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Oak Hill, I, 167 O'Brien, Adam, sketch of, I, 221


O'Brien, William S., III, 406 Oceana, I, 240 Oceana Looking Northwest (illustration) I, 497 O'Connor, Robert E., III, 556 O'Dell, Richard O., III, 378 Offner, John E., II, 54 Ogden, Chester R., III, 207


Ogden, Herschel C., II, 551 Ogden, Marshall W., II, 247 Oglebay, Earl W., I, 703


Mountain home in southeastern county, (illustration), I, 224


Mullens, I, 495


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INDEX


Oglebay Hall, West Virginia University, (illustration), I, 646


Ohio and Mississippi Railroad (chartered 1848), I, 198


Ohio Company, I, 55, 56, 58


Ohio county, I, 92, 93, 252; early schools of, 288


Ohio River: influences of, I, 210-215; navi- gation of, 215-218; completion of Balti- more and Ohio Railway to, (1852), 216; resumption of steamboat communication with New Orleans (1867), 217, 218; navi- gation of, 234-237; steamboat travel on (1838), 237; railroads along, 464, 472 Ohio river homes, I, 215, 216


Ohio River Railroad, I, 469, 472


Ohio River Salt Company, I, 166


Ohio Valley, settlements in (1793-1862), I, 161-168


Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company, III, 346


Ohio valley outlaws, I, 214


Ohlinger, Fred A., II, 139


Oil development; general progress of, I, 499; record, (1826-1860), 500; first, caused by drilling of salt wells, 500; in Parkers- burg district, 501; production through- out the state (1876-1888), 503; production in 1889-1921, 509-510; statistics `of (1889-1920), 713


Oil fields, opening of, I, 505-509


Oil, gas and coal development, I, 499-523


Oil operators in West Virginia, I, 394


Oil pipe lines, laid from fields to seaboard, I, 510


Oil region (in 1864) a traveller's narrative of a visit to, I, 392-398


Oil wells at Rosedale (illustration) I, 502 Old Field Schools, I, 279, 282-284, 288


Old Morgan Homestead, Front Street,


Morgantown (illustration) I, 74


"Old Pack-horse Ford", I, 50 O'Neal, S. Lee, III, 499 O'Neil, Humphrey G., II, 317 Orange county, I, 53


Ordinance of Secession; vote of western members against, I, 339; signed by Rich- mond convention, 352, 353


Orlando (illustration) I, 481


Orr, James C., I, 357


Orr, Malcolm J., II, 504


Orr, Miles H., II, 117


Osborne, A. D., III, 227


Osborne, William, III, 580


Osburn, Reuben, II, 491


Osmond, Charles B., II, 494


Ott, Charles B., III, 78


Ott, Lee, II, 41 Overstreet, James W., II, 423


Owens, Harry K., III, 552


Oxley, Chilton K., III, 234


Oyster, Lamar C., III, 277


Pack Horse settlement, I, 50 Padbury, Fred D., III, 48


Page, Asa D., III, 413


Page, Lowry W., III, 434


Palmer, Benjamin H., II, 482


Palmer, John C., III, 601


Palmer, Samuel A., II, 618 Pancoast, S. A., I, 135 Panhandle Railway Company, I, 464 Parish (Episcopal) of Frederick, I, 258 Park, Joseph R., II, 578 Park, Thomas R., II, 577 Parker, Granville, I, 413


Parkersburg, I, 104, 109, 158; branch of Baltimore & Ohio completed to, 198; 242;


first newspaper at, 306; in 1864, 392; in- dustrial development of, 471; spectacular founding of, 501; first telephone at (1882), 538


