WEST VIRGINIA HISTORY
Vol I Chapter XIX
Constitutional History
The delegates from what is
now West Virginia elected to this convention
were:...... ELISHA BOYD, of
Berkeley County..........
Chapter XXI
The Rising War Cloud - City,
Total Pop.,Slaves
Delegates were elected February
4, 1861, and on the morning of the 13th
there was witnessed a scene
in and around the old State House at
Richmond that has gone into
history as being one of the most memorable
events. There convened jurists,
wise men, experienced statesmen, not a
few of whom had a national
reputation and possessed great ability; these
included such men as ex-President
John Tyler; Henry A. Wise, ex-governor
of the state; and many others
of high standing in the councils of the
nation. It was a time fraught
with problems of great importance, and the
people west of the mountains
sent their best talent and wisest
representatives over the Blue
Ridge range to take part in the
deliberations. The convention
organized by electing John Janney, of
Loudoun county, president,
and John L. Eubank, of Richmond, secretary. A
committee on federal relations
was made up as follows:...........
W.W. BOYD.......
Chapter XXVII
East Panhandle and South Branch
Region
Jefferson Couny--Jefferson
county was formed by act of assembly January
8, 1801, from a portion of
Berkeley county, and named in honor of
President Jefferson. This
act also made Charlestown the county seat, and
provided that the first court
should be held at the house of Bazil
Williamson. This town was
legally established in October, 1786, on lands
of Charles Washington, whose
Christian name it commemorates. He was a
brother of George Washington,
first president of the United States. At
this place Charlestown Academy
was incorporated December 25, 1797, with
ELISHA BOYD, John Dixon, Edward
Tiffin, William Hill, Thomas Rutherford,
George North, Alexander White,
Ferdinand Fairfax, George Hite, Samuel
Washington, Thomas Griggs
and Gabriel Nourse, trustees. Charlestown now
has a population of about
350. It is now usually spelled Charles Town,
to designate it from the county
seat of Kanawha county, Charleston. It
was here that John Brown was
tried and executed in 1859. Other cities of
this county which are full
of historic interest are Shepherdstown and
Harper's Ferry.
Vol II
History of West Virginia and
the People
HON. GEORGE E. BOYD, who is
very well known in legal circles in West
Virginia, has been a resident
of Wheeling since 1850. He was born in
Cumberland, Guernsey county,
Ohio, in 1839. The father of the subject of
this sketch was born in November,
1812. He removed from Ohio to Wheeling
in 1850, where he was engaged
in the wholesale dry goods business with
Mr. Ott. After Mr. Ott's death
he carried on the business alone until
1858, when he went to Philadelphia,
where he engaged in the banking
business. He remained in Philadelphia
until 1867, when he moved to Chase
City, Mecklenberg county,
Virginia. He died in 1902. His wife has been
dead for three years. They
enjoyed sixty-four years of married life. His
children are living in New
York City and in New Jersey. One son, JOHN W.
BOYD, deceased, was for many
years engaged in the wholesale grocery
business in Wheeling, and
GEORGE E., the subject of this sketch, has
always lived in this city
since he first came here. George E. Boyd
received his primary education
in Wheeling, and in 1858, at the age of
eighteen years, was graduated
from Washington and Jefferson College. He
then attended the Cincinnati
Law School and graduated from that
institution in 1860.He was
admitted to the bar of Ohio county in
December, 1861. Judge Boyd
at once took up the general practice of law.
His father-in-law, Hon. Alfred
Caldwell, was appointed consul at
Honolulu, and until 1867 Judge
Boyd carried on the business under the
name of Caldwell & Boyd.
