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ton in the war of 1912, afterwards
appointed Federal Judge of the
West Virginia Circuit, by Presi-
dent Madison.
In 1885 Marshallcounty received
the illustrious and honored name
Of John Marshall, the great Chief
Justice Of the United States. The
wonderful prehistoric tumulns at
the embouchure Of Graves Creek
into the Ohio river, affords it's
county seat the appropriate and
highly suggestive name Of
Moundsvills.
In the year 1887, Virginia CRATE
fully commemorated the gallant
and distinguished General Hugh
Mercer, whe fell so bravely, lead
ing the Virginia troops on the
bloody, hotly-contested field of
Princeton, N. j., during the Rev
olution; by calling Mercer county
after his honored name, and the
county seat most appropriately by
the name Of Princeton.
Braxton county, formed in 1886,
bears the name of Carter Braxton,
one of Virginia's signers of the
Declaration OF Independence. It's
county seat derives its name from
John Dawson Sutton, one of the
early settlers on Elk river, a son
of John Sutton, an English Jew
eler, who resided at Alexandria,
Va, and brother of Daniel j. SUIT
ton, a lawyer who was long Re-
ceiver at the United States Land
Office, Monroe, Louisiana, by APP
pointment of President jackson.
In 1912. Wayne and Marion
counties were formed, respectfully
commemorative the names of An
thony Wayne and Francis Marion,
two distinguished Generals of the
Revolution.
In 1913, Barbour and Richie
counties were formed, taking the
respective name of Philip Pcndle-
| ton Barbour, an Associate Justice
OF the Supreme Court of the
United States; hence Philippi the
county seat, and Thomas Richie,
the founder and for many years
editor Of the Richmond Enquirer,
and afterwards of the Washington
| Union.
In 1914 the county of Taylor de-
rived its name from the distin-
| guished statesman and author
John Taylor, of California, author
of Construction Construed" and
the Letters of Aator,' mover of
Madison's famous resolution in tho
Legislature of 1889.
In 1916 Doddridge county was
formed, and received the name of
Hon. Philip Doddridge, long an
eminent jurist and representative
in Congress from West Virginia,
Mr.. ID. was q wonderfully vigor-
Gus DICTATOR, and his speeches in
the famous Virginia Constitution
al Convention of 1929 take rank
with the ablest and best delivered
in that eminently distinguished
and able body of scholars, philos-
ophers. INSISTS and statesmen.
In the same year with Doddridge,
Gilmer county was called in honor
of.Thomas Walker Gilmer, previous
ly Governor of Virginia, and whose
deplorable death not long before by
the explosion OF great gun on the
steamer Princeton, which vessel he
was visiting as Secretary OF the Navy,
was the occasion of national mourn
ing.
| In 1916 Wetzel county took the
name of Lewis Wetzel, distinguish
ed pioneer and Indian fighter OF
Northwest Virginia during its ear
| hest settlement.
In the year 1S47 the Legislature
called newly defined comfy Boone,
in honor of the great pioneer and
founder of Kentucky's colonization,
Daniel Boone.
| In 1848, three counties were crea-
| ted taking respectively the distin-
| guished names of John Hancock,
| President of the Continental Con-
gress, that made the Declaration of
Independence, General Israel Put
nam, of Revolutionary fame and
memory, and William Writ, a learn
| ed lawyer and eloquent advocate, at
one time Attorney General of the
! United States. The counties of our
State, more lately formed, viz: Up
shur, named for Judge Abel p. Up
shur, who was Secretary of State
under President Tyler's administra-
ton, when killed on the Princeton,
at the same time with Gov. Gilmer
Mcdowell, named after the amiable
and accomplished Governor James
Mcdowell, of Rockbridge; Pleas
ants, named for Gov. James Pleas
ants, or his not less distinguished
son, John Hampden Peasants, foun-
der and editor of the Richmond
Wing Clay, Calhoun and Webster,
called after the most illustrious trio
of rival statesmen this country has
ever produced. Lincoln and Grant,