Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-30
QUITE A STUDY
IS PRESENTED BY THE LIST OF VOTERS OF
THIS COUNTY.
The Oldest Voter is Aged 60 Something About
Ages, Nationalities and Other Curl
Gus Matters.

A study OF Tue IlSIs VI NOIOAS PiN
pared by the Assessors In this county
reveals some curious things, and very
entertaining column might be prepared
setting forth some Of the noteworthy
features OF the documents. The Oldest
voter in the county is Mr.. P. Mckinley,
Sr., OF the Fourth ward, who is ninety
six wears of age. Among the very aged
voters are j. K. Botsford, Esq, Joseph
Feay, Of Triadelphia, and James Healy,
OF Union, all being eighty-fve or
over. There are some gentlemen
having sons Of voting age
who are not so very aged them
selves, but the palm in this regard must
be awarded to ore family, where the
father is a voter at forty-two, while his
son is twenty-seven. The father was
but a little over fifteen when his son
was born. Some voters have lived in
the houses in which they were born for
a remarkably long time. Such enc is
George Miller, of near Precinct No. 4,
Triadelphia district, who has passed his
long life of eighty-three years in the
same locality, but his record in this re-
gard is surpassed by Joseph Feay, who
has resided near the IS" bridge, in
Triadelphia, for eighty-six years.
The number of voters who are just
twenty-one is remarkably large, and the
number of colored men who are put
down as just that age forms a very
large percentage OF the whole regis
tered colored vote. This vote, OF
course, is largely congregated in the
Second and Third wards. There are q
few in the First ward, about twenty-live
in the Fourth, and dozen or so in T'ri-
adelphia, but south Of the creek there
is but one colored voter. The age OF
the voters generally, affords an inter-
esting study.
An examination of the lists shows that
In the city there are many more young
men, proportionate to the entire adult
population, than In the country dis
tricts. In the city the great bulk o. the
voters are under thirty-fve, but when
the country lists are examined, the av-
erage of age runs much higher, and
there is a very large percentage who
are over fifty. Germans predominant
over all other natio lalitleS, and voters
of Irish birth came next. The
voters born in Ireland are very evenly
scattered over the city, but there are
localities, like Richie district, where
the German-born element is very large.
Englishmen are very frequently met
with, French are not so frequent, and
there is quite a number OF Italian and
Polish voters, with many Scandina-
vians. Several are from Russia and
several from Greece. There is rot a
Spaniard nor Portuguese among the
entire twelve thousand four hundr ed
names on the lists.
Among the native Americans, born
outside the limits of West Virginia or
Virginia, there is prepOnderance Of
Ohioans, with Pennsylvania close sec
ond and Maryland third. New York is
well represented, and so is New Jersey,
while not few come from various New
England States, there being half-a-doz-
en- from as far down East" as Maine.
In the West Illinois, Indiana, Wiscon-
sin, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nevada
are represented, while we have among
us natives of South Carolina, Mississ-
ippi, Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina,
Alabama and Georgia.
There are many other noteworthy
matters connected with this list, which
cannot be enumerated, but the whole
forms an interesting roster.
Clerk Pendleton will have the work Of
copying the lists for the election pre-
cincts completed by Tuesday, and. it
represents about million and quarter
of words. 1t Is expected that about if
teen hundred names will be dropped of
the list, they being applications, names
of dead men, OF men who have moved
away, ETC., leaving the actual number
OF legal voters about eleven thousand in
the county.