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Prior to the American Civil War (1861–1865), Virginia’s most influential political leaders had been reluctant to accept universal white male suffrage during the decades when it was more eagerly welcomed elsewhere in the United States. The state’s Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830 debated but declined to adopt a proposal that ownership of land no longer be a prerequisite for voting rights, continuing restriction of the electorate to one class of adult white men. The Constitutional ...

Carter was born into slavery in or about 1816, probably in Chesterfield County and probably of mixed-race ancestry. The names of his parents are undocumented, and nothing is known about his life during slavery. After the Civil War he was described as a boot- and shoemaker, so it is possible that he received some training as a cobbler. Although the list of convention delegates compiled by Virginia’s military commander, Brigadier General John McAllister Schofield, states that Carter was illiter...

SUMMARY Francis Harrison Pierpont was a lawyer, early coal industrialist, governor of the Restored government of Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865), governor of Virginia (1865–1868) during the first years of Reconstruction (1865–1877), and a state senator representing Marion County in West Virginia (1869–1870). Pierpont was an antislavery member of the Whig Party and delegate to the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861, during which Unionist politicians in weste...

jyoung@post-journal.com Construction is ongoing of the gazebo for the Chautauqua County Hometown Heroes Veterans Memorial in Mayville. The project has been years in the making and recently completed the first phase of its fundraising campaign. Photo by Jay Young MAYVILLE — The village of Mayville is nearing closer and closer to the completion of its new Chautauqua County Hometown Heroes Veterans Memorial. Construction of the project’s gazebo has continued at the front of the Mayville Cemet...