0 Linear Feet, Summary: 1 reel of microfilm (310 items)
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
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; Venezuela;
American Colonization Society; and the Philippine Islands. Persons mentioned or commented on include Philip Doddridge, John
Letcher, Hugh Mercer, and Nelson A. Miles. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, John Eaton, John P. Hale, H.R. Helper,
W.S. Laidley, David L. Ruffner, John W. Wayland, and William L. Wilson.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers, A&M 1942,
West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.