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Agnes Jane Westbrook Morrison (1854-1939) was West Virginia ’s first female lawyer. [1] Morrison was born in 1854 in Wheeling, Virginia, to Henry Westbrook and Martha Barratt. [2] By 1895, Morrison would become West Virginia College of Law's first female graduate. Her husband Charles Sumner Morrison was a classmate and he graduated the same year.
West Virginia was officially admitted as a U.S. state on June 20, 1863. The area that comprises West Virginia was originally part of the British Virginia Colony (1607–1776) and the western part of the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia (1776–1788), and state of Virginia (1788–1863). Western Virginia became sharply divided over the issue of ...
James Knox Smith: [10] [11] First African American male lawyer in McDowell County, West Virginia (c. 1880s) Charles E. Price: [12] First African American male to graduate from the West Virginia University College of Law (1949) Franklin Cleckley: [7] [8] First African American male to serve as a law professor at the West Virginia University ...
Francis Harrison Pierpont (January 25, 1814 – March 24, 1899), called the "Father of West Virginia," [1] was an American lawyer and politician who achieved prominence during the American Civil War. During the conflict's first two years, Pierpont served as Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia and, in this capacity, administered the ...
July 19, 1964 [2] The Grave Creek Mound in the Ohio River Valley in West Virginia is one of the largest conical-type burial mounds in the United States, now standing 62 feet (19 m) high and 240 feet (73 m) in diameter. [3] The builders of the site, members of the Adena culture, moved more than 60,000 tons of dirt to create it about 250–150 BC.
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in West Virginia.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
The protohistoric period of the state of West Virginia in the United States began in the mid-sixteenth century with the arrival of European trade goods. Explorers and colonists brought these goods to the eastern and southern coasts of North America and were brought inland by native trade routes. This was a period characterized by increased ...
The first element of this system is the state's National "ID" number which for West Virginia is "46". The second element is the county in which the site is located, an abbreviation. For example, the 1st site in Mingo County is site 46MO1, Cotiga Mound, listing a Woodland burial mound dating to 1400 BCE on the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River.