The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Thnnday, Angnit 25,193| *3* .. $ \/>*** i4"' ATHE McHENRY PLAINDEALE* «•«§§ \ ^ V/.Jh >,.».• •' , S;«.vyvlv. " Virginia Is Host To -* a National Editorial Ass*ri aj * i. .) # * v ' v. <J Ml - -- - -- ' seven activities of this army in the events of December, 1841, he wrote his uncle,'and I think I have the intellect T r; • »j . » ».y and Junehad attracted ..1 Alfred Neafe, if T.rk«r!b»r«, ilrno J,T»t i-. tKi Jp " C«ed P.M„"e to Jackson. »'« «•«! under hi.,ceming the death of his brother War-!study," he told Jonathan M. Bennett,1 en July 2 oTjnly 3 hi direction to have Wcome a pageant of ren, setting for that "he died in the'of Weston,, who did.much-Tor his ad- I brjeadier-eTneral was made led First triumph, and from the smpke of bat- j hope of a bright immortality at the vancement in later-years. On June 17, Brigade"^* firsT*battle" of 'Manlw? tie rose in the public mind a picture' right hand of his Redeemer." A~» " *----J - • • ~ K - a ue 01 M*n*»s- EDITORS ENTERTAINED AT BOYHOOD H)ME OF "STONEWALL" JACKSON, NOW J THE LARGEST STATE-OWNED 4-H GAMP IN AMERICA ~ Continuing the tour of Wast Vir-ington. In 1767, in fact, Morgan built Cheat Lake, a paradise for vacation #inia, made by members of the Na- his cabin on the banks of the Monon- 4aonal Editorial association in June, gahela river, on the site of the present 1938, the party left Wheeling on Sat- city. Others joined him there and "jBrday, June 25, bound for Morgan-'when George Washington called Col. -town, cutting through a corner of Morgan to the conference on that Sep- Pennsylvania. Luncheon- was served tember day in 1784, Morgan had al- %y the Chamber of Commerce at the ready protected a town and had sold Morgantown Country Clulb, where a several lots. The following year the Brief address was made by Chauncey General Assembly granted a municipal 8. Boucher, president of the West Vir-1 Charter to "Morgans Town." jfinia university. A drive was made ( In October, 1776, the Virginia Leg- •§ver the city of Morgantown, giving islature divided the West Augusta Disvisisors an opportunity to view trict into three counties, Youghioge campus of the university. jheny, Monongalia and Ohio. This di- History of Morgantown ! vision of territory, was important. Morgantown, West Virginia, other Monongalia County as then formed: , .. ... . _ • And Hays was confronted in the Office in Here, Bee, in rallying his men of some romantic soldier with-flutter- this from the mind of a lad? of seven-! Washington with a determined young claimed, "See there sUnds ma.n.'. w!th his ^'on^ings in a pair of like a stone wall! .L ex- Jackson thus applying the mg banner, mounted on prancing te^h. steed, advancing in pride, pomp, and; The year 1840 found Colonel With-UaddW bags;"Vho"hid'W^l^man^ name^kno^ around Te woHd"better glory But such was not actually the ers a "feentleman justice of the peace,*'! weary miles by coach and train in than the Christian name riven it fase" Everywhere^was asked the ques^and with the spring of 1841 came a "s«ferch of knowledge." He presented birth. Jackson, writing to Jonathan tion, Who is Jackson? A distm-(vacancy as constable in the Freeman's a letter from the previous appointee, M. Bennett July 28 says in Dart ists, first dam and electric unit con- fJ"Jed ™emb*r £ the ®taff °f Ge™r- Jreek section of Lewis county Major in which was set forth, "Mr. Jackson "You will find-that the First Brigade structed in the Cheat river basin, ^ ^ ^ ! u' A11,Mmter Bail t ey' ®f Weston, and With- will deliver this letter to you, who is was to our army what the ImpHial ,„ri„g for all time an ample supply ""'Guard -as .*> First Napoleonelectric energy. boy, born beyond the Alleghenies, who June 11 found Thomas Jackson a full- gether with a petition signed by sev- that through the blessing of God it After a brtef aton-at Riveraville.| anaged to get to West Point," and fledged constable, a "sort of minor eral local citizen^ The Secretary of met the thus far victorious enemy, where a demonstration was made by: BITTr"3rT^~ITr^ ; . ^ , • • , -- ^ar, John C. Spencer, made a new and turned the fortunes of the day." warrant on June 18, which bore the On October 7, he was advanced to the name of Thomas J. Jackson. Here rank of major-general, and assigned representatives of the Monongahela i West Penn Corporation, the party pro-: ceeded to the city park of Fairmont,! for another brief stop and light re-1 freshments, leaving during mid-after-j noon for Weston, the home town of. Bob Prichard. A quick tour of the| city and a drive through the grounds! of the WesCon State hospital, Vas fol-j lowed to the State 4-H Camp at Jack- Shown here is an air view of Morgantown, W. Va., seat of West Virginia University and center of the coal producing industry of Northern West Virginia. The Morgantown community, embracing five different municipalities which adjoin one another, has a population