Parks, Alexander, II, 633


Parks, John N., II, 634


Parks, Noah S., III, 296


Parriott, James D., II, 302


Parrish, Clair N., II, 387


Parrish, Clerc A., III, 447


Parrish, Ray M., III, 82 Parrish, Roy E., III, 251


Parrish, Richard B., II, 121 Parrish, Thomas J., III, 252


Parsons, Cornelius R., III, 590


Parsons, Don H., II, 427


Parsons, Earl V., III, 430


Parsons, James, I, 72


Parsons J. K., III, 199


Parsons, I, 476 Partridge, B. Waring, Jr., II, 137


Patsey, John, III, 300


Patterson, Carl J., II, 45


Patterson, Guy B., III, 104


Patterson, Samuel W., II, 62


Patterson, William E., III, 583


Patton, Floyd J., II, 485


Paulding, John T., II, 454 Pauley, Garfield L., II, 566


Paull, Alfred II, 614


Paull, Alfred S., II, 615


Paull, Harry W., III, 78


Paull, Judge James II, 614


Paull, James, III, 78


Paull, Lee C., II, 25


Paull, Samuel O., III, 78


Paxton, Alexander B., III, 563 Paxton, James, I, 355


Payne, Edwin J., II, 399


Payne, Jennie B., III, 471


Payne, John B., III, 362


Payne, Oscar F., II, 144


Payne, William B., III, 471


"Peace Conference" at Washington (1861), I, 335


Pearcy, Elizabeth T., II, 500


Pearis Family, II, 131


Pearman, Elbert W., III, 399


Peck, Joel E., II, 168


Peck, W. Shad, III, 597


Peery, Thomas E., II, 108


Peeryville, I, 490


Peirce, George L., III, 551


Pemberton, Robert L., III, 464


Pence, George L., II, 612


Pendleton, Daniel, III, 457


Pendleton, I, 54


Pendleton county, I, 54, 241, 252; first school house erected in, 285, non-Union, 371


Penitentiary, contest over superintendence of, (1873), I, 553, 597 Pennsboro, I, 159


Pennsylvania, boundary question, I, 621


Pennsylvania road, I, 67


Pentony, William H., III, 26


People's United Telephone System, I, 545


Perkins, Clarence L., III, 276


Perry, Arthur K., III, 453


Perry, Cecil H., III, 264


Perry, Lewis H., III, 534


Perry, Samuel W., II, 480


Perry, Thomas N., III, 423


Peterkin, George W., II, 440


Peterkin, William G., II, 440


Peters, Christian, I, 70


Peters, Clem E., II, 361


Peters, Elbert F., II, 157 Peters, Isaac T., III, 40


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INDEX


Peters, James W., II, 59I Peters, Will HI., II, 473 Peterson, B. Walker, III, 14 Peterson, David M., III, 272 Peterstown, I, 90, 113, 239 Petroleum development, I, 16 Pettigrew, Bernard J., II, 94


Peyton, Thomas W., II, 289 l'etonia, I, 167


Peytonia Cannel Coal Company, I, 167, 517 Phelps J. Howd, III, 455


Phelps, S. H., III, 496


Phelps, W. S., II, 121


Phelps & Holloran, III, 495


Phelps Can Company, III, 455


Philippi, I, 146; bloodless engagement at, I, 240; 376, illustration, 456; indus- trial development of, I, 457 Philippi court house, storm center of wes- tern secessionism, I, 343 "Philippi Races," I, 377


