Polsley, Daniel H.

Overview

Scrapbook of Julia C. Polsley, "Sunny Side," Point Pleasant, containing clippings on the career and death of her father, Daniel W. Polsley, editor of the Wellsburg TRANSCRIPT, lieutenant governor of the Reorganized Government of Virginia, judge of the Seventh Judicial District, and member of the Fortieth Congress.

Overview A collection of biographical sketches written by West Virginia Representatives and Senators for inclusion in the 1859 and 1869 editions of Charles Lanman's "Dictionary of the United States Congress", as well as correspondence and photographs. Congressmen represented in this collection include William Armstrong, Jacob Blair, Arthur I. Boreman, Alexander Boteler, William Gay Brown, John S. Carlile, Sherrard Clemens, Isaac Duval, C.D. Hubbard, A. G. Jenkins, Zedekiah Kidwell, B.M. Kitchen,...