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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: PATRICK, Spicer
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 19, 1999
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History of Kanawha County
George W. Atkinson
1876
p. 321
SPICER PATRICK. M.D.
Dr. Patrick has always refused, at every opportunity, to allow anything to be
published that was personal to himself. I can only say, therefore, that he
has been one of the most prominent citizens of this portion of the State for
over a-half century. For many years he was the most noted physician in the
Kanawha Valley; and he has also figured prominently in the political history
of the Valley. He was frequently elected to the Legislature of this State,
as a member of either House, when the Virginias were one; and since the
formation of West Virginia, he has likewise served in the same capacities in
the Legislature of this State. He was a strenuous Union man during the late
war, and did much to prevent the passage of the Ordinance of Secession by the
Virginia Convention of i86o. Prior to the war he was a Whig, but for several
years past he has acted with the Democratic party. Dr. Patrick is now
eighty-five years of age. Here resides upon his farm, one and a-half miles
west of Charleston, and is in the enjoyment of comparatively good health.
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