Salem West Virginia 1776 ~ 1976
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SALEM, WEST VIRGINIA A small town with a big spirit. Every town has its stories, and Salem is no exception. When Salem was still in the state of Virginia, Preston Randolph, a renowned educator and pillar of the community, campaigned for Abraham Lincoln. Within these pages you will learn about the person who manufactured Salem's first electricity; the first man to sell oil that was produced and marketed in Harrison County; where in 1976 a well still existed that had been used to supply water for the stockade, where the brewery was located and Salem's great fire of 1901. This collection of historical stories of life in Salem, West Virginia---and many more---paint a vivid picture of this small town and the people who made it prosper for over 200 years. Written by Dorothy Belle Davis, a locally well-known educator, author, and newspaper columnist, these stories have been lovingly preserved and reproduced for your enjoyment. Mrs. Davis is the author of HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY and JOHN GEORGE JACKSON.
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SALEM, WEST VIRGINIA A small town with a big spirit. Every town has its stories, and Salem is no exception. When Salem was still in the state of Virginia, Preston Randolph, a renowned educator and pillar of the community, campaigned for Abraham Lincoln. Within these pages you will learn about the person who manufactured Salem's first electricity; the first man to sell oil that was produced and marketed in Harrison County; where in 1976 a well still existed that had been used to supply water for the stockade, where the brewery was located and Salem's great fire of 1901. This collection of historical stories of life in Salem, West Virginia---and many more---paint a vivid picture of this small town and the people who made it prosper for over 200 years. Written by Dorothy Belle Davis, a locally well-known educator, author, and newspaper columnist, these stories have been lovingly preserved and reproduced for your enjoyment. Mrs. Davis is the author of HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY and JOHN GEORGE JACKSON.
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Dorothy Belle Davis 1914 ~ 2004 Mrs. Davis graduated from Victory High School in 1931 and was a graduate of West Virginia University in 1934 with a major in English and a minor in French. She worked on her master’s degree at the University of Illinois, and then finished it at West Virginia University. She had an honorary doctorate degree from Salem-Teikyo University. Teaching primarily at Salem High School, Mrs. Davis taught English in Harrison County Schools for 37 years. She directed more than 50 class plays during her teaching career and wrote pageants for the state FHA, one of which was presented at the National Convention of the FHA. She wrote “Out of the Whirlwind,” the Harrison County West Virginia Centennial Pageant which ran for a week in May 1963 at the Nathan Goff National Guard Armory. Between 1968 and 1997, she wrote more than 50 historical sketches for the newsletters of the Harrison County Historical Society. She had also written many articles for the Clarksburg Publishing Company. Mrs. Davis was a member of the Salem Business and Professional Women’s Club and the Harrison County and West Virginia Historical Societies. Mrs. Davis wrote “The History of Harrison County” and “John George Jackson