On This Day in West Virginia History, January 13th

January 13, 2023

Mountaineer News

Vintage West Virginia

On January 13, 1905, Joseph H. Diss Debar, legislator, Commissioner of Immigration, and designer of the State Seal, died in Philadelphia.

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