. The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time .. . ear 1820. In the year 1830, Levi Leonard kept a store at FrenchCreek in which, as was the custom, ginseng, deer hides, furs and linen wereexchanged for calico, from twenty-five to seventy-five cents per yard and indigoat one dollar per ounce. MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY. 319 In 1832 Nathan and Waldo Goz put up the first store in Brake, Saul Leonard, D. H. Hazelden and Seymour Horner were amongthe first clerks. Goz having moved into the town just prior to this business
. The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time .. . ear 1820. In the year 1830, Levi Leonard kept a store at FrenchCreek in which, as was the custom, ginseng, deer hides, furs and linen wereexchanged for calico, from twenty-five to seventy-five cents per yard and indigoat one dollar per ounce. MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY. 319 In 1832 Nathan and Waldo Goz put up the first store in Brake, Saul Leonard, D. H. Hazelden and Seymour Horner were amongthe first clerks. Goz having moved into the town just prior to this businessadventure, did not know all the people who would trade at his store. On oneoccasion he was very much embarrassed, after selling a customer a good billof goods on credit, he asked the purchaser, To whom should he charge thisaccount? The buyer was silent as death. The merchant again interrogatedthe buyer, and again the obstinate buyer refused to tell his name. Goff gazedsternly and vexed at the man before him and with his wits in full play saidto him, I will charge these goods to the ugliest man. Lemuel Brake was. JACOB LORENTZ PACK TRAIN. the gentleman who would not tell Mr. Goff his name and whose name wasafterward told the merchant by our informant who was present when this trans-action occurred. John Wesley Wilson kept the first store at Rock Cave in 1851. He hauled his goods mostly from , Va. Joe Pringle kept a store near the road at the Jehu Hyre place on the head waters of Bull Run in the year 1854 or 1855;and Samuel Talbot kept the first store in the Beechtown settlement. The second road wagon was introduced into the county in 1810, broughtthrough by the New Englanders in their overland journey. These New Eng-landers also introduced sheep in 1810 into this settlement, which soon becamean important industry for the settlers, inasmuch as the wool was used in weavingcloth out of which apparel was made. Joseph Ligget brought sheep with himon emigrating from Hardy county in 18
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