Phillips, David R., III, 125


Phillips, Francis M., JI, 444


Phillips, George W., III, 505


Phillips, Samuel A., II, 91


Physicians, early, of Wheeling, I, 154


Pickens, Louis N., II, 460


Piedmont, I, 136, 206, 240


Piedmont and Cumberland Railway, I, 474


Pierce, Carleton C., III, 631


Pierpoint, Francis H., I, 293, 348 (illustra- tion), I, 349; 354, 355, 356, 383


Pierson, E. G., III, 639


Pierson, W. R., Jr., III, 268


Pifer, Clarence B., III. 534


Pifer, William C., III, 408


Pilcher, Hiram E., II, 267


Pine Bottom, I, 159


Piney branch, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, I, 439


Pinsou, Alonzo C., II, 587


Pioneer domestic life, I, 221-226


Pippen, C. Warden, III, I10


Pitt, William, I, 62


Pittsburgh, her rivalry with Wheeling, I, 200-209


Pittsburgh and Steubenville Railway, I, 197 Plattenburg, John R., III, 274


Pleasant county, I, 252; early schools of, 289


Pleasantville, I, 239 Plummer, Gideon T., III, 213


Pocahontas coal, I, 483


Pocahontas coal field, I, 489


Pocahontas county, I, 137, 252; non-Union, 369


Pocahontas Development Company, I, 440 Poffenbarger, Lydia S., I, 702


Poindexter, William B., II, 623


Point, Walter W., III, 475


Point Pleasant, I, 100, 160, 239


Point Pleasant, battle of (1774), I, 77-79 Point Pleasant Battle Monument (illustra- tion), I, 78


Point Pleasant National Bank, III, 417 Point Pleasant Register, I, 314


Point Pleasant-Ravenswood-Belleville toll line, I, 539


Poland, John R., III, 340


Poling, Aldine S., III, 580


Poling, Herman J., III, 350


Poling, Jay L., III, ISI


Political problems, recent, I, 595


Politics, history of State, I, 551


Polk Creek oil wells, Lewis county, I, 506 Polsley, Daniel, I, 355 Pomeroy, Samuel G., III, 22I


Pontiac, I, 64; sues for peace (1765), 65 Vol. III-77


Poole, Albinus II, 616 Poor, care of the, I, 598 Poor Fund, I, 290


Population; Marion county (1865), I, 139; Monongalia county, (1790-1830), 140-14I Western Virginia (1790-1860), 252, 253; census of 1850, 253; by color and con- dition (1860), 255; by towns, 256


Charleston (1778-1920), 436; Hunting- ton, 438; Wheeling, 467; Density of, by counties (1920), (map), 566; from 1860 to 1910, 567-568; by race, sex, nativity, age, education and social and domestic status, (1900-1920), 569-573; percent of increase or decrease, by counties, (1910- 1920), (map), 571; by counties, by towns and cities (since 1860), 574; by color and condition (1860), 575; negroes, by counties (1870-1920), 576; by sex, (1890-1920), 577; nativity and for- eign parentage (1860, 1870), 578; origin of native and foreign-born (1870), 579; foreign-born by counties (1860-1910), 580; foreign-born by country of birth (1870- 1910), 581; nationality of foreign-born (1870-1910) 582; nationality of foreign- born by counties (1870-1910), 583; country of birth of foreign-born white, for counties and cities of 10,000 or more (1920), 584; distribution of church mem- bers by principal denominations, (1890, 1906, 1916), 585; statistics of religious bodies (1916), 587; moral and religious life, 588; West Virginia, 1870-1912, 609; (1910-1920), 7II Porter, Fred G., II, 593


Porter, Henry L., III, 119


Porter, James B., III, 233


Porter, John, II, 593


Porter, J. Nessly, III, 233


Post, Arthur T., III, 98


Post, Cecil O., II, 583


Post, Howard, II, 299


Post, Melville D., I, 687, 688, 689, 694


Post, Wade H., II, 116


Post, William III, 453


Posten, Roscoe P., II, 76


Postoffice, Morgantown (illustration), I, 703 Postoffices, early, I, 14, first (1794), 232; (1797, 184I); 238, 239 Poteet, Lucian E., III, 163


Potomac Academy, I, 293


Potomac Company, I, President of, 95


134; Washington,


Potomac River, I, 33, 34


Potomac River below Harper's Ferry (illus- tration) I, 24 Potomac and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company, I, 474


Potomac Seminary (Potomac Academy), I, 293


Powell, Grace M., III, 231


Powell, Harvey C., II, 8I


Powell, Jonathan C., III, 79


Powell, Samuel A., III, 184


Powers, August N., III, 74


Powers, Benjamin H., II, 288


Pownall, Thomas E., III, 400


Pratt, James I., III, 224


Pratt, Newell K., III, 68


Pratt, Samuel A., II, 556


Presbyterian church, I, 264-267; status in 1850, 274; in 1850 and 1860, 276


Presbyterian colony (1798), I, 110 Presidential election of 1864, 1, 373 Press (See Newspapers)


