Volume 14 , Issue 18

Highland County Virginia - Civil Officers, Legislators, Justices and Officials

[The 1907 penny postcard featured this week is sent from Vanderpoole, Virginia by Robert Brill Doyle to Miss Constance Estella Warwick in Alva, Oklahoma. Robert Brill Doyle took care of the old "Pine Grove School" in Mustoe, Virginia and donated the land for the school. He was born 12 March 1875 on the Jackson River, Highland County, Virginia and died 14 December 1945. He comes down through the Doyle ancestry through Leona Doyle Dever. he and his mother are buried, without head stones, in the Scared Heart Catholic Cemetery, right beside the old school.]

The newness of Highland as a separate county, the roll of legislators from its territory was a short one. It is rendered all the shorter from the circumstance that the Senate and House rolls preserved in the stet capitol were defective, even in recent years.

From the portion formerly in Pendleton the following names appear with the session dates:

1. Col. Peter Hull, 1789-91 and 1793-1805;
2. Oliver McCoy, 1794;
3. Nathaniel Pendleton, 1805-06 and 1813-15;
4. Maj. Peter Hull, 1807-16;
5. Harmon V. Gvien, 1816-7;
6. Thomas Jones, 1819-24, 1827-9, and 1833-5;
7. Harmon Hiner, 1825-6, 1829-33 and 1839-42;
8. John Bird, 1842-4;
9. Benjamin Hiner, 1844-6 and1848-50.

From the section formerly in BAth, no names appear to occur until Andrew H. Byrd became a delegate in the sessions of 1836-8, 1841, 1843, 1846 and 1848. When the new county was formed, he was the delegate from Bath.

Bath and Highland were in one legislative district until 1853, William Hevener being Delegate in 1852. From 1853 until 1891, Highland was a district by itself, yet for this period we find only the following names:

1. Andrew H. Byrd, 1853;
2. John Bird, 1857-8;
3. William W. Fleming, 1859;
4. Harmon Hiner, 1877-8;
5. John T. Byrd, 1889-90.

It was in 1891, Alleghany, BAth and Highland were put into one district, which was represented in 1904-8 by Samuel W. Sterrett, and since then by John W. Stephenson, a resident of Bath but native of Highland.

Charles P. Jones, the only State Senator from this county, served as such from 1885 until 1897. George W. Hull sat in the State Convention in 1861. Under the Constitutions of 1776 and 1829, the following Justices of Pendleton appear to have come from the Highland section, their appointments being found in the years designated below:

1. George W. Amiss, 1822
2. Emmanuel Arbogast, 1843
3. James B. Campbell, 1831
4. Benjamin Fleisher, 1820
5. Benoni Hansel, 1840
6. Thomas Jones, 1831
7. Peter Hull, Sr., 1788
8. Peter Hull, Jr., 1825
9. Nicholas Seybert, 1800
10. Adam Sitlington, 1807
11. John Sitlington, 1807
12. John Slaven, 1797
13. James Stephenson, 1797
14. Thomas Wilson, 1797

Among the earlier Justices from Bath the following Highland names appear:

1. William Dinwiddie, 1796
2. John Erwin, 1794
3. James Hicklin, 1795
4. Timothy Holcomb, 1795
5. Bartholemew Johnston, 1795
6. William Lockridge, 1797
7. John Peebles, 1790
8. Stewart Slaven, 1815
9. John Wilson, 1790

Highland Justices (Presidents indicated by a star):

Apponted, 1848: George W. Amiss, Abel H. Armstrong, Emanuel Arbogast, David H. Byrd, James Brown, Andrew H. Byrd, James B. Campbell, Benjamin Fleisher, George Hicklin, Petter Hull*, Thomas Jones, John H. Pullin, Samuel Ruckman, John Sitlington, Reuben Slaven, Adam Stephenson, Cahrles Steuart.

Felix H. Hull was appointed 1854, vice Peter Hull.

Elected 1856: John Bird, John C. Bird, Thomas L. Brown, Cornelius Colaw, Samuel C. Eagle, William W. Fleming*, Adam L. Gum, Henry Hevener, William Hevener*, Josiah Hiner, Felix H. Hull, Jacob Hull, James Hupman, Samuel Jones, John C. Marshall, Franklin McNulty, George T. Robson, Henry Seybert, David Stephenson.

Elected 1860: John Bird, Thomas L. Brown, Cornelius Colaw, Samuel C. Eagle, William W. Fleming, William Hevener*, Josiah Hiner, Felix H. Hull, Jacob Hull, Henery C> Jones, Peter H. Kinkead, Adam Lightner, John C. Marshall, Franklin McNUlty, John H. Pullin, Henry Seybert, Adam C. Stephenson, David Stephenson, Edward Steuart, Zachariah Tomlinson. Marshall, Pullin, and the two hulls died in 1861. Joseph Layne was elected in the place of Felix H. Hull.

Elected 1864: Jared G. ARmstrong, John H. Byrd, Austin W. Campbell, Cornelius Colaw, Samuel C. Eagle, Adam H. Fleisher, William D. Gibson, William Hevener, John M. Hook, Henry C. Jones, Peter H. Kinkead, James Moyers, Stewart C. Slaven, David Snyder, Robert A. Steuart, James M. Terry, Anson O. Wade.

Elected 1865: John Bird, Thomas L. Brown, John H. Byrd, benjamin B. Campbell, William M. Campbell, Samuel C. Eagle, William W. Fleming, John E. Gum, Benoni Hansel, John M. Hook, Henry C. Jones, Peter H. Kinkead, Samuel M. Marshall, Jonathan Siron, Adam C. Stephenson, David Stephenson, Edward Steuart.

Fleming and Gum were declared ineligible. John Trimble was chosen in place of the former and John S. Newman in place of the latter. Later in the year, Henry Seybert and George Hamme Campbell were added to the board.

Election of 1868: Thomas L. Brown, John H. Byrd, Benjamin B. Campbell, William M. Campbell, George Eagle, Benoni Hansel, John M. Hook, Henry C. Jones, Peter H. Kinkead, Samuel M. Marshall, John S. Newman, Henry Seybert, Jonathan Siron, David Stephenson, Edward Steuart, John Trimble.

Apponted by General Canby, 1869: Benjamin Arbogast, Joseph A. Beathe, William Brown, Anderson P. Devericks, C. H. Harouff, Robert S. Hook, Joseph Hull, Robert R. Hull, John Lamb, Michael Mauzy, Robert S. Miller, Charles H. Slaven.

Sheriffs under Pendleton and bAth: Peter Hull, Sr., 1798; William dinwiddie, 1812; Harmon Hiner, 1817-9; Peter Hull, Jr., 1821; John Sitlington, 1826; George Hicklin, 1832; Thomas Kinkead, 1833; Benjamin Fleisher, 1839; Samuel Ruckman, 1839; Reuben Slaven, 1843; Charles Steuart, 1844; John Graham, 1846.

Sheriffs of Highland: Peter Hull, 1848-9; Andrew H. Byrd, 1849-51; John Sitlington, 1851-2; Washington Stephenson, 1852-7; Andrew J. Bird, 1857-8; John M. Rexrode, 1858-63; William M. Summers, 1863-5; John A. Fleisher, 1869; William M. Summers, 1870-09; William M. Arbogast, 1879-99; J. Edward Arbogast, 1899-1911.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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