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3 unusual facts about Lewis Ruffner


Lewis Ruffner

Lewis Ruffner (October 1, 1797 – 1883) was a salt manufacturer from Malden in Kanawha County in the area near what is now Charleston, West Virginia.

General Ruffner became widowed and he and his second wife Viola (née Knapp) Ruffner (1820–1904), a schoolteacher whom he married in 1843, are remembered for employing a young Booker T. Washington as a houseboy in the years shortly after Emancipation.

Young Booker came to Malden, West Virginia with his mother Jane after Emanicipation in late 1865.



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