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DELEGATES TO THE
FIRST WHEELING CONVENTION

Hancock County
George McC. Porter, W. L. Crawford, Louis R. Smith, J. C. Crawford, B. J. Smith, Thomas Anderson, William B. Freeman, W. C. Murray, J. L. Freeman, John Gardner, George Johnston, J. S. Porter, James Stevenson, J. S. Pomeroy, R. Breneman, David Donahoo, D. S. Nicholson, Thayer Melvin, Ewing Turner, James H. Pugh, H. Farnsworth, James G. Marshall, Samuel Freeman, John Mahan, David Jenkins, William Hewitt, William Brown, A. Moore, D. C. Pugh, Jonathan Allison, John H. Atkinson, Joseph W. Allison.

Brooke County
Adam Kuhn, David Hervey, Campbell Tarr, Nathaniel Wells, J. R. Burgoine, James Archer, Jesse Edgington, R. L. Jones, James A. Campbell, Robert Nichols, Joseph Gist, John G. Jacob, Eli Green, J. D. Nichols, Bazael Wells, M. Walker.

Ohio County
L. S. Delaplain, J. R. Stifel, G. L. Cranmer, Alfred Caldwell, John McLure, Jr., Andrew Wilson, George Forbes, A. J. Woods, T. H. Logan, James S. Wheat, George W. Norton, N. H. Garrison, E. Buchanan, John Pierson, T. Witham, E. McCaslin, A. B. Caldwell, J. R. Hubbard, A. F. Ross, W. B. Curtis, John Stiner, Daniel Lamb, C. D. Hubbard, S. H. Woodward, J. W. Paxton, A. Handlan, S. Waterhouse, J. Hornbrook, L. D. Waitt, John K. Botsford, George Bowers, Robert Crangle, J. M. Bickel, James Paull, John C. Hoffman, Jacob Berger, A. Bedillion, Sr., J. C. Orr.

Marshall County
John H. Dickey, John Parkinson, Thomas Morris, W. Alexander, John Laughlin, W. T. Head, J. S. Parriott, W. J. Purdy, H. C. Kemple, Joseph Turner, Hiram McMechen, E. H. Caldwell, James Garvin, L. Gardner, H. A. Francis, Thomas Dowler, John R. Morrow, William Wasson, Nat. Wilson, Thomas Morgan, S. Dorsey, Jr., R. B. Hunter, J. W. McCarriher, J. B. Morris, R. C. Holliday, William Collins, W. R. Kimmons, G. W. Evans, William McFarland, J. Hornbrook, John Reynolds, R. Swan, J. B. Hornbrook, James Campbell, F. Clement, J. Winders, William Baird, Dr. Marshman, William Luke, J. Garvin, S. Ingram, William Phillips, A. Francis, Thomas Wilson, Lot Enix, G. Hubbs, John Wilson, John Ritchie, J. W. Boner, J. Alley, S. B. Stidger, Asa Browning, Samuel Wilson, J. McCondell, A. Bonar, D. Price, G. W. Evans, D. Roberts, Thomas Dowler, R. Alexander, E. Conner, Charles Snediker, John Winters, Nathan Fish, V. P. Gorby, Alfred Gaines, J. S. Riggs, Alexander Kemple, Joseph McCombs.

Wetzel County
T. E. Williams, Joseph Murphy, Elijah Morgan, William Burrows, B. T. Bowers, J. R. Brown, J. M. Bell, Jacob Young, Reuben Martin, R. Reed, Sr., Richard Cook, A. McEldowney, B. Vancamp, John McClaskey, S. Stephens, R. W. Lauck, John Alley, Thomas McQuown, George W. Bier, William D. Welker, R. S. Sayres.

Tyler County
D. D. Johnson, Daniel Sweeney, V. Smith, W. B. Kerr, J. C. Parker, James M. Smith, J. H. Johnson, Isaac Davis, S. H. Hawkins, D. King, William Pritchard.

Harrison County
John S. Carlisle, Thomas L. Moore, John J. Davis, S. S. Fleming, Felix S. Sturm, James Lynch, William E. Lyon, Lot Bowen, Dr. Duncan, W. P. Goff, B. F. Shuttleworth.