Preston, James M., III, 617


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Preston, John A., III, 616


Preston, Samuel P., III, 617


Preston, I, 146, 239 Preston Academy, I, 294 Preston county, I, 73, 102, 140, 143, 252; unusual beginning of local journalism (1839), 303, 461


Preston Railroad, Lumber and Mining Com- pany, I, 143


Price, Allen R., II, 164


Price, George E., I, 557, II, 250


Price, James W., III, 514


Price, John C., II, 169


Price, Samuel, sketch of, I, 415, 416; II, 626 Price, Samuel L., II, 626


Price, William H., II, 242


Prickett, John M., II, 631


Princeton, I, 240, 407, 495


Prindle, Reuben S., II, 36


"Prison bounds," I, 244


Prichard, Belvard J., III, 260


Prichard, J. Guy, III, 582


Pritchard, Alpheus W., III, 420


Pritchard, D. T., II, 29


Pritchard, Robert C., III, 48


Pritchard, Robert H., III, 175


Pritchard, William J., III, 48


Pritt, Thaddeus, III, 559


Pritt, Wayne K., III, 527


Prohibition amendment carried (1912), I, 422; ratified (1912), 595: legislation re- garding, 600 Prolific carly families, I, 220


Property, assessed value of (1919, 1920), I, 719


Prosecuting attorneys (Colonial), I, 47


Proudfoot, Milton II., II, 557


Prunty, Curtis E., II, 589


Prunty, Sylvester O., III, 62


Pruntytown, I, 195, 239


Public Health Council, I, 600


Public officers, salaries for, I, 421, 422


Public service commission, created (1913), I, 598, 717


Public Service, expenditure for (1912-1920), I, 619


Public school system, development of (see also Education); work of first superin- tendent, William R. White, I, 628, 629; first normal schools established, 629; old- time academies, 629, 630; State insti- tutes and schools, 630; high school era, 632; seliool statistics, 1918-21, 633; changes in State boards of education, 634; general development 1870-1920, 634-636; normal schools, 636-644; historical sketch of West Virginia University, 644-678


Public schools (see Education)


Publie whippings, I, 245


Pugh, Clyde C., II, 274


Pugh, Hngh, I, 104


Purdy, James A., III, 256


Pure fool law (1907), I, 595


Purinton, A. L., I, 638


Purinton, Daniel B., I, 648, 655, 661; II, 5


Putnam county, I, 110, 161, 252


Pyle, Joseph L., III, 219


Pyles, Bernard A., II, 549


Quakers, I, 63 Quarry Run powder mill, I, 142 Queen, Emery C., II, 426 Quimby, Will A., III, 535 Quinn, William J., III, 321


Raese, John, III, 481 Rafting, I, 230


Raiguel, Edward B., II, 30


Railroads; campaign against passes (1885-


87), I, 6; close out stage lines (1852-54), 173; first line in West Virginia (Balti- more & Ohio), 187-199; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, 425, 426, 428-442; Balti- more & Ohio branches, 445-461; lumber, 450-453; along the Ohio, 464-472; vs. steamboats, 471, 472; Western Maryland Railway, 472-478; Coal and Coke Rail- way, 478-482; projected, that failed, 443- 445; vs. steamboats, 471, 472; Norfolk & Western Railway, 483-494; Virginia Rail- way. 494-498; exemption from taxation of, 557; value of properties (1919), 719 Rake, John D., II, 297


Raleigh county, I, 168, 252


Ralston, James, III, 132


Ramsay, Robert L., II, 313


Randal, Boyd, III, 209


Randolph Academy, I, 293


Randolph county, I, 103, 148, 149, 150, 151; Irish settlement on Roaring Creek, 149, 243, 252; remarkable industrial changes in, 472, 475 Ranson, Briscoe B., II, 396


