An Inside View of the Formation of the State of West Virginia: With Character Sketches of the Pioneers in That Movement (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William P. Willey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0365224758 ISBN 13: 9780365224754

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from An Inside View of the Formation of the State of West Virginia: With Character Sketches of the Pioneers in That Movement

The third man to whom reference is made, Hon. Waitman T. Willey, who represented the restored government of Virginia in the United States Senate, and who was also one of the first U. S. Senators elected by the New State, and through whose agency, chiefly, the New State was born and reared into legal entity, was the last surviving member of the trio. He, also, recently passed away, far advanced in years. Senator Willey had resisted the many importunities of his friends and fellow citizens to write the history of the formation of the New State, because, as the writer frequently heard him say: I do not be lieve I am the man who should write it; I was in it, and my personal bias would be very apt to color any narrative I might write of those events - at least it would lay it open to that sus picion.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0365224758
• ISBN 13: 9780365224754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 269