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Biographies of Kanawha County, WV
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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: RUFFNER, Col. Joel
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 19, 1999
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History of Kanawha County
George W. Atkinson
1876
p. 316
COLONEL JOEL RUFFNER.
The subject of this sketch was raised upon his beautiful farm about one mile
above Charleston, on the Kanawba river, where he has lived the greater
portion of his life. He is one of six brothers, all of whom were industrious
farmers, and honorable and upright citizens. Colonel Ruffner was born in
1804; and in a previous chapter I have placed on record a number of his
recollections of the olden times, which will be read, no doubt, with gencral
interest. For many years he has been regarded as
one of the best and most public spirited citizens of the county of his birth
and nativity. He has held many responsible positions of trust at the hands
of his fellow-citizens, and in all of them he proved to be worthy of the
confidence of his friends, and faithful to all of the trusts confided to him.
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