Rateliff, John F., III, 170


Rathbone, Monroe J., II, 465


Rauschenberg, Emil C., II, 279


Ravenswood, I, 240


Rawn, Andrew B., III, 641


Ray, Charles A., III, 214


Raymond, Jerome H., I, 648, 650, 659, 660


Read, Benjamin J., II, 595


Real estate, re-assessments of, I, 615


Reardon, Norris H., III, 138


Rease, Frank P., III, 530


Reass, Joseph H., Jr., II, 48


Reay, David C., II, 194


Reay, Thomas P., I, 645


Reconstruction; first period of, I, 16; prob- lems and policies of, 399; conditions at close of war, 399-402; test-oath act, 402; registration law, 403; judges, lawyers and office holders, 403-405; suffrage reforms (1869-71), 406; State capital located at Charleston (1870), 410, 41I


Rector College, I, 195, 294


Red Cross Work, World's war, I, 708


Red Sulphur and Kauawha turnpike, I, 409


Red Sulphur Seminary, I, 295


Red Sulphur Springs, I, 240


Reed, Hannon, III, 416


Reed, Kelley E., III, 399


Reed, Lorelle V., III, 68


Reed, Miller W., II, 153


Reed, Oliver E., III, 516


Reed, Robert S., III, 13


Reed, William D., II, 566


Reeside, James, leading mail contractor, I, 170 Reger, Carl, II, 191


Reger, Earle, III, 180


Reger, William F., III, 301


Registration law (1866), I, 403, 406, 407


Rehobeth Church, first Methodist meeting house west of the Alleghenies, I, 269


Religion (see also churches and denomina- tions), I, 257, 569


Religious freedom, act of, I, 257


Renick, Felix, description of a trip by, I, 125, 126 Renshaw, W. C. Wickham, II, 79


Repair, John F., III, 586


Repairing damage on South Side Hill, near Charleston, winter of 1918 (illustration), I, 541


675


INDEX


Repository, Wheeling's first newspaper, I, 154 Reppetto, Harvey B., II, 339 Reppert, William, III, 411 Reps, Paulus, II, 283 Republican control, early, I, 551 Revised school code (1909), I, 716


Revolution; rear guard of, I, 81-93; forts at beginning of, 81, 82; forts erected dur- ing, 82, 83; military preparations and operations in Western Virginia, 83, 89; invasions during, 86-89; settlements and county creations during, 89-93 Reyman Memorial Farms, I, 532


Reynolds, Daniel W., II, 525


Reynolds, Francis M., III, 189


Reynolds, P. B., I, 648, 650, 657, 659, 661, 670


Reynolds & Reynolds. II, 525


Rhea, John L. Jr., III, 288


Rheumatism, treatment of, I, 251


Rice, Charles L., II, 212


Rice, Harold A., II, 451


Rice, Martin M., III, 487


Richards, Dell R., II, 360


Richards, Thomas M., II, 306


Richardson, J. Lynn, III, 494


Richardson, Thomas S., III, 493


Richmond, Simon P., III, 454


Richmond, Educational Convention at (1845), I, 282


Richmond Enquirer, I, 299 Rich Mountain, Union victory at, I, 379


Richwood, eastern portion (illustration), I, 45I


Richwood branch of Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road, I, 450 Rickey, John W., II, 548


Rife, Jay W., II, 481


Rife, Oscar J., II, 492


Rigg, John M., II, 57


Riley, Daniel D., III, 640


Riley, Isaac I., III, 579


Riley, Jesse E., III, 76


Rinehart, Claude W., III, 280


Riner, John H., II, 637


Ringer, Jeremiah, II, 574


Ripley, I, 240 Ripple, Josiah M., Jr., III, 66


Rissler, Robert C., II, 321


Ritchie, Thomas, father of Virginia jour- nalism, I, 299


Ritchie county, I, 106, 146, 159, 186, 252; early schools of, 289; first local paper in, 307