Pleasants County
Friend Cochran, Robert Parker, R. A. Cramer, James Williamson

Wood County
S. L. A. Burche, J. J. Jackson, J. D. Ingram, A. Laughlin, W. Vroman, J. C. Rathbone, G. E. Smith, D. K. Baylor, M. Woods, Andrew Als, Joseph Dagg, Jr., N. W. Warlow, Peter Riddle, John Paugh, T. E. McPherson, Thompson Leach, S. S. Spencer, E. Deem, N. H. Colston, A. Hinkley, Bennett Cook, George W. Henderson, George Loomis, J. L. Padgett, S. D. Compton, S. M. Peterson, G. H. Ralston, V. A. Dunbar, A. R. Dye, W. H. Baker, William Johnston, Jr., Jesse Burche, S. Ogden, Sardis Cole, P. Reed, John McKibben, W. Athey, C. Hunter, R. H. Burke, W. P. Davis, George Compton, C. M. Cole, Roger Tiffins, Edward Hoit, W. B. Caswell, Peter Dils, W. F. Henry, A. C. McKinsey, Rufus Kinnard, J. J. Jackson, Jr., J. J. Neal, T. Hunter, M. P. Amiss, J. Barnett, T. S. Conley, C. J. Neal, J. G. Blackford, Henry Cole, W. E. Stevenson, Jesse Murdock, J. Burche, J. Morrison, A. H. Hatcher, A. Mather, C. B. Smith, Arthur Drake, H. Rider, B. H. Bukey, John W. Moss, R. B. Smith.

Monongalia County
Waitman T. Willey, James Evans, Leroy Kramer, W. E. Hanaway, William Lazier, Elisha Coombs, George McNeeley, H. Deering, Dr. H. N. Mackey, Evans D. Fogle, J. T. M. Laskey, J. T. Hess, Charles H. Burgess, John Bly, William Price, Dr. A. Brown, Dr. J. R. Boughner, E. P. Fitch, E. B. Taggart, A. Garrison, Dr. John McCarl, J. A. Wiley, Joseph Snyder, J. Bowlsby, Amos S. Bowlsby, A. Derranet, N. C. Vandervort, Daniel White, Dr. D. B. Dorsey, Jacob Miller, Dr. Isaac Scott, Marshall M. Dent, Rev. P. T. Laighley, E. P. St. Clair, W. B. Shaw, P. L. Rice, Joseph Jolliff, William Anderson.

Preston County
H. C. Hagans, R. C. Crooks, W. H. King, James W. Brown, Charles Hooten, Summers McCrum, W. B. Linn, W. J. Brown, Reuben Morris, D. A. Letzinger, John Howard, G. H. Kidd, James A. Brown, William P. Fortney.

Jackson County
A. Flesher, D. Woodruff, C. M. Rice, George Leonard, J. F. Scott, G. L. Kennedy, J. V. Rowley.

Marion County
R. R. Brown, J. C. Beeson, J. Holman, Thomas H. Bains, Hiram Haymond, H. Merryfield, Joshua Carter, G. W. Joliff, John Chisler, Thomas Hough, William Beatty, James C. Beatty, Aaron Hawkins, Jacob Streams, Francis H. Pierpont, Jesse Shaw.

Mason County
Joseph S. Machir, Lemuel Harpold, William E. Wetzel, John Godley, Wyatt Willis, William W. Harper, William Harpold, Daniel Polsley, Samuel Davies, J. N. Jones, Samuel Yeaager, R. C. M. Lovell, B. J. Rollins, D. C. Sayre, Charles H. Bumgardner, John O. Butler, Timothy Russell, John Hall, A. A. Rogers, William Hopkins, Eugene B. Davis, David Rossin, Asa Brigham, Charles B. Waggener, John M. Phelps, Stephen Comstock, W. C. Starr, John Greer, Apollo Stevens, Major Brown.

Upshur County
W. H. Williams, C. P. Rohrbaugh.

Wirt County
Henry Newman, E. T. Graham, B. Ball.

Ritchie County
N. Rexroad, D. Rexroad, J. P. Harris, A. S. Cole.

Hampshire County
O. D. Downey, George W. Broski, Dr. B. B. Shaw, George W. Sheetz, George W. Rizer.

