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West Virginia Archives and History is the state agency that collects and preserves materials on the state and makes them available to the public. Located in Charleston, West Virginia, this section of the Department of Arts, Culture and History oversees the West Virginia Archives and History Library, a non-lending research facility, and the West Virginia State Archives, one of the state’s ...
Arnold M. Vickers (August 8, 1908 – December 25, 1967) [1] was the Democratic President of the West Virginia Senate from Fayette County and served from 1945 to 1949.
Views in and Around Martinsburg, Virginia by A. R. Waud (Harper's Weekly, December 3, 1864). The U.S. state of West Virginia was formed out of western Virginia and added to the Union as a direct result of the American Civil War (see History of West Virginia), in which it became the only modern state to have declared its independence from the Confederacy.
Throughout the summer of 1861, Union forces under General Rosecrans had been fighting to gain control of the vital Kanawha Valley along western Virginia's border with Kentucky. The Kanawha valley was home to many southern sympathizers and secessionists and the Union wanted to take and hold the areas in Kanawha County around Charleston .
Rankin Wiley Jr. (1853–1929) was the Democratic President of the West Virginia Senate from Mason County and served from 1893 to 1895. [1] He died in 1929 of a cerebral hemorrhage. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Buckhannon, West Virginia Thomas Jefferson Farnsworth (1829-1916) was the Democratic President of the West Virginia Senate from Upshur County and served from 1883 to 1885. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Isaac Parsons (January 7, 1814 – April 24, 1862) was an American planter, politician, and military officer in the U.S. state of Virginia (now West Virginia).Parsons served as a Justice of the Peace of Hampshire County's District 3 from 1852 to 1853.
West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the 12th-least populous state, with a population of 1,769,979 residents. [5] The capital and most populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American Civil War.