The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-01-20

SieSpeu AueuWnnnt NUNtTuOT Ol virginia
in 1868, and continued until the close Of
the war; was Delegate 10 the Censlitu-
tional Convention Of Weat Virginia in
1872 aud President thereof; was elected
Circuit Judge in 1865, but not commits
stoned by the Governor, who said that he
was rebel and could not take the teal
oath; was appointed 10 the United States
Senate TO filf the vacancy caused by the
death Of Alien Taylor Caperton as a
Democrat, and took his seat December 4.
1876. His term will expire Rt the next
meeting Of the Legislature. .
Next comes Mr.. Faulkner. Behold
how fnlI and circumStantial is the story
OF his life:
Charles James Faulkner, OF Martins.
burg, was born at Mariinsbnrg, Virginia,
(noW West Virginia. in 1908; graduated
at Georgetown University, District Of
Columbia; attended Chancellor fuckers
law lectures at Winchester, Virginia; was
admitted TO the bar, and commenced
practice in 1929; was elected a 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 Stale
Senate OF Virginia in lS4l for the term
OF four years, but resigned in 1912; was
appointed n Visitor oi the Virginia Mil.
itary Institute in 1876; was elected n
member Of the Revising Legislature Of
Virginia in 1913; was elected member
Of the State Constitutional Convention OF
Virginia in 1850; was elected to the
House OF Representatives in the Thirty
second, Thirty.Lhird, Thirty-fourth and
Thirty.Gtth Congresses, serving from De-
cember !, 1851, until March >, 1859, and
dnrinG the latter part N that time as
Chairman Of the House Committee on
Military Affairs; was Chairman of the
resident National Democratic Commit.
tee in charge OF tho Presidential canvass
OF 1896; was nominated in 1859
by President Buchanan US Minister
Plenipotcntiary to France, and confirmed
by the Senate; returned TO the United
Staic5 in August, 1861, and was held ~
prisoner Of state upon no charge or i'm.
pntalion against his fidelity as a Minis.
ter, but from an apprehension that he
would unite his fortune with those OF
the Southern Confederacy; was cxchang.
ed in December, 1861, for Hon. Alfred
Ely, member OF the United States House
Of Representatives from New York, then
prisoner in Richmond; entered the
Confederate Army as member Of Gener.
al Stonewall Jackson's staff, and served
as hia chief OF staff until the death OF
that officer, having written all the official
reports that bear his signature; was elect.
ed in 1870 President Of the Martinsburg
aud Potomac Railroad, and in 1871 Pres.
ident Of the Berkeley County Agricultu.
raj Society; was member Of the State
Constitutional Convention Of West Vir.
gInia in 1872; was appointed Regent Of
the West Virginia University in 1873;
elected President Of the West Virginia
Historical Society in 1874; appointed in
1879 member OF the Indian Commission
to investigate alleged. frauds at the Red
Cloud Agency, and was elected TO the
Forty.fourth Congress. as Democrat,
receiving II 500 votes against S,OG4 votes
Tor Alexander Il. Boteler, Independent.
We do notify any means pnrposely put
Mr.. Hereford at the foot Of the class.
We take him simply rs we find him in
Poore's pngea.' Here are his short and
simple annals:
Frank Hereford, of Union, Monroe
county, West Virginia, was born in Fan
quier county, Virginia, July 4th, 1926;
graduated in 1915; studied law and prac.
ticed his profession; was District Attor-
ncy OF Sacramento county, California,
from October, 1855, to October, 1857; was
elected 10 the 42d and 43d Congress, and
was reelected to the iith Congress as n
Democrat, receiving 1884 votes against
7,745 votes for Witcher, Republican.
| We have understood that Mr.. Here
ford served few months in the Union
army at the outbreak Of the war, having
enlisted in California or soon after his
arrival in West Virginia. We do not say
this to kill him oil with the present Leg
islaturc, but simply to supply link in
the chain Of his career that he apparently
Overlooked.-EDs. INTEL.l