Rittenhouse, William T., II, 442


Ritter, Charles A., III, 96 Ritter, Charles D., II, 327 Ritter, C. L., III, 96


River transportation (1793-1872), I, 233, 234 Rivesville. I, 143 Rizer, O. Mortimer, II, 85 Roads, early, I, 14; (1786-1840), 232, 233 Roane county, I, 109, 252 Robbins, Isaac H., II, 297


Roberts, B. S., I, 387 Robertson, John E., III, 187


Robertson, Richard, II, 47 Robey, Howard L., III, 545 Robinett, John H., III, 467


Robins, Joseph E., III, 69 Robinson, Benjamin O., II, 532 Robinson, Henry C., II, 389 Robinson, Ira E., I. 564 Robinson, J. A., I, 664 Robinson, Jedediah W., III, 83 Robinson, John L., III, 183 Robinson, Paul M., III, 195


Robinson, W. W., III, 206 Robison, Charles C., III, 212 Robosson, Reginald P., III, 17 Robson, Houghton A., II, 568 Roby, Clarence, II, 10I Rodgers, William J., II, 29 Rodney, James S., II, 286 Roessing, Charles. III, 437


Rogers, George J., II, 20


Rogers, H. H., I, 494 Rogers, J. G., III, 599


Rogers, Paul M., II, 119


Rogers, William M., II, 119


Rogers, William W., II, 273


Rogers Pharmacy, II, 119


Rohrbough, Clark L., III, 327


Roller, Robert D., III. 217


Romig, Emerson V., III, 142


Romine, John W., II, 453


Romney, I, 239


Romney County Court House (illustration), I, 464


Romney Literary Society, I, 293


Ronecverte, I, 429


Roome, Harry H., III, 136


Rose, E. W., III, 506


Rosecrans, William, his campaign in West Virginia, I, 383, 384 Rosedale, oil wells at (illustration), I, 502


Rosier, Joseph, I, 628; II, 249


Ross, Donald J., II, 450


Ross, Howard J., II, 249


Ross, J. Shirley, II, 344


Round, Frederick L., III, 456


Roush, Charles, III, 395


Roush, Margaret V., III, 396


Rouss, Alexander H. S., II, 400


Royal, Kent T., III, 417


Row, Golden F., III, 307


Rowan, John M., I, 557


Rowlesburg, I, 240


Royall, Anne (Newport), I, 681


Ruby, William II., III, 549


Rudasill, Daniel J., II, 557


Ruddle, Isaac N., II, 324


Ruffner, David, I, 165, 166


Ruffner, Henry, I, 166


Ruffner, Joseph, sketch of, I, II0, 165


Ruffner family, pioneers of Kanawha salt industries, I, 165, 166


Ruffner Hotel, I, 180 Rumsey, James, I, 134


Rumseyan Monument, Shepherdstown (il- lustration), I, 96 Runner, Dayton P., III, 105


Rural schools, better day for, I, 631, 632


Rusmisell, Charles C., III, 284


Rusmisell, James A., III, 436


Russel, William, I, 51


Russell, Andrew S., III, 620


Russell, Bennie W., II, 488


Russell, H. W., II, 432


Rutherford, Albert G., III, 431


Ruttencutter, Charles F., III, 72


Rymer, John L., III, 54


Salaries of officials, expenditure for (1912- 1920), I, 619 Salem, I, 102, 145 Salt industry, I, 227


Salt Spring, I, 111


Salt wells (1864), I, 394


Salton, Russell A., II, 590


Samples, W. P., III, 259


Sanders, Harry, III, 62


Sanders, James C., III, 190


Sand Fort colony, of Irish settlers, I, 184 Sandridge, Clifton W., III, 306


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Sands, Harry S., II, 180


Sandusky-Richmond trail, I, 38


Sandy Valley, early settlements in, I, 168 Santerville, I, 240


Sapp, Hayes, II, 505 Sappington, Kenneth N., II, 326 Satterfield, Herschel L., II, 126 Savage, W. L., III, 238


