. Book of the Royal blue . Mi^.^-,,. HOME OF HAKMAN BLENNEKHASSETT ON BLENNEKHASSETi S ISLANl BLENNERHASSETTS ISLAND. ITS TRUE HISTORY. H. F. THEFIE is an island in the (Jliio River,opposite the mouth of the Kanawha and in plain view from Baltimore &Ohio and B. & 0. South-Western trains asthey cross the Ohio River on the great steelbridge at Parkersburg, that nearly a centuryago was the scene of one of the strangestand most pathetic stories in the history ofthis country. The mystery which hung about theisland and its owners gave rise to manyconjectures, some of which have foundtheir wa
. Book of the Royal blue . Mi^.^-,,. HOME OF HAKMAN BLENNEKHASSETT ON BLENNEKHASSETi S ISLANl BLENNERHASSETTS ISLAND. ITS TRUE HISTORY. H. F. THEFIE is an island in the (Jliio River,opposite the mouth of the Kanawha and in plain view from Baltimore &Ohio and B. & 0. South-Western trains asthey cross the Ohio River on the great steelbridge at Parkersburg, that nearly a centuryago was the scene of one of the strangestand most pathetic stories in the history ofthis country. The mystery which hung about theisland and its owners gave rise to manyconjectures, some of which have foundtheir way into history, and others formedthe basis of romantic tales and was onlycleared away about two years ago, whenall participants being dead for more thanhalf a century, a relative published a frankstatement of the facts, with a view torefuting the many mis-statements made inregard to Harman Blennerhassett and hisisland paradise. Harman Blennerhassett was born in Hampshire, England, in 1765, and was notof Irish birth or parent
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