In 1867 Judge Boyd went to New Martinsville,
Wetzel county, West Virginia,
where he remained five years. During
1871-72 he acted as prosecuting
attorney for that county. In 1872 he
returned to Wheeling and practiced
here until 1876, when he was elected
to the bench as judge of the
county court. He served in this office
until 1881,when he was chosen
judge of the circuit court, and served in
this capacity until January
1, 1889. During this time Judge Boyd turned
over some of his legal business
to Hon. Joseph F. Paull. Since 1889
Judge Boyd has followed the
general practice of law. He has always had a
large and lucrative practice,
and has met with great success in his
chosen profession. He is well
known in Wheeling and in this section of
West Virginia, having won
the confidence and esteem of all who have come
in contact with him. JUDGE
BOYD married a daughter of HON. ALFRED
CALDWELL. He has a son, G.E.,
who was graduated from the law department
of the University of West
Virginia in 1886, after which he attended the
law school of the University
of Virginia. Judge Boyd's son, ALFRED C.,
deceased, was a newspaper
man. His daughter,BEULAH, is the wife of
Charles M. RITCHIE, of Fairmont,West
Virginia.
Zachariah(2) SHUGART, son of
Lieutenant Zachariah(1) and Mary Elizabeth
(Mulholland) SHUGART, was
born March 25. 1754. He married Eve Grimm,
April 19, 1785. The family
Bible of this Zachariah is in the possession
of his great-grandson, Charles
Theodore Shugart, of Charles Town, West
Virginia. The Bible is in
German, though the records are in English. It
is profusely illustrated in
the ornate and quaint German style of that
day, and heavily bound in
rawhide with brass clasps. It is an
interesting and valuable relic
and is highly prized by its owner both as
an heirloom and an antiquity.
It was printed at the press of John
Andrea, of Nuremburg, in the
year 1728. In this Bible stands the record
of the children of Zachariah
(2) as follows:.......Elizabeth SHUGART,
born June 19,1805; married
a MR. BOYD.
Charles Patrick LYNCH, son
of Vanlinden S. and Parmelia (Conrad) Lynch,
was born at Hacker's Valley,
Webster county, West Virginia, October 15,
1881. He has studied at several
institutions of advanced grade, the West
Virginia Wesleyan College,
Weaverville College at Weaverville, North
Carolina, and the medical
department of the University of Louisville in
Louisville, Kentucky, but
is not a graduate. During the years since 1905
Mr. Lynch has spent a large
part of his time on the west coast of
Mexico, in the states of Sonora
and Sinaloa, and he has gained a wide
acquaintance with the people
of that region and with business conditions
there. He is interested in
Mexican mining properties; seven years ago,
in 1906, he was one of four
to denounce the now well-known San Lorenzo
mine, in Arizpe district,
state of Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Lynch's home is
at Buckhannon, West Virginia.
He married, at Paul's Valley, Indian
Territory, May 27, 1903, WILLIE,
daughter of REV. WILLIAM and MARTHA
(HENRY) BOYD, of Dexter, Texas.
Children: WILMA, bn October 18,1904;
BOYD CONRAD, bn January 10,1911.
Vol III
Addenda and Errata
Albert E. HUMPHREYS, son of
Ira A. Humphreys, was born in Kanawha
county, West Virginia, January
11, 1860. His preliminary education was
acquired in the public schools
in the vicinity of his home, and later he
pursued advanced studies at
Marshall College, Huntington. The first ten
years of his active career
was devoted to mercantile pursuits, milling
and lumbering, and from that
to the present time (1912) he has given his
attention entirely to mining,
his interests extending over many of the
richest mineral districts
of the United States, and he is numbered among
the best known and most successful
mine operators in this country. His
principal holdings are in
the states of West Virginia, Colorado and
Minnesota, and consist of
coal, iron,gold and silver mines, all of which
produce most abundantly. Mr.
Humphreys is a Democrat in politics, and
with his family attends the
Christian church. He has attained high rank
in the order of Free and Accepted
Masons, being identified with the
Commandery and Consistory
at Duluth, Minnesota, and to Osman Temple,
Ancient Arabic Order Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine,at St. Paul, Minnesota.
He is also a member of the
Denver Country Club, Denver Athletic Club,
Denver Club, Oakshore Club
of Rockport, Texas, and the Edgewood Country
Club of Charleston, West Virginia.
Mr. Humphreys married, November 3,
1887. ALICE, daughter of CAPTIAN
CHARLES W. and MARGARET (MCMEEKIN)
BOYD, of Brown county, Ohio.