of approximately 25,000. It has a iwmber of glass factories and x>ne farge shirt factory. j.for the first time appears the middle | to command of Shenandoah Valley de- | initial, the name Jonathan being ad partment on November 7. jded to the name borne since birth. | On January 1, 1862, Jackson left Thus, by a single thread of fate,i was: Winchester, driving the Federals from the future career of the great Ameri- Romney across the Potomac; engages can soldier directed. in battle of Kemstown March 23, and Armed with a small sum fit money' enters upon the famous "Valley Camadvanced by Congressman Hays, paign." During this period, the old Jackson appeared "at West Point be- j "Stonewall Brigade" covered itself tween the 20th and 30th of June, and, with glory, and the whole World turaafte£ consideration of his case was ed its attention to the new commander admitted on July 1,- 1842. The next this unfortunate fratricidal strife had four years were full of study, broken brought forth.. In thirty-two days by-a few visits home; and on June Jackson and his "foot cavalry" march- 30, 1846, he graduated with the brevet ed four hundred miles, fQught five batrank of second lieutenant of artillery, ties, defeated three armies, captured •jV; short visit to Jackson's Mills, Wes- , twenty pieces of artillery, toolc four ton, and Beverly, (W.) Va., and Aug; thousand prisoners, and large amounts 19 found him on his way to- Mexrco.1 of stores. This in turn cost him nine On March 3, 1847, he was advanced to hundred men;--killed, wounded and rank of second lieutenant, and on the missing--and' at no. time did he have 9th landed with Scott's Army in Mex- over ftfteen thousand men to meet ~ > . ic°- tte was advanced to first lieu- over sixty thousand Federals/ The plater a professor at the Lexington 1 sheriff" in that day. Needless to say, tenant for gallant conduct in siege of!Seven Days Campaign, the second Military School." It is to the answer,the task was well performed, but did Vera^Cruz in March to brevet rank of Manassas and Maryland Campaign, Of this question, «ven though often ^ not last oyer a year, as a far greater I captain for condbct in battle of Con-land the capture-of Harper's Ferry in •lnce answered, that this sketch is ded-] opportunity arose. jtreas in August; and to brevet rank! September, with eleven thousnd pris- C LARKSBUK(. I'l BL1C LIBRARY,' CLARKSBURG, W. VA. | Samuel L. Hays, of Lewis County, j of major for heroic conduct at Cha Thomas Jackson was born in Clarks- succeeded (Gov.) Joseph Johnson inipultepec in September. His record burg, (W.) Vra., January 21, 1824, the the Congress, taking seat March 4, during this period is replete with |hird child of Jonathan and Julia ^ 1841. In the spring of 1842, it was praise fronr^his superior officers. Beckwith Neale Jackosn. By birth, he anounced that an appointment was to j In June, 1848, Jackson returned to Was a composite of the aggressive Scotch-Irish of Western Virginia, and the lowland planter of pure English be made of a cadet 'to West Point Mil' itary. Academy. A preliminary examination-- the details of which have ttrain of East Virginia. The Jacksons never been quite clear--was held in Were descended from John Jackson,'the "old Bailey House" at Weston. Immigrant, born near Coleraine, Ul-;Four applicants appeared, namely, #ter, Ireland, in 1719, who came to.Thomas Jackson, Joseph Lightburn the United States from Mexico with Scott's Army, and was stationed at Fort Hamilton, New York, until 1850, when he was transferred to Florida. During March, 1851, he resigned from the army to take effect in 1852, and |han being the home of West Virginia j comprised a vast territory which has son's Mill, where a wonderful dinner! University and the northern gateway; since been dfvided into four Pennsyl- j was served, courtesy of the Weston1 go West Virginia, has a history which'vania and twenty West Virginia coun- Democrat and entertainment by thel '• », in brief, the story , of exploration, ties, in their present total or a portion Weston Chamber of Commerce, iettlement and development of the!of their present total areas. At the Jackson's Mill is the boyhood home' trans-Appalachian region. Its immedi-'time the dispute over the boundary be-:of General Stonewall Jackson, located| •rte background is fixed in an event of J tween Virginia and Pennsylvania was four miles north of Weston. Here is; International importance, the French | raging. When it was settled in 1780, J to be found the first and largest state- i $nd Indian War of the middle of the (by the General Assembly of Virginia | owned, state-maintained 4-H Camp in | eighteenth century. Early English accepting the "Mason-Dixon Line" America, where thousands of boys and frontiersmen from the borders of the survey, Colonel Zackwell Morgan's girls and hundreds of men and wojttoastal plain, advanced in their west- house became the county seat of Mon-imen are given helpful