On This Day in West Virginia History, January 31st

January 31, 2023

Mountaineer News

Vintage West Virginia

W. W. Trent, who served as West Virginia State Superintendent of Schools from 1933 to 1957, was born on January 31, 1878 in Nicholas County.

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