History of Cabell County West Virginia United States of America

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Blackburn Barrett Dovener, representative, was born in Cabell comity, Va., April 20, 1842. He raised a company of loyal Virgininns and served in the U.S. volunteer infantry, 1861-65. He was admitted to the bar in 1873 and practised in Wheeling, W.Va. He was elected a member of the state legislature in 1883; was an unsuccessful candidate for representative in the 53d congress; and a Republican representative from West Virginia in the 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th congresses, 1895-1905.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Albert Gallatin Jenkins, representative, was born in Cabell county, Va., Nov. 10, 1830; son of William and Jeannette G. (McNutt) Jenkins. He was a student at the Virginia Military institute at Lexington, was graduated from Jefferson college, Pa., in 1848, and from the Harvard Law school in 1850. He was admitted to the bar the same year, and devoted himself to agriculture. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention held in Cincinnati, in 1856; a representative from Virginia in the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857-61; and a delegate to the provisional Confederate congress in 1861. He entered the Confederate army; was brigadier-general, 1862-63; assigned to a brigade in Gen. A. P. Hill's division, and when the cavalry was formed into a division under command of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, his brigade was one of the five forming the division. He participated in the battle of Gettysburg, and subsequently served in the Shenandoah valley and in southwestern Virginia in the defence of the salt works and in opposing Generals Crook and Averill at Saltville and Wytheville, and he was killed in battle at Cloyd's Mountain, near Dublin, Va., May 9, 1864.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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