The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26


Prof F. S. Lyon came here in 1867
and was a member of the first faculty
Of the University.
Marmaduke HI. Dent was the first
graduate of the University.
Monongalia county cast 400 votes
for Andrew jackson and ISL for his
opponent, John Q. Adams, in 1928
In 1882 it cast $50 votes for jackson
and 230 votes for Henry Clay, his
opponent.
Monongalia sent Col. John Evans
as her delegate to the Virginia con-
yention of 1776.
W. T. Wiley and Henry Dering
were delegates to the Wheeling con-
vention of 1861 to frame a constitu-
ton for the new State.
Thomas Wilson was admitted to
the Monongalia bar in 1883, and
practiced here for more than twenty
years. He was our first representa-
tive in Congress.
Col. James Evans represented the
county as a delegate to the General
Assembly of Virginia in 1s39-40.
DIR. II. B. Lazier was wounded at
the battle of Antietam while com
handing Co. E., Seventh w. Va. In
fantry.
Ices Ferry was established and
named fully a hundred years ago.
The old National Hotel" stood
where the Commercial now stands.
1t was built in 1898, and was torn
down in 1877 by J. X. Durr.
The Wallace House was opened in
1871.
The present NJ. E. church was
built about 1850.
Col. Richard Watts was born in
Maryland in 17SS, came to Morgan
town quite early and died here in
1886.
Fancis I. Brooke practiced law in
Morgantown as early as 1889.
Col. Samuel Hanway had mill
on Deckers creek in 1896.
S. T. Wiley says that Albert G.
Davis bounded and described Mon
ongalia county as follows, in speech
in the Virginia House of Delegates,
March End, 1858: I'VE are bounded
on the north by the Pennsylvania
line, on the south be Marion county,
on the east by Preston, ON the west
by Wetzel, and we are bounded
above by the clear, bright heavens.
We have a fertile soil. We are
ashamed to beg and afraid to steal,
and we can live without public aid"
Adam Staggers was principal of
the Morgantown public schools in
1868.
The first Baptist organization here
was about 1912 with twenty-five
members.
The old Methodist Protestant
Church, which stood on Long alley
and which burned down in 1874, was
built in 1S4l.
There has never been but one
Mormon sermon preached in Nor
gantown, and that was fully fifty
years ago.
Judge Berkshire was prosecuting
attorney of the county in 1S47.
Harrison county was cut off from
Monongalia in 1854.
A premium used to be paid for
every wolf scalp taken in the county.
On the first of September 1889 a
slave, called Milly, was hanged in
Morgantown for burning her mas
ter's barn.
William Werninger was admitted
to the Monongalia bar in 1888.
Mathew Gay began practicing law
here in 1907, and John Brown in 1894.
William Tingle was clerk of the
Superior Court in 1901.
Maxwell Armstrong was prose
cutting attorney of the county in
1897.
David Scott, John Evans, Richard
Tenant and Peter Taught took part
in Dunmore's war, in 1774.
blackwell and David Morgan wit
messed Braddock defeat.
Oak Grove Cemetery was laid out
in 1865.
. Philip Doddridge was admitted to
the Morgantown bar in 1851.
Judge R. L. Berkshire came to
Morgantown in 1884.
Judge Ollie came here from King
wood in 1864.
Thos. p. Ray was the first presi-
dent of the Merchants and Mechan-
les Bank, now the Merchants Ma
tional.
Monongalia county furnished two
Thousand soldiers in the war of the
rebellion.
A. o. Wilson went from Monon-
gala to Missouri soon after the war
and was killed by a member of the
Jesse James gang.
Col. John Evans was "County
Lieutenant" of this county in 1880.