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- Nathan H. Taft, a native of New England, located in Philippi about 1848, for the practice of law. Some years later he married Mary E., daughter of Rev. Solomon and Elizabeth Jarvis. In 1862 he moved to Buckhannon, having been elected Prosecuting Attorney of Upshur County. Later he became editor of the Bepublican, published in Buckhannon. It was the organ of the Conservative party, and opposed the conscriptive methods of the radicals. The paper incurred the enmity of those whom it opposed, and violence was threatened to prevent its publication. But it came out regularly with the assistance of James W. Woffindin, a young newspaper man. Mr. Taft died at Weston, January 3, 1867. He bad taken a prominent part in politics during the war. In 1861 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Barbour; and the same year was chosen member of the second Wheeling Convention which re-organized the government of Virginia. Early in the same year, when Thomas A. Bradford and Samuel Woods were candidates for the Richmond Convention, which passed the Ordinance of Secession, Mr. Taft supported Mr. Woods, believing that he was more friendly to a preservation of the Union. When Mr. Woods while a member of the Convention, introduce resolutions declaring 'the Federal Government ought to recognize the independence of the Seceeded States, Mr. Taft upheld the position taken by Mr. Woods; and in a meeting held in Philippi March 7, 1861, was one of a committee which drafted resolutions sustaining Mr. Woods. When the war actually came, Mr. Taft supported the North. He was in Philippi on June 3 when the Federal artillery opened on the town; and from an attic window (present residence of C. P. Thompson, he watched the Confederates going up the pike, and was heard to exclaim, "Thank God!" He hated slavery, and although he did not wish for war, yet when the war came, he wanted it to stamp slavery out forever. He was instrumental in setting at liberty many persons who had been arrested because of their supposed sympathies with the South. He knew what arrest was, because he had been taken forcably from his own house by Confederates a short time before and had been confined in jail because of his sympathies with the North.
As a lawyer, Mr. Taft stood high in the profession, and as an orator, he was eloquent and successful, exercising much influence over a jury.
The history of Barbour County, West Virginia
Acme Publishing Co, 1899
Page 480-481.
https://archive.org/details/historyofbarbour00maxw/page/480/mode/2up?q=jarvis
- Jarvis, Elisabeth (Rightmire)
Sympathizer; home ransacked 6-61, then seized by Federal army 4-63; refugee in eastern Va. 6-63; sister *Julia Butcher and Brother-in-law Edward Armstrong Confederate sympathizers; son-in-law Nathan Taft Unionist. Widow; $3,000/340; b. Barbour 1803; Baptist; m. Solomon Jarvis 1822; living Barbour 1880. Daughter of John and Ann *Ashby) Rightmire, b. Va.
Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers of Barbour County, West Virginia. by John W. Shaffer. 2005.
Page 163.
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