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LINCOLN COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: LONG, James H.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
PJAFLA@aol.com
September 23, 1999
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Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and geographical
Encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West
Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia: Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock, 1874.
JAMES H LONG was
born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1838 and settled in
Lincoln county March 19, 1878. His parents James and Jane (Conner) Long are
still residents in Franklin county. J. H. Long first married A. E. Eldridge
on the 29th of January, 1860 the ceremony having been performed at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One child was born of this union; James E., born
May 19, 1862, died October 14, 1879. Emma Barton (Richards) daughter of Peter
M and Peninah C (Akers) Barton was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania in
1842 and in this county, October 22, 1873, she became the wife of Mr. J. H.
Long. At the time of her marriage with Mr. Long she was a widow and the
mother of two children. Her first husband was Samuel A Eshleman whom she
married May 29, 1862 and Charles E was born June 11, 1863 and died October 4,
1881, and Mr. Eshleman died July 1, 1864. She then married T. T. S. Richards
February 20, 1867 and of their union was born one child Mary Zena born March
21, 1868 who now resides in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Richards
departed this life January 3, 1869. James H Long was in the militia during
the late war and one brother was in the 126th Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry. Mrs. Long is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Long
is a harness maker by trade but at present he is proprietor of the Hamlin
House, which is in every respect a first-class hotel, the rooms are well
furnished neat and comfortable, good stables attached: charges reasonable,
Hamlin Lincoln county West Virginia.
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