instruction each Ward migrations to the summit of the jongalia County and Virginians stop-'year. It was established by an act Tsastern mountain divide to find furth-'ped holding court in Pennsylvania.Iof the legislature in 1921 as part of *r progress into the Monongahela val- jWhen Morgans Town was chartered, the Agricultural Extension Service of :lley region disputed by the French, al- later renamed Morgantown, in 1785, it the West Virginia university. |ed with the Indians. In the decade ' became the County seat of Monongalia' The following story of the life of II B HARRISON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, CLARKSBURG, W. VA. onersyall served to accentuate the his-. tory of his corps. On October 11, he was advanced to the rank of lieutenant- general, and placed in command of the Second Corps. On May 1, 1863, Jackson led the Second Corps around Hooker's right flank at Chancellorsville, routing the right wing of the Federal army. During the action, he was wounded at the hands of a detachment of his own was then appointed an instructor at' men, as a result of which he died May Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, 10, at Guiney-Station, near Fredricks- Virginia. His interest in the Church burg, and was buried at ^Lexington, continued unabated. In 1852 he wrote Thus came to a close the earthly his aunt, Mrs. Alfred Neale of Park- career of one of the most distinguishersburg, "The subject of becoming a ed sons of the upper Monongahela herald of the Cross has often seriously valley of West Virginia. In his short engaged my attention, and I regard it life he became an international figure, as the most noble of all professions.' proclaimed by the ablest of critics as I should not be surprised were I to die one of the greatest captains of all upon a foreign field clad in ministerial time. His fame is not the property armor. What could be more glorious ?"° of the North, the South, the East, or Writing November 12, 1855, concern-J the West, but of America. His record ing his cousin, Hardin Neale, he says: under the Stars and Stripes in Mexico, "Yet if it were God's pleasure I feel and his conscientious course under the that I would gladly exchange with him Stars and Bars, can never be effaced the apparent period of dissolution. I from the annals of great American look upon death as being that moihent soldiers, and as the common heritage which of all earthly ones is to be most of our race, shall texist as long as time to be desired by a child of God." endures; Jackson's ten years at Lexington are The party left Jackson's Mill late in marked by several important events, the evening to spend the night in ho- The affiliation with the Presbyterian tels of Clarksburg, the county-seat of Church; his marriage on April 4, Harrison county, the natural hub of 1853, with Miss Eleanor Junkin, an industrial and trading area. It is daughter of Dr. George Junkin, of the center of a network of hard sur- Lexington, who died in the fall of faC£d roads, bus lines, interurban and 1854; a tour of Europe in 1856; his steam railways. second marriage July 16, 1857, with A program breakfast was served Miss Mary Anna Morrison, of Lincoln Sunday morning at the Masonic Tem- County. North Carolina; and the trip p]e under the auspices of the Clarksto Charles Town during the John burg Chamber of Commerce, -after Brown trouble; are high points. Oth- which the guests left on a special B. erwise. there was little to interrupt'4. o. train, enroute to the Eastern hia daily duties as instructor. 'panhandle, Arthurdale being the main On April 21, 1861, Major Jackson! stop of the day, at which time Mrs. left Lexington with the cadets in the Frankin D. Roosevelt was the speakopening of the Civil War. On April er at that project. 27, he was appointed a colonel of Vir-j-- _ •„ -1- ginia Volunteers; assigned to com- (Continued next week) :T. "w.!' America in 1748. This line produced foldiers that bore arms in every war • aged by the Colonies and the United States to this day. The Neales, while In the direct line then residing at Parkersburg, (W.) Va., were derived Irom Lieutenant Daniel Neale of the English army, immigrant, who located Iri Northumberland County, Virginia, In 1649. (later brigadier-general in the Federal army), Johnson N. Camden, who received the next appointment (later U. S. Senator), and Gibson J. Butcher. Two were too young. Jackson was said to have been deficient in mathematics. and on April 19 Butcher was "conditionally appointed" a cadet to West Point. In the latter part of May, Butcher -L View of the West Virginia State Four-HC amp at Jackson's Mill, five miles from Weston. The site af this camp is the boyhood home of General T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson, noted military genius of the Civil War. The camp is the first and largest state owned Four-H camp in the United States. On the lawn, between the swimming pool and Mount