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• Clarksburg Exponent Telegram

  … to buy the paper from Carlile, naming it _Clarksburg Telegram_. In 1891, a … became a stockholder in 1902, beginning his family’s century-long association with the … Avenue, its present location. Retaining the name Clarksburg Publishing Company, the merged …

• Williams River

  … . The origin of the river’s name is not certain. According to one … rugged watershed was never heavily populated. Two families who settled near the headwaters of the … parts of Pocahontas County. One of the families, the Stultings, moved to Hillsboro, where …

• Williamson

  … .org/articles/1679 runs through Williamson, which has a major rail yard. Williamson was named for the prominent Williamson family and established on land belonging to them. The site was still farmland as …

• Clay County

  … the first permanent settler. By 1839, 28 families lived in what is now Clay County. … parts of Nicholas and Braxton counties and named for Henry Clay, the great U.S … School and Clay Middle School have been named National Schools of Excellence in recent years …

• Williamstown

  … the 400-acre Tomlinson tract in 1787, and Williamstown was named for them. Williamstown is situated opposite the mouth of … 1986. It encompasses sites associated with the Tomlinson-Henderson family and includes three "Indian burial mounds":https …

• George Clendenin

  … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1089. His family settled in the Greenbrier Valley in … by Virginia Gov. Edmund Randolph, the Clendenin family, led by George, left Camp Union … Clendenin’s land was selected and named Charlestown in memory of Clendenin’s …

• Andrew Lewis

  … Lewis was born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1720. The Lewis family emigrated to America and settled in the "Shenandoah … and surveying. In 1751, they surveyed the Greenbrier Valley and named the river for the vexatious Greenbriers that abounded in the …

• Lewis County

  … created from part of Harrison County on December 18, 1816. Named for Col. Charles Lewis, killed in the "Battle … forces; arguments and violent clashes between neighbors and within families; arrests and internments; and a few bushwhackings. After West …

• Coalfield Blues

  … of his guitar style from a Black guitarist and singer named William Hunt. Unfortunately, record companies did not record Hunt … from Warriormine in McDowell County, who learned guitar from his family, particularly his uncle, Will Muncy, who owned reissued …

• Chuck Yeager

  … and Susie Mae Sizemore Yeager. The family moved to Hamlin before young … X-1A. Yeager's X-1, named _Glamorous Glennis_ after his wife, … /articles/1385 at Charleston is named after General Yeager, as is … /1529, the Yeager Scholars, is named in his honor. On the …

• Lincoln County

  … was Griffithsville, established about 1854 and named after an early settler, Alexander … Cabell, Kanawha, and Putnam counties, and named for the assassinated president. In … By 1935, 89 percent of all families regularly accepted government relief, although …

• The Morgantown Weekly Post

  … ) became publisher in 1923, and his family still controls the "Morgantown": … New Dominion_ appeared September 7, 1897. The name was shortened to the _New Dominion_ … but retained separate editorial offices. The name of the _New Dominion_ was changed …

• Dwight Whitney Morrow

  … ;Marshall University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1529. The family moved to Pittsburgh in 1875, when Dwight was a … home in Englewood, New Jersey. Morrow Library at Marshall University, named for James E. Morrow, was founded in part by …

• Little Bluestone River

  … "Bluestone Dam":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/575, was named for Robert and Mary Frances Moody Lilly, the progenitors of the vast "Lilly family":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1400 in southern West …

• Mountain Cove Spiritualist Community

  … amp; Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978. Among the migrants were families with the names of Hunt, Hopping, Dwight, Nichols, Norton, Sheridan, Cottrell, and Piggot. Industrious and …

• Chief Logan

  … , whom the Moravians had converted to Christianity. Named Tah-gah-jute, or Talgayeeta, at … a group including members of Logan’s family near Yellow Creek on April 30, 1774 … Logan, and Chief Logan State Park are named for Logan, as, indirectly, is Mingo County …

• Logan County

  … org/articles/98. The county seat, first named Lawnsville, was laid out in 1827. … between 1792 and 1824 by pioneer families from Washington and Montgomery counties, … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/278 against the family of "Randolph ‘‘Randal’’ McCoy": …

• William Alexander MacCorkle

  … modernized as MacCorkle. His father, also named William, had been a manager of … , the daughter of an established Charleston family. There were two children, William G … handsome mansion, later a museum, was named "Sunrise":http://www.wvencyclopedia …

• Malden

  … was first known as Terra Salis and then Kanawha Salines, names taken from the underground brine deposits that were developed into … as Malden. The origin of the name is not known. African-American families, well before the Civil War, organized a Baptist …

• A. James Manchin

  … the fifth child of an Italian immigrant family. In 1948 at age 21, he … a schoolteacher. In the 1960s, President Kennedy named Manchin director of the state Farmer’s … of state in 1972, Moore in 1973 named him head of REAP, the Rehabilitation Environmental …

• William Casey Marland

  … University. Born in Illinois, Marland moved at age seven with his family to Glen Rogers, "Wyoming County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … his law degree in June 1947, and the following August was named law clerk for Judge Ben Moore of the U.S. …

• Mountain State University

  … recognition of donations made by the Carter Family Foundation, now houses the School of … as the health services building. The Lewin Family Bell Tower near the center of … of this building. Beckley College changed its name to the College of West Virginia …

• Marshall County

  … part of Ohio County on March 12, 1835. The county was named for "John Marshall":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1524 … The first settlers of European descent were John Wetzel and his family in 1769 or 1770. They were soon followed by the …

• Consolidation Coal Company

  … and power for an important political family. Consolidation Coal Company was organized in … Creek coalfield. The company was well-named, building itself by the consolidation … in Pennsylvania. The Fleming-Watson family, principal owners of Fairmont Coal …

• Marshall University

  … was incorporated March 30, 1838, and named for "Chief Justice John Marshall& … , the only medical school in America named solely for a woman, initially specialized … completed. These include the Arthur Weisberg Family Applied Engineering Complex, a new …