What a wonderful look at life in 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Tucker County and its people.

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1884.

 

History

of

Tucker County,

West Virginia

 

 The Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time;

 

With

 

Biographical Sketches of more than Two Hundred and Fifty of the Leading Men, and a full appendix of Official and Electional History; also, an Account of the Rivers, Forests and Caves of the County.

 

 

By Hu Maxwell

 

Illustrated with

Twenty-Eight Prototypes of Noted Persons

 

 

Kingwood, W. VA.

Preston Publishing Company

 

1884

 

574 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * 

CONTENTS

Chapter I. James Parsons
Chapter II. John Minear
Chapter III. Miscellanies
Chapter IV. Miscellanies
Chapter V. Formulation of Tucker County
Chapter VI. Schools and churches
Chapter VII. Mountains and caves
Chapter VIII. Lumber interests of Tucker County
Chapter IX. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway
Chapter X. Miscellaneous statistics
Chapter XI. Newspapers of the county
Chapter XII. The St. George bar
Chapter XIII. Travelers
Chapter XIV. Travelers
Chapter XV. Travelers
Chapter XVI. Travelers
Chapter XVII. The war
Brief biographies
Appendix.
Biographical sketch of the author
Appendix. Political statistics