. West Virginia and its people. k and dam and the old court house and jail were built by him. He married, March 6, 1838, Eliza, daughter of and Marie Therese Sophie Clotilde Raisoh (De la Geneste) Gardner, whowas born at Greenup, Kentucky; she died in 1888. A few years beforethe French revolution, her grandfather, Marquis Maison De la Geneste,left France and settled in Santo Domingo, West Indies. There he pur-chased three sugar plantations and hundreds of negroes. His only child,Marie Therese Sophie Clotilde Raison, at the age of fourteen, was mar-ried to Joseph Gardner, a merchant trader, sai
. West Virginia and its people. k and dam and the old court house and jail were built by him. He married, March 6, 1838, Eliza, daughter of and Marie Therese Sophie Clotilde Raisoh (De la Geneste) Gardner, whowas born at Greenup, Kentucky; she died in 1888. A few years beforethe French revolution, her grandfather, Marquis Maison De la Geneste,left France and settled in Santo Domingo, West Indies. There he pur-chased three sugar plantations and hundreds of negroes. His only child,Marie Therese Sophie Clotilde Raison, at the age of fourteen, was mar-ried to Joseph Gardner, a merchant trader, sailing out of Boston, Hewas related to General Putnam. He sold his ships, and settled on aplantation in Santo Domingo, In 1796 occurred the insurrection of theslaves. By the aid of a slave they escaped to a United States vessel andwere landed in Philadelphia. They went to Pittsburgh by stage coach,and took passage on a boat loaded for New Orleans, purposing to set-tle among the French, in Louisiana. The water was low in the Ohio,. /fu . WEST \IRGINIA 189 and the boat ran aground near Greenup. Changing their purpose, theyrented the largest house in that place and opened an inn. From SantoDomingo they had brought some jewelry and two slaves; the Frenchgovernment afterward gave them a partial indemnity. Children of Wil-liam Clendenin and Eliza (Gardner) Miller: i. Charles, deceased. F., married Kate Davidson, granddaughter of Governor Noble, ofIndiana, he now lives in Indianapolis. 3. John William, of whom further. 4. Joseph S., married Florence Tice, he lives at Kenova, West Virginia. 5. Eugenia, married B. H. Thackston, they live at Huntington. 6. Flor-ence Gardner, married George F. Miller, they live at Huntington. (\I) John William, son of William Clendenin and Eliza (Gardner)Miller, was born at Barboursville, A^irginia, February 27, 1845. He at-tended Marshall College until the outbreak of the civil war, and privateschools subsequently. His first business pos
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