Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-01

SOME INTERESTING INF0RMA
TIoN.-We have obtained from
Hon. E. B. Faulkner some inter
esting information relative to
the past history of West Virgin
ia, and which we gladly present
to our readers. Judge Faulkner,
in looking over some old records,
papers, etc., jotted down the
facts, and it will be of value to
| future generations to have them
compiled.
/ Since the formation of the
State of West Virginia, there
have been nine persons who
have consecutivefy represented
the Second Congressional Dis
trict, in the following order !:
William G.. Brown, George R.
Latham, Bethuel M. Kitchen,
James G. McGrew, j. Marshal
Hagans, Chas. j. Faulkner,
Benz. F. Martin, John Blair
Hoge and William L. Wilson the
present representative.
In the same length of time we
have had nine judges of the cir
cult of which Berkeley county is
a part; four of these come from
Jefferson county, four from
Berkeley, and one from Morgan.
They served in the following or
DER John w. Kennedy, L. P. w.
Balch, Joseph A. Chapline, Eph-
RAIN B. Hall, John Blair Hoge,
Charles j. Faulkner, Jr., Frank
Beckwith, Joseph S. Duckwall,
and E. Boyd Faulkner, who was
appointed to fill the unexpired
term of Joseph S Duckwall, who,
died while on the bench. Judge
Faulkner was elected at the last
general election.
1t might be interesting to note
here that Judge Faulkner has
been making an effort to keep
down the expenses of court; and
as measure of his success, as
can be seen from the following
ing statement, we note that the
jury expenses have been reduc-
ed fully so per cent. Grand and
petit jury expenses for 1888, ST.
654.10; for 1889, 81, 105.45; for
1890, 81, 267.60; for 1891, 81, 167.-
10; and for 1892, his first year,
$S56,4O. All, =
Few, if any persons at all,
know that a noted jurist, who
afterwards served as a Justice
of the Supreme Court of the
United States, was born in this
county. His name was Robert
Trimble. He was born in Berke-
ley county, Virginia, now West
Virginia, in 1776, and when an
infant removed to Kentucky.
Five years after he began to
practice law he was appointed
a Justice of the Court of Appeals
of Kentucky, and not a great
while afterwards was rendered
the Chief Justiceship of said
court, but declined the honor.
He was afterwards appointed
Judge of the District Court of
Kentucky, in 1916, by President
Madison, and ON May 9th, 1926,
President Adams appointed him
Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, from which
he was removed by death in 49,
%. 1t is said "that a greater
proportion of the opinions writ
ten by Justice Trimble have form
ed the foundation upon which
later rulings of the court found
support, than those prepared by
any other Justice"
Berkeley county was also the
birthplace of another character
well known in the earlier history
of our government, William
Crawford the moving spirit of
"Crawford's Campaign" He
was born in this county in 1882.
After reaching maturer age he
became Surveyor, an associate
of Washington. In the famous
war in which Braddock made
his expedition against Fort Du-
Quesne, he was with that gener-
al and was a colonel of the 9Th
Virginia Regiment in 1872, He
formed the expedition against
the Wyandottes and Delawares,
and in that expedition was cap
tured by the Indians and burned
to death. This is what was
known as the Crawford Cam
paign. "-Independent.
Hundreds of people write 1T is i'm.