academies, 71-72. See also specific academies Agrarians, 165-66, 168 Agricultural Extension Service, 179 agriculture: crops, 57-59; livestock, 57, 80-81, 101, 175; scientific, 81, 174; pre-Civil War, 174; since statehood, 174-82 ailments: pioneer, 60-62 Air Pollution Control Commission, 282 Alburtis, John, newspaperman, 75 Alderson, John, minister, 63 Alderson, John D.: congressman, 168 Alderson Junior College, 250 Alexander, Holmes, journalist, 264-65 Alleghany County, 142, 143 Allegheny College, 73 Allegheny Front, 2 Allegheny Mountain, 129, 130 Allegheny Mountains, 19; 200 Allegheny Plateau, 2-3 Alloy, 201 Ambler, Charles H., 141, 148, 151-52,262 Amherst, Jeffrey, military leader, 25, 27 Ammons, Nelle, botanist, 265 Andrews, R. Carl, 271 Andrew Summers Rowan Home, 272 Anthony Creek, 21 Antifederalists, 49 Appalachia, 180 Appalachian Agreements, 234 Appalachian Highlands, 1-2 Appalachian Power Company, 202 Aracoma Polytechnic College, 73 Arbuckle, Matthew, 39-41 Armentrout family, 17 Arthur, Gabriel, 9, 13 Arthurdale, 268 Asbury, Francis, 64-65 Ashland (Ky.) American Union, 106 Athens, 241 Atkeson, Mary Meek, novelist, 258 Atkeson, Thomas Clark, Grange leader, I77 Atkinson, Gov. George W., 206, 208-10, 236,261 Auburn; 250 Averell, William W., 138-39 Bagby, Wesley M., historian, 263 Bailey, Cleveland M., congressman, 269 Bailey, Kenneth, historian, 263 Bailey, Larrie, 295 Bailey, R. D., 229 Baker, Joshua, 33 Baker, Lewis: refutes Wheeling Intelligencer, 155;and Democratic Party, 166 Baker, Newton D., secretary of war, 219 Baldwin, John B., 115 Baldwin-Felts detectives, 225, 229 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 81, 97, 100, 102,162, 177, 184;in Civil War, 125, 131, 135, 136, 138; and strike of 1877, 169-70, 220; and taxes, 170-71,211 Bandholtz, Gen. Henry, 231 Bank of the South Branch of the Potomac, 85 Bank of the United States, 86 Bank of the Valley of Virginia, 86 Banks, Henry, 55 banks and banking, 85-86, 93; in Staunton Convention (1816), 92; under Governor Johnson, 100;branch banking and holding companies, 290 Baptist Church, 63-64, 244 Baptist Coalsmouth High School, 244 Barbe, Waitman T., 246; poetry of, 256-57 Barber, James David, political scientist, 263 Barbour, Philip P., 93 Barbour County, 114, 120, 140, 157, 177 Barkey, Fred, historian, 263 Barns, Thomas, church leader, 66 Barns, William D., 178, 263 Barradall, Edward, 15 Barron, Gov. William Wallace, 282, 284 Bascom, Henry, 65-66 Bassel, Benjamin, 70 Battelle, Gordon, 72, 105, 145, 150, 239 Batts and Fallam expedition, 12-13, 18 Beard, Charles A,, historian, 49 Index 327 Beards fork, 9 Beckley College, 250, 301. See also College of West Virginia Bell, John, 112 Belle, 201 Belle Prince, 164 Bellot des Minieres, 101 Benedict, Cleveland K., congressman, 269, 286, 302-3 Benedict, Cooper P., congressman, 283 Benedum, Michael L., 195 Bennett, John Cook, 73 Bennett, Jonathan M., 167 Bennett, Louis, 213 Bens Run, 6, 194 Benwood, 102, 199, 236 Berkeley, Robert C., 245 Berkeley, Sir William, 12-13 Berkeley County, 15, 16, 38, 43, 47, 86, 118, 120, 175, 199, 280; included in West Virginia, 123, 142, 143, 146, 153 Berkeley Springs, 48, 201, 232 Berkshire, Ralph L., 152, 154 Bethany, 45, 75, 77, 102 Bethany College, 73, 243, 253 Beury,JosephL., andNew Rivercoalfield, 189 Beverly, 48, 88, 185;in Civil War, 125, 136, 137 Bezalion, Peter, 13, 14 Big Chimney, 244 Big Levels, 27 "Big Moses" gas well, 196 "Big Salem Raid," 138-39 Big Sandy River, 23-24, 87, 183, 197 Big Sewell Mountain, 129 "Big Steel" Agreement, 238 Biggs, Zacheus, 50 Bingaman, Samuel, 24 Bishop, John Peale, novelist, 260 Bittner, Van A,, 233, 237, 270, 271 Bituminous Coal Commission, 229 Bituminous Coal Ouerators Association, 238 Black, Rev. Sam, i05 Blackhurst, Warren E., novelist, 260 black lung: See pneumoconiosis Black Striped Company, 131 Blackwater Boom and Lumber Company, 198 Blainville, Pierre-Joseph de Celoron, 21 Blair, Jacob B., 150 Blair Mountain, battle of, 231-32, 303 Bland, Edward, 12 Blennerhassett, Harman, 52-53 Blennerhassett, Margaret Agnew, 53, 78 Blennerhassett Island, 52-53 Blizzard, William, 229, 232, 237, 271 Bloomery, 83 Bluefield, 185, 198, 221 Bluefield Colored Institute, 242. See also Bluefield State College Bluefield State College, 252, 253, 301 Blue Ridge, 2, 12, 14, 15 Blue Sulphur Springs, 73 Board of Control, 212 Board of Directors (colleges), 301 Board of Public Works, 217 Board of Regents, 251-53, 284, 300 Board of Trustees (universities), 300-301 boatbuilding, 85, 184 Bond, Hugh Lennox, 160 Bond, S. Orestes, 244 Boomer Coal and Coke Company, 189,225 Boone County, 120, 140, 188, 243 Boothsville, 105-06 Borah, William E., 227 Boreman...