Vernon dining hall (center of picture) the members of the National Editorial Association were banqueted. At the camp thousands of West Virginia boys and girls are trained each year in the improvements of their Heads, Hands, Hearts, and Health. that followed, when the fate of a continent hung in the balance came : «yents which make Morgantown, in *7 ^West Virginia, historically important. " In September, 1784, George Wshigigton, while visiting at Pierponts, at the home near what is now Fairmont, in Marion County, sent for Colonel Zackquill Morgan, seventh son of the famous Indian fighter and pioneer, Colonel Morgan Morgan. Colonel County and voting places were established here and at Bush's Fort, now Buckhannon. Early pioneers, westward bound, in crossing the mountains from the east found, at Morgantown, first Fort Morgan and protection, also navigable waters down the Monongahela to Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, thence down the Ohio to the middle west. Morgantown is situated at an eleva Zackquill Morgan had, accompanied. tion of 1,000 feet above sea level with fey John Evans of Loudin County, Vir-[excellent climate, amid environs re ginia, visited the site of Morgantown vealing all the beauties of mountain, i* •. decade before the Revolutionary j river and lake. War, in which he served, under Wash-, Morgantown is The first few years of the life of Thomas Jackson were filled with adversity. On March 26, 1826, his father died, his oldest sister a few days before, and the young widow left with Very meager means. In 1830 his pother married (2) Blake B. Wood- Son, of Cumberland County, Virgnia, _ ... , , and removed to Fayette Countv, where Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson was,she died the foliowing year. The chilwriten by Roy Bird Cook, which he dren jn the meantime, had been placed titled "Stonewall Jackson a WestjWjth relatives, Thomas going to the Virginian," and will prove interesting old home place at jackson's Mills, just to our readers: below Weston, in Lewis County, then "Stonewall" Jackson On June 27, 1862, about five in the evening, fresh from smoke of the famous left for West Point, but the outlook was not attractive, and he returned to Wrston, having stopped at Jackson's Mills on his way home. Jackson again Took hope. "I know I have the energy MI PLACE RESTAURANT Phone 377 --USTEN & FREUND, Props. Green St. HALF SPRING FRIED CHICKEN --- 60# USH FRY EVERY FRIDAY FRESH PERCH occupied by his step-grandmother (Mrs. Edward Jackson) and several the dust and; uncl®s ®nd aunts. Valley Cam-1 The following twelve years were paign," there appeared upon the field spent at the "Mills" during which time of "Cold Harbor," General Stonewall he made a few visits elsewhere. Once Jackson. Under his command came during the winter of '36-'37 he, with veteran battalions covered with the his brother, Warren, set out to seek glory of victory in the highlands of adventure and fortune along the Ohio Seven miles from j Virginia to now enter upon the des- and Mississippi, with an almost disasthirteen - mile - long perate conflicts of the lowlands. The'trous ending. In the meantime he iwent to schools, such as they were; took part in all local activities of a religious and social nature; and was known throughout the community for his honesty and dependability. He Was not quick to decide, but once his liaind was made up, acted on quick time. One of his schoolmates recorded that, "Tom was always an uncommonly behaved lad, a gentleman from a boy up, just kind to everyone.". Many anecdotes set forth his characteristics. His love for the farm life, his attempts to teach the slaves to read and write, the manufacture and sale of maple sugar, the catching and (Mile of fish to secure means to buy books, and his insatiable desire for | Imowledge, are outstanding features. I The summer of 1837 found Jackson Working on the old Parkersburg and j Staunton Pike, through the heart oi S Western Virginia. The winter of 1839 1 was spent in school under that noted depictor of affairs on the border-- Alexander Scott Withers--who Was much attached to his quiet student. Matthew Edmiston, a brilliant young lawyer, located in Weston, bringing with him a small library, which was soon absorbed. Afvout this time the Christian character which has so set apart began to eryitallizq. . la . This institution, the Weston State HiKpHah is purported to be the largest hand-cut stone building la the world. The one-story wing at the lelt wsV&tarted in 1859 by the^state of Virginia and was the only public institution in Wtest Augusta when WesLJtitgiiia became a new state. Seventeen hundred mental ftierits are treated at the hospital. The medical cen er .(four-story brick building at the left) is the finest West Virginia and i» approved by theAmericaii HcwjfftaTAaai&ciatioa.' ^ NER? Ask for it at your favorite tavern ich & Son, Dist. '. • -.',4' •' . :A • v, ^ _-- r-- X wr