The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-12-12
Tablet WIN cOm1nenorafe FIRST
Meeting in STATE Ihat Resulted
IN Foundatioa. q mis- stete
COMMITTEES 81 AFPorNTr5ip
To Ascertain Cost Of the Same and
select = Location IN Court
House FOr7It..

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The county court Tuesday evening
appointed Nathan Con, John ,.
Davis and Henry Raymond q CONE
mfttee to report on the advisability
and cost Of q tablet, as well as its
location, Intended to compemorate
the initial meeting that resulted in
the formation of the State of West
virginia. as shown by the following
petition presented to the court:
To the Honorable, The ounty Court
of Harrison County
Your petitioners respectfully rep
resent to your honorable body that
ON the 22nd. day Of April. 1861,
there was held in the court house
that formerly stood on the ground
occupied by the present building. q
large meeting of the citizens OF Har-
rison county which was presided
over by John Hursey. with John Wes-
ley Harris as secretary, and that at
said meeting the following resolu-
lions were adopted:
Resolved, That it be and is here
by recommended to the people in
each and all of the counties compos-
ing North Western Virginia, to APP
point delegates not less than five In
number. of their wisest, best and dis
creetist men. to meet in convention
in Wheeling on rhe 18th day of May
next to consult and determine upon
such action as the people Of North
Western Virginia should take in
this fearful emergency.
Resolved. That Hon. John s. Car
lille. Waldo p. Con, John j. Davis.
Thomas L. Moore. Solomon s. Flem-
ing. Lot BIowen, William E. Lyon.
Felix Sturm, BENJAMIN F. Shuttle
worth and James Lynch, be and are
hereby appointed delegates. to rep
resent this county in said conven-
ton.
The above resolution. calling on
the people Of North Western Vfr-
ginia to assemble in Wheeling was
promptly responded to by nearly all
Of the counties comprising the State
of West Virginia by the appointment
of delegates as therein requested,
and these delegates assembled in
Wheeling on the 18th day OF May,
1851, the convention holding. its
meetings in Washington hall in that |
city. and the action taken by that
body finally resulted in the forma-
tion of the new state. on June 90.
1858
Your petitioners. all of whom were
present at the meeting held in the
court house aforesaid. further repre-
sent that this interesting and historic
event occurring as it did at trying
and stormy period in our Nations
history. and showing a courage
worthy of emulation, and resulting
N changing the destlnies and govern
ment of the people of Virginia, west
Of the mountains. is fast passing
rom the minds of men. and suggest
hat for the benefit of coming gem
,raHons should be commemorate by
1 suitable tablet placed in the pres
,nt court house building in some
place.
Your petitioners for the purpose
If carrying out the object set forth
lbove request that the court appoint
/ committee to ascertain and report
IS follows:
First, To recommend suitable
ablet for the purpose suggested and
its cost.
Second. To select and recommend
he place where the tablet should be
ocated in the court house building.
md report it's action to the court for
is future consideration.
All OF which is respectfully sub
nitted. December II, 1906.
JOHN j. DAVIS.
B. F. SHULLTEWORTH,
ALEXANDER c. MOORE.
HENRY RAYMOND,
1. p. r. ASH,
JASPER Y. MOORE.
E. B. HURsEY,
B. BROWN STOUT.
But two of the delegates sent TO
he Wheeling convention from the !,
harrisburg meeting are now living
hey are John j. Davis and BEN
amin F. Shuttleworth.
Such a tablet ought by all means
, be placed in the court house here >
nd as the report viii favor It, It Is
le belief that the court will have :
Ich tablet placed,