"Savage Grant," I, II4 Savanna fort (Fort Union), I, 70 Saville, J. Burr, II, 82 Saw mills (1835), I. 230


Sawyers, William H., III, 602


Sayre, Greek, I, 257


Sayre, T. J., III, 505


Scaggs, E. Floyd, II, 553


Scanlon, Timothy S., III, 149


Schaeffer, John R., III, 208


Schaeffer, William M., II, 225


Schafer, Orman D., II, 153


Scherr, Arnold C., I. 562


Scherr, Harry, II, 243


Scherr, William B., II, 164


Schmeichel, Fred C., II, 436


Schmeichel, Frederick, II. 386


Schmidiger, August J., II. 197


Schmidlapp, John F., II, 266


Scholl, Lester E., II, 145


Scholz, Carl, III, 16I


School code commission, appointed (1918)}, I, 590 School Law of 1846, I, 282


School statistics, 1850 (see also Education), I, 296, 297 Schools (see Education)


Schools and the World's war, I, 706


Schools for the deaf and blind, I, 630


Schrader, Louis E., II, 206


Schwenek, Lawrence S., II, 56I


Science Hall, West Virginia University (il- Instration), I, 655


Seioto-Monongahela trail, I, 37


Seoteh-Irish, I, 13, 36, 52, 57, 63, 68, 69; their interest in education, 290


Scott, Charles M., II, 155


Scott, James P., III, 527


Scott, John S., II, 484


Scott, John W., I, 648, 662


Scott, Nathan B., I, 56I


Scott, Thomas, II, 300


Scott, Thomas H., II, 520


Scott, William W., III, 538


Scroggins, Frank R., II, 158


Seabright, Charles H., II, 254


Seal, Gordon S., II, 115


Seamonds, George R., III, 196


Sears, Roy O., III, 216


Secession, advocated by eastern Virginia (1850), I, 330


Second State Capitol, Charleston in Ka- nawha (1870-7I) (illustration), I, 405 See, LeRoy, III, 551


See, Ralph W., III, 510


Sehon, Edmund, III, 317


Seibert, Cleveland M., III, 371


Senate passes Australian ballot bill, I, 560 Seneca trail, I, 38, 68


Settle, Alfred L., III, 504


Settlements, first advance of, in eastern panhandle, I, 50; pioneer (1760-1776), 70- 74; New River region (1775-83), 90; in eastern panhandle (1787-91), 99; along the Kanawha (1791-1804), 100; in West Angusta district, 101, 102; delayed along the Big Sandy, 10I; in West Fort Valley, 102; upper Ohio, 104; south of the Great Kanawha, III; in the eastern panhandle, 134-136; Middle New River and Green-


brier, 136-138; the Monongahela valley, 139-152; along the Ohio, 152-161; along the Great Kanawha, 161-167; south of the Great Kanawha; 167-168; early, in Cal- houn county, 159; early, in Big Sandy Valley, 168 Sewell, Stephen, I, 55


Sewell Valley Railroad, I, 439


Shackleford, John N., III, 562


Shackleford, Leon, II, 288


Shackleford, Samuel A., III, 627


Shadle, H. Eugene, II, 213 Shaffer, E. Augusta, III, 439


Shaffer, Gustavus J., III, 438 Shaffer, Harry G., III, 479


Shanklin, William C., III, 492


Shannon, Frank E., III, 492


Shannon, William A., III, 26I


Sharp, Summers H., III. 539


Sharpuack, Joseph N., III, 62 Sharps, John A., III, 4II Shaw, A. Staley, II, 552 Shaw, Harry, II, 22


