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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: DODDRIDGE, Major John M.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
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September 19, 1999
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History of Kanawha County
George W. Atkinson
1876
p. 316
MAJOR J0HN M. DODDRIDGE.
Major Doddridge was thc second son of the late Hon. Philip Doddridge, of
Brooke county, the great lawyer and statesman. He was born in Pennsylvania,
in 1802, and removed to Kanawha couuty, ahout 1825. He was Cashier of the
Bank of Virginia, at Charleston, for many years, and was honorable and
obliging in all of his business relations. During the late war he removed to
Wheeling, and was appointed to the responsible office of United States
Pension Agent, for the State of West Virginia, which office he continued to
hold until the spring of 1871. Since that time he has resided in Charleston,
serving in the capacity of Cashier of the Merchants' Bank, and other
responsible positions. He has two brothers living C. B. and Philip. The
former is a member of the Charleston bar, and the latter resides at Paint
creek, twenty-three miles above Charleston. His brothers Yates and Biggs are
both dead.
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