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The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Four former Virginia House of Delegates members from the 1848-49 session now reside in Charleston, noted as illustrious gentlemen with no other county having as many such figures.
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There are residing in Charleston four gentlemen who were members of the Virginia House of Delegates at the session of 48-49, which commenced in Richmond, but adjourned to the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, where their legislative labors terminated about the 1st of September, 1849. They are John S. Burdett, who represented the county of Taylor; James H. Ferguson, who represented the counties of Logan and Boone; Benjamin W. Byrne, who represented the counties of Braxton and Lewis, and James M. Laidley, who represented the county of Kanawha. We venture the assertion that there cannot be found within the borders of any county, either in the Old Dominion or in West Virginia, more than half as many gentlemen who were members of that body. Ohio county had but one delegate. The city of Richmond had but one.
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Session Of 48 49 ... About The 1st Of September, 1849
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Four gentlemen who were members of the Virginia House of Delegates at the 1848-49 session, which started in Richmond and adjourned to Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, now reside in Charleston: John S. Burdett (Taylor county), James H. Ferguson (Logan and Boone counties), Benjamin W. Byrne (Braxton and Lewis counties), and James M. Laidley (Kanawha county). Assertion that no county in Virginia or West Virginia has more than half as many such members; Ohio county and Richmond each had one.