Statehood


Painting, Daniel D. T. Farnsworth represented Upshur County in the Second Wheeling Convention and was elected to the House of Delegates for the Reorganized Government of Virginia. Farnsworth later served in the West Virginia State Senate and became president of that body. When Arthur Boreman resigned as governor to join the United States Senate, Farnsworth became governor for five days. Portrait File



Statehood

West Virginia Archives and History