Kanawha Salines.

Overview Correspondence, legal papers, photographs and genealogical records of the Putney-Reed family. The letters, which were exchanged between family members in California, Iowa and Kanawha Salines, West Virginia, primarily concern family affairs. There are also thirty-seven letters, 1858 - 1862, written by Emily Reed a student at the Woodburn Female Seminary in Morgantown, Virginia (later West Virginia), to her family describing student life, particularly the curriculum and her efforts to promote...

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Records of Ruffner-Donnally and Co., Kanawha Saline, W.Va. Includes 4 general merchandise Account books 1833-1877 (in the account book for 1838 are pasted C. N. Coleman and Co. receipts for 1885); 2 quarterly statements of receipts and disposition of salt by the Cincinnati Agency of Ruffner-Donnally and Co. for 1851-1852; 3 letter books 1853-1868. Collection also includes 1 bill of lading book, 1836-1862 and papers on "Kanawha Salines."

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Letters and copies of eight letters, 1813-1841; pages 5-10 from Kanawha Salines general merchandise account book, 6-9 March 1827; three manuscript volumes by Henry Ruffner: "Notes on a Tour to the West" and "An Expedition to the North," 1815, and "An Account of Amounts Paid to Rev. Nath'l W. Calhoon," 1826-1834; and "Subscription for Church, 1836-1842," by David Ruffner. There is also a printed brief involving Ruffner-Donnally estates, 1875, and information on the Shackelford family.