The life and times of Henry Gassaway Davis, 1823-1916 . elarger plans that he long had had in mind, and whichwere based on his implicit faith in the resources of theupper Potomac region. Though the youngest brotheropposed it and would not invest a dollar in the purchaseof lands, H. G. Davis & Company bought several thou-sand acres of fine timberlands in the wild Cheat Rivercountry, at the summit of the Alleghanies, most of themin Garrett County, Maryland. These lands were part of what had once been one ofthe largest private estates in the world, the six millionacres that had comprised the prop
The life and times of Henry Gassaway Davis, 1823-1916 . elarger plans that he long had had in mind, and whichwere based on his implicit faith in the resources of theupper Potomac region. Though the youngest brotheropposed it and would not invest a dollar in the purchaseof lands, H. G. Davis & Company bought several thou-sand acres of fine timberlands in the wild Cheat Rivercountry, at the summit of the Alleghanies, most of themin Garrett County, Maryland. These lands were part of what had once been one ofthe largest private estates in the world, the six millionacres that had comprised the property of Thomas, SixthLord Fairfax, the owner of the Northern Neck in Vir-ginia. The boundaries of some of them ran from Fair-,fax Stone, in the corner of West Virginia and Maryland,which for more than a century had been a subject of con-tention between Maryland and Virginia. Several of themaps describing metes and boundaries of the tracts pur-chased bore the initials of George Washington as sur-veyor. This forest wilderness had an assured value as. Reproduction of daguerreotype of Kate Bantz Davis HENRY GASSAWAY DAVIS 33 timberland, although few men had the courage to makelarge investments in it. What wealth of coal mightunderlie it, no one could guess. Its development was tosignalize the constructive capacity of Henry G. Davisand to form a leading chapter in his career as a railwaybuilder following a period of public service. CHAPTER III EARLY PUBLIC LIFE West Virginia a war-born State—Daviss belief in separationfrom the Old Dominion—Election to the Legislature as a Union-Conservative—Paucity of lawyers—Status of ex-Confederates—Reasons for test oaths and disfranchisement—Party passions—Committee assignments—Fiscal subjects and internal improve-ments—Delegate to Democratic National Convention—Election toState Senate—Repeal of test laws—Struggle over enfranchise-ment legislation—The debt question—Second election to StateSenate—Democrats in power—
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