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Delegates to the
First Wheeling Convention

Hancock County (32)
George McC. Porter, W. L. Crawford, Louis R. Smith, J. C. Crawford, B. J. Smith, Thomas Anderson, William B. Freeman, W. C. Murray, J. L. Freeman, John Gardner, George Johnston, J. S. Porter, James Stevenson, J. S. Pomeroy, R. Breneman, David Donahoo, D. S. Nicholson, Thayer Melvin, Ewing Turner, James H. Pugh, H. Farnsworth, James G. Marshall, Samuel Freeman, John Mahan, David Jenkins, William Hewitt, William Brown, A. Moore, D. C. Pugh, Jonathan Allison, John H. Atkinson, Joseph W. Allison.

Brooke County (16)
Adam Kuhn, David Hervey, Campbell Tarr, Nathaniel Wells, J. R. Burgoine, James Archer, Jesse Edgington, R. L. Jones, James A. Campbell, Robert Nichols, Joseph Gist, John G. Jacob, Eli Green, J. D. Nichols, Bazael Wells, M. Walker.

Ohio County (38)
L. S. Delaplain, J. R. Stifel, G. L. Cranmer, Alfred Caldwell, John McLure, Jr., Andrew Wilson, George Forbes, A. J. Woods, T. H. Logan, James S. Wheat, George W. Norton, N. H. Garrison, E. Buchanan, John Pierson, T. Witham, E. McCaslin, A. B. Caldwell, J. R. Hubbard, A. F. Ross, W. B. Curtis, John Stiner, Daniel Lamb, C. D. Hubbard, S. H. Woodward, J. W. Paxton, A. Handlan, S. Waterhouse, J. Hornbrook, L. D. Waitt, John K. Botsford, George Bowers, Robert Crangle, J. M. Bickel, James Paull, John C. Hoffman, Jacob Berger, A. Bedillion, Sr., J. C. Orr.

Marshall County (69)
John H. Dickey, John Parkinson, Thomas Morris, W. Alexander, John Laughlin, W. T. Head, J. S. Parriott, W. J. Purdy, H. C. Kemple, Joseph Turner, Hiram McMechen, E. H. Caldwell, James Garvin, L. Gardner, H. A. Francis, Thomas Dowler, John R. Morrow, William Wasson, Nat. Wilson, Thomas Morgan, S. Dorsey, Jr., R. B. Hunter, J. W. McCarriher, J. B. Morris, R. C. Holliday, William Collins, W. R. Kimmons, G. W. Evans, William McFarland, J. Hornbrook, John Reynolds, R. Swan, J. B. Hornbrook, James Campbell, F. Clement, J. Winders, William Baird, Dr. Marshman, William Luke, J. Garvin, S. Ingram, William Phillips, A. Francis, Thomas Wilson, Lot Enix, G. Hubbs, John Wilson, John Ritchie, J. W. Boner, J. Alley, S. B. Stidger, Asa Browning, Samuel Wilson, J. McCondell, A. Bonar, D. Price, G. W. Evans, D. Roberts, Thomas Dowler, R. Alexander, E. Conner, Charles Snediker, John Winters, Nathan Fish, V. P. Gorby, Alfred Gaines, J. S. Riggs, Alexander Kemple, Joseph McCombs.

Wetzel County (21)
T. E. Williams, Joseph Murphy, Elijah Morgan, William Burrows, B. T. Bowers, J. R. Brown, J. M. Bell, Jacob Young, Reuben Martin, R. Reed, Sr., Richard Cook, A. McEldowney, B. Vancamp, John McClaskey, S. Stephens, R. W. Lauck, John Alley, Thomas McQuown, George W. Bier, William D. Welker, R. S. Sayres.

Tyler County (11)
D. D. Johnson, Daniel Sweeney, V. Smith, W. B. Kerr, J. C. Parker, James M. Smith, J. H. Johnson, Isaac Davis, S. H. Hawkins, D. King, William Pritchard.

Harrison County (11)
John S. Carlile, Thomas L. Moore, John J. Davis, S. S. Fleming, Felix S. Sturm, James Lynch, William E. Lyon, Lot Bowen, Dr. Duncan, W. P. Goff, B. F. Shuttleworth.

