History of Monroe County West Virginia United States of America

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James Madison Harvey, governor of Kansas, was born in Monroe county, Va., Sept. 21, 1833. He attended schools in Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, and became a civil engineer. In 1859 he removed to Kansas and engaged in agriculture. He served in the Federal army in the civil war, 1861-64 and was captain in the 4th and 10th Kansas infantry. He was a member of the lower branch of the state legislature, 1865-66, and a state senator, 1867-68. In 1869 he was elected governor of Kansas, serving till 1871, and on Feb. 12, 1874, he became a U.S. senator, chosen in place of Alexander Caldwell, resigned. His term expired March 3, 1877. He died near Junction City, Ken., April 15, 1894.

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

Thomas Cary Johnson, educator, was born at Fishbok Hill, Monroe county, Va., July 19, 1859; son of Thomas and Alinerva. (Hinchman) Johnson; grandson of Barnabas and Sarah (Thomas) Johnson and of William and Mary (Simms) Hinchman, and a descendant of Scotch, Irish, Huguenot, Dutch and English ancestors. He was graduated from Hampden-Sidney college, Va., in 1881, took diplomas in Latin, Greek and mathematics at the University of Virginia, 1883-84, graduated from Union Theological seminary, Va., in 1887, and was a special student at the Yale Divinity school, 1887-88. He was licensed by the presbytery of Greenbrier, W. Va., in May, 1887; was professor of Greek and Hebrew exegesis at Austin Theological school, Texas, 1888-90, and was also assistant professor of mental and moral philosophy at the University of Texas during those years. He was ordained by the presbytery of Central Texas in August, 1890, and was a stated supply and pastor-elect of the 3d Presbyterian church at Louisville, Ky., 1890-91. He was professor of English Bible and pastoral theology at Union Theological seminary, Virginia, 1891-92, and became professor of ecclesiastical history and polity there in 1892. He was elected a member of the American Historical association. He received from Hampden-Sidney college the degree of D.D. in 1891, and that of LL.D. in 1899. He is the author of: A History of the Southern Presbyterian Church (1894, in Vol. XI. of the American Church History Series); Alleged Differences Between the Northern and Southern Presbyterian Churches (1894); Ministerial Training (1896-97); A Brief Sketch of the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1897); The Mode of Baptism in the Apostolic Age (1899); John Calvin and the Genevan Reformation: A Sketch (1899). He also edited the collected writings of the Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Peck, and contributed numerous articles to periodicals and newspapers.

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

Robert Miller Patton, governor of Alabama, was born in Monroe county, Va., July 10, 1809; son of William and Martha (Hays) Patton. William Patton, a native of Ireland, immigrated to Virginia in early manhood, and in 1813 removed with his wife and children to Huntsville, Ala., becoming one of the founders of one of the first cotton mills in the state. Robert was educated in the public schools and at an early age entered commercial life, removing in 1829 to Florence, Ala., where he became a merchant. He was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1834, and in the special legislature, 1837, called for the relief of those affected by the financial panic of that year, and served almost continuously in the legislature until 1861, being president of the senate in that year. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Charleston, S.C., in 1860, and to the state convention that passed the ordinance of secession, where he opposed the movement, but afterward devoted himself wholly to the southern cause. He spent his own fortune in aiding it, and as a commissioner of the Confederate government, raised several million dollars to keep the armies in the field. He was a member of the Alabama constitutional convention of 1865, and was elected governor of the state, serving from December, 1865, to July, 1868, when he was displaced through the reconstruction measures of congress. He obtained the capital for building the railroad to connect Chattanooga, Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La., and was president of the road from Chattanooga to Meridian. He was a trustee of the Missouri State university; the State Normal college of Alabama, and the Synodical Female college at Florence, Ala. He was married Jan. 23, 1832, to Jane, daughter of Gen. John and Mary (Brahan) Locke, of Huntsville, Ala. Three sons served in the Confederate army, two of whom were killed. Governor Patton died at Sweetwater, near Florence, Ala., Feb. 29, 1885.

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

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