On This Day in West Virginia History, March 6th

March 6, 2023

Mountaineer News

Vintage West Virginia

Industrialist Johnson Newlon Camden, who served as United States senator from 1881 to 1887, and 1893 to 1895, was born in Lewis County on March 6, 1828.

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