Children: IRA B., a successful inventor,
who married Lucile Pattison;
ALBERT E. JR., at the present time in Yale
College, New Haven, Connecticut.
Charles James FAULKNER, son
of James and Sarah (Mackey) Faulkner, was
born at Martinsburg, Virginia.
He was educated there and at Georgetown
College. He became prominent
as a lawyer at Martinsburg. He held many
public positions: member of
legislature of Virginia, member of congress,
minister to Paris, France,
and delegate to both the conventions in Old
and West Virginia. During
the civil war he was on the staff of General
"Stonewall" Jackson, ranking
as senior adjutant-general and
lieutenant-colonel. General
Jackson refers to him in his memoris as
being of great service to
him in making up his reports. He died at
Martinsburg, West Virginia,
November 1,1884. He married MARY W. BOYD, of
Martinsburg, who died at that
place, aged seventy-two years, daughter of
GENERAL ELISHA and ANN (HOLMES)
BOYD. Children: DAVID, who was twice
senator,governor of Mississippi,
also in congress in Virginia, three
times; JUDGE HUGH, of the
general court of Virginia; MAJOR ANDREW
HUNTER,who was noted for his
gallantry, killed at Mackinac, November,
1812-14; MARY W. GENERAL ELISHA
BOYD was born in Berkeley county,
Virginia, October 6, 1769,
and educated at Liberty Hall Academy, now
Washington and Lee University.
He was frequently elected to the state
legislature, and was state's
attorney many years. He was also a member
of the convention of 1829-30.
HON. ELISHA BOYD FAULKNER,
son of Charles James and MARY W. (BOYD)
Faulkner, was born at "Boydsville",
near Martinsburg, in what is now
West Virginia, July 24, 1841.
He spent his early days there, attending
the private schools there
provided, also attending the Winchester
Academy and had a private
tutor. Later he entered Georgetown College;
the University of Virginia;
attended lectures on constitutional law in
Paris, France, and was attached
to the legation of the United States. He
has made law his life work.
From 1867 to 1872 he lived in Kentucky,
leaving Virginia on account
of the "test oath" required to be taken at
that date. In 1872 he returned
to Martinsburg to practice law again. He
was elected to the house of
delegates in 1876; to the state senate in
1878; declined the presidency
of the senate; appointed a member of the
revising committee by the
legislature to revise the laws of the state;
was defeated for the nomination
for governor at Wheeling, 1884; was
tendered during President
Cleveland's administration the office of
consul general and agent to
Cairo, 1885, also minister to Persia, both
being declined. He was appointed
judge of the thirteenth judicial
district, and has been re-elected
three terms since, with little
opposition. In all he has
served on the bench more than twenty-one
years, declining again the
candidacy of the office. When appointed judge
he was attorney for the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Company, for the
Cumberland Valley road and
other corporations. He is a trustee of the
Berkeley Springs Corporation.
Politically he is a Democrat. Judge
Faulkner's war record is as
follows: He first entered the Wise
Artillery; second, the Rockbridge
Artillery; third, appointed on
the staff of Governor Letcher;
fourth, appointed captain in the
provisional army of the Confederacy.
He was captured at the battle of
Piedmont, June, 1864, when
General W. E. Jones was killed. He was taken
a prisoner and confined on
Johnson's Island for one year. He received
wounds in the ear, at the
first battle of Manassas, from the fragment of
a bursting shell. He was in
many engagements, including those at
Manassas and Cedar Creek.
He fought as he believed was right and made a
bravesoldier in one of the
greatest civil conflicts the world has ever
witnessed.
...........
HARRY E. BOYD - Warwood
..........
James MCDONALD was born in
Marshall county, Virginia, and was by trade a
carpenter; he was also engaged
in contracting. He married Elizabeth
Miner. Their children were:
William P.; Henry; MARTHA, married ISAAC
BOYD; Dora, married Andrew
Ebbert; Elizabeth, married John Turner, and
died in 1911; and George.
Source: History of West Virginia
and Its People, Vols I,II,III
Charleston, WV: Lewis Historical
Publishing Co., 1913.
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