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Biographies of Kanawha County, WV
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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: MCCONIHAY, John ****************************************************************** Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by: SSpradling@aol.com September 19, 1999 ******************************************************************
History of Kanawha County George W. Atkinson 1876 p. 302
JOHN MCCONIHAY.
John McConihay was one of the earliest settlers of the county. He purchased a large boundary of land on the Kanawha river, from ten to fifteen miles above Charleston, which was valuable for its mineral contents, as well as for farming purpose. He was a good business man, and by industry and frugality managed to accumulate a handsome estate. He is now eighty-four years of age, and is remarkably active for a man of his years. He resides upon his farm at Lewiston, fifteen miles above Charleston, and attends to his husiness as regularly and constantly as if he were in the prime of life.
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