MARION COUNTY

West Virginia

New 73 Page Booklet

Early days in Marion County, WV are recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in this booklet comprised of excerpts from four rare vintage books: Historical Collections of Virginia by Henry Howe (1845); West Virginia in History, Life, Literature and Industry by Morris Purdy Shawkey; History of West Virginia by Virgil A. Lewis; and Virginia, a Guide to the Mountain State, a WPA publication (1941). The booklet is printed on 60# opaque paper, with the print size enlarged as needed to fit the 8 1/2 x 11 size. The front cover is a parchtex card stock, protected with a vinyl sheet.

Towns mentioned in the booklet include: Palatine, Fairmont (formerly Middletown), Mannington, Worthington, Enterprise, Shinnston, Hughes, Farmington, Metz , Glover Gap, Monongah. Other communities listed in the county today include: Barrackville, Baxter, Carolina, Colfax, Fairview, Four States, Grant Town, Idamay, Jordan, Kingmont, Montana Mines, Pleasant Valley, Rachel, and Rivesville.

Among the many subjects included are: physical features, Doddridge's notes on "the customs of those primitive times," the Fairmont Male and Female Seminary, Francis H. Pierpont, Governor of Virginia under the "Restored Government", Fairmont State Normal School (Fairmont State Teachers College), David Morgan's Fight, the National Bank of Fairmont, a tour of Fairmont, and other bits of history and trivia.

Attention Genealogists: This booklet contains relatively detailed biographies of many county residents of the late 1800s, often shedding light on the businesses, churches, and institutions in the area, and on the events of the day. They include: Arch W. Adams, James J. Allen, Clay D. Amos, George E. Amos, Paul E. Amos, Luke C. Arnett, John W. Ballard, Frederick William Bartlett, Robert R. Beebe, Ernest R. Bell, A. Blake Billingslea, James F. Black, Lee Bernard Boyers, William E. Buckey, Mayor Frederick A. Burt, Dr. Hugh Holmes Carr, John Andrew Clark Jr., Rev. William P. Cline Jr., Carroll C. Coffman, Dr. James C. Collins, Rollo J. Conley, William H. Coontz, Franklin C. Davis, George L. Davis, Ralph F. Doolittle, Charles Drake, Melvin E. Dyson, L. T. Eddy, Rev. William Jobes Eddy, John W. Fleming, Alta Jason Gibson, Rev. Patrick H. Gilsenan, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas W. Hanley, J. Virgil Harr, William Stanley Haymond, Edward L. Hawkins, Robert M. Henry, J. Harper Meredith, James A. Meredith, William Melvin Hess, Rev. Thomas LeRoy Hooper, Dr. Edward W. Howard, Dr. LeRoy Downey Howard, William A. Hustead, Benjamin H. Ice, Samuel Lambert Johnson, Dr. Harry Stanley Keister, Ira L. Laughlin, Claude S. Lawson, Camby M. Lowther, Myron Carleton Lough, Arch L. McIntire, Robert Emmett Mochler, J. Clyde Morris, Bonard C. Morrow, Henry E. Mulligan, Thomas S. Neptune, John Edward Offner, Clyde Poling, Robert Sidney Reed, Lowman A. Riggs, Charles Richie, Thomas F. Robey, Hershel Hampton Rose, Joseph Rosier, A. Lawrence Russell, Ward M. Satterfield, Charles M. Shinn, Sen. Ira L. Smith, Roy Hampton Stewart, George H. Shomaker, A. Glenn Springer, Paul V. Stillings, Rev. Herman G. Stoetzer, Charles R. Sturm, Von E. Teeter, Homer C. Tennant, Dr. Jesse Ray Tuckwiller, Charles Walter Waddell, Kephart Delvarem Walker, SylvanusL. Watson, George Thomas Watson, Jerome N. Weaver, Miss L. Dale Westfall, Milton Williams, Henry Sanford Yost, Herschel R. Yost, Jorier Yost and Paul Yost.

Wouldn't this make a unique gift?