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Delegates to the
Second Wheeling Convention

Barbour County
N. H. Taft, member of Assembly, and John H. Shuttleworth and Spencer Dayton, delegates to the Convention

Brooke
Joseph Gist, senator, H. W. Crothers, member of Assembly, and John D. Nicholls and Campbell Tarr, delegates.

Cabell
Albert Laidley, member of Assembly.

Monongalia
Leroy Kramer and Joseph Snider, members of Assembly, and Ralph L. Berkshire, William Price, James Evans and D. B. Dorsey, delegates.

Ohio
Thomas H. Logan and Andrew Wilson, members of Assembly, and Daniel Lamb, James W. Paxton, George Harrison and Chester D. Hubbard, delegates.

Pleasants and Ritchie
James W. Williamson, member of Assembly, and C. W. Smith and William Douglas, delegates.

Preston
Charles Hooten and William Zinn, members of Assembly, and William B. Crane, John Howard, Harrison Hagans and John J. Brown, delegates.

Randolph and Tucker
Solomon Parsons and Samuel Crane, delegates.

Roane
T. A. Roberts, delegate.

Taylor
Lemuel E. Davidson, member of Assembly, and John S. Burdett and Samuel B. Todd, delegates.

Upshur
D. D. T. Farnsworth, member of Assembly, and John L. Smith and John Love, delegates.

Wayne
William Radcliffe, member of Assembly, and W. W. Brumfield and William Copley, delegatees.

Wetzel
James G. West, member of Assembly, and Reuben Martin and James P. Ferrell, delegates.

Wirt
James A. Williamson, member of Assembly, and Henry Newman and E. T. Graham, delegates.

Wood
John W. Moss, member of Assembly, and Arthur I. Boreman and Peter G. Van Winkle, delegates.

Alexandria
Henry S. Martin and James T. Close, delegates.

Fairfax
John Hawxhurst and Eben E. Mason, delegates.

Hardy
John Michael, delegate.

Hampshire
James Carskadon, senator, and Owen D. Downey, George W. Broski, James H. Trout and James J. Barracks, delegates.

Doddridge and Tyler
William I. Boreman, member of Assembly, and Daniel D. Johnson and James A. Foley, delegates.

Gilmer
Henry H. Withers, delegate.

Hancock
George McC. Porter, member of Assembly; John H. Atkinson, William L. Crawford, delegates.

Harrison
Chapman J. Stewart, senator, and John J. Davis and John C. Vance, members of Assembly, and John S. Carlile, Solomon S. Fleming, Lot Bowen and Benjamin Shuttleworth, delegates.

Jackson
Daniel Frost, member of Assembly, and James F. Scott and Andrew Flesher, delegates.

Kanawha
Lewis Ruffner, member of Assembly, and Greenbury Slack, delegate.

Lewis
P. M. Hale and J. A. J. Lightburn, delegates.

Marion
Richard Fast and Fontain Smith, members of Assembly, and Francis H. Pierpont, John S. Barnes, A. F. Ritchie and James O. Watson, delegates.

Marshall
Remembrance Swan, member of Assembly, and C. H. Caldwell, and Robert Morris, delegates.

Mason
Lewis Wetzel, member of Assembly, and Charles B. Waggener and Daniel Polsley, delegates.


Chapter Seven: First Session of the Second Wheeling Convention

A State of Convenience

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