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Cowen was named for a president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. [5] [6] Camp Caesar was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [7] The West Virginia Baptist Camp is just outside Cowen, on the Williams River Road. [citation needed] It was established in 1943 and has been in continuous use each summer since then.
West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043-325X. Delf Norona (1958). West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals and Broadsides. Moundsville: West Virginia Library Association. OCLC 863601 – via Internet Archive. G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: West Virginia".
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Descended from the First Families of Virginia, Robert Cowen was born in Staunton, Virginia, on November 9, 1830, to Arthur Cowan and his wife, the former Elizabeth Floyd who married in Monongalia County, Virginia, on August 9, 1829. Cowen's ancestors had moved from northern Ireland to Pennsylvania early in the 18th century, and by the American ...
Larry V. Faircloth, 75, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1980–2012). [380] Joseph Finnegan, 81, Irish jurist, judge (1999–2006) and president (2001–2006) of the High Court, judge of the Supreme Court (2006–2012). [381]
Miss West Virginia, First lady of West Virginia, 1989-90 Ella Dee Kessel Caperton (February 26, 1943 – September 1, 2000), best known as Dee Kessel Caperton , [ 1 ] was an American politician who served as First Lady of West Virginia , served a term in the West Virginia House of Delegates and was once Miss West Virginia .
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]