Shaw, Robert M., II, 536


Shaw, Stephen C., II, 536


Shaw, Thomas J., III, 3II


Shaw, William R., II, 620


Shawkey, M. P., I, 628, 636


Shawnee (Seneca) trail, I, 38, 68


Sheep, I, 530


Sheets, Harry W., II, 601


Sheet Metal Specialty Co., III, 256


Shelby, Reece, II, 246


Shell, Bernard, II, 571


Shenandoah Valley, first newspaper in, I, 299 Shepherd, Adam R., III, 494


Shepherd, David, I, 74, 86


Shepherd, Edward C., II, 187


Shepherd, Guy W., II, 140


Shepherd, Hiram F., II, 221


Shepherd, Thomas, I, 50


Shepherdstown, I, 89, 134, 239; Episcopal churches at, 258; normal school estab- lished at (1872), 589 Shepherdstown Academy, I, 292


Shepherdstown Register, I, 314


Shepherdsville, I, 239


Sherrard, Robert, I, 135


Sherwood, Reuel E., II, 637


Shewey, Thomas A., II, 596


Shields, Dudley L., II, 73


Shields, Grace M., II, 72


Shields, Thomas L., II, 72


Shildts, D. E., II, 564


Shinn, Chester C., III, 12I


Shinn, Fred L., II, 353


Shinn, Hugh B., III, 603


Shinn, James O., III, 442


Shinn, Reuben P., III, 422


Shinn Family, III, 12I


Shinnston, I, 145, 240


Shires organized (1634), I, 46


Showacre, William R., III, 275 Showalter, Howard W., II, 494


Showalter, Ulysses W., II, 314 Shomo, Benjamin F., III, 306


Shomo, Charles W., III, 309 Shomo, George W., III, 310 Short, John M., II, 342 Shorthorn cattle, I, 529


Shreve, John C., II, 303 Shriver, Frank C., II, 42 Shriver, John, II, 77 Shull, James W., II, 83


Shurtleff, Oliver, III, 292 Shuttleworth, Benjamin F., III, 389 Shuttleworth, Guy A., II, 4I


677


Shutts, Herman A., II, 226 Silver, Gray, II, 12 Simeral, Glenning D., II, 235 Simms, John T., II, 54 Simms, Meredith J., II, 62 Simon, Winfield S., III, 340 Simpson, John N., II, 75 Sine, Rezin W., III, 606 Sinnett, Charles W., III, 54 Sinsel, Charles A., III, 305 Sisler, E. B., II, 401 Sistersville, I, 109, 240 Sistersville oil field, I, 506, 510 Skeen, Herbert, III, 468 Skinner, John J., II, 399


Slack, Frank P., II, 268


Slack, Robert E., III, 518


Slaughter, Gibbon M., II, 250


Slavery, I, 247, 248, 315 Sloan, Herbert E., II, 389 Small, Alexander R .. III, 17 Smiley, Charles S., III, 122


Smith, Albin H., III, 36


Smith, Alton L., II, 374


Smith, Benjamin H., I, 413, 551


Smith, Carl C., II, 479


Smith, C. Harrison, III, 169


Smith, Charles A., III, 205


Smith, Charles B., III, 445


Smith, Charles D., III, 536


Smith, Charles G., III. 20 Smith, Claude L., III, 160


Smith, Dudley I., II, 157


Smith, Edward, II, 39


Smith, Edward G., III, 645


Smith, Edward M., II, 40


Smith, Ellis L., III, 464


Smith, Etley P., II, 482


Smith, Erwyn A., III, 635


Smith, Harrison B., II, 261


Smith, Harry F., II, 180


Smith, Henry, narrative of (1794), I, 118, 119, 222 Smith, Henry S., III, 76


Smith, Howard C., III, 596


Smith, Hugh G., II, 584


Smith, Isaac D., II, 394


Smith, Jackson, III, 139


Smith, Jacob D., II, 564


Smith, James M., III, 70


Smith, Joe L., II, 602


Smith, John M. L., III, 295


Smith, John W., III, 291


Smith, Joseph F., III, 26


Smith, Joseph H., II, 187


Smith, J. F., III, 148


Smith, J. R. Williamson, III, 282


Smith, Levin, II, 455


Smith, Oceola M., II, 393




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