History of
Ritchie County, West Virginia
With Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Their Ancestors, 
and With Interesting Reminiscences of Revolutionary and Indian Times
Published 1911
By Minnie Kendall Lowther
700 pages, 52 illustrations and portraits
 
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Ritchie County was formed in 1843 from parts of Harrison, Lewis, and Wood Counties. It was named for 
Thomas Ritchie, a distinguished journalist from Richmond, Virginia, whose mother was the sister of Judge 
Spencer Roane, for whom Roane County was named. The size of this county is 455.27 square miles. The 
county seat is Harrisville. 
 
 
This county is bounded on the north by Pleasants and Tyler; on the east by Doddridge, on the south by Gilmer, 
Calhoun, and Wirt; and on the west by Wirt and Wood. The population at the first census after its creation 
was 3,856. By 1910, the population was near 20,000.
 
Book Contents
Chapter I. The discovery of Ritchie county
Chapter II. First settlers in Ritchie county
Chapter III. South fork settled
Chapter IV. Thomas and Phebe Cunningham
Chapter V. The Westfalls and Whites
Chapter VI. South fork settlers--Continued
Chapter VII. South fork settlers--Continued
Chapter VIII. North fork settled
Chapter IX. North fork settlers--Continued
Chapter X. First settlers in the Cairo vicinity
Chapter XI. Scotch settlers
Chapter XII. Bond's creek settled
Chapter XIII. Husher's run
Chapter XIV. Goose creek settled
Chapter XV. Middle fork settled
Chapter XVI. Bone creek settled
Chapter XVII. Otterslide settled
Chapter XVIII. Spruce creek settled
Chapter XIX. Grass run settled
Chapter XX. Leatherbarke
Chapter XXI. Indian creek settled
Chapter XXII. Chevauxdefrise settled
Chapter XXIII. Slab creek settled
Chapter XXIV. White Oak settled
Chapter XXV. Beeson settled
Chapter XXVI. Macfarlan and Dutchman
Chapter XXVII. Devil Hole creek settled
Chapter XXVIII. Ritchie mines
Chapter XXIX. Pioneer life and character
Chapter XXX. Schools and teachers
Chapter XXXI. Churches
Chapter XXXII. Mills
Chapter XXXIII. Post-offices
Chapter XXXIV. Ritchie county formed
Chapter XXXV. Developments
Chapter XXXVI. Physicians
Chapter XXXVII. Newspapers
Chapter XXXVIII. Harrisville
Chapter XXXIX. Prominent Harrisville families
Chapter XL. Cairo
Chapter XLI. Pennsboro
Chapter XLII. Ellenboro
Chapter XLIII. Smithville
Chapter XLIV. Burnt house
Chapter XLV. Auburn
Chapter XLVI. Berea
Chapter XLVII. Pullman
Chapter XLVIII. Petroleum
Chapter XLIX. Tollgate
Chapter L. Other prominent families
Chapter LI. The younger men's calendar
Chapter LII. The poet's corner
Chapter LIII. Ritchie county soldiers in the Civil war
Chapter LIV. Some additional ancestries1
Chapter LV. Natural resources
General index


 
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