CHARLESTON – The next occasions occurred on these dates in West Virginia historical past. To learn extra, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.
April 13, 1923: Medal of Honor recipient Jonah Edward Kelley was born at Rada in Mineral County. Sergeant Kelley died whereas main his squad in repeated assaults on a German place throughout World Struggle II.
April 13, 1873: Lawyer, diplomat, and presidential candidate John William Davis was born in Clarksburg. Davis argued 141 instances earlier than the U.S. Supreme Courtroom. His final case was one of the vital controversial, when he argued in 1952 for the continuation of racial segregation in South Carolina.
April 14, 1774: Surveyors met on the mouth of the Kanawha River to determine navy bounty claims in Kentucky. They turned concerned in a number of skirmishes with Indians within the area. This was the beginning of Dunmore’s Struggle, the title given to the battle within the Ohio Valley within the spring of 1774.
April 15, 1872: Peter Godwin Van Winkle died in Parkersburg. Van Winkle was a member of the Governor’s Council of the Reorganized Authorities of Virginia, 1861-63, underneath Gov. Francis Pierpont. On Aug. 4, 1863, Van Winkle was elected as one of many first two U.S. senators from the brand new state of West Virginia.
April 16, 1829: Jacob Beeson Jackson was born in Parkersburg. In 1880, he turned West Virginia’s sixth governor.
April 16, 1923: Arch Moore was born at Moundsville. He was the primary governor in 100 years to serve a second time period, and he returned later for a 3rd.
April 17, 1827: Outdoorsman William ‘‘Squirrelly Invoice’’ Carpenter was born on the Elk River close to the mouth of Laurel Creek. Carpenter guided outstanding West Virginians, together with Governor MacCorkle, by means of the wonders of the Elk Valley.
April 17, 1871: West Virginians accredited the Flick Modification, which allowed former Confederates to vote. The modification additionally utilized to former slaves, however that they had been enfranchised already by the fifteenth Modification to the U.S. Structure.
April 18, 1912: The Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike of 1912-13 started when coal operators rejected the demand of their unionized staff for a wage enhance. The strike that adopted was one of the vital dramatic and bloody conflicts within the early twentieth century labor struggles in southern West Virginia referred to as the Mine Wars.
April 19, 1896: Author Melville Davisson Submit was born in Harrison County. His best-known works are the Randolph Mason collection, revealed in three volumes, and the extra profitable assortment, Uncle Abner: Grasp of Mysteries.
April 19, 1902: Writer Jean Lee Latham was born in Buckhannon. She wrote numerous kids’s books, together with Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, which received the 1956 Newberry Award.
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