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Copperhead Movement
… .org/articles/7, and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by President Lincoln.
Historian Richard O. Curry, an authority on the creation of West Virginia, points out that the Copperhead movement had strong adherents in the state, including " …
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Earl Core
Naturalist Earl Lemley Core (January 20, 1902-December 8, 1984) was born in Monongalia County. He was educated at "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127 and Columbia University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1936. …
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Natural History
… A. B. Brooks (<em>Forestry and Wood Industries</em>) provide excellent descriptions of the timbering operations. Author G. D. McNeill of Pocahontas County gives a moving description of the loss of wilderness along the Cranberry and Williams …
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Cornstalk
… he believed the Shawnee would lose, to warn settlers of the resumption of hostilities. Suspicious of their old enemy, local authorities detained him as a hostage at "Fort Randolph":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2053. Cornstalk, his son …
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Division of Natural Resources
… Buckhannon as the first chairman. The commissioners were given the authority to appoint the chief game protector and district deputies. … Commission of West Virginia. The governor was given the authority to appoint a director and six advisory commissioners. …
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Randolph McCoy
… . The Hatfields took revenge by ritually executing the three McCoys. McCoy kept up steady pressure on local and state authorities, finally succeeding in 1887 when his relative, Perry Cline, persuaded the governor of Kentucky to prosecute the Hatfields. In …
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The Negro Citizen of West Virginia
Thomas E. Posey’s classic book, _The Negro Citizen of West Virginia_, published in 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression, documents the history of African-Americans in a state that practiced racial segregation but permitted Blacks to participate in …
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McDowell County
… new county superintendent of schools. In 2013 the state board voted to return control of McDowell County schools to local authorities. The state cited progress credited in part to Reconnecting McDowell, a public-private collaboration of state and national …
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Irene McKinney
Poet Irene McKinney (April 20, 1939 - February 4, 2012) was born in Belington, Barbour County. She received her bachelor’s degree from "West Virginia Wesleyan College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1135 in 1968, her master’s from " …
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John Harrington Cox
… were devoted to the study of Old and Middle English, and Medieval literature, in which fields he achieved distinction as an educator, author, and editor.
Cox collected his first folk song in 1913. Two years later, on July 15, 1915, he presided over the …
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Crafts Movement
… so far has been "Tamarack":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/681, operated by the West Virginia Parkways Authority at Beckley. The new century ushered in MountainMade.com, serving the craftspeople of northern West Virginia, with funding …
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Nicholas County
… diversification. Along with Fayette, Raleigh, and Summers counties, Nicholas County is part of the 4C Economic Development Authority, which was created to foster regional economic growth. The completion of four-lane "Appalachian Corridor L":http …
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Bruce Crawford
… newspaper, _Crawford’s Weekly_.
In 1931, Crawford traveled to Harlan County, Kentucky, with a committee of celebrities including authors Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos, to investigate the bloody miners’ strike there. He received a gunshot wound …
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Michael Cresap
… the Michael Cresap Museum.
In the early 1770s, Cresap led Virginia frontiersmen in their opposition to Pennsylvania’s assertion of authority in the area south and west of the Monongahela River. This action established him as a leader in the region. In …
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Normal Schools
… , the regents began to abolish high school courses in the normal schools, and, in 1920, the state board of education authorized Marshall College to offer a bachelor’s degree in education in addition to its normal diploma. The other normals soon followed. …
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Delf Norona
Amateur archeologist Delf Norona (April 14, 1895-April 12, 1974) was born in Hong Kong. Norona spent the majority of his early life in the Philippine Islands. A British subject, he emigrated to Canada as a young man and then moved to the United States, …
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Richard Currey
Writer Richard Currey was born October 19, 1949, in Parkersburg. He served as a navy medical corpsman from 1968 to 1972, and studied at "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127 and Howard University.
Currey’s …
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Danske Dandridge
Poet Danske Dandridge (November 19, 1854-June 3, 1914) was born in Copenhagen, while her father, Henry Bedinger, was serving as ambassador to Denmark. She was christened Caroline Dane Bedinger, her father giving her the nickname Danske (‘‘Little Dane’’). …
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John W. Davis
… Party. His first marriage to Julia McDonald produced a daughter, "Julia Davis":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1721, author of _The Shenandoah_ and other books. Widowed, he later married Ellen G. ‘‘Nell’’ Bassell.
One of the most …
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Wills De Hass
Antiquarian Wills De Hass (July 4, 1817-January 24, 1910) was born at West Alexander, Pennsylvania. Educated at Western University (now University of Pittsburgh) and Washington and Jefferson College, he practiced medicine in Wellsburg and Wheeling, and in …
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Ohio County
… , stocks, and whipping post in the vicinity of present 10th Street. This small structure was used until a new building was authorized in 1836, to be constructed at the southeast corner of 12th and Chapline streets. This served as the courthouse until the …
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Sigfus Olafson
… , and writings, he established himself as a competent amateur authority in the field of prehistoric archeology of the eastern … helped to found the Boone County Genealogical Society and co-authored, with his daughter Jean, several books on Boone County …
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Mechanization Agreement
… .org/articles/835 and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association is referred to as the Mechanization Agreement since it authorized extensive mechanization in union coal mines.
Mechanization had been increasing in the mines since the 1920s, but it was in …
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Mercer County
… the state-making Republican Unionists created Summers County in 1871, stripping some 128 square miles from Mercer. Moreover, state authorities in Wheeling tried to move the county seat from secessionist Princeton to Athens, but West Virginia’s ‘‘redemption …
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Methodists
… to schisms, two of which were felt keenly in West Virginia. The Methodist Protestant Church (1830) grew out of differences over the authority of the bishop and the role of the laity. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1844), a more divisive rift, was …
