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Aberdeen Angus cattle, I, 529 Academies and seminaries, I, 291-296 Academies, old time, I, 629 Academy, first, west of the Blue Ridge, I, 110 Agricultural and household implements, I, 223 Agricultural implements, I, 228 Agricultural paper, first west of the blue ridge, I, 300 Agricultural statistics (1850), I, 254 Agriculture; status of farming in 1920, I, 524; before the civil war, 526; apple producing counties, 527; corn and other standard crops, 528; livestock, 528, 529, 530; farm machinery improvements and agricultural education, 531; State agricultural institutions, 531-534; farms and livestock (1900-1920), 536; acreage and production, 537; statics of (1900-1920), 712, 713 "Aldermanic" act, I, 316 Aldermanic School Law (1796), I, 279 Alderson, I, 90 Alexander and Eastern Railroad, I, 453 Alexandria, I, 526 Allen, Benjamin, I, 259 Allen, Samuel, letter of (1796), I, 122-125 Alley, L. S., Sketch of, I, 425 Allied War Relief, World's war, I, 709 Along the Norfolk & Western Railway in Virginia and West Virginia (illustrations), I, 486 Alpena, Swiss colony at, I, 593 Ambler, Charles H., I, 210 American Gazetter, extracts from (1797), I, 125 American Telephone and Telegraph Company, I, 539 Ancient home of the Burrs, in Jefferson County (illustration), I, 136 Anstead, I, 432 "Apple Pie Ridge," I, 527 Apples, varieties of, and producing counties, I, 527 Aracome, I, 240 Arbuckle, Matthew, I, 76 Archer, Robert L., I, 710 Arnoldsburg, I, 159 Asbury, Francis (Methodist bishop), I, 102; extracts from journal of, 115-118; first journey of, to Western Virginia (1781), 268 Ashe, Thomas, extracts from his "Travels in America" (1806), I, 128-130 Athens, normal school established at (1872), I, 589 Atkeson, Mary M., I, 679 Atkinson, Alexander, I, 425 Atkinson, George W., I, 561-687 Atlaptic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad, I, 483 Aurora, I, 185 Australian ballot bill, State senate passes, I, 560 Automatic licenses, increase of, I, 547 Averill, W. W. Union raids under (1863), I, 387 Averill Coal Company, I, 517 Avery, George D., I, 109 Avis, I, 429-430

Babcock Lumber and Boom Company, I, 476 Bailey, Ann, sketch of, I, 220 Bailey, John, I, 100 Bailey, Minister, I, 183 Ballangee, Isaac, I, 430 Ballardsville, I, 167 Baltimore & Ohio Railway, I, 135-136, 144; built to Wheeling (1852), 171; built to Cumberland (1842), 173; incorporation and organization of, 187; surveys for, 188, 189; opening of, to the Potomac (1832), 189; western extensions, 189-196; engineering obstacles between Cumberland and Wheeling, 192, 193; industrial revival along the line, 194, 195; reaches Wheeling (January 1, 1853), 196; Grafton-Parkersburg branch opened (June 1, 1857), 197-199; military importance of, in Civil War, 389-391; branches of, I, 445; absorbs Ohio River Railroad (1901), 470; its freight discrimination against West Virginia, I, 555 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, exemption from taxation I, 1, 611, 612 Bank of Phillipi (1855), I, 147 Bank of Summers, I, 430 Banks of Charleston, I, 436; of Huntington, 437; of Wheeling, 467; condition of (1919-21), I, 715 Baptist Church, I, 261-264, 274 Baptist churches, in 1850 and 1860, I, 276 Barbe, Waitman, I, 689, 692 Barbour county, first settlements in I, 102, 146-252; divided in Civil war, 372 Barbour County Jeffersonian, I, 314 Barboursville, I, 114, 239 Barnard, Henry, I, 637 Barnes, J. Walter, I, 705 Barter, I, 226 Bath (Berkeley Springs, I, 89) Battelle, Gordon, I, 294 Batts, Thomas, I, 54 Beckley, I, 168, 240, 496 Beckleyville (Beckley), I, 168, 240, 496 Bedford county, I, 529 Beef cattle, I, 529 Beef industry, I, 529 Belington, I, 477 Belington and Beaver Creek Railroad, I, 480 ix