
Women -- Education 2
Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
Women's history -- 1951-present 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Letters 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
World war, 1939-1945 -- Letters 2
Abolition of slavery 1
African Americans -- Appalachian Region 1
African Americans -- Education -- West Virginia 1
African Americans -- Segregation -- West Virginia 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Agriculture 1
Alabama 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Baptists 1
Brown, John -- Fort-Museum 1
Builders and contractors. 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
Coal mining. 1
Colombia 1
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1904. 1
Elections 1
Ephemera. 1
Floods 1
Freedmen's Schools. 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Gas industry 1
Genealogy 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Jefferson County - Schools. 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Land. 1
Ledger books. 1
Ledgers. 1
Livestock 1
Lumber trade 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Mexico 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missouri 1
Ohio 1
Philippines 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Railroads 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Salt industry and trade 1
Scrapbooks 1
Segregation in education 1
Travel accounts. 1
Venezuela 1
Women's history -- Pre-1800 1
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Names
Brewster, J.M. 2
Curtis, Silas, 1804- 2
Day, George T. 2
Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869 2
McDonald, Henry Temple, 1872-1951 2