'Back row - L-R - Harley Staggers, Alice VanLandingham, Jennings Randolph; Watch credit line. The following credit line must be used when this photograph is published; Chase Ltd., Photo; Washington, D.C.'
'Born May 8, 1840; Enlisted in the first company of the United States Army in this country.; Chased Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln.; Confined in six general hospitals and twice in Libby prison.; Belonged to the first company organized in West Virginia. Only ten or twelve of the members are living now.'
'Born May 8, 1840; Enlisted in the first company of the United States Army in this country.; Chased Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln.; Confined in six general hospitals and twice in Libby prison.; Belonged to the first company organized in West Virginia. Only ten or twelve of the members are living now.'
'Alvena Seckar was born in McMechen, West Virginia, of Immigrant parents. She is known primarily as an artist, having studied at the Institute of Art and Archeology in Paris. Her three books, "Misko," "Trapped in the Old Mine," and "Zuska of the Burning Hills," were written in order to express her own "discovery of America" to other children of foreign-born parents. She is a member of the National League of American Pen Women. Her present home is in New Jersey.'
