Portrait of the Honorable John Beckley of Beckley, W. Va.
Identifier:
036339
Collection Number:
A&M 3698
Title:
Portrait of the Honorable John Beckley of Beckley, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890-1910
Creator:
G. W. Bailey, Beckley, W. Va.
Description:
From "Beckley U.S.A." by Harlow Warren, p. 74, vol. 1. Harlow Warren, Copyright 1955. In book: "Hon. John Beckley, politician, merchant. Born in the early days of the nineteenth century, the late Hon. John Beckley, of Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia, saw all the wonderful development of this country, from the days when Raleigh County was a howling wilderness, through the exciting events of the Civil War, and so up to the present generation of advancement and progress, with busy cities on the lands where in those pioneer days bears, wolves and panthers roamed the woods, and 'neighbors' were four to six miles apart. Mr. Beckley was born in what was then known as the United States Allegheny Arsenal, on March 26, 1833, the son of the late General Alfred and Amelia Neville (Craig) Beckley" (p. 74, 76).