Barbour County
E. H. Menafee, Spencer Dayton, J. H. Shuttleworth.

Doddridge County
J. Cheveront, S. S. Kinney, J. Smith, J. A. Foley, J. P. F. Randolph.

Berkeley County
A. R. McQuilin, J. W. Dailey, J. S. Bowers.

Roane County
Irwin C. Stump.

Lewis County
T. M. Chalfant, A. S. Withers, J. W. Hudson, P. M. Hale, J. Woofter, W. L. Grant, J. A. J. Lightburn.

Taylor County
J. Means, J. M. Wilson, J. Kennedy, T. Cather, John S. Burdett, J. J. Allen, B. Bailey, G. R. Latham, T. T. Monroe, J. J. Warren.

Wayne County
W. W. Brumfield, C. Spurlock, F. Moore, W. H. Copley, Walter Queen.

 

DELEGATES TO THE
SECOND WHEELING CONVENTION

Barbour County
N. H. Taft, member of Assembly, and John H. Shuttleworth and Spencer Dayton, delegates to the Convention

Brooke
Joseph Gist, senator, H. W. Crothers, member of Assembly, and John D. Nicholls and Campbell Tarr, delegates. Cabell Albert Laidley, member of Assembly.

Monongalia
Leroy Kramer and Joseph Snyder, members of Assembly, and Ralph L. Berkshire, William Price, James Evans and D. B. Dorsey, delegates.

Ohio
Thomas H. Logan and Andrew Wilson, members of Assembly, and Daniel Lamb, James W. Paxton, George Harrison and Chester D. Hubbard, delegates.

Pleasants and Ritchie
James W. Williamson, member of Assembly, and C. W. Smith and William Douglas, delegates. Preston Charles Hooten and William Zinn, members of Assembly, and William B. Crane, John Howard, Harrison Hagans and John J. Brown, delegates.

Randolph and Tucker
Solomon Parsons and Samuel Crane, delegates. Roane T. A. Roberts, delegate.

Taylor
Lemuel E. Davidson, member of Assembly, and John S. Burdette and Samuel B. Todd, delegates.

Upshur
D. D. T. Farnsworth, member of Assembly, and John L. Smith and John Love, delegates.

Wayne
William Radcliffe, member of Assembly, and W. W. Brumfield and William Copley, delegatees.

Wetzel
James G. West, member of Assembly, and Reuben Martin and James P. Ferrell, delegates.

Wirt
James A. Williamson, member of Assembly, and Henry Newman and E. T. Graham, delegates.

Wood
John W. Moss, member of Assembly, and Arthur I. Boreman and Peter G. Van Winkle, delegates.

Alexandria
Henry S. Martin and James T. Close, delegates.

Fairfax
John Hawxhurst and Eben E. Mason, delegates.

Hardy
John Michael, delegate.

Hampshire
James Carskadon, senator, and Owen D. Downey, George W. Broski, James H. Trout and James J. Barracks, delegates.

Doddridge and Tyler
William I. Boreman, member of Assembly, and Daniel D. Johnson and James A. Foley, delegates.

Gilmer
Henry H. Withers, delegate.

Hancock
George McC. Porter, member of Assembly; John H. Atkinson, William L. Crawford, delegates.

Harrison
Chapman J. Stewart, senator, and John J. Davis and John C. Vance, members of Assembly, and John S. Carlisle, Solomon S. Fleming, Lot Bowen and Benjamin Shuttleworth, delegates.

Jackson
Daniel Frost, member of Assembly, and James F. Scott and Andrew Flesher, delegates.

Kanawha
Lewis Ruffner, member of Assembly, and Greenbury Slack, delegate. Lewis P. M. Hale and J. A. J. Lightburn, delegates.

Marion
Richard Fast and Fontain Smith, members of Assembly, and Francis H. Pierpont, John S. Barnes, A. F. Ritchie and James O. Watson, delegates.

Marshall
Remembrance Swan, member of Assembly, and C. H. Caldwell, and Robert Morris, delegates.

Mason
Lewis Wetzel, member of Assembly, and Charles B. Waggener and Daniel Polsley, delegates.


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