Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-17

then collected has been, at our request,
kindly handed over to this paper for
pub. ication
JOHN STRoTHER, a son OF
Benjamin Strother, was born at
Park Forest, in Berkeley county,
November the 18th, 1892. At thir-
teen years of age he was placed in
the county clerks office at Martins
burg, and became an inmate OF the
family of David Hunter, then clerk
of Berkeley county. When war was
declared against Great Britain, in
1912, he volunteered for the defen ce
of Norfolk, as second lieutenant in
Capt. Faulkner's artillery company,
but having in the meantime applied
for a commission in the regular ar
my, he received a notification of his
appointm ent to lieutenancy in the
18th infantry, in camp near Frede-
ricksburg. lie thereupon resigned
his commission in the State compa-
ny, was succeeded by Edward Col
ston, Joined his regiment on the
Canada frontier, was engaged under
Wilkinson in the unsuccessful enter
prise against Montreal participated
in the famous passage Of the Long
saut of the st. Lawrence, and was
in the command of his company at
the battle of Crisler's Field, where
out of twenty-four men present for
duty, the company lost eight killed
and wounded. For good conduct in
the battle, he was promoted, and af-
forwards appointed adjutant of the
regiment. After the war, he re-
turned to Martinsburg, and on the
Sth of September, 1915, was married
to Elizabeth Pendleton, eldest
daughter of David Psndleton. In
1929 he was elected clerk of the
County Court of Berkeley made va
cant by the death of David Hunter,
and held that office until 1888, when
a change in the constitution of Vir-
ginia making a new election neces-
sary he was superseded by Harrison
Waite, Esq. In 1882 he was APP
pointed by Judge Richard Parker to
the Clerkship of the Supreme Court
of law and chancery for the county
Of Berkeley, and continued in that
Office until by another change in the
Constitution it became elective by
the people, when he declined COM
peting for the Office, and retired from
it's duties after having been connect
ed with the Berkeley clerkship for
forty five years. Constrained by the
limited income of his office, and by
i'll health, brought on by the close
confinement to his clencal duties he
had some years previously, in 1888,
opened boarding house at Berkeley
Springs, and latterly, between 1916
and 1S4s, erected large hotel at
that place. The remainder of his
business life was devoted TO that en-
terprise. In the recent troubles
which agitated the country, he was
a firm and intrepid champion Of the
rights of the Union, and asserted his
opinion with courage that COM
manded the respect of both friends
and enemies. He died at the Ber-
kelley Springs on the 10th of Janu'
airy, 1862, in the midst of his family,
his last words expressing sOicitude
for his beloved country, and his alb.
sent son then serving in the Federal
army. His remains were carried to
Martinsburg, where they were inter.
red with masonic and military hon
ors.
JOHN S. HARRISON was one of
the most highly educated and &C
complished physicians that up to
that day had sought home in Ber-
kelley county. Descended from one
of the most respected of the old
families of Maryland, he was born
on West river, Anne Arundel county
in 1870. At the age of thirteen, he
was sent to st. johns College, in
Annapolis, and there spent six years
in completing his elementary CLASH
cal and scientific studies. At the
age of twenty he was sent to Europe
\where he spent four years in the
pedical and surgical instructions of
rance and England, preparing him
( for the practice of his profess
In 1906 he was married to
and Williams Stull, the neice Of