Senate Years of Service: 1863-1867; 1867-1869Party: Unconditional Unionist; RepublicanVAN WINKLE, Peter Godwin, (granduncle of Marshall Van Winkle), a Senator from West Virginia; born in New…
Senate Years of Service: 1913-1919Party: RepublicanGOFF, Nathan, (father of Guy Despard Goff and grandfather of Louise Goff Reece), a Representative and a Senator from West Virginia; born in…
TOWNSEND, Washington, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in West Chester, Chester County, Pa., January 20, 1813; attended a private school and West Chester Academy; engaged as a bank…
EVERHART, James Bowen, (son of William Everhart), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in the Boot, near West Chester, West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pa., July 26, 1821; attended…
McGREW, James Clark, a Representative from West Virginia; born near Brandonville, Monongalia County, Va. (now West Virginia), September 14, 1813; attended the common schools; engaged in…
(Encyclopedia) Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814–99, Union leader in Virginia during the American Civil War, “Father of West Virginia,” b. near Morgantown, Va. (now W.Va.). When Virginia seceded, he…
FULLER, William Elijah, a Representative from Iowa; born in Howard, Center County, Pa., March 30, 1846; moved with his parents to West Union, Fayette County, Iowa, in 1853; attended the common…
Senate Years of Service: 1935-1941Party: DemocratHOLT, Rush Dew, (father of Rush Holt), a Senator from West Virginia; born in Weston, Lewis County, W.Va., June 19, 1905; attended the public…
(Encyclopedia) PontianakPontianakpôntēäˈnäk [key], city (1990 pop. 398,357), capital of West Kalimantan prov., W Borneo, Indonesia, at the mouth of a small stream in the Kapuas delta near the west…