- Tucker, St. George by Landen Jenkins
... , Bermuda. He emigrated to Virginia in his late teens. A lieutenant-colonel at Yorktown, he became judge of the general court in Virginia (1788) and professor at William and Mary (1800). He sat on the Virginia Supreme Court (1803–11) and was federal judge for Virginia (1813–27). His important works include his Dissertation on Slavery: with a Proposal for its ...
- Pierpont, Francis Harrison by Bianca Terry
... the Civil War broke out. When Virginia seceded (1861), he organized a mass meeting at Wheeling and became the provisional governor of Western Virginia (1861–63). When West Virginia was admitted as a state (1863), he became governor of the "restored" state of Virginia, the counties still controlled by the Federal government. With the end of the Civil War, he became ...
- New River by Layla Baldwin
River, southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia, U.S. It is formed in North Carolina and flows north across Virginia into West Virginia, where it joins the Gauley River to form the Kanawha River. It is about 255 mi (410 km) long and is spanned by one of the longest steel-arch bridges in the world, the New River Gorge bridge near Fayetteville, W. Va...
- Newport, Christopher by Katie Barnes
... . In 1606 he was given charge of the Virginia Company's expedition to America. He made a total of five voyages to Jamestown (1607–11) and served as the intermediary between the Virginia Company and the new colonists in Virginia.
- Boreman, Arthur Ingram by Jaxon Murphy
1823–96, first governor of West Virginia (1863–69), b. Waynesburg, Pa. A member (1855–61) of the Virginia house of delegates, Boreman opposed secession and presided over the Wheeling Convention of June, 1861, which set up the loyal government of Virginia with Francis H. Pierpont as governor. It was this government that ...