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Alexander Scott Withers, the Glossary

Alexander Scott Withers (12 October 1792, near Warrenton, Virginia – 23 January 1865, near Parkersburg, West Virginia) was a Virginia slave owner, lawyer, planter, magistrate, teacher and delegate to the First Wheeling Convention (1861) establishing the state of West Virginia.^[1]

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Delegates of the 1861 Wheeling Convention
Historians of Colonial North America
Historians of Virginia
Historians of West Virginia

Battle of Fallen Timbers

The Battle of Fallen Timbers (20 August 1794) was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between Native American tribes affiliated with the Northwestern Confederacy and their British allies, against the nascent United States for control of the Northwest Territory.

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Cincinnati

Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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Clarksburg, West Virginia

Clarksburg is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state.

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College of William & Mary

The College of William & Mary in Virginia (abbreviated as W&M), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Covington, Virginia

Covington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Ebenezer Zane

Ebenezer Zane (October 7, 1747 – November 19, 1811) was an American pioneer, soldier, politician, road builder and land speculator.

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Fauquier County, Virginia

Fauquier County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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French and Indian War

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

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George H. Hanks

George H. Hanks (– October 23, 1871) was an abolitionist and civil rights activist and colonel in the US Civil War.

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Hacker Valley, West Virginia

Hacker Valley is an unincorporated community in northern Webster County, West Virginia, United States, along the Left Fork of the Holly River.

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Hamilton, Ohio

Hamilton is a city in and the county seat of Butler County, Ohio, United States.

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Harper's Weekly

Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City.

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Jane Lew, West Virginia

Jane Lew is a town in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Lewis County, West Virginia

Lewis County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Lucullus Virgil McWhorter

Lucullus Virgil McWhorter (January 29, 1860 – October 10, 1944) was an American farmer and frontiersman who documented the historical Native American tribes in West Virginia and the modern-day Plateau Native Americans in Washington state.

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Lyman Draper

Lyman Copeland Draper (September 4, 1815August 26, 1891) was a librarian and historian who served as secretary for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin. Alexander Scott Withers and Lyman Draper are 19th-century American historians and historians of the United States.

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McClain Printing Company

The McClain Printing Company (MPC) is a printing company specializing in books of West Virginia history and lore.

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Nathaniel P. Banks

Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union general during the Civil War.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Northern Neck

The Northern Neck is the northernmost of three peninsulas (traditionally called "necks" in Virginia) on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in the Commonwealth of Virginia (along with the Middle Peninsula and the Virginia Peninsula).

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Otis K. Rice

Otis Kermit Rice (June 6, 1919 – September 22, 2003) was an American academic historian specializing in West Virginia history. Alexander Scott Withers and Otis K. Rice are historians of Virginia, historians of West Virginia and writers from West Virginia.

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Parkersburg, West Virginia

Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia, United States.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Reuben Gold Thwaites

Reuben Gold Thwaites (May 15, 1853 – October 22, 1913) was an American librarian and historical writer.

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Robert Clarke & Company

Robert Clarke & Company was a book publishing company and bookseller in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1858 to 1909.

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Roy Bird Cook

Roy Bird Cook (April 1, 1886 – November 21, 1961) was a pharmacist and historian with a special interest in West Virginia history. Alexander Scott Withers and Roy Bird Cook are historians of Virginia, historians of West Virginia and writers from West Virginia.

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Stonewall Jackson

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general and military officer who served during the American Civil War. Alexander Scott Withers and Stonewall Jackson are American slave owners.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates (born September 30, 1975) is an American author, journalist, and activist.

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The American Historical Review

The American Historical Review is a quarterly academic history journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association, for which it is its official publication.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Alexander Scott Withers and Theodore Roosevelt are 19th-century American historians.

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Thirlestane Castle

Thirlestane Castle is a castle set in extensive parklands near Lauder in the Borders of Scotland.

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U.S. Route 19

U.S. Route 19 or U.S. Highway 19 (US 19) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway in the Eastern United States.

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University Press of Kentucky

The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian.

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Warrenton, Virginia

Warrenton is a town in Fauquier County, Virginia, of which it is the seat of government.

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Washington College

Washington College is a private liberal arts college in Chestertown, Maryland.

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West Fork River

The West Fork River is a principal tributary of the Monongahela River, long, in north-central West Virginia, United States.

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West Virginia

West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Weston Democrat

The Weston Democrat is a newspaper serving the Weston, West Virginia community.

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Weston, West Virginia

Weston is a city in and the county seat of Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.

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Wheeling Convention

The 1861 Wheeling Convention was an assembly of Virginia Southern Unionist delegates from the northwestern counties of Virginia, aimed at repealing the Ordinance of Secession, which had been approved by referendum, subject to a vote.

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White slave propaganda

White slave propaganda was a kind of publicity, especially photograph and woodcuts, and also novels, articles, and popular lectures, about slaves who were biracial or white in appearance.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West.

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Withers (surname)

Withers – earlier Wither, Wyther – is an English surname of Old English origin.

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Woapalanne

Chief Woapalanne (- died June 1779) — also known as Chief Bald Eagle (the English translation of his name) — was a Lenape tribal leader of mid-18th century central and western Pennsylvania.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scott_Withers

Also known as Alexander Withers, Chronicles of Border Warfare.

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Alexander Scott Withers, the Glossary

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See also

Delegates of the 1861 Wheeling Convention

Historians of Colonial North America

Historians of Virginia

Historians of West Virginia

References