The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-13
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TYPOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
nt Our West virginia Senators
ana Representatives In COn-


From Zen rerloy pOore', Congressional Directory
for 1876
Henry G. DAVIS, Of Piedmont, was
born in Howard county, Maryland, No
yember 10, 1923; received a country'schoo
education; lived and worked upon iarn
mill lsi3 was in the employ Of the Balti
more 4 Ohio Railroad Company for four
teen years; commenced banking AM
mining coal at Piedmont in 1858; is nov
President OF the Piedmont National
Bank, and is engaged in mining
and shipping coal, manufacturing lnn M
Der, &c; was elected to the House %
Delegates Of West Virginia in lSo2i was T.' "
member Of the National DemoGrahc con,
vcntlOns ut New York in, 1000, anu AZ
baltimore in 1872; wa. elected to me
State Senate of West Virginia in 1868
and 10. WINS elected to the United States
senate rs Democrat, to succeed W. l..
WILEY Rsnnblican, and took his seat
March 4 1871. His term oil service Will
expire March ., 1871
ALLEN TAYLOR CAPERToS, Of Union,
un, born near Union, Monroe county,
Virginia, (now West Virginia,) Novem-
liver Il, 1910; attended school in Virginia,
and at Huntsville, Alabama, tho Univer-
sity Of Virginia, and Yale College, gradu-
ating nj the latter institution in 1889;
studied law with Judge BEiscoc G. Bald.
win, at Stanton, Virginia; was admitted
to the bar, and has since practiced; was u
Director Of the James River and Kama
wha Canal; was for several years MEM
Der Of the State House Of Delegates and
Of the State Senate of Virginia. his last
Senatorial term being from 1859 TO 1860;
was a member OF the State Constitutional
Convention Of Virginia in 1861; was
elected by the Legislature Of Virginia a
member Of the Confederate Sta ties Senate,
and served until the close OF the war in
1865; took an active part, after returning
home, in bringing the fine coal mineral,
timber, and grazing lands OF West Viz.
GINA before distant capitalists; was elect
cd TO the United States Senate as Denl-
ocrat, to succeed Arthur |. Boreman, and
took his scat March 4, 1875 Els term OF
service will expire March 8, 1881.
Observation-Disclosures DISTRICT.
Counties.--Brooke, Calhoun, Doddridgc,
Gilmer, Hancock, Harrison, Lewis, Mar
shall, Ohio, Peasants, Richie, Tyler,
Wetzel, Writ, and Wood.
BENJAMIN WILSON, Of Wilsonburg, was
born in Harrison county, Virginia, (now
West Vlrginia,) April 80, 1925; was edu
Gated at the Northwestern Virginia
Academy at Clarksburg; attended law
school ut Staunton; was admitted to the
bar in 1913, and has since practicedi was
Commonwealth Attorney. for Harrison
county in lS52-60; was member Of the
State constitutional Convention Of Vir-
ginia in 1861; was Presidential Elector on
the Democratic ticket for the State at
large in 1868; was member OF the State
Constitutional Convention Of West Vir-
GINA in 1871; was one OF the Delegates
from the State ut large to the National
Democratic Convention at Baltimore in
1872; and was elected to the Forty
fourth Congress as u Democrat, receiving
12,799 votes against 1851 votes for Ma
than Got, jr, Republican.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Counties-Barbour, Berkeley, Grant,
Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Marion,
Mineral, Monongalia, Morgan, Pendleton,
Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Taylor,
Tucker, Upshur, and Webster.
CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER, OF Mar
tinsburg, was born at Martiusburg, VVir.
GINA, (now West Virginia. in 1913; grad
uated ut Georgetown University, District
Of Columbia; attended Chancellor Tuck
er's law lectures at Winchester, Virginia;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice in 1920; was elected member Of
the House OF Delegates. Of Virginia in
1881: was Commissioner OF Virginia on
the disputed boundary between that State
and Maryland; was elected to the State
Senate Of Virginia in lSll for the term
oiiour years, but resigned in 1872; was
appointed Visitor o: the Virginia Mill
tary Institute in 1886, was elected a
member OF the Revising Legislature Of
Virginia in lS4S; was elected q member
Of the State Constitutional Convention Of
Virginia IN 1850; was elected to the
House OF Representatives in the Thirty
second, Thirty.third, Thirty.fourth, and
Thirty.filh Congresses, serving from De.
ccmbGr |, 1851, until March 8, 1859, and
during the latter part Of that time as
Chairman OF tho House Committed on
Military Affairs; was Chairman Of
the resident National Democratic
Committee in charge Of the Pres
idcntial canvass Of 1850; was nomi-
mated IN 1859 by President Buchanan az
Minister Plenipotcntiary to France, and
confirmed by the Senate; returned to the
United States in August, 1861, and was
held ~ prisoner ofstate upon no charge
or imputation against his fidelity as a
Minister, but from an apprehension that
he would unite his fortunes with those OF
the Southern Confederacy; was exchang-
cd in December, 1861, for Hon. Alfred
Ely, member Of tho United States House
OF Representatives, from New York, then
prisoner in Richmond; entered tue Con.
federate Army rs q member oil General
Stone wall Jackson's staff, and served as
his chief of staff until the death OF that
officer, having written all the official re-
ports that bear his signature; was elected
In 1870 President OF the Martinsburg u
Potomac Railroad, and in 1871 President
Of the Berkeley County Agricultural So
cicty; was q member OF the State Consti-
tutional Convention of West Virginia in
1872; was appointed n Regent OF the West
Virginia University in 1873; and was
elected TO the Forty.fourth Congress MS a
Democrat, receiving IL 500 votes against
S,O6l votes for Alexander II. Boteler, In
dependent,
THIRD DISTRICT.
OouMies.-Boone, Braxton, Cabcll, Clay,
Fayette, Grccnbricr, Jackson, Kanawha,
Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mercer, Monroe,
Mcdowell, Nicholas, Putnam, Raleigh,
Roane, Summers, Wayne and Wyoming.
FRANK HEEEFoRD, OF Union, was born
in FAuquier county, Virginia, July 4,
1925; graduated in 1916; studied law and
practices his profession; was District A.
torney Of Sacramento county, California,
from October, 1855, to October, 1851; was
elected to the Forty.second and Forty
third Congresses, and was reelected to
the Forty.fourth Congress as Demo,
crat, receiving 1884 votes against 7,745
votes for Witcher, Republican.
OUR NOUNDSVILLE LETTER.