Viola Ruffner, the Glossary
Viola Knapp Ruffner (1812–1903) was a schoolteacher and became the second wife of General Lewis Ruffner, a salt and coal mine owner and community leader in Kanawha County, West Virginia.[1]
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16 relations: Arlington, Vermont, Bennington, Vermont, Booker T. Washington, Charleston, West Virginia, Domestic worker, Hampton, Virginia, Kanawha County, West Virginia, Lewis Ruffner, Malden, West Virginia, Manual labour, New England, New Jersey, North Carolina, Teacher, Up from Slavery, Virginia General Assembly.
- Ruffner family
- Schoolteachers from Vermont
Arlington, Vermont
Arlington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States.
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Bennington, Vermont
Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States.
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Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator.
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Charleston, West Virginia
Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the county seat of Kanawha County.
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Domestic worker
A domestic worker is a person who works within a residence and performs a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly dependents, and other household errands.
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Hampton, Virginia
Hampton is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Kanawha County, West Virginia
Kanawha County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
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Lewis Ruffner
Lewis Ruffner (October 1, 1797 – November 19, 1883) was an American merchant, magistrate, slaveowner and politician who helped found the state of West Virginia. Viola Ruffner and Lewis Ruffner are Ruffner family.
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Malden, West Virginia
Malden — originally called Kanawha Salines — is an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States, within the Charleston metro area.
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Manual labour
Manual labour (in Commonwealth English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines and working animals.
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New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of the American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915).
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Virginia General Assembly
The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the oldest continuous law-making body in the Western Hemisphere, and the first elected legislative assembly in the New World.
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See also
Ruffner family
- Craik-Patton House
- Henry Ruffner
- Holly Grove Mansion
- Lewis Ruffner
- Pattie Ruffner Jacobs
- Ruffner House
- Viola Ruffner
Schoolteachers from Vermont
- Anna Bliss
- Arthur Zorn
- Carmelita Hinton
- Caroline Burnham Kilgore
- Catherine Fiske
- Francis K. Brooks
- Helen Riehle
- Hiram R. Steele
- Isaac Goodnow
- James Q. Dealey
- Leon Harvey
- Leonora Dodge
- Mark MacDonald (Vermont politician)
- Marshall H. Twitchell
- Nancy Brown (columnist)
- Phebe Estelle Spalding
- Ralph G. Wright
- Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr.
- Stuart Hunt
- Tommy Walz
- Viola Ruffner
- Wayne G. Kenyon
- Zerah Colburn (mental calculator)