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Women's history -- 1850-1899

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Henshaw Family Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0730
Scope and Contents Personal correspondence written to members of the Hiram and Mary Henshaw family of Mill Creek, Berkeley County, West Virginia, from their relatives between 1825 and 1876. Letters from the 1820s to 1840s are chiefly written from Sarah McConnell and William McConnell in Washington County, Virginia, to their sister, Mary Henshaw, and her children, Martha Henshaw Silver and James Henshaw. Topics include news about family activities, health issues, finances, education, gardening, and other...
Dates: 1786, 1825-1876
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Isaac McNeel (b.1830) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1451
Overview Correspondence, legal and business papers, mercantile records and tax receipt books of Isaac McNeel, who operated a store at Edray and Mill Point, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, served as sheriff of the county, operated a gristmill, raised livestock, and was appointed provost marshal of the county in 1862 by the Confederate Army. The collection also includes letters and school reports of McNeel's sons, Winters and Summers, while students at Washington and Lee and the Medical and Law...
Dates: 1850-1908
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jackson County, West Virginia Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2661
Overview

Diaries kept by Luther Wolfe, C.A. Wolfe, and Mary Kinser, of Jackson County, which mention weather conditions, community events, family news, and events of national importance.

Dates: 1894-1896
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jonathan M. Bennett (1816-1887) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0032
Overview Correspondence and papers of a major political figure dealing largely with politics in Virginia, West Virginia, and Virginia in the Confederacy. Bennett, a lawyer and legislator, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, 1852-1853; president of the Weston Branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia; auditor of Virginia, 1857-1865; member of the senate of West Virginia, 1872-1876; and a member of the commission appointed to adjust the Virginia debt question in 1871. Correspondents include...
Dates: 1785-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Julia McDonald Davis (1900-1993) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1856
Scope and Contents Correspondence, manuscripts, class notes and other papers of Julia McDonald Davis (1900-1993), an author and daughter of lawyer and statesman John W. Davis. Includes correspondence of Julia Davis; manuscripts of her work; her notes; correspondence of John W. Davis; and additional newspaper clippings, postcards, photographs, ephemera, and other material. Subjects of Julia Davis's correspondence and notes include a biographical sketch of E.H. McDonald, Miss Davis's grandfather; business...
Dates: 1866-1963
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kingwood Methodist Episcopal Church, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1286
Overview

Church record, 1852-1896, listing baptisms, marriages, probationers, members and various classes; quarterly conference records, 1899-1903, 1917-1920; church ledgers, 1910-1936; the minutes of the Women's Home Missionary Society, 1914-1937; and "A Brief History of Methodism in Kingwood and Vicinity from Our Earliest Times to March, 1874," by W.C. Snodgrass.

Dates: 1852-1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lawrence Sherwood, Collector, Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0826
Overview

Pocket diaries (1853-1854) of William M. Randolph, a farmer in Moorefield, West Virginia, and diaries (1861-1870) for Lettie Smith, a teacher in Grant and Tucker counties.

Dates: 1853-1854, 1861-1870
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lorena Brown (1850-1919) Letter, Typed Document [Xerox]

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2588
Overview

Typed transcription of a letter written by Lorena Brown to her aunt, Lucinda Dunham Powell. The letter, dated 28 March 1863, describes the Brown family's journey from the Kanawha Valley to Monroe County.

Dates: 1862-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Louis Bennett Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0035
Overview

The business papers and legal correspondence of Louis Bennett (1849-1918) of Weston, a wealthy landowner and lawyer. Also included are papers of his father Jonathan M. Bennett and the latter's associate Gideon D. Camden.

Dates: 1841-1916
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center