Tucker County, West Virginia From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements
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From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time
By Hu Maxwell, Published 1884, 570 pages
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With Biographical Sketches of More Than Two Hundred and Fifty of the
Leading Men, and A Full Appendix of Official and Electional History;
Also, An Account of the Rivers, Forests and Caves of the County.
Tucker County was created out of Randolph County, West Virginia in
1856. For this book, author Hu Maxwell combines political history and
the progress of local institutions with sketches of contemporary
luminaries and their families. Thus the volume opens with a discussion
of the county's indigenous people and topography; first contact with
Europeans; pioneering types like John Minear, Jesse Hughes, and James
Goff; the successful formation of the county; schools and churches;
the lumber industry; the railroad in Tucker county; newspapers;
travelers and their accounts of the county; a detailed account of the
Civil War in Tucker County; and a number of statistics pertaining to
county politics.
The balance of the work consists of genealogical/biographical sketches
of hundreds of Tucker County families or persons, a representative
sampling of which is as follows: Ashby, Atherton, Ault, Austin, Auvil,
Baughman, Beckner, Bever, Biler, Bishoff, Blanchard, Bohon, Bolyard,
Boner, Bonifield, Bright, Buckbee, Burns, Callihan, Calvert,
Campfield, Channell, Cline, Closs, Cooper, Corrick, Cosner, Day, Dice,
Dumire, Eastham, Evans, Ewin, Fansler, Fink, Fitzwater, Flanagan,
Funk, Gilmore, Godwin, Gower, Hansford, Harsh, Hebb, Helmick, Hovater,
Hull, Irons, Judah, Kalar, Kepner, Knapp, Knotts, Lambert, Lipscomb,
Loughry, Love, Luzier, Maxwell, Mayer, Metz, Minear, Moore, Motony,
Nester, Parsons, Pase, Pennington, Phillips, Poling, Powell, Propst,
Purkey, Raines, Root, Ruffin, Ryan, Schaffer, Shoemaker, Snyder,
Spencer, Spersert, Stevens, Street, Stull, Swisher, Talbott, Toy,
VanMeter, Vanscoy, Varner, White, Wilmoth, Wilson, Wilt, Wolford,
Yager, Yokum, and Yotring.
Contents
CHAPTER I. JAMES PARSONS.
CHAPTER II. JOHN MIXEAR
CHAPTER III. MISCELLANIES.
CHAPTER IV. MISCELLANIES.
CHAPTER V. FORMATION OF TUCKER COUNTY.
CHAPTER VI. SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
CHAPTER VII. MOUNTAINS AND CAVES.
CHAPTER VIII. LUMBER INTERESTS OF TUCKER COUNTY
CHAPTER IX. WEST VIRGINIA CENTRAL AND PITTSBURGH RAILWAY.
CHAPTER X. MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS.
CHAPTER XI. NEWSPAPERS OF THE COUNTY.
CHAPTER XII. THE ST. GEORGE BAR.
CHAPTER XIII. TRAVELERS.(Abe Bonnifleld)
CHAPTER XIV. TRAVELERS. (CONTINUED-Captain Ezekiel Harper)
CHAPTER XV. TRAVELERS. (CONTINUED-Henry Bonnifield)
CHAPTER XVI. TRAVELERS. (CONTINUED-The Minears)
CHAPTER XVII. THE WAR. BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES.
APPENDIX. - Biographical sketch of the author 511
APPENDIX. - POLITICAL STATISTICS. Election returns of the county 532
Index. 573 ILLUSTRATIONS.Capt. Ezekiel Harper. W. B. Maxwell