Pleasants County (4)
Friend Cochran, Robert Parker, R. A. Cramer, James Williamson

Wood County (70)
S. L. A. Burche, J. J. Jackson, J. D. Ingram, A. Laughlin, W. Vroman, J. C. Rathbone, G. E. Smith, D. K. Baylor, M. Woods, Andrew Als, Joseph Dagg, Jr., N. W. Warlow, Peter Riddle, John Paugh, T. E. McPherson, Thompson Leach, S. S. Spencer, E. Deem, N. H. Colston, A. Hinkley, Bennett Cook, George W. Henderson, George Loomis, J. L. Padgett, S. D. Compton, S. M. Peterson, G. H. Ralston, V. A. Dunbar, A. R. Dye, W. H. Baker, William Johnston, Jr., Jesse Burche, S. Ogden, Sardis Cole, P. Reed, John McKibben, W. Athey, C. Hunter, R. H. Burke, W. P. Davis, George Compton, C. M. Cole, Roger Tiffins, Edward Hoit, W. B. Caswell, Peter Dils, W. F. Henry, A. C. McKinsey, Rufus Kinnard, J. J. Jackson, Jr., J. J. Neal, T. Hunter, M. P. Amiss, J. Barnett, T. S. Conley, C. J. Neal, J. G. Blackford, Henry Cole, W. E. Stevenson, Jesse Murdock, J. Burche, J. Morrison, A. H. Hatcher, A. Mather, C. B. Smith, Arthur Drake, H. Rider, B. H. Bukey, John W. Moss, R. B. Smith.

Monongalia County (38)
Waitman T. Willey, James Evans, Leroy Kramer, W. E. Hanaway, William Lazier, Elisha Coombs, George McNeeley, H. Deering, Dr. H. N. Mackey, Evans D. Fogle, J. T. M. Laskey, J. T. Hess, Charles H. Burgess, John Bly, William Price, Dr. A. Brown, Dr. J. R. Boughner, E. P. Fitch, E. B. Taggart, A. Garrison, Dr. John McCarl, J. A. Wiley, Joseph Snider, J. Bowlsby, Amos S. Bowlsby, Abraham Devault, N. C. Vandervort, Daniel White, Dr. D. B. Dorsey, Jacob Miller, Dr. Isaac Scott, Marshall M. Dent, Rev. P. T. Laishley, E. P. St. Clair, W. B. Shaw, P. L. Rice, Joseph Jolliff, William Anderson.

Preston County (14)
H. C. Hagans, R. C. Crooks, W. H. King, James W. Brown, Charles Hooten, Summers McCrum, W. B. Linn, W. J. Brown, Reuben Morris, D. A. Letzinger, John Howard, G. H. Kidd, James A. Brown, William P. Fortney.

Jackson County (7)
A. Flesher, D. Woodruff, C. M. Rice, George Leonard, J. F. Scott, G. L. Kennedy, J. V. Rowley.

Marion County (16)
R. R. Brown, J. C. Beeson, J. Holman, Thomas H. Bains, Hiram Haymond, H. Merryfield, Joshua Carter, G. W. Joliff, John Chisler, Thomas Hough, William Beatty, James C. Beatty, Aaron Hawkins, Jacob Streams, Francis H. Pierpont, Jesse Shaw.

Mason County (30)
Joseph S. Machir, Lemuel Harpold, William E. Wetzel, John Godley, Wyatt Willis, William W. Harper, William Harpold, Daniel Polsley, Samuel Davies, J. N. Jones, Samuel Yeaager, R. C. M. Lovell, B. J. Rollins, D. C. Sayre, Charles H. Bumgardner, John O. Butler, Timothy Russell, John Hall, A. A. Rogers, William Hopkins, Eugene B. Davis, David Rossin, Asa Brigham, Charles B. Waggener, John M. Phelps, Stephen Comstock, W. C. Starr, John Greer, Apollo Stevens, Major Brown.

Upshur County (2)
W. H. Williams, C. P. Rohrbaugh.

Wirt County (3)
Henry Newman, E. T. Graham, B. Ball.

Ritchie County (4)
N. Rexroad, D. Rexroad, J. P. Harris, A. S. Cole.

Hampshire County (5)
O. D. Downey, George W. Broski, Dr. B. B. Shaw, George W. Sheetz, George W. Rizer.

Barbour County (3)
E. H. Menafee, Spencer Dayton, J. H. Shuttleworth.

Doddridge County (5)
J. Cheveront, S. S. Kinney, J. Smith, J. A. Foley, J. P. F. Randolph.

Berkeley County (3)
A. R. McQuilin, J. W. Dailey, J. S. Bowers.

Roane County (1)
Irwin C. Stump.

Lewis County (7)
T. M. Chalfant, A. S. Withers, J. W. Hudson, P. M. Hale, J. Woofter, W. L. Grant, J. A. J. Lightburn.

Taylor County (10)
J. Means, J. M. Wilson, J. Kennedy, T. Cather, John S. Burdett, J. J. Allen, B. Bailey, G. R. Latham, T. T. Monroe, J. J. Warren.

Wayne County (5)
W. W. Brumfield, C. Spurlock, F. Moore, W. H. Copley, Walter Queen.


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