History Of Ritchie County

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ History Of Ritchie County: With Biographical Sketches Of Its Pioneers And Their Ancestors, And With Interesting Reminiscences Of Revolutionary And Indian Times Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho Co., 1911 History; United States; State & Local; South; History / United States / State & Local / South; Ritchie County (W. Va.); Virginia

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.

Excerpt from History of Ritchie County: With Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Their Ancestors, and With Interesting Reminiscences of Revolutionary and Indian Times The idea of writing a history of Ritchie county had its origin in a suggestion made by Lewis Harvey Adams while editor of the "Ritchie Standard," about the year 1904 when he requested us to write some historical articles (of towns and other points of interest in the county) for his paper. We had long been an invalid (from an injury to the spine sustained by a fall from a horse) and was at that time local correspondent for his paper. However, we agreed to comply with this request in case that the desired data could be obtained, and shortly after set about the task, and when once at work, we became so much interested, that the research resulted in a brief history of the county which ran as a serial in the Ritchie Standard from June 7, 1906, to January 3, 1907; and by the time this serial was at an end, quite a number of the readers of the paper were requesting its issue in "book form." But being conscious of its many inaccuracies and imperfections we resolved to set out anew, and to make a more complete and authentic history before submitting it to the public in book form. So the whole ground has been gone over again, and much new territory has been explored. Letters of inquiry with out-lines of suggestive questions have been sent to every known pioneer family; the telephones and the newspapers have been pressed into service, and various other devices have been resorted to in the gathering and the verifying of this data; and we now submit to the people of this county as authentic, and as complete a history as can be hoped for at this late day when the lips of so many of the makers of this history are now sealed in death. And while we realize that many imperfections are still in evidence in this work, we trust that the reader will not lose sight of the disadvantages that have confronted us, and the fact that we are a novice in the "book business" - this being our first venture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.