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