History Of Kanawha County PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. BIOGRAPHICAL. Judge Lewis Summers--Born in Fairfax County, Virginia--Removes to Gallipolis.Ohio, in 1808--Comes to Kanawha in 1804--Elected to the House of Delegates--Elected Judge in 1819--His great services as a member of the Board of Public Works--His eminent services in Convention of 1829, etc.--Judge George W. Summers--His great powers as an orator-- His success as a lawyer and politician--Is elected to the Lower House of Congress--His defeat for Governor--He raises his voice for the Union in 1861--Isaac Noyes, the humble and devoted Christian--His remarkable life, and his general usefulness--Strange circumstance of his conversion, etc.--Col. B. H. Smith, the able jurist--His long and laborious life in the Kanawha Valley--His character as a citizen and lawyer--Dr. Spicer PatrickA brief sketch of his life--Hon. Greenbury Slack, the self-made legislator from Elt river--Brief Personal Sketches, etc., etc. A history of Kanawha would be imperfect, indeed, if it did not contain biographical sketches of a number of distinguished and honorable gentlemen residents of the county. Of course, I can notice but a few, however much I might desire to give extended sketches of a very large number of my fellow-citizens, living and dead. I shall, therefore, begin this chapter with the late JUDGE LEWIS SUMMERS. I Judge Summers was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, November 7, 1778, of a highly respectable parentage. He was one of the greatest men Virginia ever produced, when the two Virginias were one. He entered upon an active public career during the Presidency of the elder Adams, and from the outset took rank as a man of unusual foresight. With the ardor that distinguished the Virginia youth at the time Judge Summers made his debut in...