History of Union, (Monroe County) West Virginia United States of America

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Allen Taylor Caperton, senator, was born near Union, Monroe county, Va., Nov. 21, 1810. He was educated at Huntsville, Ala., and in the university of Virginia, and after his graduation at Yale college in 1832 he studied law at Staunton Va., and there engaged in its practice. He was a member of the Virginia house of delegates and of the state senate, his last senatorial term ending in 1860. As a member of the Virginia state convention, which met in 1861 to consider the impending troubles, he stood for the Union, but when the state seceded he espoused the cause of the Confederacy. He was a member of the Confederate states senate from 1863 to 1865, and after the close of the war he resumed his law practice. He rendered valuable service to the new state of West Virginia in bringing its rich coal, timber and grazing lands to the notice of the capitalists. His political disabilities were removed by President Johnson, and in 1875 he was elected to the U. S. senate from West Virginia. He died in Washington, D.C., July 26, 1876.

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

History of Union, (Monroe County) West Virginia

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