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Correspondence related to George W. Koonce [Decimalized .01-.08]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08606 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Header Record Date: 1863- circa 1896 Pagination: 8 items Order a Copy

Koonce served as a Justice of the Peace for Jefferson County and as a town constable for Harper's Ferry, then Virginia, in the early 1860s. He was a County representative at the 1861 Second Wheeling Convention to vote on the secession of Western Virginia, a member of the West Virginia State House of Delegates from Jefferson County 1865-1867, and a member of the West Virginia State Senate, 11th District, 1870-1871.

Koonce, George W., 1818-1908

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