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Pages in category "Burials at Greenwood Cemetery (Wheeling, West Virginia)" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Members of several notable Wheeling families and natives including United States Congressmen Carl G. Bachmann, Chester D. Hubbard, William P. Hubbard, John O. Pendleton, and Benjamin Stanton, as well as Metropolitan Opera soprano Eleanor Steber, Medal of Honor recipient Daniel A. Woods, and architect Frederick F. Faris, are buried in the Cemetery.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1861 to 1959. Capital punishment was abolished in West Virginia in 1965. [ 1 ] From 1861 to 1959, 112 people have been executed in West Virginia, [ 2 ] 102 by hanging , 9 by electrocution and 1 by hanging in chains .
Writers from Wheeling, West Virginia (23 P) Pages in category "People from Wheeling, West Virginia" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
Its landscape was originally designed by Robert C. Woods (surveyor and son of Robert T. Woods), with individual plots laid out according to the landscape's contours. The cemetery became popular in the Victorian era for its views, as well as the preferred place of interment for a number of prominent citizens of Wheeling and surrounding Ohio County.
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West Virginia Legislature convenes. [14] Daily Register newspaper begins publication. [7] 1865 – St. Joseph's Academy for girls established. [6] 1866 – Greenwood Cemetery established. [15] 1870 West Virginia capital relocated from Wheeling to Charleston. [1] Population: 19,280. [10] 1875 – Wheeling becomes capital of West Virginia again. [2]
John Robinson, Charles Henry Over Former Hobbs and Belmont Glass employees Robinson and Over were among the founders of this company. Over was plant's original manager, while Robinson was the plant's original superintendent. Robinson replaced Over as plant manager when the factory moved to Findlay in 1888. [3] 2: Belmont Glass Company: Bellaire ...